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• Neil Gaiman and Shane Oakley partner on “Forbidden Brides” for Dark Horse

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2016

  

  Dark Horse have announced Neil Gaiman (Sandman) is returning to one of his darkly complicated short stories in Neil Gaiman’s Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire. That’s surely got to… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend (w/c 18th July 2016) – Support Your Local Comic Shop!

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2016

  

  So, last week as I was promoting the week’s new comics, I was a bit flippant about the price rises for imported US comics British comic shops will have to pass on to their customers (imposed by Diamond, who had no choice, either,… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival – Festival Flash Guide!

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2016

  

  The fourth Lakes International Comic Art Festival will run from 14-16 October 2016 in Kendal, Cumbria, celebrating great comic art from across the world – and the full details for every ticketed event have now been announced. Here’s a “Flash Guide”… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: The Life and Work of Alberto Breccia – Part Two by Ron Tiner

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  He’s perhaps best known to British comic fans for his work through the Bardon Press Features office in Barcelona for Fleetway Edtions in the 1960s, first on Super Detective Picture Library Number 172 “Passport to Peril” (an adaptation of the novel, Assignment Helene by Edward… Read More ›

• Caliber Comics pick up Jim Alexander’s “Amongst the Stars” project

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2016

  

  US publisher Caliber Comics is to release a new edition of the Amongst the Stars collection most recently published here in the UK by Planet Jimbot. Written by Jim Alexander with art from Mike Perkins and Will Pickering, Amongst The Stars reveals aliens… Read More ›

• “Blankets” creator Craig Thompson joins 2016 Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (14th -16th October 2016) has confirmed an appearance by one of the most critically-acclaimed cartoonists of his generation, award-winning author Craig Thompson, alongside current collaborator, the acclaimed French artist Edmond Baudoin. Thompson is the writer and artist of… Read More ›

• New Star Trek TV show heads to Netflix in world rights deal outside US and Canada

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Streaming network Netflix and CBS Studios International have inked a landmark international licensing agreement for the new Star Trek TV series, expected to launch in early 2017 and “introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilisations”. Netflix – already… Read More ›

• Vice Press get set to release limited edition Judge Dredd prints by Jock

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2016

  

  Vice Press has announced the upcoming release of its Judge Dredd Letterpress Set by Jock this week – an officially licensed, Limited Edition Portfolio Set featuring some of the artist’s stunning work on 2000AD‘s most popular character.   This new release – following… Read More ›

• “Striker” collections in the works, bringing entire football strips to book for the first time – and “Psycops” too?

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2016

  

  Dropped from The Sun‘s print edition earlier this year, popular football strip Striker, created by Pete Nash, looks on course to make a come back – both in the paper and online, via YouTube. Collections of the strip, first published in… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: 2000AD Summer Special 2016 – Dredd, Ace Trucking, Robohunter and more! (No, not that Moore).

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  This Wednesday (20th July) see the release of the 2000AD Summer Special 2016 – and it’s a cracker! Do your duty and pick this up, along with 2000AD Prog 1990 and Judge Dredd Megazine 374. Crammed with thrill power ,… Read More ›

• Doctor Who artist Paul Hanley delivers “Steampunk Iris” (Wildthyme, that is)

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2016

  

  Don’t miss “A Clockwork Iris” by Paul Magrs

• In Review: Monologue Issue 2 by SJ McCune

  By Antony Esmond on 17 July 2016

  

  The Story: This is a story of many themes and stories untold, just out of reach. A story of a woman and her disconnected feelings of loneliness in a world of vast space. There is a mystery behind this woman…… Read More ›

• In Review: The Wormgler by David Frankum

  By Antony Esmond on 16 July 2016

  

  Published by Lostappeared Books. £2.00 “… a tale of hope, the balance between light and dark and the mysteries within ourselves and the universe. It raises questions about our place in the world, but leaves the reader to draw their own… Read More ›

• Celebrating the British Small Press: 60 Great Small Comic Press (Part Three)

  By downthetubes Guests on 16 July 2016

  

  When Marvel UK shrunk its original strip output in the mid-1990s, not being a 2000AD reader, comic creator and reader Andy Luke had nowhere to go. He came to find that the small press, often photocopied works, were a core… Read More ›

• Celebrating the British Small Press: 60 Great Small Comic Press (Part Two)

  By downthetubes Guests on 16 July 2016

  

  When Marvel UK shrunk its original strip output in the mid-1990s, not being a 2000AD reader, comic creator and reader Andy Luke had nowhere to go. He came to find that the small press, often photocopied works, were a core… Read More ›

• Johnny Red Volume 4 On Sale Now

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Out now from Titan Comics is Johnny Red Volume 4: Flying Gun, the long-awaited fourth collection of classic strips featuring Britain’s Easter Front-seconded air ace. Written by Tom Tully and drawn by John Cooper – two immense talents of British comics sadly… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend: New Comics On Sale (w/c 11th July 2016): Judge Dredd and Johnny Red!

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Comic shops are telling us they have stock of this week’s top-selling comic collection in the UK, Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored, but once they’re gone, they’re gone, because publisher Rebellion has announced the book has sold out, so no… Read More ›

• Reader requests help shape the latest re-presented Commando stories

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  The latest editions of DC Thomson’s Commando (Issues 4931-4934), on sale now in all good newsagents and through various digital platforms, features four classic stories from the long-running title, some chosen by readers themselves. Commando No 4931 – Mark Of The… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Illusions

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 July 2016

  

  Kenya, Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) and Rodolphe’s (Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette) ongoing series of spies, extinct beasts and strange flying lights that is set in post-war Kenya reaches a conclusion with its fifth book, Illusions, translated from the French and published by… Read More ›

• In Review: Spaceship Away Issue 39 – highlights Ian Kennedy, offers new Dan Dare adventures

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2016

  

  The latest issue of Spaceship Away, the magazine devoted to Dan Dare, Eagle and its many creators is out now, offering a great line up of strips and features behind a cover by the late Frank Bellamy. Tim Booth continues… Read More ›

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