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• In Review: Antares – Episode 6

  By Jeremy Briggs on 22 July 2016

  

  Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga of 22nd century interplanetary settlers with the final book in the ongoing Antares saga, Episode 6. Having flown with a small team from the settlers’… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Comics at San Diego, New Projects To Be Revealed

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  If you’re lucky enough to be heading to this year’s San Diego Comic Con this weekend, then look out for a special Doctor Who convention special courtesy of Titan Comics – available in two variant covers, one by Alice X Zhang… Read More ›

• Panel to Panel Interviews Doctor Who comic creator Dan McDaid

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2016

  

  Episode 58 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is available for download, so grab your copy of The Crimson Hand graphic novel and flip through it as host Jeremy Bement chats with comic creator Dan McDaid about his run on the… Read More ›

• New Danger Mouse comic launches

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  DC Thomson has launched its Danger Mouse magazine, a four-weekly magazine aimed at primary kids. It’s of course magazine is based on the hit CBBC show that’s successfully introduced secret agent Danger Mouse to whole new audience, saving London, saving the world… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: A Story from “Buscavidas” by Carlos Trillo and Alberto Breccia, in English

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2016

  

  As a supplement to artist Ron Tiner‘s thee-part series on the life and work of Argentinian comics creator Alberto Breccia, here’s six pages from his work Buscavidas (a title which has different titles in English, among them “Story Gatherer”, “Scandal… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 55: Matt Rooke and Bubbles O’Seven

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2016

  

  The Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 55, features Matt Rooke, co-creator of Apes ‘n’ Capes, and brings you the lowdown on some talking comics … and apes! Matt Rooke, the artist behind Apes ‘n’ Capes and the brand new primate spy… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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