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• Marvel’s “Ant-Man” Heads to the UK in July

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2015

  

    Heroes don’t get any bigger with the new trailer for Marvel’s Ant-Man, which debuts in the UK on Friday 17th July, the same weekend as the London Film and Comic Con. (I’ve been delaying posting this in the hope… Read More ›

• Tonight’s Gotham on Channel 5: Red Hood

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2015

  

    A gang of serial bank robbers has made their new home in Gotham in tonight’s episode of Gotham, “Red Hood”, on Channel 5. Meanwhile, Selina Kyle bonds with Barbara Kean at her apartment, and Fish Mooney attempts to reclaim her position… Read More ›

• Backwards Burd Head To Belfast for May MCM Convention

  By John Freeman on April 19, 2015

  

    London comics group Backwards Burd is heading to Belfast on the 2nd – 3rd of May, spreading their slothy goodness at the King’s Hall Complex MCM convention. The quartet of Sajan Rai, Daniel de Sosa, Siobhan Alcaide and ShaneMelisse… Read More ›

• Convention Report: North to Eden (EdenCon, that is)

  By John Freeman on April 19, 2015

  

  While there have been comic events in Carlisle in the past, EdenCon is a new annual event – but that didn’t dissuade a good turnout of comic and film fans, cosplayers and gamers, despite the temptation to head elsewhere in Cumbria… Read More ›

• Creators @ Edinburgh Comic Con 2015

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The Edinburgh University Students Union at Potterow was a popular place on the weekend of 11/12 April 2015 as the Edinburgh Comic Con took over the building. The second year of the renamed event proved much more popular than the… Read More ›

• Crucible: The Quest Episode 28

  By John Freeman on April 18, 2015

  

  While exploring a Dwarf Mine, our Taskers – assigned to recover a mysterious religious artefact – stumble into a world of metal… and some dangerous Dwarves. Dwarves that see them as an equally dangerous contagion!

• Crucible: The Quest Episode 27

  By John Freeman on April 18, 2015

  

  Dwarves. Cute cuddly folk with beards, right? Wrong. So, very, very wrong… Chapter Four of “Crucible” draws to a close. Story by John Freeman, Art by Smuzz, Lettering by Jim Campbell.

• British Comic Shop Releases (15th April 2015) – Doctor Who and Cold Mountain Bums!

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015

  

    Here’s our list of both British and US comics on sale this week in comic shops (from Wednesday 15th April 2015), complementing our monthly list of British graphic novel releases (April 2015 release list here). There are no less… Read More ›

• New Edition of Josh Blaylock’s “How to Self Publish Comics” Released

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015

  

    First published in 2006 as a four issue US comic series, Josh Blaylock‘s now classic How-To prose book, How to Self-Publish Comics: Not Just Create Them about the business of comics publishing, after selling out of its updated 2012 edition,… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: The Superhero Project: First Global Meeting

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    The 1st Global Conference on Superheroes will take place between Monday 7th September and Wednesday 9th September 2015 at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom – and has just issued the following Call For Papers. ________________________________________ “Superman! Champion of the oppressed, the physical… Read More ›

• Art of Doctor Who DWM Special Out Now

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    On sale now from all good newsagents is the absolutely brilliant Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: The Art of Doctor Who, wrapped in a cover by US artist Mark Maddox. “This is how the story of Doctor Who unfolded in… Read More ›

• A Lost Art: Queen’s Brian May Talks Stereoscope Revival

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015

  

  Some time in 1854, at 313 Oxford Street, the “London Stereoscope Company” was born, and under the leadership of Managing Partner George Swan Nottage, by 1856 the company had changed its name, to “The London Stereoscopic Company”, and finally in… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview: Newstreet versus The Accelerati

  By Antony Esmond on April 17, 2015

  

    Newstreet versus The Accelerati Written by Matthew Craig Art by Steve Roberts Lettering fonts courtesy of blambot.com Published by WaterCooler Comix The Story: A round the world ticket in his mother’s will took shy forensic IT specialist Rajesh Ramani to… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: The Complete History Part Work enters Test Phase

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Perhaps as a result of the success of their Doctor Who “Specials” the team behind Doctor Who Magazine have gone one stage further with a new joint project with part works publisher Hatchette – and have begin road testing Doctor… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: The Series You’ll Never See

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Would you like to start your weekend by reading an utterly insane and ridiculously expensive proposal I came up with to revamp Doctor Who, that I actually had the temerity to send to the BBC in 1993 – which included… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Magazine Flashback: Comic Strip Submission Guidelines, May 1990

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2015

  

    I’ve been digging around in the cupboards for things to show folk at EdenCon tomorrow in Carlisle for things to show folk besides the audio comics I edit for ROK Comics on my iPhone, and came across these comic… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: Panel to Panel Interviews Andrew James, Clayton Hickman

  By John Freeman on April 16, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Episode 27 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel – a fantastic podcast from US comics fan Jeremy Bement devoted to the world of Doctor Who comics – has just been released online for your listening pleasure. “In my opinion this is one of the best… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview: Amazing and Fantastic Tales – Issue 5

  By Antony Esmond on April 16, 2015

  

    Amazing and Fantastic Tales Issue 5 (of 5) An anthology published by Planet Jimbot Produced by Jim Alexander and edited by Elinor Winter This is the fifth and final issue of busy, busy Planet Jimbot’s mini series anthology run,… Read More ›

• Webcomic Review – World of Grey

  By Antony Esmond on April 15, 2015

  

      Written by Bobby Lucenti Art by Brian Vander Webcomic available for free at www.worldofgreycomic.com The Story: Waking in a world far advanced than the one he remembers and bound with a highly advanced exoskin of unknown origins and seemingly… Read More ›

• In Review: Tales Of WesterNoir – Book One

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 15, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  One of my favourite small press series over the last couple of years has been writer Dave West and artist Gary Crutchley’s WesterNoir published by Accent UK. The series follows Josiah Black who hunts supernatural creatures in the Old West and… Read More ›

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