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• Writing on the Wall: Marvel Mayhem in Liverpool in May

  By John Freeman on April 22, 2015

  

    Former Marvel editor Tim Quinn and comic artists Charlie Adlard and Emma Vieceli are guests at the Writing on the Wall Festival in Liverpool next month. Writing on the Wall is a Liverpool-based community organisation that coordinates projects and events that celebrate… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular’s “Sgt Pepper’s” Homage: Who’s Who?

  By John Freeman on April 21, 2015

  

    In advance of the forthcoming Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular which visits six cities across the UK during the May half term week from May 23rd, artwork has been released to capture the monsters and characters from Doctor Who, alongside the musicians taking… Read More ›

• “Jekyll And Hyde” Stars To Attend MCM London Comic Con

  By John Freeman on April 21, 2015

  

    Jekyll And Hyde writer, star of The Fast Show and novelist Charlie Higson (Young Bond, The Enemy) and stars of the new ITV drama Jekyll and Hyde –  Tom Bateman (Da Vinci’s Demons, The Tunnel), Richard E Grant (Doctor Who, Downton Abbey) and… Read More ›

• Arcadia Bound: An Interview with Writer Alex Paknadel

  By Matt Badham on April 21, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

    Alex Paknadel is a Lancaster-based comics writer, whose first work is being published in the form of Arcadia from US publisher Boom! Studios next month. Intrigued by the premise behind this new science-fiction story, I decided to have a chat… Read More ›

• Talk Nerdy To Me… in Preston, Lancashire!

  By John Freeman on April 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    SF author J.S. Collyer and Lancaster-based fantasy author A. S. Chambers are guests at Talk Nerdy 2 Me in Preston on Friday 8th May 2015 at the Harris Library, Museum and Art Gallery from 4.00pm to 9.00pm. The event will feature stalls, a cosplay competition, an open… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview: Arcadia #1 by Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeifer

  By John Freeman on April 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    When 99 per cent of humankind is wiped out by a pandemic, four billion people are “saved” by being digitized at the brink of death and uploaded into Arcadia, a utopian simulation in the cloud. But when Arcadia begins… Read More ›

• The New Doctor Who Adventures: An Interview with Editor Jason Quinn

  By John Freeman on April 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    When writer and editor Jason Quinn dropped me a line to let me know about Panini UK’s acquisition of the licence to publish Doctor Who Adventures, previously published by Immediate Media, I had little inkling just how much interest there would… Read More ›

• Alternative Press: Takeover 2015 Details

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2015

  

  In the second event of their Takeover Series, the Alternative Press team will  be taking over 47/49Tanner Street, London on Saturday 9th May 2015 with a day that champions all radical publishing – from its independent bookshops and publishers to its DIY-ers; the small press,… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview – Pumpin’ Jam: 13 Short Stories that Claim to be Inspirational

  By Antony Esmond on April 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    Written, Drawn and Designed by Ed Traquino aka Feliq A friend of mine once described sitting in Ed Traquino’s company like sitting in a hilarious wind tunnel. Hair continuously blown back in relentless laughing. He’s non-stop creatively and personally…. Read More ›

• Sneak Preview – ‘A Day With Querstret’ by Elizabeth Querstret

  By Antony Esmond on April 20, 2015

  

      Created by Elizabeth Querstret The Story: This is a slice of life, 24 hours in fact, for creator, artist and urban adventurer Elizabeth Querstret. It describes, moment to moment, what she did in a day of creating the Hourly… Read More ›

• New North West Comic Creator Groups Information

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2015

  

    With Lancaster Comics Day on its way on Sunday 14th June, Blackpool Comic Con in September and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October (to name but three events), here’s information on two groups that may be of… Read More ›

• Goldeneye – Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming In Jamaica

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    Queen Anne Press are to distribute the Pegasus Books hardcover edition of Goldeneye: Where James Bond Was Born from 11th May 2015. The book was first published in the UK by Hutchinson / Random House in August 2014, and explores the importance of Jamaica… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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