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• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 21: Comics Writer Sam Read

  By John Freeman on 27 November 2015

  

  Who better to join the Awesome Comics Podcast crew for a chin wag than the writer of Exit Generation, Sam Read? Sam talks about how his brilliant SF action book came to be, his route into the world of making comics, the… Read More ›

• New comic launches at Malta Comic Con include Dinoswords and S.T.E.AM. – Island Under Siege

  By John Freeman on 26 November 2015

  

  Next month’s Malta Comic Con will see a number of independent comic launches, including guest Tim Perkins Retro-Collection of The Dinoswords – collecting the 12 issues previously printed in the UK, 1990’s anthology comic, Triffik, stories by Tim and James Hill… Read More ›

• Official Billy Whizz Screenprint Released

  By John Freeman on 25 November 2015

  

     Top screen printer John Patrick Reynolds has just released his latest official Beano screenprint. Billy Whizz, Starts Today. The image is taken from Issue 1139 of The Beano, Billy’s first appearance in May 1964. “I love it,” enthuses John…. Read More ›

• Something for the Weekend: US Comics On Sale from 25th November 2015 – Asterix Found in Comic Shops!

  By John Freeman on 25 November 2015

  

  It’s a fairly quiet week for new comics with a British connection, but don’t panic, because the latest 2000AD has a creepy “Terror Tale” from David Baillie, beautifully drawn by Joshua George for you to enjoy – especially if you’re… Read More ›

• Lancaster University Appoints Tintin Scholar Benoit Peeters As UK’s First Professor Of Graphic Fiction And Comic Art

  By John Freeman on 25 November 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Lancaster University has appointed renowned French graphic novelist and critic Benoit Peeters as its Visiting Professor in Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, the first ever such appointment in the UK. The news was announced by Professor Simon Guy, Dean of the University’s Faculty of… Read More ›

• Review – ‘Take It As A Compliment’ by Maria Stoian

  By Antony Esmond on 24 November 2015

  

  Created by Maria Stoian Published by Singing Dragon Hardback/Full Colour.  £14.99 Comics can cover all kind of subjects, a fact that I am sure I don’t need to tell you. Consequently, they can instil different feelings in the reader through… Read More ›

• IDW’s Judge Dredd Resumes Next Month with “Mega City Zero”, Dan McDaid on art

  By John Freeman on 23 November 2015

  

  Dan McDaid takes on the art duties on IDW’s new Judge Dredd series next month, in a new ongoing series written by Ulises Fariñas and Erick Freitas. After a bit of a break from their take on Dredd, the US publisher is really pushing out… Read More ›

• Creators @ Thought Bubble 2015 : Part 1 – Artists

  By Jeremy Briggs on 23 November 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend: US Comics On Sale from 18th November 2015 – Sound the Klaxon!

  By John Freeman on 20 November 2015

  

  Our weekly list of British creator-skewed new comic releases kicks off with this week’s wraparound cover for 2000AD by Jake Lynch. Dredd at his finest! But the thrills don’t stop there, because we also get a new issue of Judge Dredd Megazine… Read More ›

• Rob Williams heads up 2000AD’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Purgatory”

  By John Freeman on 20 November 2015

  

  His name is Ichabod and he is a killer. But his death, for die he must, is only the beginning of his story… A bloody, romantic, supernatural meta-Western filtered through the language of Daniel Woodrell and the cinematic imagery of… Read More ›

• More For Malta Comic Con: Italian, British and Greek comic creators join the roster

  By John Freeman on 20 November 2015

  

  Another wave of guests has been revealed for the seventh Malta Comic Con with the announcement by organisers Wicked Comics that creators Pasquale Qualano (Soulfire), Andreas Michaelides (Botch!), Christos Stamboulis (The Lords of Crimson Valley), Gianluca Maconi (Elfes) Luciano Regazzoni (Nathan Never), Grafimated Cartoon… Read More ›

• DC Thomson Bags Rights to “Twirlywoos”

  By John Freeman on 20 November 2015

  

  DC Thomson has signed a deal with DHX Brands to publish a Twirlywoos next year, based on the hit CBeebies preschool show devised and produced by Ragdoll Productions’ Anne Wood, whose creator credits also include Rosie and Jim and Teletubbies, with… Read More ›

• Creating Nightmares: An interview with “Call of Duty” Lead Writer Craig Houston

  By John Freeman on 20 November 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  A chat with Craig Houston, a Scottish writer, artist and musician with over 25 years experience in the video games and comic book industries…

• Try Your Hand at a “Fiendishly Clever” Alan Moore Quiz from SEQUENTIAL, Win an IPad Mini

  By John Freeman on 19 November 2015

  

  Digital comics publisher SEQUENTIAL have released a fun (but fiendishly difficult) Alan Moore online quiz to celebrate the 62nd birthday of one of the world’s greatest comics writers. “It’s a 20-question quiz but is different each time you take it,… Read More ›

• In Review: Ron Turner’s “Space Ace” Volume 5

  By John Freeman on 19 November 2015

  

  Out: NowPublisher: John LawrenceOriginally published by Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd The Title: A 40 page full colour magazine reprinting two Space Ace stories from the mid 1950s: “The Nine-Bomb Menace” and “Magnetic Meteor”, plus an extensive interview with… Read More ›

• British Star Trek comics collected at last

  By John Freeman on 19 November 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Following up on their publication of the Star Trek: The Newspaper Comics in not one but two terrific volumes back in 2012, collecting all of the daily comic strips that ran in various newspapers between 1979 and 1983, we’re delighted to report… Read More ›

• Meet the Cover Girls: Liverpool girls comics event this weekend

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2015

  

  As part of the UK Being Human festival of the humanities, Liverpool John Moores University Library Services are hosting a fun event in Liverpool Central Library from 11.00am to 3.00pm on Saturday 21st November. LJMU students are running a number… Read More ›

• Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part One

  By Roger Perry on 18 November 2015

  

  Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a “Creative Visionary”… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive ten part biography of the man which begins today on downthetubes, is only due to… Read More ›

• Early Beanos Galore, Fireball XL5 Rarities and More Offered in Latest ComPal Auction

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2015

  

  If you’re a fan of The Beano or The Dandy, then the latest Compalcomics – now live – is definitely up your street, with a large number of early issues on offer, along with an assortment of comics art that… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 20: Starting Out and Breaking Into the Comics Industry

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2015

  

  In a change to the usual format, the Awesome Comics Podcast gang sit down to talk about another topic – starting out making comics, how things have changed over the years –  and their first returning guest pops in to talk… Read More ›

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