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• 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 ›

• 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 ›

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