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• Lakes International Comic Art Festival announces 2015 dates

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

    After its hugely successful 2014 Festival, which featured a stellar cast of both British and international creators and a number of special exhibitions, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival team have announced the event will return in October 2015. This… Read More ›

• Free Comic events in Leeds (and beyond) in run up to Thought Bubble

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2014

  

    With the Thought Bubble Festival proper starting in a few days time, the organisers have just plugged some great, free/drop-in events taking place across Leeds and beyond from 9th – 16th November. For the full festival line-up, visit the… Read More ›

• New Service tracks Independent Comic Publishers

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2014

  

    Here’s an interesting and clearly well thought project: Indie Comics Tracker, a service enabling you to not only keep track of your favourite independent comic titles – but discover new ones, too. Indie Comics Tracker allows you to discover… Read More ›

• Doctor Who and Judge Dredd artist Dave Taylor publishes “Art Of” collection

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2014

  

      It’s been a busy time for smashing comic artist Dave Taylor, who I first worked with way back in the early 1990s at Marvel UK, on Warheads and Gene Dogs. Not only is he hard at work drawing… Read More ›

• Charley’s War Comes to Plymouth

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Artwork from the Battle comic strip “Charley’s War” which depicted the horrors of the World War One battlefields to audiences young and old goes on show at Plymouth University this week. “Charley’s War”, first published in the late 1970s by writer Pat Mills… Read More ›

• In Review: Dark Matter

  By Antony Esmond on November 4, 2014

  

  Published by Red Shift Press Out: At Thought Bubble 2014 This is what Red Shift Press had to say about their horror anthology. Dark Matter is an anthology of nine short stories of differing genres, written by Chris Sides and each… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: Tenth Doctor #4 Preview

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2014

  

    Here’s a sneak preview of the latest issue of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #4 on sale tomorrow, 5th November 2014 from Titan Comics in all good comic shops across the UK. This issue is offered in three variant covers…. Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Comic Releases (5th November 2014) – Doctor Who and Greysuit, too!

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2014

  

    Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops from tomorrow, Wednesday 5th November 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold… Read More ›

• Norman Thelwell books back in print

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    London-based publisher Allison & Busby will reissue four classic titles from Norman Thelwell‘s cartoon collection later this month. Thelwell, who died in 2004, is regarded as the unofficial artist of the British countryside and is one of the most… Read More ›

• In Review: Random Trials – Issue 2

  By Antony Esmond on November 3, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Written, drawn and lettered by Dean Beattie Warning: Adult Language in both comic and review   You know that friend or work colleague? The one who finds out you read comics and it’s such an alien concept to him… Read More ›

• Conville & Walsh announces Word of Mouth Prize

  By downthetubes Guests on November 3, 2014

  

  The London-based Conville & Walsh literary agency has announced the launch of the Word of Mouth Prize, a new literary prize aimed at discovering talented unpublished novelists. Founded by Clare Conville and Patrick Walsh in 2000, the agency is a leading international literary… Read More ›

• Laura Howell joins Birmingham Comic Festival guest list

  By downthetubes Guests on November 3, 2014

  

    The Birmingham Comics Festival is determined to put the word fun back into British comic shows and is excited that it has just announced that cartoonist Laura Howell has agreed to become involved, not least with the main event… Read More ›

• In Review: Space Precinct Unmasked

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2014

  

    By Richard James Publisher: Anderson Entertainment Out: Now The Book: A thoroughly detailed, constantly amusing and heartfelt fly-on-the-wall-esque memoir…’ Screen Relish ‘The name’s James, Richard James. In 1994 I played a part in a TV series called Space Precinct…. Read More ›

• Malta Comic Con teases with new film trailer

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2014

  

    Just weeks away from the event itself, the Malta Comic Con team have released this impressive trailer to give comic fans a taster of the highly-regarded event, created by Mark A. Tagliaferro and Nitedevil Darkwatch. Now in its sixth… Read More ›

• Gerry Anderson Firestorm pilot greenlit, gets over £88,000 in crowd-funded backing

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    (Updated): Fans of Gerry Anderson‘s past projects such as Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Space:1999 have fully backed a pilot for a possible new series based on his concepts – Firestorm. Over 1400 backers have pledged almost £89,000 to the Gerry… Read More ›

• In Review: Halloween – A Horror Anthology

  By Antony Esmond on November 2, 2014

  

      Just in the nick of time for this Halloween weekend, this anthology fell into my inbox. It is absolutely packed full of talent and shows off a pile of UK-based small press creators with great effect. It’s 62 pages… Read More ›

• Photo Review: Dundee Comics Day 2014

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 2, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The event that became the Dundee Comics Day (DCD) began at the University of Dundee in 2007 with the two day academic conference entitled ‘Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!’ in 2007. Run by Dr Chris Murray (below) of the university’s Department of… Read More ›

• Saturday Night Special: Behind the Scenes on “Saltire”

  By Colin Noble on November 1, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    It is amazing to think that only last year a new company and a new comic franchise was launched in Dundee. This was Diamond Steel Comics with the superhero Saltire. This was originally thought of as a way to… Read More ›

• BRICK 2014, the official LEGO London event selling out, fast…

  By John Freeman on October 31, 2014

  

    In the year that LEGO – which has its officially became the world’s biggest toy and conquered the world’s box offices with the incredible and hilarious LEGO Movie, BRICK 2014 is heading for London’s ExCeL Centre for four days… Read More ›

• SEQUENTIAL conjures Halloween scares with free copies of Strange Embrace

  By John Freeman on October 31, 2014

  

    As part of this year’s All Hallow’s Read, a new Hallowe’en tradition started by Neil Gaiman in 2011 of giving away scary books on 31st October, top digital comics distributor SEQUENTIAL is giving away 666 copies of the acclaimed horror… Read More ›

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