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• BFI celebrates 30 Years of “Spitting Image”

  By John Freeman on January 30, 2014

  

  BFI Southbank will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Spitting Image on 27th February – one of the most innovative and daring television programmes ever conceived. Thirty years ago, Roger Law and Peter Fluck were happily ensconced in a converted Temperance… Read More ›

• Judge Dredd: Underbelly, movie sequel collection released

  By John Freeman on January 29, 2014

  

  The comic book sequel to the critically-acclaimed movie DREDD hit comic book stores and online today. Written by Arthur Wyatt and drawn by Henry Flint, this special US-format one-shot is available, collecting the whole Underbelly story, from comic book stores… Read More ›

• Combat Colin returns in Aces Weekly

  By downthetubes Guests on January 29, 2014

  

  Lew Stringer talks about the latest appearance of his long-running character, Combat Colin, to David Lloyd’s Aces Weekly – and touches on some attitudes to digital comics… There’s a certain school of thought that would have us believe that digital… Read More ›

• Creator Spotlight: Gerry Embleton

  By John Freeman on January 28, 2014

  

  I had a quick phone call with ace artist John Ridgway today, discussing colouring comics, Commando and one of our favourite topics, favourite comic creators, which today included the great pulp magazine artist Alden MacWiliams (whose credits included Twin Earths,… Read More ›

• National Literacy Trust charity auction includes Doctor Who script, Gruffalo art

  By John Freeman on January 28, 2014

  

  Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler, League of Gentlemen co-creator and co-star Steve Pemberton, along with celebrities including Joanna Trollope, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Madness have united to support literacy. All have donated items to an auction on behalf of  the National… Read More ›

• Image Comics “Genesis” latest US project for British artist Alison Sampson

  By John Freeman on January 27, 2014

  

  British comic artist and architect Alison Sampson (one of the team behind Think of a City, a tumblr-based, mass storytelling project) is providing art for a one-shot creator-owned comic, Genesis, from Image Comics, which will be published in April. Written… Read More ›

• Top 10 downthetubes Posts: 21st – 27th January 2014

  By John Freeman on January 27, 2014

  

  Here’s a rundown of the Top Ten posts on downthetubes over the last seven days (not including the Home Page): • “White Dwarf” goes weekly, “Warhammer Visions” launches 1st February Bucking the usual trend of magazines closing or going digital only,… Read More ›

• Gerry Anderson’s Gemini Force One secures publishing deal with Gollancz

  By John Freeman on January 27, 2014

  

  In an exciting development for fans of shows such as Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, word breaks this morning that the successful Kickstarter project, Gerry Anderson’s Gemini Force One, is to be published by Gollancz in 2014 and Orion Children’s Books… Read More ›

• London Cartoon Museum revamps web site, new “Bring Me Laughter” exhibition raises smiles

  By John Freeman on January 27, 2014

  

  The London-based Cartoon Museum‘s latest exhibition – Bring Me Laughter – is in full swing at the moment, and this terrific extravaganza there reminds me to mention that the venue’s web site (www.cartoonmuseum.org) has been totally revamped and much improved… Read More ›

• Revolutionary War: Knights of Pendragon preview released, Cork signing announced

  By John Freeman on January 26, 2014

  

  Marvel has released a preview of Revolutionary War #3: Knights of Pendragon (Warning! Potential spoilers in the art below), written by Rob Williams with Irish artist Will Sliney, on art – replacing Simon Coleby, who was the advertised artist in… Read More ›

• 2000AD offers sneek peek at upcoming Thrills for 2014

  By John Freeman on January 25, 2014

  

  2000AD has released a series of teaser images for many of its new strips, set for publication in the weekly SF comic and Judge Dredd Megazine, including a new creator owned story from Paul Grist and a new Slaine tale… Read More ›

• “White Dwarf” goes weekly, “Warhammer Visions” launches 1st February

  By John Freeman on January 25, 2014

  

  . Bucking the usual trend of magazines closing or going digital only, Games Workshop has announced the launch of a new, weekly White Dwarf magazine and a new monthly title – Warhammer: Visions – on 1st February 2014. The new… Read More ›

• The Return of the Marvel UK Heroes: An interview with Alan Cowsill

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  Unless you’ve been living under a stone, you’ll be aware we’ve been giving a lot of coverage to Marvel’s Revolutionary War series, featuring the return of the Marvel UK heroes first created at the instigation of the company’s Editorial Director,… Read More ›

• Lovecraft in London: Cagliostro’s Comic Challenge

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Here’s a quick follow up on my post about I Racconti di Nur (Tales of Nur), a graphic novel published in Italy by artist Gian Marco Ibba who I worked with back in 2003. Giorgio Messina, the editor-in-chief at Cagliostro… Read More ›

• In Review: Ron Turner’s “Space Ace” Volume 2

  By John Freeman on January 24, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Out: NowPublisher: John LawrenceOriginally published by Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd The Magazine: Four more vintage  stories from the pages of Lone Star Magazine and Lone Star Annual featuring Space Ace, lovingly restored and coloured by John Ridgway. The… Read More ›

• New Italian publisher launches SF, fantasy comics range

  By John Freeman on January 23, 2014

  

  Admittedly, this isn’t actually British comic news – but bear with me, there is a British connection! A few years ago I wrote a number of comic strips for an Italian publisher, CJL, who were seeking to use comics as… Read More ›

• “Comics UnMasked” exhibition at British Library to be designed by Dave McKean

  By John Freeman on January 23, 2014

  

  The British Library – which has a huge archive of comics and graphic novels to draw on – has confirmed that their major lead exhibition  for 2014 (which we highlighted last year) is on British comics and entitled Comics Unmasked:… Read More ›

• Image Control, the Mega-City Way: Douglas Wolk talks Judge Dredd

  By Matt Badham on January 23, 2014

  

  Douglas Wolk is an acclaimed author and critic. He has written about comics and music for publications such as Rolling Stone, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Judge Dredd: Mega-City Two – a five-issue mini-series drawn by Ulises… Read More ›

• “Visual Language of Comics” earns high praise for Neil Cohn

  By John Freeman on January 22, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Bloomsbury Publishing released Neil Cohn‘s The Visual Language of Comics, an academic work offering an introduction to the structure and cognition of Sequential Images last December, but it slipped under our radar in the inevitable pre-Christmas madness. Reviews for the… Read More ›

• In Review: Heros the Spartan

  By Steve Winders on January 22, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  ‘Frank Bellamy’s Heros the Spartan’. Stories by Tom Tully Illustrated by Frank Bellamy Edited and designed by Peter Richardson Published by The Book Palace at £95.00 Hardback 272 pages, with 222 in full colour. Limited edition of 600 copies. Also… Read More ›

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