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• “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 ›

• John Jennings catches the eye with his cover for “Afrofuturism”

  By John Freeman on January 22, 2014

  

  Wrapped in a cracking cover titled ‘Io Ashtara” by John Jennings, Afrofuturism: The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L Womack is described as a “hip, accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism.” Comprising… Read More ›

• SelfMadeHero’s Spring Slate includes new titles from I.N.J. Culbard, Nick Abadzis and more

  By John Freeman on January 21, 2014

  

  British publisher SelfMadeHero has confirmed its publishing plans for the first few months of 2014. They include a biography of painter Vincent van Gogh by Dutch artist Barbara Stok, a political satire set during the Iraq War by Abel Lanzac… Read More ›

• Batman-Judge Dredd Collection out at last

  By John Freeman on January 21, 2014

  

  Finally, every Judge Dredd versus Batman story ever published, um.. republished, in over 300 Thrill-packed pages! The long-awaited Batman/Judge Dredd Collection, first announced for a November release last year, includes all four team-ups of the greatest crime-fighting duo – so… Read More ›

• Titan Comics bags Doctor Who rights

  By John Freeman on January 21, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  BBC Worldwide and Titan Comics have teamed up to publish all-new Doctor Who comic book adventures in the United States, taking over from US publisher IDW, and have just issued the following press release: In the universe of Doctor Who,… Read More ›

• More Dennis the Menace merchandise in the works, and other Beano characters, too

  By John Freeman on January 20, 2014

  

  In a wide ranging interview with Start Licensing’s Ian Downes, Licensing.Biz reveals that more Dennis the Menace merchandise is in the works from DC Thomson after a great year for the character – and that DC Thomson looks keen to… Read More ›

• Doctor Who ‘zine, Plaything of Sutekh, Issue Three released

  By John Freeman on January 20, 2014

  

  Issue 3 of the Doctor Who fanzine Plaything of Sutekh is now available. The new issue features: ·     Don’t Shoot – He’s British! – Matt Kilburn looks at the cultural influences on the Doctor’s identity. ·     Matt Finish… Read More ›

• MCM London Comic Con – back in May

  By John Freeman on January 19, 2014

  

  MCM London Comic Con storms back to Excel on 23-25 May for another spectacular celebration of all that’s best and brightest in the worlds of movies, sci-fi, anime, videogames, comics, manga and cosplay. Alongside all the onstage panels, games zones… Read More ›

• Panel Borders talks to Kieron Gillen

  By John Freeman on January 18, 2014

  

  Continuing a month of shows about Superhero Comics on the Panel Borders radio show, Alex Fitch talks to writer Kieron Gillen about his recent about published under the Marvel Now banner, including Iron Man and Young Avengers and his forays… Read More ›

• Dump Issue 2 Now Available From Fred Egg Comics

  By Jeremy Briggs on January 18, 2014

  

  Issue 2 of David Robertson’s anthology comic Dump is now available from Fred Egg Comics. David tells us, “the title Dump serves as a description of the book – a collection place for different comics I’ve done; and as the… Read More ›

• Midlands Comic Con flies into Telford in February

  By John Freeman on January 18, 2014

  

  Is it a bird? Is it a ‘plane? No, it’s the MCM Midlands Comic Con, returning to The International Centre, Telford on 15th February with another succulent feast of sci-fi, film, comics, anime and videogame fun! The first show in… Read More ›

• Marvel celebrates 50 years of X-Men with new iPhone game

  By John Freeman on January 17, 2014

  

  Marvel Entertainment has teamed up with developer Aeria Mobile to launch X-Men: Battle of the Atom for iPhone, celebrating 50 years of  X-Men stories and characters and available now from the iTune store. Featuring gorgeous original art by Marvel artists… Read More ›

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