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• Breaking into Comics: Escaping Despondency

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2015

  

    As many regular readers know, by day I’m a comic book editor as well as writer. I’ve been in the business a long time and seen it change down the years, with fewer and fewer openings for young creators… Read More ›

• Gotham back on Channel 5 later this month with “feature-length episode”

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2015

  

    (Updated 9th March) Gotham will return to Channel 5 in the UK with what the station is calling a “special feature-length episode” in the week beginning 14th March 2015, with C5 promising to reveal the exact return date “soon” on Facebook and… Read More ›

• French Creators Set to Storm Kendal again for 2015 Comic Festival

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    Following up on the popularity of several Continental guests in 2014, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival  has just announced the appearance of its first four French artists coming to this year’s weekend-long event in Kendal, backed by support from the Institut Francais the Wallonie Brussels… Read More ›

• Time Bomb Comics announces release date for Viking adventure, “Defiant: The Legend of Brithnoth”

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2015

  

  Time Bomb Comics will release a new graphic novel, Defiant: The Legend of Brithnoth, a hard-hitting historical adventure from writer Andy Winter (Hero Killers), artist Daniel Bell (Psircus) and colourist Aljosa Tomic (Veil) at London Super Comic Con. On 10th August 991AD, a… Read More ›

• British Interplanetary Society to celebrate the Eagle comic and the launch of the career of Dan Dare

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2015 • ( 2 )

  

    On the 14th April 1950, a generation of spotty kids, some of which would become major players in British aerospace business, picked up an imposing colourful and authoritative weekly magazine (masquerading as a comic) which had been especially designed… Read More ›

• In Review: Amongst the Stars (Planet Jimbot)

  By Antony Esmond on 3 March 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    Written by Jim Alexander Art by Mike Perkins, Will Pickering Published by Planet Jimbot – Black and White interiors (64 pages) The Story: Aliens have nightmares too. Us! An alien race reaches out to planet Earth with its collective mind…. Read More ›

• Get Well Soon, Barrie Tomlinson!

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  David McDonald from Hibernia Comics has Informed us that one time IPC Group Editor, Barrie Tomlinson has had a few health scares in the past few weeks. Barrie’s name will be very familiar to some but to others it maybe… Read More ›

• A Blast from the Past: Journey back in time to Doctor Who Magazine, 1989…

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2015

  

  A blast from the past! Back in 1989, Reeltime Pictures (now Time Travel TV​), best known for interviewing Doctor Who actors, writers and producers, took the bizarre step of interviewing me (and others) on how Doctor Who Magazine​ was put… Read More ›

• In Review – “Lost Property” by Andy Poyiadgi

  By Antony Esmond on 2 March 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Created by Andy Poyiadgi Published by NoBrow Press 24 pages. Full Colour Cover Price – £6.50 The Book: What if all the things you ever lost, each valuable possession you vowed to treasure but could not keep safe, all the misplaced… Read More ›

• New SPECTRE image released, but no news on James Bond comics yet…

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2015

  

    A new teaser image from the next James Bond film, SPECTRE, was released this week featuring Dave Bautista as the villain Mr Hinks, apparently a new foe for Bond. The film, due for release, 6th November 2015, will focus on his… Read More ›

• Avery Hill Publishing announce New Comics for 2015

  By Antony Esmond on 1 March 2015

  

    In the world of indie comics publishers, Britain’s Avery Hill are one of my favourites. I have yet to find a dud in their ever growing line and was really impressed with their output last year. They have just… Read More ›

• Royal Mail Launches Alice In Wonderland Stamps

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2015

  

      The Royal Mail has just launched its Alice In Wonderland Stamps, the work of artist Grahame Baker-Smith, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s Classic Tale – and, for the first time ever the company has… Read More ›

• A Few of My Favourite Things: An Interview with “Skeleton Key” and “Gum Girl” creator Andi Watson

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2015 • ( 2 )

  

    Andi Watson is the author of the wonderful graphic novel Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula, which is in on sale this week from US publishers First Second, who have very kindly given us permission to re-present their recent interview with this… Read More ›

• Remembering Leonard Nimoy: The Day Spock Died

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2015

  

    Fans of Star Trek and Leonard Nimoy‘s other work – photography, music and film – are in mourning across the globe with news of his death yesterday. WIRED Magazine has an affectionate round up of just some of the… Read More ›

• Titan Unveils its Best of British Month – Death Sentence, Johnny Nemo and more!

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2015

  

    Titan Comics launches its Best Of British Comics month in May, celebrating cutting edge talent and supporting bold new visions – and has just released this trailer for their campaign. The promotion firmly promotes many of the great creator-owned… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Encounters

  By Jeremy Briggs on 28 February 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Kenya – Encounters is the second book in Cinebook’s translation of Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) and Rodolphe’s (Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette) ongoing series of spies, extinct beasts and strange flying lights that is set in post war-Kenya. Tom the native guide… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Lettering Comics Before the Digital Age with David Lloyd

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Back in the days before computers (and Richard Starkings), comics were hand lettered – and it was something of an arcane art that only a trusted few were employed to do at Marvel UK, where I worked in the 1990s. It… Read More ›

• Revealed: The Menace that Mashed Madonna!

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2015

  

      The Beano‘s Dennis the Menace was the cause of Madonna‘s fall from the stage at the Brit Awards, DC Thomson has revealed, joining in with the fun at the expense of a shell-shocked Madge, after her swift decent down the… Read More ›

• Steve Bell and Posy Simmonds on guest list for “Wonderlands” Graphic Novel Expo in Sunderland

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2015 • ( 2 )

  

    Inspired by Bryan Talbot‘s classic graphic novel Alice in Sunderland, Sunderland University is to host a major event for all fans of graphic novels on Saturday 30th May. 2015 is the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland, one… Read More ›

• Jessica Martin’s Picture Palace comes to the Radlett Centre in March

  By Jeremy Briggs on 27 February 2015

  

  An exhibition of actress, singer, and now comic writer and illustrator, Jessica Martin’s artwork will take place in the Radlett Centre in Radlett, North London beginning on Monday 2nd March 2015 and lasting until Tuesday 31st March 2015. Entitled Jessica… Read More ›

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