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• Beano artist Jim Dewar’s whale of a creation boosts kidney charity funds

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2013

  

  Wilfred Whale, the creation of Beano artist Jim Dewar, helped the kidney cancer charity the James Whale Fund for Kidney Cancer raise more than £2000 in a special auction run by radio and tv host James Whale at the Castle… Read More ›

• Photo Report: Creators At Lakes 2013

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 30, 2013

  

  The inaugural Lakes International Comic Art Festival took place in a rather damp Kendal over the weekend of 18-20 October 2013. The festival had a great many creators selling their wares in both the main sales venue, Kendal Town Hall… Read More ›

• Beano, Dandy Annuals mix the old and the new for 2014

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2013

  

  With folk buying for Christmas even earlier than ever to spread the cost, here’s a quick reminder that Britain’s best-selling comic, The Beano celebrates its 75th birthday this year and the annual is still sale now in all good bookshops,… Read More ›

• Slaine storms social media as “Book of Scars” nears release

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2013

  

  To celebrate 30 years of the Celtic barbarian and the release of Sláine: Book of Scars on 7th November, the 2000AD team are  posting some of Sláine’s greatest covers from the past three decades on their social media feeds, such… Read More ›

• Pass me a chain gun, Lou Scannon is back

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2013

  

  The wait is over – Lou Scannon #6: Loose Cannons is now available from www.louscannon.co.uk! Uniting plot threads and characters from the first five stand-alone issues, Loose Cannons is Lou’s most explosive, action-packed small-press comic entry yet! And it still… Read More ›

• “Best of Britain’s Political Cartoons 2013” on sale soon

  By John Freeman on October 29, 2013

  

  Australian publisher Scribed launched its first UK catalogue earlier this year. Rubbing shoulders with new books such as  High Sobriety: my year without booze, by Scottish-born Melbourne-based journalist Jill Stark and Viennese Romance, the first-ever English edition of the previously… Read More ›

• Who at Fifty – Manchester’s very own Doctor Who Fringe Festival

  By downthetubes Guests on October 29, 2013

  

  Manchester pays homage to Doctor Who with Who At Fifty, a two week fringe festival of new drama, screenings and special appearances from 16th – 30th November 2013, and there are several comic strip and comic creator tie ins to… Read More ›

• Si Spurrier’s new web comic, “Disenchanted”, launches from Avatar

  By John Freeman on October 29, 2013

  

  US publisher Avatar Press has just launched Disenchanted, a new weekly webcomic by 2000AD and X-Men: Legacy writer Si Spurrier and Night of the Living Dead artist German Erramouspe that takes the fantasy genre in new directions. Once upon a time,… Read More ›

• Celebrate Christmas Past with special Beano and Dandy Covers Book

  By John Freeman on October 29, 2013

  

  Under licence from DC Thomson, auction site Phil’s Comics is offering a limited edition full colour hardback book, The Dandy and The Beano – Classic Christmas Comic Covers 1937-1969. The nook – limited to a 1000 print run – will be… Read More ›

• Ellen Lindner’s ‘Black Feather Falls’ joins SEQUENTIAL digital line-up

  By John Freeman on October 28, 2013

  

  SEQUENTIAL, the digital comics app created by Panel Nine, has just added The Black Feather Falls, the first of a range of books by Britain’s Soaring Penguin Press. The Black Feather Falls is by Ellen Lindner, the American author of… Read More ›

• Oscar Zarate, ILYA on Living and Loving in London

  By John Freeman on October 28, 2013

  

  Oscar Zarate and ILYA are both London-based graphic novelists who record and reflect their individual relationships with urban life. Both creators are in conversation with Paul Gravett as part of this year’s Comica Festival, revealing how London has helped shape… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Eagle editor Bob Bartholomew

  By John Freeman on October 28, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Steve Holland has reported on the passing of Bob Bartholomew, best known to the comics’ world as the editor of Eagle and Boys’ World in the 1960s, who died on Wednesday, 9th October, at the age of 90. “Bob had… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Great British Horror Comics

  By John Freeman on October 28, 2013

  

  Today’s Panel Borders radio show concludes a month of episodes looking at horror comics, and includes interviews with a quartet of British creators who work in that genre. Alex Fitch talks to David Hine, author of Strange Embrace and writer… Read More ›

• Black Sails and Dark Tales: the Return of Heros the Spartan

  By Norman Boyd on October 28, 2013

  

  Remember how Google Scholar used to have “resting on the shoulder’s of giants” as their strapline? By pure accident, I’m sitting on the same bench with them! I’m in a published book – Frank Bellamy’s Heros the Spartan, out now… Read More ›

• Emily Haworth-Booth wins 2013 Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize with ‘Colonic’

  By John Freeman on October 28, 2013

  

  33-year-old Emily Haworth-Booth  has been announced as the winner of this year’s Observer/Cape/Comica graphic short story prize, for her story ‘Colonic’ – and Michael Parkin as runner up, for his story ‘Lines’. On of this year’s judges, Stephen Collins, author… Read More ›

• “Comica Conversations” kick off with UK exclusive preview of Dave McKean’s “Nine Lives”

  By John Freeman on October 28, 2013

  

  Comica 2013, the London International Comics Festival, kicks off its season of Comica Conversations with the UK exclusive preview of Dave McKean‘s latest storytelling experiment, which premiered earlier in October at the Graphic festival in Sydney Opera House, entitled Nine… Read More ›

• Spandex Special launches this weekend at MCM Expo

  By John Freeman on October 26, 2013

  

  After seven issues of gay superhero shenanigans, Spandex series creator Martin Eden is bringing his comic saga to and end in a Spandex Special! To celebrate, the comic will be a whopping 52 pages and will feature five ‘variant covers’,… Read More ›

• Artist Nigel Dobbyn ‘invades’ Redcar!

  By John Freeman on October 26, 2013

  

    Catch 2000AD, Sonic The Hedgehog and The Beano artist Nigel Dobbyn at the Invasion exhibition at Kirkleatham Museum near Redcar this Sunday and the next. Aside from hearing first-hand how comic strips are developed, you might even pick yourselves… Read More ›

• Zakk Ridley from Orang Utan Press set to stun

  By John Freeman on October 26, 2013

  

  Those darn fine indie publishers Orang Utan Comics are offering something special for visitors to next month’s Thought Bubble comic art festival in Leeds – a limited edition convention exclusive copy of the totally stunning-looking The Intergalactic Adventures of Zakk… Read More ›

• My Singing Monsters magazine on way from Egmont UK

  By John Freeman on October 25, 2013

  

  Big Blue Bubble, creators of the best-selling gaming app My Singing Monsters, have signed the master publishing house Egmont UK as its new strategic licensing partner. The agreement between Egmont and the Canadian video game creators will see the My… Read More ›

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