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• Manchester Children’s Book Festival announces Neville Johnson Comic Strip Competition

  By John Freeman on 4 June 2014

  

  A trailblazer event for the biennial Manchester Children’s Book Festival (which takes place at the end of the month) will take place at Manchester Central Library tomorrow (Thursday 5th June), when novelist Curtis Jobling, creator of the globally successful Wereworld series, will be launching the… Read More ›

• Sun-soaked, free Temple APA Issue 16 available now, free

  By John Freeman on 3 June 2014

  

    The sizzling Temple APA Issue Sixteen is now available to download as a totally free PDF file, containing contributions from the likes of British comic creators Dave Hailwood, Simon Mackie, Tony Suleri, Paul Eldridge, Malcolm Kirk and Ben Peter Johnson, (who also provides the… Read More ›

• Beano-branded guitars and Brewers Fayre “Menacing Meals” on their way

  By John Freeman on 3 June 2014

  

  DC Thomson has announced to new Beano-related licensing deals in the past week, one for musical instruments and the other with restaurant chain Brewers Fayre, which will include the release of a limited edition Beano comic on Father’s Day. The… Read More ›

• Bryan Talbot, Graphic Novel Man – DVD and download winners!

  By John Freeman on 3 June 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Digital Story Engine recently released their ace documentary “Graphic Novel Man” focusing on the career of award-winning British comic creator Bryan Talbot (you can read our review here) and gave us six copies of the DVD and six HD Digital downloads to give away. All… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Comic Releases (4th June 2014)

  By John Freeman on 2 June 2014

  

    Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic ships on 4th June 2014, courtesy First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the UK titles in bold below: 2000AD Summer Sci-Fi… Read More ›

• Hunt Emerson, Knockabout launch Kickstarter to fund Calculus Cat collection

  By John Freeman on 2 June 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Ace British comic creator Hunt Emerson and publisher Knockabout have just launched a Kickstarter Campaign to try and launch a souped-up reprint of his wonderful 1980s Calculus Cat comic book. Calculus Cat hates TV. His world is black and white, weird,… Read More ›

• Sunderland-based PhD scholarships in media and cultural studies offered

  By John Freeman on 2 June 2014

  

  The Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland is offering two full-time Home/EU PhD scholarships with a start date of 1st October 2014. Together with full payment of fees, each scholarship will include a… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: European Female Voices

  By John Freeman on 2 June 2014

  

  Starting a month of shows looking at the work of female comic creators on Britain’s comic radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to German scratch board artist Line Hoven and Belgian cartoonist Judith Vanistendael about their family drama graphic… Read More ›

• Charley’s War art exhibition in Swanage next month

  By John Freeman on 30 May 2014

  

  Artwork by the late Joe Colquhoun from the seminal World War One comic story Charley’s War, which featured in weekly comic Battle, will be on show at Durlston Country Park near Swanage next month. Created by arrangement with Joe’s family, the event… Read More ›

• International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference announced

  By John Freeman on 30 May 2014

  

  The fifth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference will take places between Friday 19th – 20th July 2014 at the Conference Centre in the British Library in London. Now in its fifth year, this conference brings together comic and graphic novel… Read More ›

• Duncan Fegredo, Audrey Niffenegger and more join Lakes Festival guest list

  By John Freeman on 30 May 2014

  

  Not content with an already-announced guest list that includes top comic creators Scott McCloud, Gail Simone, Jock and Becky Cloonan, plus a Doctor Who-inspired group that features publisher Dez Skinn and top creators Nick Abadzis, Mike Collins and Robbie Morrison,… Read More ›

• Rebellion releases A.B.C. Warriors – The Mek Files featuring Bisley, Smuzz art

  By John Freeman on 30 May 2014

  

  Recently released from from the 2000AD Thrill-vaults in a 304-page pulse-pounding collection, are everyone’s favourite war droids: the Atomic, Bacterial, Chemical-proof A.B.C. Warriors. Beautifully bound in a stunning hardback edition, for the first time, all of the full-colour splash pages and… Read More ›

• Titan launches first Dragons: Riders of Berk

  By John Freeman on 29 May 2014

  

    Swooping in from DreamWorks Animation’s smash-hit TV series Dragons: Riders of Berk, Titan Comics has just released the first volume of a series of all-new original adventures of Hiccup and Toothless. Dragons: Riders of Berk Volume One is a thrilling all-ages publication… Read More ›

• Dynamite Entertainment previews Peter Milligan’s “Terminal Hero”

  By John Freeman on 29 May 2014

  

    US publisher Dynamite has released some preview pages from Terminal Hero, the second book in its “Creators Unleashed” series of creator driven comics, written by 2000AD‘s Peter Milligan with art by Piotr Kowalski, with a cover on #1 by Jae Lee. In… Read More ›

• Eleventh Doctor makes his final regular Doctor Who Magazine comic strip appearance

  By John Freeman on 29 May 2014

  

  The new issue of Doctor Who Magazine is on sale from Thursday 29th May and makes the most of its feature on the most popular stories of the first five decades of the series, as voted for by readers of the… Read More ›

• Leave your brains by the door, here’s Biodegradable Four!

  By John Freeman on 28 May 2014

  

    Hard boiled detectives, high speed car chases, brain harvesting aliens and adulterous Martians are just some of the attractions awaiting readers of the digital comics anthology 100% Biodegradable, available now Edited by David Hailwood and John Kirkham, the title… Read More ›

• Alan Moore backs digital comics creation app project, Electricomics

  By John Freeman on 28 May 2014

  

  Britain’s best known modern comic book writer Alan Moore is leading a research and development project, Electricomics, to create an open source app enabling digital comics to be made by anyone, a digital comics project that will include the publication of… Read More ›

• Azzopardi does ArtHouse! (Exhibition, that is…)

  By John Freeman on 28 May 2014

  

      Ace artist Sean Azzopardi is exhibiting some prints at the ArtHouse, a new venue in Crouch End. London-based cartoonist Sean has been making and self publishing comics for eleven years and is a regular face at comic conventions… Read More ›

• DC Thomson, Elstree Studio Productions release Bananaman movie poster

  By John Freeman on 27 May 2014

  

      DC Thomson and Elstree Studio Productions have just released the first poster to promote the upcoming Bananaman film, due for release sometime in 2015. Very little is known about the film, announced back in March, so far –… Read More ›

• Kingsman: The Secret Service trailer released

  By John Freeman on 27 May 2014

  

    Twentieth Century Fox released its first trailer to promote the upcoming release of Kingsman: The Secret Service recently, based on the comic created by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, which is due for an October release. I’ve only just seen it,… Read More ›

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