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• Lakes International Comic Art Festival gets its own beer!

  By John Freeman on September 11, 2013

  

  The Kendal-based Lakes International Comic Art Festival (18th -20th October) continues to break new ground for UK comic events with the news that the event is to have its own beer, with branding supplied by Furry Freak Brothers creator Gilbert… Read More ›

• Park Leisure Launches new superhero outdoor Play Range

  By John Freeman on September 11, 2013

  

  Imagine a make-believe world brought to life in your local parks and playgrounds which are populated by some of world’s best loved cartoon characters and superheroes. Batman, Superman, Looney Tunes and a whole host of other exciting and long-established children’s… Read More ›

• In Review: Resident Alien – The Suicide Blonde #1

  By John Freeman on September 11, 2013

  

  Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse’s Resident Alien is back at Dark Horse Comics today (11th September), with Resident Alien: The Suicide Blond #1 on sale now in all good comic shops. A straightforward suicide . . . or a murder?… Read More ›

• Numbercruncher Issue 3: Beware The Divine Calculator!

  By John Freeman on September 11, 2013

  

  Numbercruncher #3 by Si Spurrier and PJ Holden is on sale today in all good comic shops, from Titan Comics. Bastard Zane is hot on the Mathematician’s heels, as the reincarnating schemer dives back through time and lifetimes to be… Read More ›

• Dan Boultwood’s It Came #2 – Sneek Preview!

  By John Freeman on September 10, 2013

  

  Tomorrow sees the release of Titan Comics It Came! Issue 2 from writer/artist Dan Boultwood – and we’ve got a sneek preview for you, right here! In Issue 2, The alien robot known as GRURK has been temporarily waylaid by… Read More ›

• SelfMadeHero secures award-winning political satire rights

  By John Freeman on September 10, 2013

  

  SelfMadeHero has acquired the English translation rights to the Angoulême award-winning and best-selling French political satire, Quai d’Orsay, based on the life of former PM and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, which will be published in English as Weapons of… Read More ›

• Tree Fu Tom Magazine launches this week

  By John Freeman on September 10, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Immediate Media has launched Tree Fu Tom magazine, based on the popular CGI CBeebies programme of the same name. On the newsstand from tomorrow, 11th September 2013, the title, produced by the company’s award-winning youth and children’s editorial team, recognises… Read More ›

• Tate gets set to publish Paul Gravett’s ‘Comics Art’

  By John Freeman on September 10, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  The Tate Gallery will publish Comics Art, a new book on the comics form by Paul Gravett, designed by Peter Stanbury on 7th November. As well as running an amazing and regularly updated web site on comics, Paul, who has been… Read More ›

• Oor Wullie’s Bucket Band launches with Bay City Rollers track

  By John Freeman on September 9, 2013

  

  Jings, crivvens and help ma boab! Oor Wullie’s bucket has been found, after it was stolen earlier this year – by cheeky Wullie look-a-like Jamie Webster. The Sunday Post, which publishes the Oor Wullie, strip, revealed the iconic Scottish comic… Read More ›

• Soaring Penguin to publish new Ellen Linder crime noir comic, Black Feather Falls

  By John Freeman on September 9, 2013

  

  Soaring Penguin Press are to publish a new four issue crime noir comic series, The Black Feather Falls, from Ellen Lindner  in the UK. Travel back to 1920s London and meet Tina Swift, who has just arrived in London from… Read More ›

• Think of a City storytelling project attracts Dave McKean, JH Williams III

  By John Freeman on September 9, 2013

  

    The City is our story – but what is a city? That’s the question being posed by architect Alison Sampson and comics artist Ian MacEwan through Think of a City, a tumblr-based, mass storytelling project involving a huge range… Read More ›

• Jason Cobley’s Bulldog set to return in Paragon

  By John Freeman on September 9, 2013

  

  30 years after creating the iconic small press character, comics writer and author Jason Cobley is bringing Captain Winston Bulldog back to print in the long-running indie anthology Paragon comic, the brainchild of artist Davey Candish. The tales of anthropomorphic… Read More ›

• Twelfth Doctor Who Art Challenge: The Winner Is…

  By John Freeman on September 8, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  These are my ‘finalists’ in the downthetubes Twelfth Doctor Art Challenge, after a lot of umming and ahhing confronted by such an amazing range of entries, including terrific ‘cartoon’ interpretations as well as the realistic. When you have a competition… Read More ›

• Artist Mike Collins joins toy designers for this year’s Roll Out event in Southampton

  By John Freeman on September 7, 2013

  

  If you're a fan of Transformers, G.I. Joe, Action Force, Masters Of The Universe or She-Ra, Princess of Power, then you need to get yourself to Jury's Inn, Southampton on the 12th and 13th of October for this year's Roll… Read More ›

• Veteran Countdown artist Gerry Haylock featured in latest Andersonic

  By John Freeman on September 7, 2013

  

  Issue 16 of the excellent Gerry Anderson-inspired zine Andersonic, with cover art by Rob Caswell, is now available via their website (and eBay for a short period in the Collectibles > SF > Thunderbirds section). The team have pulled off… Read More ›

• Overstreet Comic Art & Animation Guide Goes to Press

  By John Freeman on September 7, 2013

  

  US publisher Gemstone reports the second book in the new Overstreet “How To” series is off to the printer. The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comic & Animation Art, with a Silver Surfer #1 recreation cover by renowned painter Joe Jusko,… Read More ›

• British Comics Exhibition Due At The British Library In 2014

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 7, 2013

  

  It may surprise some people but in amongst its copies of Magna Carta, the Gutenberg Bible and the Lindisfarne Gospels, the British Library has the greatest collection of British comics in the world. The library in London is the nation’s… Read More ›

• Dennis Publishing breaks into children’s market with Berty Squiggles

  By John Freeman on September 6, 2013

  

  Dennis Publishing, also publishers of Viz, have launched Berty Squiggles – a colouring and activity title – which represents Dennis’ first venture into the children’s market in the company’s 40-year history. Berty Squiggles, a new title aimed at children of… Read More ›

• Age of Glamour revisited in new Robert Stewart Sherriffs exhibition

  By John Freeman on September 6, 2013

  

  A unique collection of glamorous 1920s and 1930s portraits will go on display for the first time at London’s Cartoon Museum from 11th September, featuring the work of caricaturist Robert Stewart Sherriffs. The exhibition features illustrations of actors Charlie Chaplin,… Read More ›

• “The Unwritten” graphic novel “Ship That Sunk Twice” sails to bookshops

  By John Freeman on September 5, 2013

  

  The Unwritten original graphic novel by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, on sale 1st October in the UK, features a stunning cover by Yuko Shimizu and includes 31 pages of fully painted art by Al Davison, with additional art by… Read More ›

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