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• Hal Laren wins our Dan Dare “Reboot” Competition

  By John Freeman on February 4, 2014

  

  We know we’ve been longer announcing the winner of our Dan Dare Reboot Competition. You can view them all the entries on Flickr here. There’s a piece of news on the character we have been anxious to share with you, but right… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival announces 24 Hour Comic Marathon

  By John Freeman on February 4, 2014

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17-19th October 2014) has announced plans to host a 24 Hour Comic Marathon hosted by ace comics creator and educator Dan Berry – and they’re looking for comic artists to take part. Here’s the… Read More ›

• British Comic Awards 2014 Nominations Open

  By John Freeman on February 4, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  After a slight delay the nomination process for this year’s British Comic Awards is now open. Readers, retailers, creators, publishers, heroes, villains and talking animals are all welcome to suggest their favourite comics and comic book creators. They will all… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Régis Loisel and Peter Pan

  By John Freeman on February 3, 2014

  

  Starting a month of shows about French comics or bande dessinée, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Régis Loisel about his epic graphic novel adaptation of and prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, published in the UK by Soaring Penguin Press…. Read More ›

• In Praise of… Gerry Dolan

  By John Freeman on February 1, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  Back in my days as editor of Doctor Who Magazine, one of the first comic strips I edited for the title was “Stairway to Heaven”, a story that is much noted for being the first published professional work of a… Read More ›

• Birmingham MCM Comic Con back in March

  By John Freeman on February 1, 2014

  

  Two great events; one weekend; one ticket! Visit the MCM Birmingham Comic Con at the NEC on 22-23 March and you’ll also get entry to Britain’s biggest collectors’ event, Memorabilia Birmingham. If you’re into movies, sci-fi, videogames, comics, cosplay or… Read More ›

• Revolutionary War: Fitting It Into Marvel Continuity

  By John Freeman on February 1, 2014

  

  Over on the excellent It Came from Darkmoor blog dedicated to all things Marvel UK, Mark Roberts has been mulling over Marvel’s new limited series, Revolutionary War, and how it fits into overall Marvel continuity. In particular, he’d been trying… Read More ›

• Looking back on Charley’s War: An Interview with Pat Mills

  By downthetubes Guests on February 1, 2014

  

  If you’ve read a British comic book in the last few decades, the chances are you’ve read a story written or edited by Pat Mills. Learning his craft with DC Thomson in Dundee, Pat would go on to create Battle… Read More ›

• British comic creators a-plenty head to London Supercon

  By John Freeman on January 31, 2014

  

  The line up for this year’s London Super Comic Convention in March (15–16th) is hotting up. Taking place at the ExCel Centre in London British guests and exhibitors now include Charlie Adlard, Mark Buckingham, Ian Churchill, Andy Clift, Mike Collins,… Read More ›

• Crucible Comic #1 available for Kindle, work in progress on #2

  By John Freeman on January 31, 2014

  

  We’re pleased to announce that the first issue of a US-comic styled, digital edition of our Crucible comic is now also available for Kindle and in PDF format from Scribd. Work is progressing steadily on Issue 2, with Jim Campbell at… Read More ›

• Looking back on Charley’s War: An Interview with Pat Mills

  By downthetubes Guests on January 31, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  If you’ve read a British comic book in the last few decades, the chances are you’ve read a story written or edited by Pat Mills. Learning his craft with DC Thomson in Dundee, Pat would go on to create Battle… Read More ›

• In Review: Charley’s War Volume 10 – The End

  By downthetubes Guests on January 31, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Reviewed by Steve Earles By Pat Mills and Joe ColquhounPublisher: Titan BooksOut: Now The Book: In the final explosive volume of never-before-collected comic strip, including for the first time reproductions of strip pages from Joe Colquhoun’s original artwork, we finally… Read More ›

• Judge Dredd: Underbelly sells out in 48 hours, reprint on the way

  By John Freeman on January 31, 2014

  

  Just 48 hours after it went on sale, 2000AD has announced that they are to reprint their sold-out comic book Dredd: Underbelly. The official comic book sequel to the cult hit movie staring Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby, Underbelly sold… Read More ›

• Convict Commandos return in ghostly new Commando tale

  By John Freeman on January 31, 2014

  

  Here’s the run down on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic, Commando – Issues 4675-4678 – on sale now in all good newsagents and digitally for iPad and iPhone on the iTunes store. Commando No 4675 – Grave… Read More ›

• Empire celebrates “X-Men: Days of Future Past” with 25 variant covers

  By downthetubes Guests on January 31, 2014

  

  Film magazine Empire is going all out to promote X-Men: Days of Future Past, with its March issue, on sale now, featuring no less than 25 commemorative X-Men covers ahead of the release of the latest Marvel Comics-inspired film in… Read More ›

• BFI celebrates 30 Years of “Spitting Image”

  By John Freeman on January 30, 2014

  

  BFI Southbank will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Spitting Image on 27th February – one of the most innovative and daring television programmes ever conceived. Thirty years ago, Roger Law and Peter Fluck were happily ensconced in a converted Temperance… Read More ›

• Judge Dredd: Underbelly, movie sequel collection released

  By John Freeman on January 29, 2014

  

  The comic book sequel to the critically-acclaimed movie DREDD hit comic book stores and online today. Written by Arthur Wyatt and drawn by Henry Flint, this special US-format one-shot is available, collecting the whole Underbelly story, from comic book stores… Read More ›

• Combat Colin returns in Aces Weekly

  By downthetubes Guests on January 29, 2014

  

  Lew Stringer talks about the latest appearance of his long-running character, Combat Colin, to David Lloyd’s Aces Weekly – and touches on some attitudes to digital comics… There’s a certain school of thought that would have us believe that digital… Read More ›

• Creator Spotlight: Gerry Embleton

  By John Freeman on January 28, 2014

  

  I had a quick phone call with ace artist John Ridgway today, discussing colouring comics, Commando and one of our favourite topics, favourite comic creators, which today included the great pulp magazine artist Alden MacWiliams (whose credits included Twin Earths,… Read More ›

• National Literacy Trust charity auction includes Doctor Who script, Gruffalo art

  By John Freeman on January 28, 2014

  

  Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler, League of Gentlemen co-creator and co-star Steve Pemberton, along with celebrities including Joanna Trollope, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Madness have united to support literacy. All have donated items to an auction on behalf of  the National… Read More ›

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