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• Crucible Colour Notes: Ardahl

  By John Freeman on August 20, 2013

  

  We know we’re only a couple of episodes in, but we hope you like Ardahl. He’s a bit of a man of mystery – his origins obscure, known, perhaps, only to Truug… and perhaps even his old friend doesn’t know… Read More ›

• In Review: Grandville – Bête Noire

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 20, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Writer/artist Bryan Talbot’s anthropomorphic steampunk saga, inspired by the humanoid animal illustrations of French artist JJ Grandville, reaches its third book with Grandville: Bête Noire published by Jonathan Cape. Detective Inspector Archie LeBrock is called from Scotland Yard to Grandville… Read More ›

• Other Worlds: Mike Carey’s City of Silk and Steel

  By John Freeman on August 19, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Earlier this year, the Carey gang – Mike Carey, wife Linda and daughter Louise – saw the UK publication of City of Silk and Steel by Gollancz, a wonderful Arabian Nights-style novel I discovered quite by chance recently in Lancaster Library…. Read More ›

• London’s “GeekFest” pulls the crowds, Paul Cornell wins award for “London Falling”

  By John Freeman on August 19, 2013

  

  More than 1500 “geeks” converged this weekend for Nine Worlds Geekfest, London’s first annual celebration of geek culture, which included talks from comic creators and SF authors, discussions, workshops, comedy and music dedicated to all things geeky, with many fans… Read More ›

• Scar Comics launches Kickstarter appeal for ‘Forgotten Planet’ project

  By John Freeman on August 19, 2013

  

  In 2006, scientists announced Pluto was to be de-classified as a planet, and many felt a slight pang of disappointment as our Solar System lost its little Ice baby. But what if there was a darker reason behind this cosmic… Read More ›

• TOXIC comic sales up, but bad news for other news stand titles in latest ABCs

  By John Freeman on August 19, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  There’s good news and bad news for British news stand publishers lurking in the latest ABC sales figures for January – June 2103 for comics and related magazines, with some titles on sale in WH Smiths and other newsagents celebrating… Read More ›

• Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell, get set to spill the milk – tickets selling fast

  By John Freeman on August 19, 2013

  

  If you are going to be in London on Tuesday 15th October 2013, you might want to buy tickets as soon as possible (since they’re selling fast) to go and see Neil Gaiman read the whole of Fortunately, The Milk…… Read More ›

• Christian Ward’s ‘Dead Cats’ exhibition at London’s Orbital Comics

  By John Freeman on August 18, 2013

  

  (via Paul Gravett): London’s Orbital Comics Gallery near Leicester Square, London has just opened their latest exhibition of original comics art: ‘Dead Cats’ by Christian Ward. Spinning out of the much-lauded Infinite Vacation mini-series from Image comics (co-created by Christian… Read More ›

• Latest Commandos With Another Double Kennedy Issue

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 18, 2013

  

  The latest batch of Commandos are in the shops and include a reprint of Massacre At Mendhi Pass, a 1974 Cam Kennedy Story with an Ian Kennedy cover. Commando 4627 – Race Of Death Story: Alan Hebden Art: Morahin Cover:… Read More ›

• Ireland’s Cootehill International Cartoon Festival lines up UK guests

  By John Freeman on August 18, 2013

  

  Via Bloghorn: The Cootehill International Cartoon Festival takes place in County Cavan, Ireland, over the weekend of 14-15th September and will feature workshops, exhibitions and live drawing, and guests such as John Berkeley, Hunt Emerson, Tim Leatherbarrow and Graeme Keyes…. Read More ›

• Stripped Event Review: Joe Sacco – The Graphic Truth

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 18, 2013

  

  Joe Sacco, writer and illustrator, born in Malta, raised in Australia and based in America, is a comics journalist who tends to document war from the other side – not the side of the soldiers who do the fighting but… Read More ›

• Marineman creator Ian Churchill first announced guest for Malta Con 2013

  By John Freeman on August 17, 2013

  

  Wicked Comics has announced the internationally renowned British creator Ian “Marineman” Churchill as the first guest for this year’s Malta Comic Con, which will be held on Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December at St. James Cavalier (all floors), Valletta, Malta. The convention’s… Read More ›

• 17th Japan Media Arts Festival Issues Call for Entries

  By John Freeman on August 17, 2013

  

  The Japan Media Arts Festival  has just launched its annual call for entries to its competition that reaches out to both comic artists and animators worldwide. A comprehensive festival of Media Arts (=Media Geijutsu), the event honours outstanding works from… Read More ›

• Vicious Vikings aplenty in Tim Hall’s ‘Skragbeard’

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2013

  

  If vicious Vikings and demon lords are the kind of things that grab your attention when searching for a comic to read, then look no further!

• Award-winner Corbain Wilkins seeks backing for ‘Breaker’s End’

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2013

  

  2012 Observer/Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize winner Corbain Wilkins has a new graphic novel, Breaker’s End, in the works and hopes to release a special edition using the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. Breaker’s End tells the story of a fragile, ageing… Read More ›

• Sequart puts Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan under the spotlight

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2013

  

  The Sequart Research & Literacy Organization (sequart.org) has just released its newest book of comics analysis, Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan,  edited by Chad Nevett. Published in 1997-2002, Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s… Read More ›

• In Review: The Scorpion – The Angel’s Shadow

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 16, 2013

  

  Writer Stephen Desberg and artist Enrico Marini’s The Scorpion returns in The Angel’s Shadow, the second part of the latest on-going story of the swashbuckling 18th century rogue and his battles with the less-than-holy Pope Trebaldi. Trebaldi’s army of warrior… Read More ›

• In Review: Blake & Mortimer – Secret Of The Swordfish 2

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 14, 2013

  

  2013 sees Cinebook working their way through the three parts of Edgar P Jacob’s first Blake and Mortimer story The Secret Of The Swordfish and they have reached Book 2 with the spoiler-ish sub-title of Mortimer’s Escape. The cold war… Read More ›

• Planet Jimbot’s Amazing & Fantastic Tales

  By downthetubes Guests on August 13, 2013

  

  Amazing & Fantastic Tales #2 – a new comic from Planet Jimbot, the indie imprint run by Jim Alexander and Jim Campbell, is on sale now. Pulp gets a modern twist with comic strips and text stories combined in this… Read More ›

• Guest Post: VAT the Tat on children’s comics

  By downthetubes Guests on August 13, 2013

  

  Freelance cartoonist Alexander Matthews is published in Private Eye, The Phoenix, Prospect, The Week, The Dandy and RAC Magazine, among others. He’s also lectured in Graphic Design and illustration at Degree level and up until recently ran an Art and… Read More ›

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