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• Saucy Goings On At The Edinburgh International Book Festival

  By Jeremy Briggs on 18 August 2014

  

  The Edinburgh International Book Festival is currently in full swing and while the 40+ events of last year’s Stripped 2013 festival-within-a-festival have been scaled back to the more typical BookFest number of a dozen or so, with creators including Bryan… Read More ›

• British News Stand Comic Sales see surge for pre-school, dips for humour titles

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2014

  

    (Updated 20th August 2014) The Audit Bureau of Circulations reported sales figures for January – June 2014 have been released, which include subscription sales, with Redan’s Peppa Pig and Immediate Media’s CBeebies Weekly titles continuing to do well in the pre-school market. Egmont, too,… Read More ›

• In Review: Countdown to TV Action

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2014

  

  by Steve Holland Publisher: Bear Alley Books Out: Now The Book: The latest comic index from Bear Alley Books covers the history and content of Countdown and TV Action, the Gerry Anderson-themed comic from Polystyle launched in the early 1970s…. Read More ›

• Orkney gallery hosts 2000AD-inspired exhibition

  By John Freeman on 15 August 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    If you’re heading to Orkney for your holidays, then you might want to drop in on a new exhibition featuring comic art by four artists who live on the island. The Orkney Comic Art Exhibition is being held on… Read More ›

• Dan Dare, Eagle, Beano, Thunderbirds and TV21 gems in latest ComPal auction

  By John Freeman on 15 August 2014

  

    Two gorgeous Don Harley-created Dan Dare sketches, rare Beano and Dandy issues from World War Two and plenty of Fleetway Picture Library items are just a few of the lots in the September ComPal comic auction, which has just… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Apparitions

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 August 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Kenya – Apparitions is the first in a new series created by Leo and Rodolphe and translated into English by Cinebook. Colonial Kenya in 1947 is a place for big game safaris and American pulp novelist John Remington is on… Read More ›

• “Super Pope” artist Maupal exhibited in London

  By John Freeman on 14 August 2014

  

    A slightly off-topic item, but some readers might be interested to know that London’s Le Dame gallery is currently exhibiting the work of Mauro Pallotta, also known as Maupal, who you might remember for his grand wall painting depicting Pope… Read More ›

• New Self-Publishing Experience Day in Cornwall announced

  By John Freeman on 14 August 2014

  

  ‘The Self-Publishing Experience Day – From Manuscript to Market’, which will take place next month in Cornwall, will bring together the UK’s most widely-recommended self-publishing services provider, the UK’s only dedicated self-publishing magazine and one of the UK’s leading book printers… Read More ›

• Review of Angus Library Exhibition

  By Colin Noble on 14 August 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  I am fortunate, as one of DTT’s roving reporters,  in being in Scotland. So I get to see a lot of the small exhibitions that D C Thomson’s put on to encourage sales or to remind people that DCT are… Read More ›

• New look for Doctor Who Adventures as Twelfth Doctor debuts

  By John Freeman on 13 August 2014

  

    To celebrate Doctor Who returning to BBC One on Saturday 23rd August with a brand-new series and new Doctor, the latest issue of Immediate Media’s BBC Doctor Who Adventures has an exciting new look. The magazine features an exclusive… Read More ›

• Cup of O – ICE Birmingham

  By Owen Watts on 13 August 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    The other weekend saw the first ICE Birmingham event – filling the long-vacant gap of a solid Birmingham comics show. It’s certainly been the first time since 2011 that I’ve sold my sequential wares in the city. ICE was a single-day event… Read More ›

• Fish finger sandwiches draw in fans of Sean Phillips art!

  By John Freeman on 13 August 2014

  

    A selection of images from last year’s fantastic The Art of Sean Phillips exhibition has just opened in a Kendal café, to help raise local awareness of this year’s upcoming Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17th – 19th October) Festival… Read More ›

• Deadly Mines, Jungle Dangers and a shipboard traitor in new Commando titles

  By John Freeman on 13 August 2014

  

  Here’s the intel on Commando Issues 4731-4734, on sale from today, 14th August 2014 in all good newsagents and for iPad and iPhone via iTunes. The 12-month World War One saga, every story drawn by Keith Page, continues with a… Read More ›

• In Review: Antares – Episode 5

  By Jeremy Briggs on 13 August 2014

  

    Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga with Antares Episode 5, the continuation of the third series of his incredibly alien tales of 22nd century interplanetary settlers and the beasts and… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Comic Releases (13th August 2014) – Carl Critchlow on IDW’s “Judge Anderson”

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2014

  

    Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops from tomorrow, Wednesday 13th August 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold… Read More ›

• Misty artist Shirley Bellwood makes first ever comic convention appearance

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2014

  

  Calling All Misty Fans! This Sunday is your first ever chance to meet Shirley Bellwood, the amazing illustrator of the long-running British girls’ comic Misty‘s spooky hostess at Comica Festival at the British Library Book it! A painter, illustrator and… Read More ›

• Taschen’s mammoth “75 Years of Marvel” book by Roy Thomas on its way

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Taschen, the well known “art book” publisher which has a slew of fantastic high quality titles to its name, recently announced the upcoming release of the 720-page 75 Years of Marvel: From the Golden Age to the Silver Screen by Marvel writer… Read More ›

• Rollerskating Bears? Oh my!

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2014

  

    Glasgow-based cartoonist MJ Wallace, a regular submitter to Team Girl Comic, has a collection of her light-heared and funny comic Rollerskates and Breakfast Dates on sale now.         Rollerskates and Breakfast Dates comprises some wonderful autobiographical… Read More ›

• In Review: Red Baron – The Machine Gunners’ Ball

  By Jeremy Briggs on 11 August 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Cinebook present a new series, Red Baron, set during the First World War and “loosely inspired” by the life of German fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, written by Pierre Veys and illustrated by Carlos Puerta. This isn’t the Luftwaffe against the… Read More ›

• New AAIIEEE!! horror anthology on sale now

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2014

  

    The latest issue of the British indie horror anthology comic AAIIEEE!!! is on sale now, an issue that includes a great story from writer Si Spencer. Inspired by the 1970s Amicus portmanteau horrors films, this collection of tales, edited… Read More ›

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