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• Award-winning creator Becky Cloonan joins Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up

  By John Freeman on 9 April 2014

  

    The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that the critically-acclaimed comic creator Becky Cloonan has joined the event’s line-up of guests. Born in Pisa, Italy, Becky Cloonan began her career self-publishing mini-comics in 1999. Since then she has gone on to… Read More ›

• Name A Character in Mark Millar’s Starlight

  By John Freeman on 8 April 2014

  

  Ever fancied having a comic-book character named after you? Especially one in a book that’s been picked up as a big-budget movie by Fox? Well, via an eBay auction, Writer Mark Millar (Wanted and Kick-Ass) and Goran Parlov (The Punisher)… Read More ›

• Leading Graphic Novel Publisher Top Shelf Partners with the SEQUENTIAL Digital Graphic Novel App

  By John Freeman on 8 April 2014

  

  SEQUENTIAL, the graphic novel storefront and reader app focused on literary graphic novels produced by Panel Nine, has announced that it has started releasing titles by pioneering art comics and graphic novel publisher Top Shelf Productions. Top Shelf Productions, which… Read More ›

• Massive Luther Arkwright tome, “Arkwright Integral” announced

  By John Freeman on 8 April 2014

  

  Finally! At long last, a comics publisher – Dark Horse – has had the good sense to commission and publish a high quality ultimate A4 size hardback edition of the first flagship British graphic novel, Luther Arkwright by Eisner and Harvey Award-winner Bryan… Read More ›

• Sally Heathcote “Director’s Commentary” reveals creators secrets about new graphic novel

  By John Freeman on 8 April 2014

  

  (with thanks to Joe Gordon): Writer Mary Talbot and artist Kate Charlesworth have their guest Director’s Commentary on the making of their upcoming book Sally Heathcote – Suffragette on the Forbidden Planet International blog today. “For those not familiar with… Read More ›

• Director’s Commentary: Mary Talbot and Kate Charlesworth on Sally Heathcote, Suffragette

  By Joe Gordon on 8 April 2014

  

  This Director’s Commentary going behind the scenes on the award-winning Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot was originally published on 8th April 2014 on the Forbidden Planet International blog by Joe Gordon, and is re-published… Read More ›

• Scotland’s Robert the Bruce celebrated in new comic

  By John Freeman on 7 April 2014

  

  A new comic book, King Robert the Bruce and the Wars of Independence, is now available to order directly from the King Robert the Bruce educational web site. The web site, developed by staff and students at Fife College, celebrates Dunfermline’s historic… Read More ›

• “Nemo: The Roses of Berlin” hits Top Three in Graphic Novel Sales for March

  By John Freeman on 7 April 2014

  

  Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-inspired title Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, co-published by Knockabout and Top Shelf, proved a sales hit last month in terms of sales in specialist comic shops, reaching the Number Three spot… Read More ›

• A Different Type of Star – Rejuvenating DC Thomson’s Red Star for a New Era

  By John Freeman on 5 April 2014

  

  General Jumbo, The Smasher and  Supercats are just some of the classic British heroes back in print right now, thanks to a team of Scottish comic creators, DC Thomson and Comic Heroes magazine. As we previously reported, The Glasgow League of Writers has teamed up with publisher DC… Read More ›

• 21st Tank Girl project gets massive Kickstarter support

  By John Freeman on 5 April 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  After a break of nearly 20 years Jamie Hewlett will be drawing a new Tank Girl story as part of 21st Century Tank Girl project conceived by Alan C. Martin, joining six other artists to create a brand new book that has… Read More ›

• Jon Lock’s AFTERLIFE INC. collection on course for crowd funding success?

  By John Freeman on 5 April 2014

  

  Comics writer Jon Lock recently launched a Kickstarter campaign that looks to be on course to see the publication of a deluxe collection of his amazing AFTERLIFE INC., the tale of con-artist Jack Fortune, who, following his untimely demise, discovers an afterlife in… Read More ›

• Scar Comics Unveils New Crime Thriller

  By John Freeman on 4 April 2014

  

  Unfinished City, the latest graphic novel to be announced by award winning British independent publishers Scar Comics and seeking crowd funding, is catching the attention of readers in Eastern Europe as well as readers and creators here in the UK and… Read More ›

• From Street to Trench: A World War that Shaped a Region opens at IWM North

  By John Freeman on 4 April 2014

  

    The Imperial War Museum North‘s new exhibition in Manchester, the largest of its kind, will reveal the important contribution the North West made during the First World War. Marking the 100 year commemoration we have gathered together over 200… Read More ›

• OFF LIFE magazine announces live London #QuickDraw event

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2014

  

  To help launch the brand new House of Illustration gallery in London’s Kings Cross, the OFF LIFE team – makers of the free street comic distributed in London and Bristol – are holding a free #QuickDraw event in April. “Every… Read More ›

• Glasgow comic makers documentary released

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2014

  

  Independent film maker and director John Wilson has just released Independent Comics: Glasgow a short documentary exploring comic book writers based in Glasgow on YouTube, filmed in various locations and featuring interviews with Team Girl Comic‘s MJ Wallace and Roachwell creator… Read More ›

• Panini UK set to launch “Henry Hugglemonster” title

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2014

  

  Panini UK is to launch Henry Hugglemonster, a new 36-page monthly magazine for pre-schoolers, featuring the monster family from Disney Junior’s TV show, on 17th April. The show, which launched last year and airs in 150 countries worldwide, is based… Read More ›

• The road to the World War One to be re-visited by top British cartoonists

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2014

  

  Over six weeks (28th June – 4th August 2014), twelve top cartoonists and graphic artists, and a number of script writers will respond to the events that happened across the world as the world was heading to war one hundred… Read More ›

• Get ready for MCM Ireland Comic Con

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2014

  

  Calling all Irish sci-fi, videogame, comics, cosplay and anime fans! A quick reminder that the first ever MCM Ireland Comic Con comes to Dublin’s RDS on 12-13 April for a weekend jam-packed with geeky goodness. Special guests already confirmed for… Read More ›

• First Age Comics opens new Lancaster store

  By John Freeman on 2 April 2014

  

  Lancaster’s First Age Comics has moved into new premises, expanding its new comics, graphic novels and action figures and back issue sales operations over two floors at 3, Moor Lane, Lancaster. Owners Mark and Lucy Braithwaite have been looking for… Read More ›

• Violence: A Conference on Comics – Call for Papers

  By John Freeman on 2 April 2014

  

  Whether they are depicting the never-ending battles of superheroes, dealing sensitively but shockingly with issues such as domestic violence, or presenting an overview of historical conflicts, the themes of conflict and violence are common in comics, and will be the… Read More ›

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