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• Meet Cruffin and Muffnut in a tale of unrequited love by Alex Hahn

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2014

  

    Freelance illustrator and independent publisher Alex Hahn (who some of you may have met at Thought Bubble last year) recently launched The Cruffin and Muffnut, a story of unrequited love, a new book featuring Muffnut, a character who made made his tasty… Read More ›

• British Library’s Comics Unmasked Exhibition Launches Free Digital Anthology

  By John Freeman on 8 May 2014

  

      Comics Unmasked, the new exhibition at the British Library in London, has opened to great acclaim, offering the first chance to see the British Library’s extensive comics collection, as well as original artwork and scripts from names such… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Adventures offers “Who” merchandise discount to readers

  By John Freeman on 8 May 2014

  

    The latest issue of BBC Doctor Who Adventures magazine is out now, and is offering a special money off deal for all Doctor Who goodies available at the online bbcshop.com – so don’t miss it. And there’s a also a pretty impressive… Read More ›

• Alternative Press take over London this Saturday

  By John Freeman on 8 May 2014

  

    A quick reminder that Alternative Press will be at the Bishopsgate Institute, London this Saturday (10th May), an event created collaboration with the London Radical Bookfair and the Alliance of Radical Booksellers From 10.00am – 5.00pm and with help of 85 small press exhibitors, the AP team will… Read More ›

• Digital Comics under the spotlight at October’s Lakes Festival

  By John Freeman on 8 May 2014

  

  Top digital comic creators from both sides of the Atlantic form part of this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival line-up, and several events will focus on this rapidly-evolving comics form, which offers the tantalising opportunity of reaching out to… Read More ›

• Blast from the Past: Dark Angel loves The Punisher!

  By John Freeman on 8 May 2014

  

  Time for a quick step back in time to the early 1990s, courtesy of artist Richard Piers Rayner, who found this great piece of art featuring Marvel UK’s Dark Angel giving The Punisher a friendly peck. Richard’s first work for… Read More ›

• New Commando war story continues World War One theme

  By John Freeman on 8 May 2014

  

  The latest issues of Commando, on sale from today (8th May 2014) in all good newsagents and as digital editions for iPad and iPhone, again offer another tale set during World War One drawn by Keith Page and a range… Read More ›

• MancsterCon back in August

  By John Freeman on 7 May 2014

  

    The MancsterCon Independent Sequential Art Convention returns to Manchester in August, following a successful three day event last year filled with screenings, talks and workshops, cosplay catwalks and a host of local comic artists. Taking place from 8th –… Read More ›

• Writers & Artists Present: Getting Published: Which Route Do I Take?

  By John Freeman on 7 May 2014

  

  There’s a conference on self-publishing in London in July that, while focusing on the written word, might be of interest to any comic creator who is releasing their own work direct. Writers & Artists Present: Getting Published: Which Route Do… Read More ›

• First Graphic Novel Winner to be announced at British Library

  By John Freeman on 7 May 2014

  

  Myriad Editions have announced the shortlist for this year’s First Graphic Novel Competition and Paul Gravett will be hosting the Award Evening with the finalists and judges in the Conference Centre at the British Library on 23rd May, as part of the… Read More ›

• Observer launches annual graphic short story competition with Jonathan Cape and Comica

  By John Freeman on 6 May 2014

  

  The Observer launched the 2014 Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica graphic short story competition on Sunday. The winner will receive a cheque for £1,000 and the winning story will be published in the Observer New Review in November. Now in its seventh year, the… Read More ›

• Doctor Who meets Thunderbirds!

  By John Freeman on 6 May 2014

  

  … Well, sort of! This stunning Daleks versus Rock Snakes image by Tony Luke features Doctor Who‘s top enemy and the deadly silicon-based life forms Zero X encountered on Mars in the film Thunderbirds are Go. The art is a private commission, inspired… Read More ›

• Art Hero: An interview with Daniel Clifford

  By Matt Badham on 6 May 2014

  

    I’ve been talking to Daniel Clifford about his work and his collaborations and fascinating sounding workshops, and I’m sharing the resulting interview here and the ace Forbidden International blog. Born in South Shields in 1986, writer and educator Daniel Clifford, who has… Read More ›

• SelfMadeHero invades Canada!

  By John Freeman on 5 May 2014

  

      As the massive Toronto-based TCAF prepares for its 2014 international celebration of comics and graphic novels, SelfMadeHero, the independent UK publisher of graphic novels, is attending with a number of its top creators from Britain and Europe. British… Read More ›

• Artist Roy Cross Interviewed In RAF Museum Magazine

  By Jeremy Briggs on 5 May 2014

  

  The second issue of RADAR, the RAF Museum’s quarterly magazine, is now available to read for free on the museum’s website and features an interview with Eagle and Swift artist Roy Cross. This interview ties in with Cross’ work for… Read More ›

• High praise for “On Dangerous Ground”, new Bannockburn Graphic Novel

  By John Freeman on 5 May 2014 • ( 1 )

  

      A graphic novel produced to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, released by the National Trust for Scotland and written by Fiona Watson, illustrated by top independent comics creator Conor Boyle and lettered by Jim Campbell,… Read More ›

• BBC News features ‘Comics Unmasked’ new British Library exhibition

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2014

  

    Here’s Paul Gravett and academic Dave Huxley on BBC News this morning, talking comics and the Comics Unmasked exhibition at the British Library. Crisis, the Eagle and more got name checks (and there’s a vox pops sequence shot at… Read More ›

• Markosia primes “Future Primitive” for digital, print release

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2014

  

  Future Primitive is a new, “digital first” series set to  launch from Markosia very soon, and based on the artwork and premise former Image and Marvel creator Kevin Gunstone sent over, featuring art by  by rising Serbian talent Slobodan “Bobann” Jovanovic, we reckon… Read More ›

• London’s ICA to celebrate work of Moomins creator Tove Jansson, comics to feature

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2014

  

    Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Moomins creator Tove Jansson (1914 – 2001), London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts is to host an exhibition, starting in July, presenting original unseen photographs and material relating to her life and work,… Read More ›

• Meet Marvin the Paranoid Android at the National Space Centre’s “Towel Day” celebrations

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2014

  

      Are you a Hoopy Frood who really knows where your Towel is at? Then stick out a thumb and hitchhike your way to Britain’s National Space Centre in Leicester on 25th May for Towel Day. Strags welcome! Towel Day… Read More ›

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