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• Ladybird Books celebrates 100th anniversary in 2015

  By John Freeman on 4 February 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Ladybird Books – whose artists in the past included Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson and fellow Eagle artists Martin Aitchison and Frank Humphris along with TV21 artist Ron Embleton – will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2015. To coincide with… Read More ›

• Markosia announces “Apollo” SuperCon Exclusive

  By John Freeman on 4 February 2014

  

  Independent British publishers Markosia have added another Limited Edition London Super Comic Convention Exclusive to their roster – an over-sized version of one of their latest graphic novels, Apollo by Erik von Wodtke and Douglas A. Sirois. Just 50 copies… Read More ›

• World War One – Comic Creator Connections: John Freeman

  By downthetubes Guests on 4 February 2014

  

  John Freeman edited some of the Charley’s War collections for Titan Books and is also one of the editors of this Charley’s War web site. He’s worked in British comics for nearly 30 years, first at Marvel UK then as… Read More ›

• Solid State Tank Girl Books Must be Won!

  By downthetubes Guests on 4 February 2014

  

  Thanks to those fine folk at Titan Books, we have TWO copies of their new British comic collection, Solid State Tank Girl, to give away! All you need to do to be in with a chance to win is answer… Read More ›

• Battle Classics – Competition Winners

  By John Freeman on 4 February 2014

  

  The winners of copies of Titan Books new British comic collection, Garth Ennis Presents Battle Classics were John Hammond and Paul Eldridge. Congratulations to them both and our thanks to Titan for the prizes. You’ll be pleased to hear that… Read More ›

• Hal Laren wins our Dan Dare “Reboot” Competition

  By John Freeman on 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 3 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 ›

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