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• Enter our Dan Dare “Reboot” Competition

  By John Freeman on 10 October 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  How would Dan Dare’s universe look if the series was re-launched today? Although it was published in late 1962 the first Dan Dare Space Annual, right, is dated 1963, and we felt it was an opportune event to mark a… Read More ›

• T-Shirt Booth app launches, offering personalised character shirts that raise charity funds

  By John Freeman on 10 October 2013

  

  Now this is genius – and a great way to raise money for charities, too. Digital Giving, an organisation which develops engaging and innovative projects for the benefit of national and international causes, has just launched a unique way of… Read More ›

• Delcourt to publish French language editions of ‘Porcelain’ trilogy

  By John Freeman on 10 October 2013

  

  French publisher Delcourt and Improper Books have announced that the French language edition of Porcelain: A Gothic Fairy Tale, by Benjamin Read and Chris Wildgoose, is set for a September 2014 release. As the leading independent comic publisher in France,… Read More ›

• Can you resist the latest Commandos?

  By John Freeman on 10 October 2013

  

  Here’s the full details on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic Commando, on sale now in all good newsagents and also as digital editions, offering two new stories – one featuring a behind the lines tale of the… Read More ›

• Katie Green guest at Glasgow’s Aye! Write festival

  By John Freeman on 9 October 2013

  

  Author Katie Green will be giving a talk in Glasgow as part of the upcoming Aye Write! and Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival, on Friday 18th October. Lighter Than My Shadow is Katie Green’s new graphic novel about how… Read More ›

• Fight the Power! anthology charts the struggle against authority

  By downthetubes Guests on 9 October 2013

  

  Fight the Power! is a new comic anthology charting the story of struggle against authority over the last 200 years and in several English speaking countries. Th book will be in the spotlight at the upcoming Lakes International Comic Art… Read More ›

• Panel Borders celebrates 100 issues of “The Walking Dead”

  By John Freeman on 9 October 2013

  

  Starting a month of shows on horror and fantasy comics, Alex Fitch talks to artist Charlie Adlard this week on his radio show Panel Borders, about drawing 100 issues of The Walking Dead. Alex and Charlie discuss the various storylines… Read More ›

• Spectator launches new award for cartooning

  By John Freeman on 9 October 2013

  

  The Spectator magazine has launched what it hopes will be a long-running annual prize: the Michael Heath Award for Cartooning, sponsored by John Lobb. Michael Heath, who is Cartoon Editor at the magazine, had his first cartoon published in The… Read More ›

• Will McPhail scoops “Young Cartoonist of the Year” award

  By John Freeman on 9 October 2013

  

  Congratulations this morning to Chorley-based cartoonist Will McPhail, who has won the accolade of “Young Cartoonist of the Year” from the British Cartoonist’s Association. “My flattery battery is fully charged,” says Will, who won the title with his drawing of… Read More ›

• Marvel UK Memories: The Bog Paper, Mike McCartney and “Hulk the Menace”

  By Tim Quinn on 8 October 2013

  

  Former Marvel UK editor Tim Quinn takes a look back at the short-lived humour comic

• Could your webcomic be part of WASP 2014?

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2013

  

  Earlier this year, twelve artists created some fantastic and unique strips swapping art duties amongst their respective webcomics and working to each others’ scripts.  Now the team gearing up for Round Two – and throwing down the challeneg to other… Read More ›

• Steve Bell recalls the “Golden Age of Caricature”

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Political cartoonist Steve Bell – best known for his work in The Guardian – will be at the University of Aberdeen in November, giving a free talk on Britain’s early visual satirists such as James Gillray, William Hogarth and George… Read More ›

• Charley’s War collection draws to a close with ‘The End’

  By downthetubes Guests on 8 October 2013

  

  Charley’s War Volume 10: The End, published by Titan Books, goes on sale in all good book and comic shops on 25th October 2013, wrapping Charley’s World War One adventures and bringing the current the current collection of the comic… Read More ›

• Top 10 Most Popular Stories so far this week

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2013

  

  Just for fun, here’s a list of our most popular stories this week so on downthetubes in order of popularity, omitting ‘landings’ on our home page… The Daily Mail’s Doctor Who newspaper strip that never was Ten Questions: Lighter Than… Read More ›

• Marvel’s Revolutionary War – Dakin, Elson and Erskine on board

  By John Freeman on 8 October 2013

  

  The London Film and Comic Con featured two Marvel UK-related panels, the first a general celebration of the company’s US comics projects such as Death’s Head II and Warheads, attended by Stephen Baskerville, Alan Cowsill, John Freeman, Simon Furman, Andy… Read More ›

• This World Has Teeth: A Chat with Ian Edginton

  By Matt Badham on 8 October 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Ian Edginton has written for pretty much every comics publisher there is, producing strips for anthologies such as 2000AD, Dark Horse Presents and Star Wars Tales as well as numerous one-shots and ongoing series. The latter include Kingdom of the… Read More ›

• Comic fans warned over G+ virus dangers after Rich Johnston explodes*

  By John Freeman on 7 October 2013

  

  We’re getting unusual reports of a strange virus circulating among comic press reporters, so serious they’re being referred to a special North London-based clinic run by one “Dr R. Mapra” for testing. According to a source at Titan Comics, the… Read More ›

• SelfMadeHero creators head for The Lakes (Comic Festival, that is)

  By John Freeman on 7 October 2013

  

  SelfMadeHero is attending the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, Cumbria, 18 -20 October with six of its writers and artists, including Oscar Zarate. Four of SelfMadeHero’s creators join forces for a Re-imagining the Classics panel discussion with… Read More ›

• London Film and Comic Con in Pictures

  By John Freeman on 7 October 2013 • ( 2 )

  

    Here are some of the brilliant Steve Cook‘s fantastic photographs from this weekend’s London Film and Comic Con, which he has kindly allowed me to re-post. Kindly invited by Mike Conroy to the event (thank you, Mike!) had a… Read More ›

• The Daily Mail’s Doctor Who newspaper strip that never was

  By John Freeman on 7 October 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  During the success of the new Doctor Who when it returned in 2005, I spoke with the Daily Mail, who were keen to run a daily strip of the Doctor. The right folk at the BBC agreed and I asked… Read More ›

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