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• What’s in that Portfolio? Do’s and Don’ts For Comic Artists

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2013

  

  Here’s some guidance on what you should – and shouldn’t – include in your art portfolio when you’re showing it around at comic conventions. You might also like to take a look at my Editor’s View on what we like to see… Read More ›

• Robert McKee’s Ten Commandments

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2013

  Robert McKee’s Story Structure Seminar is an intensive three-day course that concentrates on screen writing. Most of the course is very applicable to comics writing. The course is well worth the cost and comes recommended by many people I know… Read More ›

• Ceating Comics: Submitting Strips to Syndication Companies

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2013

  Crumb by David Fletcher, one of many comics on GoComics US newspapers run many syndicated three – four frame strips, from Doonesbury and Garfield to Beatle Bailey and The Wizard of Id. Despite the huge amount of material out there,… Read More ›

• What Comic Editors look for in a submission: Submitting Artwork

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2013

  Although my comic creating guide is in the main primarily aimed at writers rather than artists, be aware of these principles…1) Have you submitted strip work to the title of your choice, as well as illustrations? In general, when you… Read More ›

• Dez Skinn reveals the origins of Vulcan (the comic, not the Star Trek planet)

  By John Freeman on May 14, 2013 • ( 2 )

  Longtime British comics fan and indie publisher David McDonald, whose projects under his Hibernia Comics imprint include One Eyed Jack and the Death of Valiant and a fab Doomlord strip collection, writes to tell us he is busy working on… Read More ›

• What Comic Editors Look for in a Submission: Writing

  By John Freeman on May 14, 2013

  1) Before submitting your work, check for spelling and grammar. Also, revise and polish your submission. Is it a story you’d want to read featuring your chosen hero? Have you written a story using characters you’re familiar with? Could you… Read More ›

• Quote Me on Writing Comics: Mike Collins

  By John Freeman on May 14, 2013

  

  “On writing, I always put pen to lined paper first and always. The computer always comes last. “I find when I write straight into the machine it results in ridiculous levels of verbosity, but if it’s all written long hand… Read More ›

• Quote Me on Writing Comics: Dave Gibbons

  By John Freeman on May 14, 2013

  Dave Gibbons Artist on The Watchmen, writer and artist on The Originals “I got involved because I loved comics ever since I could read; in fact, they may have been the reason that I wanted to read! I started by… Read More ›

• Writing Comics: First Points

  By John Freeman on May 14, 2013

  

  Comics is a very versatile medium that’s got possibilities that people have not even begun to touch… Alan Moore, interviewed in the fanzine Zarjaz #3 I take the same approach to writing a comic as writing a script; I flesh… Read More ›

• Brighton Festival offers graphic novel events with Woodrow Phoenix, Laydeez Do Comics

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2013

  Yes, yes, we know it’s short notice. (We probably did get an email. Have you seen my inbox?) There are two comic-related two Brighton Festival graphic events this week on Wednesday evening, at the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, put on… Read More ›

• Duncan Long’s Lesser Gods novel available in print

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2013

  

  The paperback version of artist Duncan Long‘s science fiction novel Lesser Gods is now available, printed via Amazon’s Print On Demand service CreateSpace, with additional artwork not found in the ebook version. In Lesser Gods, wisecracking hacker Ralph Crocker finds… Read More ›

• Prisoners of Time: An Interview with artist Gary Erskine

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2013

  IDW’s yearlong celebration of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary Prisoners of Time features the work of many British creators, with Phillip Bond providing art on Issue 5, on sale soon. Issue 4, the Fourth Doctor issue, was drawn by Gary Erskine,… Read More ›

• Image Duplicator exhibition opens this week at Orbital Comics

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein currently has a show on at the Tate Modern. While the public is intimately familiar with his work, what they may be unaware of is that many of his images were directly “appropriated” from comic artists… Read More ›

• 2000AD partners witb Plastic Head for new t-shirt, tote-bag range

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2013

  With summer fast approaching now is the perfect time to get yourself a funky fresh new look-or some new t-shirts and bags, at least! Plastic Head, in conjunction with 2000AD have a fabulous line in tees-long and short,hoodies and even… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Ian Sharman pirates his own title

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2013

  Not sure if you want to pre-order Marksosia’s Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus because you haven’t read the first book? You want to read the first book but for any one of a million perfectly legitimate reasons you can’t… Read More ›

• Judge Minty takes the Long Walk to YouTube success

  By John Freeman on May 10, 2013

  Judge Minty is a fan film, inspired by the world of 2000AD‘s Judge Dredd, based on an old story from the comics and follows a Judge forced to take the ‘Long Walk’ into the irradiated, post-apocalyptic wasteland of ‘The Cursed… Read More ›

• Adam Cadwell’s Northern Slacker Vampires head back to the shelves

  By John Freeman on May 9, 2013

  Great Beast Comics has announced that the long awaited third issue of Adam Cadwell‘s Northern Slacker Vampire series Blood Blokes is due to be released on 15th May after debuting at Toronto Comic Arts Festival. It will be available in… Read More ›

• Latest Commandos feature first ever female lead for title

  By John Freeman on May 9, 2013

  Art by Carlos Pino © and courtesy of DC Thomson Here’s details of the latest Commando war comics, on sale now in all good newsagents – and in a first for the title, Operation Nachthexen features their first-ever female lead… Read More ›

• Tickets go on sale for the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on May 9, 2013

  Grandville by Bryan Talbot Tickets for the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival, which will feature top talent from both sides of the Atlantic including Kurt Busiek, Ed Brubaker, Bryan Talbot and Jose Munoz, go on sale on Monday (13th… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine Issue 2 on sale for IPad now, print edition in newsagents tomorrow

  By John Freeman on May 9, 2013

  

  Slightly ahead of its print release, the digital edition of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine #2 is now on sale for iPad in the iTunes store. The print edition goes on sale in newsagents across the UK from tomorrow (Friday)…. Read More ›

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