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• Gaiman at Edinburgh Book Festival – tickets still available

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 29, 2012

  A quick reminder that Neil Gaiman will be at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 13th August alongside Chris Riddell (who’s the Edinburgh Book Festival’s illustrator in residence). The pair of them will be discussing Coraline turning ten years old. “We… Read More ›

• Fourth Andrew Loomis facsimile art book in the works

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2012

  Illustrator Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists for his mastery of drawing technique and his clean, realist style and his hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered. Long out of print, early editions of his books… Read More ›

• Recommended Reading: Andrew Loomis

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2012

  

  Illustrator Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists for his mastery of drawing technique and his clean, realist style and his hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered. Long out of print, early editions of his books… Read More ›

• Are fantasy stories too scary for younger children?

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2012

  Author Heather Flood has backed a warning given to parents not to read Harry Potter or other popular fantasy adventure books like her husnand’s recent book, The Secret Potion, to very young children. Quite honestly, this all sounds like a… Read More ›

• Project: Rooftop Announces "Fantastic Four: Fashion Forward" Redesign Contest

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2012

  They’re the first family of comic superheroes, and the first truly nuclear family in history; they’re the Fantastic Four. Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics, the F.F. rang in their fiftieth year last year with Reed… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Pays Tribute to artist Bruce Cornwell (Volume 25, Number Two)

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2012

  

  The latest issue of Eagle Times leads with a tribute to Dan Dare artist Bruce Cornwell, who died on 2nd March 2012. Summer 2012 Contents ‘The Hands of Gods’ – a look at how three talented artists, Frank Hampson, Ron Embleton… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Brockley (co)Max

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2012

  Above: Sarah Gordon, Howard Hardiman, Simone Lia, Gary Northfield, Julia Scheele, Kieron Gillen, Woodrow Phoenix and Alex Fitch at Brockley Max In the last of Panel Borders series of shows about comic book communities around the UK, Alex Fitch talks… Read More ›

• Moore and Reppion pen Damsels for Dynamite

  By John Freeman on June 22, 2012

  Fantasy comics are definitely seeing something of an upswing in popularity right now, a reflection, perhaps of a general desire to escape the doom and gloom of everyday life in a recession. Well, another title is about to join the… Read More ›

• Commando Steadfastly Soldiers On

  By John Freeman on June 21, 2012

  For the third time in less than twelve months the Commando archive has been opened to allow artwork to be used in a public exhibition. After the Draw Your Weapons exhibition in London’s National Army Museum (with downthetubes being the… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: The Adventures of Tintin essay collection

  By John Freeman on June 21, 2012

  Abstracts are now being accepted for inclusion in an anthology to be produced by UK comic scholars on “The Adventures of Tintin.” Proposed essay topics should creatively engage with the critical, philosophical, and social issues explored in the Tintin universe…. Read More ›

• WebFinds: Writing Comics Resource

  By John Freeman on June 20, 2012

  Lee Robson and Matthew Badham alerted me to this last month but it got buried in my in-tray. Writer-To-Watch-Out-For Dan Hill has managed to recompile a huge collection of articles and links from professional comic writers about the various aspects… Read More ›

• In Review: Raising Amy

  By John Freeman on June 20, 2012 • ( 1 )

  Stref’, who is also known as Stephen White, has a diverse amount of work to his credit with strips in The Beano and The Dandy, his hardback anthology Milk and the violent X. Raising Amy, published by Markosia, is a… Read More ›

• Fringe Benefits: Manchester prepares for invasion by Robots of Death

  By Matt Badham on June 19, 2012

  

  Matt Badham goes behind the scenes on the new Manchester Fringe Festival

• Windett and Gatehouse pen Monster Hunter Guide project for Penguin US

  By John Freeman on June 19, 2012

  Artist Dave Windett – who has drawn comics featuring some of the biggest licensed characters including Korky the Cat, Inspector Gadget, Tom and Jerry and Bugs Bunny – has once again teamed up with writer and frequent collaborator John Gatehouse… Read More ›

• John de Lancie at UK’s first My Little Pony convention

  By John Freeman on June 18, 2012

  Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s John de Lancie is the Guest of Honour at Britain’s first ever ‘Brony’ convention in August, taking place in Manchester, celebrating all things My Little Pony. While My Little Pony may not seem our usual… Read More ›

• LCD Publishing launches "It’s For Boys"

  By John Freeman on June 18, 2012

  Exeter-based LCD Publishing will launch a new title aimed at 5-7 year-old boys this Friday (22nd June 2012). It’s For Boys, a new 13 issue a year title priced £2.50 is, according to distributors COMAG, “designed to make learning fun… Read More ›

• Morrison one of three authors to gain Queen’s Birthday honour

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2012

  Congratulations to Grant Morrison, who has been awarded an MBE, recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List (pdf) “for services to film and literature”. The annual list was published this weekend and saw just three authors – crime writer Susan… Read More ›

• Skilleter releases ‘Sarah Jane’ charity print

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2012

  Artist Andrew Skilleter has released Sarah Jane Tribute Charity Print, donating a set sum from each and every print sale to supporting the Macmillan (Cancer) Nurses, £2.50 on an A4 size print, and £5 on an A3 size print. The… Read More ›

• International Literature Festival launches comic competition

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2012

  The 12th International Literature Festival Berlin (ILB) will take place between 4th – 16th September and 2012 and, as in the past years the organisation will present over 100 authors from all over the world in more than 200 events…. Read More ›

• Waiting a bit longer for Crucible…

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2012

  

  Those of you who might be dipping into this blog for some tasty updates about our Crucible strip (you’re not just here for Daleks, are you?) will be disappointed to hear that you’ll have to wait to see the strip… Read More ›

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