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• Comic Creators voice protest to proposed UK copyright law changes

  By John Freeman on July 8, 2012

  (Updated 9/7/12 with comments from various creators about the plans) Comic creators are raising concerns about changes afoot to copyright law in the UK, effectively stripping away long held rights and potentially handing the handling of your copyrighted creations to… Read More ›

• Com.X promotes Monster Myths at San Diego

  By John Freeman on July 8, 2012

  Publishers Com.X will be promoting a number of their innovative and eye catching projects at San Diego, including the recently-released Monster Myths written by John Lupo Avanti and Chester Westward, drawn by Avanti. Alfredo, a recovering felon turned working stiff,… Read More ›

• Rogue Trooper history for sale

  By John Freeman on July 8, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  “The Emperor” came across some cracking early Rogue Trooper art and concepts by Dave Gibbons on eBay

• New British Small Press Community launched

  By John Freeman on July 8, 2012

  Comic creator Trystan Mitchell just dropped us a note to mention an excellent new Small Press Comics Community Forum has just been birthed in the UK, dedicated to small press comics and self publishing. Some excellent discussions and experience sharing… Read More ›

• Commando: Spot The Difference

  By John Freeman on July 8, 2012

  Twenty-five years ago Commando published an issue entitled “Roll Of Honour” featuring a cover by artist Ian Kennedy. To celebrate the 65th anniversary of D-Day in 2009, Carlton Books released the then latest of their Commando reprint books entitled D-Day:… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Scott Snyder and Jock – The Black Mirror

  By John Freeman on July 7, 2012

  In the first of a series of shows about comic book creators who collaborate together, Alex Fitch of radio show Panel Borders talks to writer Scott Snyder and artist Jock about their 2010 / 2011 collaboration on Detective Comics, collected… Read More ›

• Electric Man film heads for San Diego and London

  By John Freeman on July 7, 2012

  The comics-inspired feature film Electric Man has been selected to screen at the San Diego Comic Con (full details here) and screens in London tomorrow night. The movie was selected as only one of three feature films to play this… Read More ›

• Treating Comics Seriously: Six Questions For Curator Jesper Ericsson

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 6, 2012

  Jesper Ericsson is the curator of the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen which celebrates the 200 year history of the Gordon Highlanders infantry regiment from its creation in 1794 to its amalgamation with the Queen’s Own Highlanders in 1994. The… Read More ›

• Print Express launch Comic Printing Competition

  By John Freeman on July 5, 2012

  The folk at British online printers Print Express love designers, writers, artists and anything creative and they’ve been running a number of competitions to help support interesting, creative people. Now they’ve decided to do something a little bit special – and… Read More ›

• Glasgow Comic Con 2012: More Pictures

  By John Freeman on July 5, 2012

  Following up on our review of Glasgow Comic Con, here are some more pictures from the event, courtesy of the organisers. Photography by by Alasdair Watson © Alasdair Watson & Glasgow Comic Con Queueing around the block Newly-signed creators for… Read More ›

• Steadfast! Commando Art Exhibition in Aberdeen

  By John Freeman on July 5, 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 and the Battlelines exhibition… Read More ›

• 2000AD announces San Diego ComicCon schedule

  By John Freeman on July 4, 2012

  Along with many British comic creators, 2000AD, the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic will be flying the flag for British comics and heading to the greatest show on Earth with a packed schedule of exclusive signings and panels. “San Diego Comic-Con 2012… Read More ›

• In Review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century: 2009

  By John Freeman on July 4, 2012

  Writer: Alan MooreArtist: Kevin O’NeillColourist: Ben DimagmaliwLetterer: Todd KleinEditor: Chris StarosPublisher: Top Shelf productions / Knockabout80 PAGES Paperback, 260 X 170mmISBN 9780861661633 The Book: The third chapter of the third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen continues the adventures of… Read More ›

• Second Glasgow Comic Convention proves success

  By John Freeman on July 4, 2012

  Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely at Glasgow Comic Con 2012. Photo: Craig Hastie of Comics Anonymous David Robertson of Fred Egg Comics reports on a weekend offering a range of big name guests and upcoming comics revelations… Photos kindly provided… Read More ›

• 75 years of The Dandy exhibition

  By Richard Sheaf on July 3, 2012

  

  The Cartoon Museum will be holding an exhibition of all all things Dandy related this autumn

• No Heroes But One Award!

  By John Freeman on July 2, 2012

  The “little comic that could” No More Heroes picked up the award for Best Comic at the SICBA (Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards) event held at Glasgow Comic Con over the weekend. The four-issue mini-series about the suspicious death of… Read More ›

• British Comic Awards launched

  By John Freeman on July 2, 2012

  

  News today (via The Emperor and the Forbidden Planet Blog) of the launch of the British Comic Awards website. The British Comic Awards is described as a brand new initiative to annually celebrate the very best in British comics. The… Read More ›

• Scotch Corner Art Blog Celebrates Its 3rd Birthday

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2012

  The Scotch Corner daily art blog is celebrating its third birthday and, like last year, has called on a number of guest artists to give a short holiday to the Scotch Corner regulars, artdroids Graeme Neil Reid, Gary Erskine, Simon… Read More ›

• New Futurequake, Zarjaz now on sale

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2012

  The latest issues of the ace indie comic titles FutureQuake and the 2000AD-inspired Zarjaz are now on sale. Behind the cover of Futurequake Issue 21 by Gibson Quarter and Keiren Smith there are eight strips to astound you, including ‘Aclonement’,… Read More ›

• Girl Genius web comic creators Phil and Kaja Foglio head for Cambridge

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2012

  Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the steampunk web comic Girl Genius (www.girlgeniusonline.com), are to be Guests of Hounour at the Congenial convention in Cambridge next month. Taking place over 10-12th August 2012, Congenial is an SF and role-playng convention… Read More ›

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