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• Panel Borders: Blue Pills and Sandcastles

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2012

  Continuing Panel Borders month of shows on international creators, Alex Fitch talks to Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters about his latest comic Sandcastle, published by SelfMadeHero and based on a script by filmmaker Pierre-Oscar Lévy. Sandcastle is a Twilight Zone… Read More ›

• Comedian Peter Serafinowicz announces comics project with Jock

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2012

  English actor, comedian, writer, composer, voice artist and occasional director Peter Serafinowicz announced his first comic book project at the Kapow! Comic Convention. Nelson (not to be confused with the recent anthology collection from Blank Slate of the same name)… Read More ›

• Arvon Calling

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2012

  The next annual creative writing for graphic novels course that Bryan Talbot co-tutors in the depths of the beautiful Shropshire countryside for the Arvon Foundation is on 25 – 30th June this year. This time around, his co-tutor is Hannah… Read More ›

• Tripwire 20 seeks crowdfunding

  By John Freeman on May 20, 2012

  Here’s a small selection of some of the amazing art Tripwire publisher Joel Meadows hopes to publish in an anniversary editon celebrating 20 years — 20 years!! — of his magazine. The project is seeking crowdfunding via Unbound here. Over… Read More ›

• Zombies Hi And Amelia Earhart From Uproar Comics

  By John Freeman on May 20, 2012 • ( 2 )

  Londonderry’s Uproar Comics have been making a name for themselves in Northern Ireland with their regular publication of the anthology comic Zombies Hi, the main story of which is set in and around the walled city of Derry after a… Read More ›

• Steve Parkhouse and Peter Hogan talk Resident Alien

  By John Freeman on May 19, 2012

  Get along to the Kapow! convention, Islington Design Centre tomorrow to hear an episode of Panel Borders being recorded live, as Alex Fitch talks to writer Peter Hogan and artist Steve Parkhouse about their new serialised comic Resident Alien, published… Read More ›

• Plaything Of Sutekh: New Who Zine

  By John Freeman on May 19, 2012 • ( 1 )

  In these days of the internet blogs having taken over the position of the old fanzines, it is always good to see a new printed fanzine appear. Plaything of Sutekh is a 40 page, A5, black and white, Doctor Who… Read More ›

• CBeebies Art magazine teams up with National Portrait Gallery

  By John Freeman on May 18, 2012

  CBeebies Art magazine has launched a competition inviting readers aged three to seven to create a portrait of their family imagined as the British Royal Family. To coincide with the Diamond Jubilee, the winner of the competition, created in partnership… Read More ›

• Mr. T Goes Green!

  By John Freeman on May 17, 2012

  Publisher Mohawk Media has just launched its Mr. T series through its range of environmentally-friendly, paperless Eco Comics. Mr. T joins other famous names at Eco Comics including Dracula, Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, and Tough Guy. The Hollywood hard man,… Read More ›

• Overload anthology launches at Kapow

  By John Freeman on May 17, 2012

  Here’s the gruesome but powerful cover art by Graeme Neil Reid to a new anthology, Overload, edited by Martin Conaghan, which will be launched at Kapow this weekend, priced £4. Yes, as if the very memory of former Prime Minister… Read More ›

• Opinion: Too Many Cons, Not Enough Pros

  By John Freeman on May 16, 2012

  With a series of comic conventions upon us in the UK, which began last weekend and continues on Saturday with Kapow in London, Comic Book Alliance organiser, comic creator and book editor Tim Pilcher ponders the future of the Bristol… Read More ›

• Waking up to the power of comic readers?

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2012

  Remember a time when advertising in comics was as much a part of the comic as the story? When manufacturers went out to use comics to reach their audience, be it a new advertising comic strip for Clarks Commando shoes,… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Nick Abadzis

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2012

  Born in Sweden to Greek and English parents, writer, artist and editorial consultant Nick Abadzis was brought up in Switzerland and England. He writes and draws comics and graphic novels for both adults and children and his stories have been… Read More ›

• Mega Signing at Forbidden Planet London this Friday

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2012

  Forbidden Planet London is capitalising on Kapow this coming weekend by having a fantastic line-up of artists and writers for a fabulous Friday Night Mega-Signing. “On Friday 18th May, from 6 – 7pm, at the London Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue,… Read More ›

• In Review: Amanda Swan – The Hellfire Legacy

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 15, 2012

  Glasgow based Rough Cut Comics published the impressive vampiric graphic novels Rose Black and Rose Black: Demon Seed and, as part of the publicity for Rose Black, the company used British model Amanda Swan to portray the character of Rose…. Read More ›

• British comic publishers join new MagAid campaign to fight illiteracy

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2012

  British magazine and comic publishers have just launched MagAid, the first national project to use magazines to promote literacy. Established by the Professional Publishers Association, which represents the UK’s magazine publishing industry, in partnership with the National Literacy Trust, funding… Read More ›

• Team Girl Comic Kickstarted

  By John Freeman on May 13, 2012

  A week ago we mentioned the Kickstarter campaign that Glasgow’s Team Girl Comic collective were running to finance the publication of TGC issue 5 and possibly reprint some of their sold-out back issues. It has been the most viewed blog… Read More ›

• Dan Dare art, Marvel UK collections up for auction

  By John Freeman on May 12, 2012

  The Summer 2012 auction at Compalcomics is open, with nearly 200 British comic-related lots up for biding, including Dan Dare art by Frank Hampson, a limited edition Dan Dare bust and collections of 1980s Marvel UK titles such as Captain… Read More ›

• Comicscape Issue 3 out now

  By John Freeman on May 11, 2012

  The third issue of Chris Smillie’s Comicscape, a free 48-page magazine offering reviews, news, and views for May 2012, is available now online. Top news stories include big successes for Marvel in their comic arc AvX and spectacular box-office smash,… Read More ›

• Convict Commandos return to, er – Commando!

  By John Freeman on May 11, 2012

  Here’s the lowdown on the latest Commandos, on sale now in all good comic shops. Alan Hebden’s Convict Commandos make a return for the first of two adventures – the second is out in a fortnight – while a Soviet… Read More ›

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