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• Vicious Vikings aplenty in Tim Hall’s ‘Skragbeard’

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2013

  

  If vicious Vikings and demon lords are the kind of things that grab your attention when searching for a comic to read, then look no further!

• Award-winner Corbain Wilkins seeks backing for ‘Breaker’s End’

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2013

  

  2012 Observer/Cape/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize winner Corbain Wilkins has a new graphic novel, Breaker’s End, in the works and hopes to release a special edition using the Kickstarter crowdfunding service. Breaker’s End tells the story of a fragile, ageing… Read More ›

• Sequart puts Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan under the spotlight

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2013

  

  The Sequart Research & Literacy Organization (sequart.org) has just released its newest book of comics analysis, Shot in the Face: A Savage Journey to the Heart of Transmetropolitan,  edited by Chad Nevett. Published in 1997-2002, Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson’s… Read More ›

• In Review: The Scorpion – The Angel’s Shadow

  By Jeremy Briggs on 16 August 2013

  

  Writer Stephen Desberg and artist Enrico Marini’s The Scorpion returns in The Angel’s Shadow, the second part of the latest on-going story of the swashbuckling 18th century rogue and his battles with the less-than-holy Pope Trebaldi. Trebaldi’s army of warrior… Read More ›

• In Review: Blake & Mortimer – Secret Of The Swordfish 2

  By Jeremy Briggs on 14 August 2013

  

  2013 sees Cinebook working their way through the three parts of Edgar P Jacob’s first Blake and Mortimer story The Secret Of The Swordfish and they have reached Book 2 with the spoiler-ish sub-title of Mortimer’s Escape. The cold war… Read More ›

• Planet Jimbot’s Amazing & Fantastic Tales

  By downthetubes Guests on 13 August 2013

  

  Amazing & Fantastic Tales #2 – a new comic from Planet Jimbot, the indie imprint run by Jim Alexander and Jim Campbell, is on sale now. Pulp gets a modern twist with comic strips and text stories combined in this… Read More ›

• Guest Post: VAT the Tat on children’s comics

  By downthetubes Guests on 13 August 2013

  

  Freelance cartoonist Alexander Matthews is published in Private Eye, The Phoenix, Prospect, The Week, The Dandy and RAC Magazine, among others. He’s also lectured in Graphic Design and illustration at Degree level and up until recently ran an Art and… Read More ›

• Aces Weekly back with Scarpa, Baskerville, Langridge and – Psycho Granny!

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2013

  

  Volume Six of this revolutionary digital comic Aces Weekly begins its latest seven-issue, seven-week this week, once again showcasing some of the brightest talent from across the globe in an exclusively digital weekly comic art magazine published by David Lloyd…. Read More ›

• LICAF Guest Spotlight: Charlie Adlard

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2013

  

  Award-winning Charles “Charlie” Adlard is a British comic book artist and penciller, one of over 80 comic guest at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, is best known for his work on the long-running, best-selling Image Comics series… Read More ›

• Best of Milligan and McCarthy out in September from Dark Horse

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2013

  

  One of comics’ most fruitful collaborations is to get its due in Best of Milligan and McCarthy – a deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk). There is… Read More ›

• Stage set for Jackie: The Musical

  By downthetubes Guests on 12 August 2013

  

  Do you remember when there were no mobile phones, no apps, no texting, no e-mails and no twitter? When your only contact with other angst ridden teenage girls like you was through the pages of Jackie Magazine, which every Thursday… Read More ›

• Big Draw back in October

  By downthetubes Guests on 12 August 2013

  

  The Big Draw – the biggest drawing festival in the world – is back in October in 15 countries, with 200,000 people again expected to take part. Hundreds of new and enjoyable drawing activities will hopefully help connect people of… Read More ›

• Gordon Rennie and PJ Holden’s fantastic ‘Dept of Monsterology’ out in October

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2013

  

  Gordon Rennie and PJ Holden‘s long-in-gestation project, Dept of Monsterology, is on its way at last from Renegade Entertainment – and having seen pages, read the original pitch and knowing the quality of the work of both creators, I have… Read More ›

• In Review: Thorgal – Giants

  By Jeremy Briggs on 12 August 2013

  

  Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Gzegorz Rosinski’s tales of the Viking adventurer Thorgal continue in Giants. Picking up from where Ogotai’s Crown, the previous book, left off Giants moves away from the science fiction time traveling of that book… Read More ›

• Edinburgh BookFest Begins Today

  By Jeremy Briggs on 10 August 2013

  

  2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Book Festival which begins today in the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens. The festival runs for two and a half weeks and is the largest literature festival in the world. In… Read More ›

• Manga Jiman winners capture the Choshu Five for this year’s competition leaflet

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2013

  

  As we previously reported, the search for the best manga talent in the UK is on as London’s Embassy of Japan is now accepting entries for its manga writing competition, Manga Jiman. The Embassy recently caught up with Sara Ferreira… Read More ›

• Chronos Commandos #2 out next week, first issue sells out in UK

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2013

  

  The second issue of Titan Comics’ Chronos Commandos by Stuart Jennett hits comic stores this coming Wednesday, 14th August and we’ve got a great preview for you. When the Allies and Nazis develop time-diving technology that could see the course… Read More ›

• Comics Forum issues Call for Papers: Comics and Cultural Work

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2013

  

  “All artistic work, like all human activity, involves the joint activity of a number, often a large number, of people. Through their cooperation, the art work we eventually see or hear comes to be and continues to be. The work… Read More ›

• In Review: Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!

  By Jeremy Briggs on 9 August 2013

  

  A highly illustrated children’s storybook, Jeremiah Jellyfish Flies High!, written and illustrated by John Fardell and published by Andersen Press is aimed at pre- and early primary school children. Jeremiah Jellyfish drifts in the oceans with his extended family getting… Read More ›

• The Twelfth Doctor gets Smuzz-ified!

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2013

  

  While illustrator and comics artist Smuzz is currently busy on many fronts – not least of them drawing the sixth episode of Crucible for STRIP – he couldn’t resist entering the downthetubes Twelfth Doctor Art Challenge, which has also attracted… Read More ›

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