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• Grants for the Arts: Lakes International Comic Art Festival offers workshop

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2013

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival aims to support creators and the development of comic art in the UK. As part of this, they have announced theywill be presenting a special session at the festival about the support available to… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Collecting comics in the National Art Library

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2013

  

  Continuing a month of shows looking at the presence of comics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, on this week’s new podcast and radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to Jan van der Wateren (former chief librarian and… Read More ›

• Skin Deep tattoo magazine interviews Gary Erskine, Brian Williamson

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  Skin Deep has long been the UK’s best selling tattoo magazine, publishing profiles, interviews and features with the leading tattooists and tattoo artists working in the world today together with exciting new talent. Alongside of this, the magazine focus on… Read More ›

• Suffering Soviets! It’s your new Commandos!

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  The latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic Commando are on sale now in all good Biriths newsagents and available digitally. This batch of pocket library titles includes another episode of the comic’s first ever female war hero, Soviet pilot… Read More ›

• Egmont to release Girls Comics, Battle comic postcard collections

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  (with thanks to Marionette at the Tammy Project): Egmont UK are to release a number of postcard sets featuring hundreds of images from their girls comics, Battle and the Thunderbirds TV series on 10th October, presented in special gift boxes…. Read More ›

• Button Man collection on sale next week

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  Rebellion has a very special collection of John Wagner and Arthur Ranson’s creator-owned crime thriller Button Man out in the US and Canada next week. Button Man, first published in 2000AD, is deservedly regarded as one of the greatest strips ever… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival gets its own beer!

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  The Kendal-based Lakes International Comic Art Festival (18th -20th October) continues to break new ground for UK comic events with the news that the event is to have its own beer, with branding supplied by Furry Freak Brothers creator Gilbert… Read More ›

• Park Leisure Launches new superhero outdoor Play Range

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  Imagine a make-believe world brought to life in your local parks and playgrounds which are populated by some of world’s best loved cartoon characters and superheroes. Batman, Superman, Looney Tunes and a whole host of other exciting and long-established children’s… Read More ›

• In Review: Resident Alien – The Suicide Blonde #1

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse’s Resident Alien is back at Dark Horse Comics today (11th September), with Resident Alien: The Suicide Blond #1 on sale now in all good comic shops. A straightforward suicide . . . or a murder?… Read More ›

• Numbercruncher Issue 3: Beware The Divine Calculator!

  By John Freeman on 11 September 2013

  

  Numbercruncher #3 by Si Spurrier and PJ Holden is on sale today in all good comic shops, from Titan Comics. Bastard Zane is hot on the Mathematician’s heels, as the reincarnating schemer dives back through time and lifetimes to be… Read More ›

• Dan Boultwood’s It Came #2 – Sneek Preview!

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2013

  

  Tomorrow sees the release of Titan Comics It Came! Issue 2 from writer/artist Dan Boultwood – and we’ve got a sneek preview for you, right here! In Issue 2, The alien robot known as GRURK has been temporarily waylaid by… Read More ›

• SelfMadeHero secures award-winning political satire rights

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2013

  

  SelfMadeHero has acquired the English translation rights to the Angoulême award-winning and best-selling French political satire, Quai d’Orsay, based on the life of former PM and Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, which will be published in English as Weapons of… Read More ›

• Tree Fu Tom Magazine launches this week

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Immediate Media has launched Tree Fu Tom magazine, based on the popular CGI CBeebies programme of the same name. On the newsstand from tomorrow, 11th September 2013, the title, produced by the company’s award-winning youth and children’s editorial team, recognises… Read More ›

• Tate gets set to publish Paul Gravett’s ‘Comics Art’

  By John Freeman on 10 September 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  The Tate Gallery will publish Comics Art, a new book on the comics form by Paul Gravett, designed by Peter Stanbury on 7th November. As well as running an amazing and regularly updated web site on comics, Paul, who has been… Read More ›

• Oor Wullie’s Bucket Band launches with Bay City Rollers track

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2013

  

  Jings, crivvens and help ma boab! Oor Wullie’s bucket has been found, after it was stolen earlier this year – by cheeky Wullie look-a-like Jamie Webster. The Sunday Post, which publishes the Oor Wullie, strip, revealed the iconic Scottish comic… Read More ›

• Soaring Penguin to publish new Ellen Linder crime noir comic, Black Feather Falls

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2013

  

  Soaring Penguin Press are to publish a new four issue crime noir comic series, The Black Feather Falls, from Ellen Lindner  in the UK. Travel back to 1920s London and meet Tina Swift, who has just arrived in London from… Read More ›

• Think of a City storytelling project attracts Dave McKean, JH Williams III

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2013

  

    The City is our story – but what is a city? That’s the question being posed by architect Alison Sampson and comics artist Ian MacEwan through Think of a City, a tumblr-based, mass storytelling project involving a huge range… Read More ›

• Jason Cobley’s Bulldog set to return in Paragon

  By John Freeman on 9 September 2013

  

  30 years after creating the iconic small press character, comics writer and author Jason Cobley is bringing Captain Winston Bulldog back to print in the long-running indie anthology Paragon comic, the brainchild of artist Davey Candish. The tales of anthropomorphic… Read More ›

• Twelfth Doctor Who Art Challenge: The Winner Is…

  By John Freeman on 8 September 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  These are my ‘finalists’ in the downthetubes Twelfth Doctor Art Challenge, after a lot of umming and ahhing confronted by such an amazing range of entries, including terrific ‘cartoon’ interpretations as well as the realistic. When you have a competition… Read More ›

• Artist Mike Collins joins toy designers for this year’s Roll Out event in Southampton

  By John Freeman on 7 September 2013

  

  If you're a fan of Transformers, G.I. Joe, Action Force, Masters Of The Universe or She-Ra, Princess of Power, then you need to get yourself to Jury's Inn, Southampton on the 12th and 13th of October for this year's Roll… Read More ›

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