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• Image Duplicator exhibition opens this week at Orbital Comics

  By John Freeman on 13 May 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein currently has a show on at the Tate Modern. While the public is intimately familiar with his work, what they may be unaware of is that many of his images were directly “appropriated” from comic artists… Read More ›

• 2000AD partners witb Plastic Head for new t-shirt, tote-bag range

  By John Freeman on 13 May 2013

  With summer fast approaching now is the perfect time to get yourself a funky fresh new look-or some new t-shirts and bags, at least! Plastic Head, in conjunction with 2000AD have a fabulous line in tees-long and short,hoodies and even… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Ian Sharman pirates his own title

  By John Freeman on 13 May 2013

  Not sure if you want to pre-order Marksosia’s Hero: 9 to 5 – Quietus because you haven’t read the first book? You want to read the first book but for any one of a million perfectly legitimate reasons you can’t… Read More ›

• Judge Minty takes the Long Walk to YouTube success

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2013

  Judge Minty is a fan film, inspired by the world of 2000AD‘s Judge Dredd, based on an old story from the comics and follows a Judge forced to take the ‘Long Walk’ into the irradiated, post-apocalyptic wasteland of ‘The Cursed… Read More ›

• Adam Cadwell’s Northern Slacker Vampires head back to the shelves

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2013

  Great Beast Comics has announced that the long awaited third issue of Adam Cadwell‘s Northern Slacker Vampire series Blood Blokes is due to be released on 15th May after debuting at Toronto Comic Arts Festival. It will be available in… Read More ›

• Latest Commandos feature first ever female lead for title

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2013

  Art by Carlos Pino © and courtesy of DC Thomson Here’s details of the latest Commando war comics, on sale now in all good newsagents – and in a first for the title, Operation Nachthexen features their first-ever female lead… Read More ›

• Tickets go on sale for the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2013

  Grandville by Bryan Talbot Tickets for the first Lakes International Comic Art Festival, which will feature top talent from both sides of the Atlantic including Kurt Busiek, Ed Brubaker, Bryan Talbot and Jose Munoz, go on sale on Monday (13th… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine Issue 2 on sale for IPad now, print edition in newsagents tomorrow

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2013

  

  Slightly ahead of its print release, the digital edition of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine #2 is now on sale for iPad in the iTunes store. The print edition goes on sale in newsagents across the UK from tomorrow (Friday)…. Read More ›

• Team MOBILE #3 audio comic on sale now from iTunes

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2013

  The Team MOBILE #3 audio comic from ROK Comics is now on sale in the iTunes store for Apple devices. The adventures of Team M.O.B.I.L.E. continue! They are the undesirables, the no-hopers, misfits… the teenagers who don’t fit in, who… Read More ›

• downthetubes.net: Main Site Closed, for now

  By John Freeman on 8 May 2013

  Owing to rising costs – in part, it appears, due to a dramatic rise in “hot linking” to images on the site, which results in excess bandwidth charges of £50 per month – we have been forced to temporarily close… Read More ›

• Breaking talent to be showcased at Kendal-based comic art festival’s Clock Tower

  By John Freeman on 7 May 2013

  

  Some of the UK’s best emerging and established comic art talent will be showcasing their skills at the specially-dedicated Comics Clock Tower venue as part of Kendal’s The Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, rubbing shoulders with the likes… Read More ›

• In Review: Thorgal – Ogotai’s Crown

  By Jeremy Briggs on 7 May 2013

  Thorgal – Ogotai’s Crown picks up directly from where the previous book, Brand Of The Exiles, left off. However this Thorgal title is very different to the more traditional Viking tale of exile and slavery of the preceding book as… Read More ›

• New 9th Art Award: Submission Details announced

  By Jeremy Briggs on 6 May 2013

  Graphic Scotland and the Edinburgh International Book Festival have announced that submissions are now open for the inaugural 9th Art Award for graphic fiction. The 9th Art Award will choose the best work of graphic literature originally written and published… Read More ›

• In Review: Thorgal – Brand Of The Exiles

  By Jeremy Briggs on 6 May 2013

  Cinebook may have completed Jean Van Hamme’s XIII series of books but they still have others from the bandes dessinee master and one of them is the Viking fantasy series Thorgal. Illustrated by artist Gzegorz Rosinski, The Brand Of The… Read More ›

• Ranger Book Available From Bear Alley Books

  By Jeremy Briggs on 5 May 2013

  The Rise And Fall Of The Trigan Empire is rightly considered one of the best British comic strips of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Written by Mike Butterworth and initially illustrated by Don Lawrence, it ran in Look and… Read More ›

• Comica Festival’s Bank Holiday 2 for 1 deal on upcoming MangaAsia event

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2013

  London-based Comica Festival and Asia House are offering a Bank Holiday Weekend Special of 2 for 1 (i.e. buy one, get one free!) on the pass for all three talks at Comica MangAsia on Saturday May 18th, if you book… Read More ›

• Courageous Mayhem: Irish comic launches Saturday

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2013

  Courageous Mayhem is a boy’s own adventure style compendium, a veritable who’s who of the Irish comics scene. Among it’s eighty-four pages are the critically acclaimed Paddy Lynch (Big Jim), Alan Nolan (And The Blood Flowed Green), Phil Barrett (Where’s… Read More ›

• Geek Retreat coffee shop opens in Glasgow

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2013

  Cafe culture meets comic book geekery in Geek Retreat, the new Glasgow hang out for those who like their coffee served with a side of superheroes, which opens tomorrow, on Free Comic Book Day (4th May). Geek Retreat is a… Read More ›

• Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer, returns…

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2013

  

  Well, all right, that headline is a little misleading. I’m not talking about new stories (although there have been some, find out more below…). Rather, the release of Doctor Who: Nemesis of the Daleks, a Seventh Doctor comic collection from… Read More ›

• Gatehouse, Windett unleash "Lazarus Lemming"

  By John Freeman on 2 May 2013

  Lazarus Lemming is the top special secret agent of Department X, the covert government agency that investigates eXtraordinary happenings worldwide. When the world’s cows are kidnapped to steal their farts, or all the citizens of Transylvania are turned into mindless… Read More ›

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