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• In Review: Memorabilia NEC 2011

  By John Freeman on November 22, 2011

  Comics and sci-fi merchandise aplenty were on sale at the Memorabilia event at the NEC Birmingham over the weekend of 19th and 20th November. An impressive range of guests from sci-fi and other classic programmes and films included Arthur Darvill… Read More ›

• Brands With Influence to rep Egmont comics and characters

  By John Freeman on November 21, 2011

  Brands With Influence, a merchandising and Intellectual Management company, has been appointed to represent Egmont UK’s archive of classic comic and magazine titles that includes Roy of The Rovers, Battle, Misty and Whizzer and Chips. The collection spans the 40… Read More ›

• In Review: Iznogoud Rockets To Stardom

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 21, 2011

  

  Jeremy Briggs checks out the latest English language Iznogoud collection from Cinebook

• In Review: Rose Black – Demon Seed

  By John Freeman on November 19, 2011

  Rose Black: Demon Seed is Rough Cut Comics’ newly released follow-up to their 2004 graphic novel Rose Black which told the story of a vampiric angel sent to earth some 600 years ago to battle evil on its own terms… Read More ›

• Exclusive: Halo Jones stage play at the Lass O’Gowrie

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2011

  

  Manchester’s Lass O’Gowrie pub – already famed for its comics and Doctor Who-related events – is staging Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s The Ballad of Halo Jones as a fringe play in January next year. “It’s an adaptation of the… Read More ›

• Vworp! Vworp Issue 2 on sale now. Just buy it

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2011

  The second issue of the amazing Doctor Who fan magazine Vworp Vworp – a fanzine about the long-running and best-seling Doctor Who Magazine – is on sale now. Quite simply, if you are a fan of Doctor Who and Doctor… Read More ›

• The Phoenix Issue Zero Via Waitrose

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2011

  The first issue of the new Phoenix comic is due to come out on at the start of January 2012 however Waitrose supermarket customers are being given the change to get a sneak preview with a printed copy of the… Read More ›

• Crazy comic-related Christmas presents: the Spider-Man Guitar

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2011

  You know Christmas is on the way when we start getting PR for perhaps the stranger kinds of comics tie-in merchandise at downthetubes. Case in point? New guitars from Nevada Music featuring favourite Marvel Super Heroes including Wolverine, X-Men, Spiderman,… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Mick Anglo 1916 – 2011

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Earlier this week Comic Bits Online broke the news of the passing of Mick Anglo, the British comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher, most famous for his association with the creation of the comic character Marvelman. Anglo died, aged 95… Read More ›

• 2000AD’s Thought Bubble portfolio session: a quick reminder

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2011

  2000AD is heading north to Leeds for the annual Thought Bubble comic book convention, taking place at the Saviles Hall conference venue at Clarence Dock in Leeds. That’s right next to the Royal Armouries museum, on 19th and 20th November,… Read More ›

• In Review: Long John Silver – The Emerald Maze

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 15, 2011

  

  Cinebook have reached the third in writer Xavier Dorison and artist Mathieu Lauffray’s Long John Silver series, The Emerald Maze, set some 20 years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Lady Vivian Hastings’ husband has found the… Read More ›

• In Review: Commando 4443 – Killer In No-Man’s-Land

  By John Freeman on November 11, 2011

  The batch of Commandos that are in the shops now, as well as including the reprint of the original Issue 2 from 50 years ago, also has two brand new stories set during the First World War. On the eleventh… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  Continuing the Panel Borders comic radio show’s month of programming about genre in comics, Alex Fitch talks to creators of small press and mainstream cowboy comics. In the 300th radio show that Alex Fitch has made for Resonance FM, he… Read More ›

• Sale, Starkings, Hughes among Thought Bubble guest signings at Travelling Man

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  Hulk by Tim Sale The Travelling Man comic shops and Thought Bubble festival have just announced their line up of international comic superstars signing with at the store next week, as follows: Tim Sale, Richard Starkings and Gail SimoneTravelling Man… Read More ›

• That Funny Little Man… Roy Newby exhibition announced

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  (with thanks to David Roach and Tim Pilcher) An exhibition by little-known artist Roy Newby, whose work over many decades included numerous comics, will go on show at Phoenix Place in Lewes, East Sussex, later this month. Roy’s work displays… Read More ›

• Black Hearted Press to launch new titles at Thought Bubble

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  Comics writer Jim Alexander, whose credits include stories for 2000AD, DC and Marvel Comics and Metal Hurlant has been heavily involved with Glasgow-based publishers Black Hearted Press and is the writer on two new books that will be launched at… Read More ›

• Mike Trim’s Airfix Paintings

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  After mentioning Airfix’s re-release of the Angel Interceptor kit from Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet And the Mysterons TV series, we have another Airfix/Captain Scarlet cross-over to report but this time it is one of the behind the scenes team. Mike… Read More ›

• Classic Commandos re-released

  By John Freeman on November 8, 2011

  Another four Commandos will be out this Thursday and as it’s November, thoughts turn towards the Armistice at the end of the Great War. So it’s no surprise there’s a pair of World War 1 stories in this set of… Read More ›

• In Review: Lucky Luke Vs The Pinkertons

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 8, 2011

  Cinebook have been selective in their choices of Lucky Luke albums to translate into English, jumping around in the original French order and with Lucky Luke Versus The Pinkertons they have come completely up to date with their first English… Read More ›

• Markosia’s mind-bending comic releases!

  By John Freeman on November 8, 2011

  

  It’s not often you get to release a book that causes people to worry about reality and feel unstable after reading it – which is how I felt after reading one of them. It’s almost unthinkable, dangerous even, that you… Read More ›

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