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• Buy the Crucible Poster

  By John Freeman on November 7, 2011

  

  Crucible: Promotional Art by ~theheavygreatcoat on deviantART      If you were lucky enough to grab a copy of STRIP Magazine Issue Zero – it’s been distributed at various comic events and there’s a online version on Yudu – you can’t… Read More ›

• Treating Comics Seriously – Belfast’s Linen Hall Library

  By John Freeman on November 7, 2011

  As part of their Northern Ireland Political Collection Lunchtime Lecture series, this week Belfast’s prestigious Linen Hall Library will feature talks on comics and political cartoons. The Linen Hall Library, opposite Belfast’s City Hall, was founded in 1788 and is… Read More ›

• Millar and McCrea Create A Blue Peter Superhero

  By John Freeman on November 6, 2011

  The creator of Kick-Ass and Wanted creating a comic strip for the BBC children’s programme Blue Peter? As odd as it sounds writer Mark Millar visited the new Blue Peter studio in Manchester on 1 November along with STRIP Magazine… Read More ›

• Dundee Comics Day 2011 – Other Voices

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 6, 2011

  downthetubes has been reviewing the Dundee University comics events run by Dr Chris Murray for many years, long before they were labelled as the Dundee Comics Day, and those reviews were often the only independent record of those events. Indeed… Read More ›

• Alan and Steve Moore’s poetry goes online

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2011

  One of the more obscure of Alan Moore‘s works is Technical Vocabularies, a poetry collection he and Steve Moore produced in 2004 in very limited numbers. Now, Alan and Steve have allowed Padraig O Méaloid to post it online on… Read More ›

• Bizarre Omen Bodes Well for Strip Magazine?

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2011

  It’s a funny old world. This week, Print Media Productions launched their new comic magazine Strip, featuring reprints of the classic 1970s comic story Hookjaw, which features a shark with a hook stuck in its jaw as the main character…. Read More ›

• Photo Review: Dundee Comics Day 2011

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 5, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  “The Dundee Comics Day has been the highlight of my comics year so far and I look forward in anticipation to what Chris Murray and his team have in store for next year” was how I ended my review of… Read More ›

• Angels – Immediate Launch!

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Despite Captain Scarlet being over 40 years old, Spectrum remains green. Spectrum’s Angel aircraft, as featured in Gerry Anderson’s 1967 TV series Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons, remain popular enough to have two new merchandise releases before Christmas. Featuring in… Read More ›

• Artist Spotlight: Jésus Blasco

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2011

  The Illustration Art Gallery is spotlighting the work of the late Jésus Blasco this month, offering a 20 per cent discount on any orders of his original art, which includes pages of perhaps his best-known strip in the UK, The… Read More ›

• Cartoonist Steve English wins first ‘Tartan Bucket’ prize

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2011

  Steve English with his‘Tartan Bucket’ Steve English has just been awarded the first Tartan Bucket Prize (named in honour of famous Scottish comics character Oor Wullie) organised by Dundee University in conjunction with D C Thomson. The aim of the… Read More ›

• Army photographer captures off duty moments of serving soldiers

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2011

  

    In her forthcoming photographic exhibition, ‘Make Do and Mend’, award-winning Terriotorial Army Sergeant Alison Baskerville has captured images of many off duty moments for soldiers serving overseas in today’s combat zones. Sergeant Baskerville returned this summer from a tour… Read More ›

• In Review: The Boss

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 3, 2011

  Mix the pupils of a single school year concept in something like Harry Potter plus the control of agents from a command centre from something like NCIS:Los Angeles with the child investigators of, say, Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers and Dog… Read More ›

• Remembering Lis Sladen, aka Sarah Jane Smith

  By John Freeman on November 2, 2011

  

  A bittersweet release

• Strip Magazine launches today in UK comic shops

  By John Freeman on November 2, 2011

  Read Strip Magazine Issue 1 Sneak Preview by clicking here STRIP Magazine Issue One is available in British comics shops from today. The digital edition for iPad is also available and can be downloaded from the iTunes Store. The cost… Read More ›

• Dick Turpin returns to Time Bomb Comics

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2011

  Time Bomb Comics has announced that their next release, Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague, will be launched at the Leeds Thoughtbubble weekend of the 19th & 20th November, where the creative team will be conducting a mid-day signing session… Read More ›

• In Review: Lady S Volume 3 – Game Of Fools

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 1, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Suzan Fitzroy, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Aymond’s reluctant spy who is codenamed Lady S, returns in Game Of Fools, the third of her books from Cinebook, originally published in the French weekly comic Spirou before being complied… Read More ›

• Email woes befall Northern Sequential Art Competition

  By John Freeman on October 31, 2011

  If you have entered the Northern Sequential Art Competition the organisers have been in touch to say  that they’ve  had some email issues and may not of received your entry. They’re urging entrants to check their website on Wednesday 2nd… Read More ›

• In Review: Antares – Episode 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 31, 2011

  After the five albums of the Aldebaran sequence followed by the five albums of the Betelgeuse sequence, the science fiction tales of the Worlds Of Aldebaran, written and illustrated by Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira), continue with the first episode… Read More ›

• Ladybird Art Exhibition At The Heritage Motor Centre

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2011

  The Ladybird Big Book of Motor Cars Exhibition is currently on at the Heritage Motor Centre near Warwick. This exhibition includes over 120 Ladybird books plus more than 30 original pieces of Ladybird artwork alongside many of the vehicles which… Read More ›

• Cam Kennedy’s Commandos

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 29, 2011

  

  Scottish artist Cam Kennedy has had a long and distinguished career in comics having drawn British characters as well known as Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper while also covering Star Wars for Dark Horse and The Punisher for Marvel in… Read More ›

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