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• Treating Comics Seriously – Six Questions for Dr Chris Murray

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 22, 2011

  Dr Chris Murray is a lecturer and programme convenor in English for Dundee University’s School of Humanities with research interests in comics, film and popular culture. He has contributed articles to the academic International Journal of Comic Art, Gothic Studies,… Read More ›

• Roy of the Rovers returns in special Daily Mail strip

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2011

  The Daily Mail has published a special Roy of the Rover strip to mark this weekend’s biggest match of the season, the 161st Manchester Derby. Featuring Champions Manchester United versus super-rich City, the strip emphasizes it’s the hottest ticket in… Read More ›

• Dundee Commando exhibition open

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2011

  

  A quick reminder about the Commando exhibition in Dundee Jeremy Briggs gave an advance plug for last month, which has now opened, in advance of Dundee Comics Day on 30th October. Marking the 50th anniversary of Commando, It’s in the… Read More ›

• Charley takes on Hitler in latest collection of classic war comic

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Charley’s War: Hitler’s Youth, the eighth volume of the classic World War One comic strip by Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun, first published in Battle Picture Weekly, is now on sale from Titan Books, although the official publication date is… Read More ›

• Wear your red (or white) poppy with pride on Remembrance Day

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2011

  

    Remembrance Sunday falls on 13th November and across the world, services  and events have been arranged, with the public being urged to take the time to remember all who died for their country in the two World Wars and… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – For Maria

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 21, 2011

  

  Who is XIII? Book 1 – Mr Alan Smith? Books 2&3 – Captain Steve Rowland? Book 4 – Corporal Ross Tanner? Book 5 – Agent Jason Fly? Books 6 & 7 – Writer John Fleming? Book 8 – Agent Jason… Read More ›

• In Review: Super Animal Adventure Squad

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 20, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  The most junior of the third batch of DFC Library titles is Super Animal Adventure Squad written and illustrated by James Turner. Agent K (a cat), Agent Irwin (a pelican), Agent Rex (an iguana), Agent Beesley (a rather posh bee)… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine’s courier curse strikes again

  By John Freeman on October 19, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Courier problems have hit STRIP Magazine again, meaning the planned launch date had to be pushed back. STRIP Magazine is printed in Bosnia and shipped from there. After problems with Strip Zero earlier in the year it was shipped earlier… Read More ›

• In Review: Blake And Mortimer – The Gondwana Shrine

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 19, 2011 • ( 2 )

  The Gondwana Shrine is the fourth of the new adventures of Blake And Mortimer by writer Yves Sente and artist André Juillard, originally published in French in 2008 and based on the original characters created by E.P. Jacobs. Following on… Read More ›

• Demoncon2 finalises line up with plenty of web comic creators

  By John Freeman on October 18, 2011

  (With thanks to The Grinning Man, Maidstone): The line up for Demoncon2, taking place in Maidstone in November, is now pretty much finalised and includes comic creators such as Garen Ewing and Dan Boultwood on the guest list, along with… Read More ›

• Back from the depths…

  By John Freeman on October 18, 2011

  My apologies for the lack of posts over the past week (and special thanks to Jeremy Briggs for stepping up to the plate). Unfortunately, my computer had a hard drive failure (now fixed thanks to Ubertechs in Lancaster) which meant… Read More ›

• In Review: Baggage

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 18, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  The DFC Library returns with the first of its third tranche of titles, and the first one that wasn’t in the weekly DFC – Baggage by writer Robin Etherington and artist Lorenzo Etherington. Randall is the lackadaisical, and somewhat disaster-prone,… Read More ›

• Private Eye marks 50th anniversary with special issue

  By John Freeman on October 17, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Issue 1300 of Private Eye, on sale 26th October, will be a special issue marking its 50th birthday. This landmark event for the magazine – which has always featured cartoons and comic strips satirising British life and politics – is… Read More ›

• A Choice Of New Who Sketches Up For Grabs

  By John Freeman on October 17, 2011

  Scotch Corner artist Graeme Neil Reid is running a competition over on his I Got No Work Done Today Because… blog to win one of three new Doctor Who colour sketches that he has been displaying over the last week…. Read More ›

• In Review: Thorgal – The Sun Sword

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 16, 2011

  Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Grzegorz Rosinski return to their sword and sorcery adventurer in the tenth Thorgal book to be published in English by Cinebook, The Sun Sword. Having saved a young girl from a bear, a girl… Read More ›

• Newcastle Gets The Canny Comic Con

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2011

  Newcastle-Upon-Tyne has long had a regular comic mart to go with its branches of Travelling Man and Forbidden Planet, but it has apparently been some fifteen years since it has had a big comics event. Small Press Big Mouth-er Stacey… Read More ›

• Pat Mills Talks Charley’s War At The Tank Museum

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2011

  Having already given talks this year on Charley’s War at the Imperial War Museum in London and the Edinburgh International Book Festival, writer and editor Pat Mills continues to discuss his World War One character at the The Tank Museum… Read More ›

• John Ryan Artwork Exhibition in Rye

  By John Freeman on October 14, 2011

  Two characters that were created for the first issue of Eagle comic in April 1950 have entered the British public’s collective consciousness. The first is Eagle’s most well known character, the spaceman Dan Dare, but the other, whilst well known,… Read More ›

• Commandos race into danger

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2011

  The latest issues of Commando are on sale in all ggod newsagents now, with this batch including a pair of books written by Eric Hebden and another by his son Alan – a first for the war comic perhaps. Commando… Read More ›

• Commando Raids Estonia

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2011

  Commando may be best known for its one-off stories but it has run quite a few series over the years with recurring characters and situations. Perhaps the best known, mainly due to the sheer number of issues they have been… Read More ›

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