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• Morrison one of three authors to gain Queen’s Birthday honour

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2012

  Congratulations to Grant Morrison, who has been awarded an MBE, recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List (pdf) “for services to film and literature”. The annual list was published this weekend and saw just three authors – crime writer Susan… Read More ›

• Skilleter releases ‘Sarah Jane’ charity print

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2012

  Artist Andrew Skilleter has released Sarah Jane Tribute Charity Print, donating a set sum from each and every print sale to supporting the Macmillan (Cancer) Nurses, £2.50 on an A4 size print, and £5 on an A3 size print. The… Read More ›

• International Literature Festival launches comic competition

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2012

  The 12th International Literature Festival Berlin (ILB) will take place between 4th – 16th September and 2012 and, as in the past years the organisation will present over 100 authors from all over the world in more than 200 events…. Read More ›

• Waiting a bit longer for Crucible…

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2012

  

  Those of you who might be dipping into this blog for some tasty updates about our Crucible strip (you’re not just here for Daleks, are you?) will be disappointed to hear that you’ll have to wait to see the strip… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Manchester strips

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2012

  Continuing a month of shows about comic communities around the UK, Alex Fitch travels to Manchester to talk to four local creators on Sunday’s Panel Borders. Adam (Blood Blokes) Cadwell, John (Bad Machinery) Allison, Joe (Freak Leap) List and Chris… Read More ›

• Egmont kick off digital Classic Comics titles with ‘Roy of the Rovers’

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2012

  

  Egmont has launched its new digital Classic Comics imprint with four iBooks collecting some classic Roy of the Rovers stories. Egmont says it will be distributing a broad programme of iBooks and e-comics, and with a huge amount of comics… Read More ›

• In Review: David Sutherland – Comics Genius Exhibition and Talk

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 16, 2012

  The University Of Dundee has presented some unique comics events and exhibitions over the last five or six years under the auspices of Dr Chris Murray of the School of Humanities and Mathew Jarron of the University’s Museum Services. At… Read More ›

• Caption readies for another great event

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2012

  The annual small and indie press event Caption takes place 18th – 19th August 2012 in Oxford. Oxford’s annual small-press comics convention is a unique, friendly event that brings comics creators, manga artists, comic-book readers and professionals together to mingle… Read More ›

• Carlisle comic convention announced

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2012

  (with thanks for the heads up of Dave West at AccentUK): Carlisle comic fans have banded together and are planning Carlisle MegaCon, a comics event aimed squarely at giving North West comic fans an event that will be easy to… Read More ›

• Random Art: Max Bertolini

  By John Freeman on June 10, 2012

  

  Max Bertolini, one of the contributors to SciFi Art Now, has had a long, varied and successful career. The image I’ve featured here – ‘Megara,’ the cover for the January 2005 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction… Read More ›

• Cereal Geek 8 goes on sale

  By John Freeman on June 10, 2012

  The latest issue of Cereal Geek, devoted to animated shows of the 1980s, is now available. Priced £6 in the UK, Issue Eight continues the theme from the previous issue, showcasing the many animated movies of the eighties; both series-based… Read More ›

• Cybermen limited edition book goes on sale (break out your gold)

  By John Freeman on June 10, 2012

  Acclaimed illustrator Andrew Skilleter, perhaps best known for his Doctor Who art, is offering Cybermen fans the opportunity to buy a unique edition of the Cybermen book first published by Who Dares/Silver Fist in 1988 – a limited facsimile edition… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Ray Bradbury

  By John Freeman on June 9, 2012

  

  The following tribute to author Ray Bradbury has been posted on raybradbury.com, but I preface it with my own short thank you to a great novelist, whose work I much enjoyed as I grew up in the 1970s, his short… Read More ›

• As any Doctor Who fan knows…

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2012

  Art by Smuzz. Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse… Nothing serious, nothing political….  

• STRIP Magazine price drop for digital edition

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2012

  The digital edition of STRIP Issue 5will include alternate content tothe print edition STRIP Magazine fans waiting for the arrival of the print edition of Print Media’s adventure anthology – victim to ongoing import issues – may be interested to… Read More ›

• Lancaster Game Designers win top award

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2012

  Lancaster-based game designers Peter Cakebread and Ken Walton have won the award for Best Role-Playing Game at this year’s UK Games Expo in Birmingham, for their table-top steampunk role-playing game, Abney Park’s Airship Pirates. Based on the songs of Seattle-based… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Brighton Comix

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2012

  Continuing Panel Borders month of shows about comic book communities around the UK, Alex Fitch visits a meeting of Cartoon County in Brighton and chats to David Lloyd, Daniel Locke, Joe Decie, Steve Carroll, Nye Wright and Tim Pilcher about… Read More ›

• Dan Dare Radio Show – Missing Episode surfaces

  By John Freeman on June 7, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Back in 2008, I posted a news story here titled “Dan Dare’s Holy Grail“, reporting on the continued hunt for episodes of the Dan Dare radio show broadcast by Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s. Aired on Radio Luxembourg between July… Read More ›

• Alternative Press Festival plans exhibtions and other lead-in events

  By John Freeman on June 6, 2012

  Preparations are now in full swing for this year’s International Alternative Press Festival on 4th-5th August 2012 at the Conway Hall, London. The second International Alternative Press Festival will bring together UK and European small press comix, zines, book arts… Read More ›

• Soviet Spitfires and Desert Dangers in new Commandos

  By John Freeman on June 6, 2012

  Four more Commandos are now on sale, with new stories from Alan Hebden and Mac Macdonald, the latter’s ‘Soviet Spitfire’ sure to interest fans of Battle‘s classic ‘Johnny Red’ strip. Here’s the gen… Commando No 4503: Operation UltraStory: Alan Hebden… Read More ›

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