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• Electric Man film heads for San Diego and London

  By John Freeman on July 7, 2012

  The comics-inspired feature film Electric Man has been selected to screen at the San Diego Comic Con (full details here) and screens in London tomorrow night. The movie was selected as only one of three feature films to play this… Read More ›

• Treating Comics Seriously: Six Questions For Curator Jesper Ericsson

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 6, 2012

  Jesper Ericsson is the curator of the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen which celebrates the 200 year history of the Gordon Highlanders infantry regiment from its creation in 1794 to its amalgamation with the Queen’s Own Highlanders in 1994. The… Read More ›

• Print Express launch Comic Printing Competition

  By John Freeman on July 5, 2012

  The folk at British online printers Print Express love designers, writers, artists and anything creative and they’ve been running a number of competitions to help support interesting, creative people. Now they’ve decided to do something a little bit special – and… Read More ›

• Glasgow Comic Con 2012: More Pictures

  By John Freeman on July 5, 2012

  Following up on our review of Glasgow Comic Con, here are some more pictures from the event, courtesy of the organisers. Photography by by Alasdair Watson © Alasdair Watson & Glasgow Comic Con Queueing around the block Newly-signed creators for… Read More ›

• Steadfast! Commando Art Exhibition in Aberdeen

  By John Freeman on July 5, 2012

  

  For the third time in less than twelve months the Commando archive has been opened to allow artwork to be used in a public exhibition. After the Draw Your Weapons exhibition in London’s National Army Museum and the Battlelines exhibition… Read More ›

• 2000AD announces San Diego ComicCon schedule

  By John Freeman on July 4, 2012

  Along with many British comic creators, 2000AD, the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic will be flying the flag for British comics and heading to the greatest show on Earth with a packed schedule of exclusive signings and panels. “San Diego Comic-Con 2012… Read More ›

• In Review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century: 2009

  By John Freeman on July 4, 2012

  

  The third chapter of the third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is an epic finale…

• Second Glasgow Comic Convention proves success

  By John Freeman on July 4, 2012

  Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely at Glasgow Comic Con 2012. Photo: Craig Hastie of Comics Anonymous David Robertson of Fred Egg Comics reports on a weekend offering a range of big name guests and upcoming comics revelations… Photos kindly provided… Read More ›

• 75 years of The Dandy exhibition

  By Richard Sheaf on July 3, 2012

  

  The Cartoon Museum will be holding an exhibition of all all things Dandy related this autumn

• No Heroes But One Award!

  By John Freeman on July 2, 2012

  The “little comic that could” No More Heroes picked up the award for Best Comic at the SICBA (Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards) event held at Glasgow Comic Con over the weekend. The four-issue mini-series about the suspicious death of… Read More ›

• British Comic Awards launched

  By John Freeman on July 2, 2012

  

  News today (via The Emperor and the Forbidden Planet Blog) of the launch of the British Comic Awards website. The British Comic Awards is described as a brand new initiative to annually celebrate the very best in British comics. The… Read More ›

• Scotch Corner Art Blog Celebrates Its 3rd Birthday

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2012

  The Scotch Corner daily art blog is celebrating its third birthday and, like last year, has called on a number of guest artists to give a short holiday to the Scotch Corner regulars, artdroids Graeme Neil Reid, Gary Erskine, Simon… Read More ›

• New Futurequake, Zarjaz now on sale

  By John Freeman on July 1, 2012

  The latest issues of the ace indie comic titles FutureQuake and the 2000AD-inspired Zarjaz are now on sale. Behind the cover of Futurequake Issue 21 by Gibson Quarter and Keiren Smith there are eight strips to astound you, including ‘Aclonement’,… Read More ›

• Girl Genius web comic creators Phil and Kaja Foglio head for Cambridge

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2012

  Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the steampunk web comic Girl Genius (www.girlgeniusonline.com), are to be Guests of Hounour at the Congenial convention in Cambridge next month. Taking place over 10-12th August 2012, Congenial is an SF and role-playng convention… Read More ›

• UK Simpsons Comics reaches 200th issue

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2012

  Next Thursday is something of a milestone for British Simpsons fans as the UK edition of Simpsons Comics reaches its milestone 200th issue. Based on the world’s favourite family, Simpsons Comics is the official magazine of the cartoon, published by… Read More ›

• Titan announces Walking Dead Magazine

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2012

  Titan Magazines and Skybound have announced the launch of The Walking Dead, The Official Magazine, based on Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning comic book series, best-selling graphic novels and Emmy-winning AMC television series based upon them. The magazine will debut in… Read More ›

• Gaiman at Edinburgh Book Festival – tickets still available

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 29, 2012

  A quick reminder that Neil Gaiman will be at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 13th August alongside Chris Riddell (who’s the Edinburgh Book Festival’s illustrator in residence). The pair of them will be discussing Coraline turning ten years old. “We… Read More ›

• Fourth Andrew Loomis facsimile art book in the works

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2012

  Illustrator Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists for his mastery of drawing technique and his clean, realist style and his hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered. Long out of print, early editions of his books… Read More ›

• Recommended Reading: Andrew Loomis

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2012

  

  Illustrator Andrew Loomis is revered amongst artists for his mastery of drawing technique and his clean, realist style and his hugely influential series of art instruction books have never been bettered. Long out of print, early editions of his books… Read More ›

• Are fantasy stories too scary for younger children?

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2012

  Author Heather Flood has backed a warning given to parents not to read Harry Potter or other popular fantasy adventure books like her husnand’s recent book, The Secret Potion, to very young children. Quite honestly, this all sounds like a… Read More ›

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