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• STRIP Magazine on course for October launch in the UK

  By John Freeman on August 17, 2011

  Print Media Productions STRIP Magazine is on course for an October launch, with the strip line up now firmed up for the first issues. The company has also selected the first winners of its Strip Challenge – but the winners… Read More ›

• Broken Frontier celebrates British Comics

  By John Freeman on August 17, 2011

  Comic book news site Broken Frontier (www.brokenfrontier.com) has rolled out Brits on Top!, a special week-long event celebrating the British comics scene – with coverage of 2000 AD, The Dandy, Commando and the upcoming STRIP Magazine. The event includes plenty… Read More ›

• Dan Dare in the spotlight of new Judge Dredd Megazine

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2011 • ( 1 )

  As well as some great comic strip, the latest issue of Judge Dredd Megazine, on sale tomorrow (Wednesday 17th August) features two mammoth features by downthetubes occasional contributor Matthew Badham on the history of Dan Dare and the new Doctor… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Francisco Solano Lopez

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2011

  Francisco Solano Lopez at the Lucca festival in 2007. Photo by Giacomo Bartalesi. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. (via Lew Stringer,  The Comics Journal and lanaicon.com): We’re sorry to report the death of legendary Argentinian comics… Read More ›

• Lobey Dosser: A Very Surreal Glaswegian

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 15, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  (Updated with GI Bride pictures and extra information): I’ve been discussing the ephemeral nature of newspaper strips and newspaper strip characters with friends this week, so it seems apt that my attention was drawn to a character and artist whose… Read More ›

• Other War Comics: ‘Vietnam Journal’

  By John Freeman on August 15, 2011

  

  US publisher Transfuzion is re-publishing Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax – an epic re-telling of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a freelance reporter with the kind of gritty storytelling that might appeal to fans of Charley’s War and… Read More ›

• CDComics bring Salem to Sheffield

  By John Freeman on August 13, 2011

  Following up on the success of their digital comics Meadowhell and The Attercliffe Prowler, Sheffield-based independent comic company CDComics has produced the third in their local horror series. “I’m sort of on a mission to make Sheffield into Britain’s Salem.”… Read More ›

• Comic Book Auctions celebrates 20th birthday with mammoth catalogue

  By John Freeman on August 12, 2011

  The Autumn 2011 auction at British auction house Comic Book Auctions opened for bidding today (12th August) and closes on Tuesday 6th September and includes the original file copies of the first volume of Eagle and a copy of TV… Read More ›

• Vicky Stonebridge exhibition launches

  By John Freeman on August 12, 2011

  

  An exhibition of paintings by SciFi Art Now contributor Vicky Stonebridge and John Mikietyn, and a ceramic sculpture by Allison Weightman, will open at the Scotland Russia Forum’s Edinburgh premises tonight at 6pm (Friday 12th August), attended by Sergei Krutikov,… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: TOXIC’s new strips, Mudman and STRIP Magazine news

  By John Freeman on August 12, 2011

  Here’s a quick round up of British comics news courtesy of various sources… Bro vs. Bro by Laura Howell • Lew Stringer reports the website for Egmont’s popular TOXIC magazine for boys has recently had a revamp. Although some of… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Buying and Selling comics

  By John Freeman on August 11, 2011

  Continuing their month long look at comic book shops, radio show Panel Borders has interviews with the proprietors of a couple of venues that are unlike your average comic shop. Veteran publisher Mike Lake and colleague Colin Strawbridge talk to… Read More ›

• The Return of Girls Comics? Pat Mills has plans…

  By John Freeman on August 11, 2011

  Comic creator Pat Mills has hinted that he has plans to revive British girls comics with an all-new title he’s currently discussing with publishers. In an interview for the Bring Back Bunty website created by Jo Bevean, which she has… Read More ›

• Scar Comics announces Madam Samurai sequel

  By John Freeman on August 11, 2011

  Empire award winning screenwriter Gary Young (Harry Brown and Eagle Award winning artist David Hitchcock (Springheeled Jack) are combining their considerable talents once again for the return of the mute female warrior known only as Madam Samurai. Since last year’s… Read More ›

• Ace Doctor Who fanzine Vworp Vowrp returns

  By John Freeman on August 10, 2011 • ( 1 )

  The team behind the wonderful Doctor Who fan magazine Vworp Vworp – a fanzine about the long-running and best-seling Doctor Who Magazine – are taking pre-orders for their second issue The new issue includes an all-new comic strip featuring the… Read More ›

• British comic shops trade on despite riot damage

  By John Freeman on August 10, 2011

  Forbidden Planet Manchester – shop window damaged in riots but still open Comic shops in Manchester, Birmingham and other cities are open for business as usual, despite coming under attack from looters over the past few days during Britain’s riots…. Read More ›

• Tank Museum to host Charley’s War exhibition

  By John Freeman on August 10, 2011

  

  Charley’s War creator Pat Mills will be appearing at an event celebrating the critically-acclaimed Battle Picture Weekly strip at Britain’s Tank Museum in October. The event ties in with a planned exhibition of Charley’s War art which is being loaned… Read More ›

• Dougie’s War – a modern day Charley?

  By John Freeman on August 10, 2011

  

    Many fans of Charley’s War often contact this site – and ask Pat Mills – wondering if there are plans to revive the saga, perhaps in a modern setting. Pat has mentioned in the past that he had always… Read More ›

• In Review: Orbital – Nomads and Ravages

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 10, 2011

  

  Orbital is Cinebook’s longest running science fiction series after the Worlds of Aldebaran books and which, like the Largo Winch books, tells each story over two books. The second pair of Orbital books, Nomads and Ravages, originally published in 2009… Read More ›

• British Newspaper Strip Club changes hands

  By John Freeman on August 9, 2011

  There’s a change of command at the All Devon Collectors Club, longtime archivists of British newspaper strips. An offshoot of the old South West Comic Collectors Club, the ADCCC, mainly centred on the Exeter area, has members far and wide… Read More ›

• Titan Books Grabs Gordon (Flash, that is)

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2011 • ( 2 )

  Flash Gordon: On the Planet Mongo is set for a March 2012 release Titan Books has announced the publication of The Complete Flash Gordon Library in 2012. Compiling every strip and every story, this series of restored full-colour hardcover volumes… Read More ›

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