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• Beasts take over the Cartoon Museum!

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2012

  Animals have always inspired cartoon and comic artists, from the British Lion to Bunny Suicides, Korky the Cat to Simon’s Cat. Now, London’s Cartoon Museum is to host an exhibition of animal-inspired cartoons. The Animal Crackers exhibition includes works by… Read More ›

• Elephantmen versus Strontium Dog story in the works

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2012

  Elephantmen creator Richard Starkings and artist Boo Cook will be signing at Travelling Man in Leeds this Saturday with advance copies of the fifth Elephantmen hardcover, Devilish Functions. The collection includes ‘Man and Elephantman’ (including the sold out one shot… Read More ›

• Black Tower’s Return of the Gods proves an Unexpected Hit

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2012

  Indie publisher Black Tower is enjoying strong sales for its Return of the Gods collection, originally published for the European market. Sales of the title totalled more than all Black Tower sales for the previous six months  in just one… Read More ›

• Eagle Day announced for September

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2012

  (via the Eagle Times): The Eagle Society is to hold an Eagle Day in August to celebrate the classic British comic. Eagle Days were the idea of the late Bob Rothwell, offering fellow ‘Eaglers’ and collectors, to chat, swap, buy… Read More ›

• Multiverse #6 Digital Editions on sale

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2012

  Multiverse #6 – available on Graphic.ly While the print edition of comics magazine Multiverse #6 has yet to hit UK comic shops, it is available at various online locations, including  Graphicly, Myebook and Comicsplus. Edited by Mike Conroy, each 52-page issue includes… Read More ›

• 2000AD, IDW team on Ewing, McCarthy’s ‘Zaucer of Zilk’

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2012

  Continuing their new partnership with legendary English publishers 2000AD, IDW Publishing is proud to announce a collection of Al Ewing and Brendan McCarthy’s The Zaucer of Zilk. The mind blowing story centres on a despondent, alienated young man who finds… Read More ›

• IDW confirm creative talent on new Judge Dredd US title

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2012

  After announcing their partnership with the 2000AD at WonderCon 2012 earlier this year, US publisher IDW Publishing and Rebellion have announced Edgar-nominated and Anthony Award-winning Duane Swierczynski and Nelson Daniél, as the creative team for their brand-new Judge Dredd US… Read More ›

• Lazy Oaf launches chic Batman clothing range

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2012

  Image: Viktor Vauthier © Lazy Oaf East London-based fashion street wear label Lazy Oaf has just launched a very stylish range of Batman-themed clothing, in the run up to the release of The Dark Knight Rises on 20th July. Image… Read More ›

• Gerry Anderson Walks For Alzheimer’s Research

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2012

  On 28 June 2012 television and film producer, writer and director Gerry Anderson went public with his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease to promote the launch of the Alzheimer’s Society charity sponsored Memory Walks. He will always be associated with the… Read More ›

• MKomix Fair: comic creators in abundance!

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2012

  A quick reminder that the MKomix Comic Fair organised by comic creator Paul Rainey takes place this Thursday (19th July) in the Milton Keynes Art Gallery. Full details of the event, which reads like a Who’s Who of some top… Read More ›

• Spaceship Away 27 on sale now

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2012

  Issue 27 of the Eagle-inspired comic magazine Spaceship Away is available now, this time with a background theme drawing on the Dan Dare story The Red Moon, featuring a number of paintings relating to that story from both Don Harley… Read More ›

• Famous Five to ape Doctor Who (or is that Timeslip?)

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2012 • ( 1 )

  The cast of The Famous Five1978 production, scripted byRichard Carpenter London-based Kindle Entertainment, makers of the critically acclaimed CBBC show Leonardo are to turn Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five into a time travel show. The company recently announced it has… Read More ›

• Photos from the Opening of the Aberdeen Commando Exhibition

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 July 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s not often a comics event is opened with a bagpiper, even in Scotland, so driving into the car park of the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen on a slightly overcast summer’s morning to the skirl of the pipes set… Read More ›

• Past Perfect #54

  By Richard Sheaf on 14 July 2012

  

  A look at Paul Ware’s Past Perfect magazine, by Richard Sheaf

• In Review: The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator

  By John Freeman on 13 July 2012

  Writer / Director: Edgar WriterArtist / Animator: Tommy Lee EdwardsNarrator: Julian BarrattMusic: Unloved (David Holmes, Keefus Green and Jade Vincent)Publisher: Microsoft 4 online episodes, approx 7 mins each The plot: Brandon Generator, a freelance writer with writer’s block, overdoes on… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Tom Gauld and Simone Lia discuss Cabanon Press

  By John Freeman on 13 July 2012

  

  Panel Borders: Cabanon Press In the second of a series of shows about comic book creators who have collaborated together, Alex Fitch talks to celebrated British cartoonists Tom Gauld and Simone Lia in a conversation recorded at this year’s Spring… Read More ›

• International Alternative Press Festival returns to London

  By John Freeman on 13 July 2012

  A quick reminder that the 2nd International Alternative Press Festival begins on 20th July, featuring an inspired assortment of creative events in London. The festival events lead up to the 4th-5th August weekend Small Press Fair in Holborn’s Conway Hall…. Read More ›

• Women in Comics – conference team plan essay collection

  By John Freeman on 12 July 2012

  Lois Lane in Superman, in 1939 After two very successful conferences – the Women in Comics I at The University of Cambridge in 2009, and Women in Comics II at Leeds Art Gallery, as part of Comics Forum and Thought… Read More ›

• American Illustration, Comics, and Animation Conference announced

  By John Freeman on 12 July 2012

  What is the future of illustration studies? What can comics scholars learn from animation studies and vice versa? Do illustrated books or graphic novels resist the supposed obsolescence of the book? What do pictures want (now)? These and related questions… Read More ›

• Cam Kennedy sketchbook on sale from Atomik

  By John Freeman on 12 July 2012 • ( 1 )

  Open publication – Free publishing – More Cam kennedy 2000AD artist Cam Kennedy‘s eyesight is fading and means, sadly, it is unlikely we’ll see many more new comics from him, so it is important to treasure whatever art from him… Read More ›

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