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• Tube Surfing: Phoenix, Jamie Smart, Commando and The Broons

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2012 • ( 2 )

  It has been a while since we have had a Tube Surf so… The Phoenix had a bumpier than expected take-off when their distribution deal through Waitrose supermarkets left many potential readers puzzled when no Waitrose had copies of the… Read More ›

• John McCrea takes on Mars Attacks! project

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2012

  US publisher IDW Publishing and Topps have announces multiple Eisner Award-winning creative team for Mars Attacks, an all-new ongoing comic series based on the fan-favourite Mars Attacks franchise – and STRIP Magazine‘s John McCrea is one part of the line-up…. Read More ›

• MCM and Eagle Awards Debut New Comics Talent Competition

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2012

  For almost a decade the MCM London Comic Con has been a haven for comics, movies, games and anime – and now, together with the Eagle Awards and upcoming Universal Pictures blockbuster Snow White And The Huntsman, they’re looking to… Read More ›

• Cursed Earth Mega-epic kicks off new 2000AD book range

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2012 • ( 3 )

  One of the all-time greatest Judge Dredd stories ever told is returning in a brand new pocket-sized format.The Cursed Earth, the first ‘mega-epic’ featuring the famous Lawman of the Future, is being published in B-format for the first time. A… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Habibi Blankets and Children’s Books

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2012

  Here’s some information on both upcoming and recent Panel Borders radio shows, broadcast on Resonabce FM and online. Concluding the show’s month of looking at biography and autobiography in comics, Alex Fitch talks to the multiple award winning (and Grammy nominated) cartoonist… Read More ›

• Hewlett, Blake, Simmonds at British Library event

  By John Freeman on 25 January 2012

  The Lords of Flatbush by Jamie Hewlett The British Library in London is offering comic fans the opportunity to join a remarkable panel of artists and experts including Quentin Blake, designer and comic artist Jamie Hewlett, satirical cartoonist Martin Rowson… Read More ›

• Eddie Campbell award nomination prompts Dapper John offer

  By John Freeman on 25 January 2012

  As many readers here may already know, ace artist Eddie Campbell has been nominated to receive the Angouleme Festival’s Essential Prize at this year’s festival for his “Alec” work. To celebrate, new digital publisher Panel Nine is selling Eddie Campbell’s Dapper… Read More ›

• Cartoon Museum honours ‘Her Maj’

  By John Freeman on 25 January 2012

  London’s Cartoon Museum will be celebrating the Diamond Jubilee with a humorous history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.    Her Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the Queen (1 February – 8 April 2012) will offer a gallery… Read More ›

• 2000AD Book Schedule announced

  By John Freeman on 25 January 2012

  As it celebrates three and a half decades of some of the greatest comics of all time, 2000AD is unleashing a flurry of top-notch thrills in graphic novel form this year.The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic has lined up a sizzling schedule… Read More ›

• “The Invisible Artist” film released

  By John Freeman on 24 January 2012

  

  The Invisible Artist from Northern Visions NvTv on Vimeo  The comic booklet: once a mass market media form, some would argue it has all but disappeared from newsagents shelves in the last 20 years – but comic creation continues apace… Read More ›

• Boffins and Burglars infiltrate Commando!

  By John Freeman on 23 January 2012

  The latest issues of Commando are on sale now, and it’s intrguing to see how cover artist Janek Matysiak on #4464 and one of this set’s reprint issues, 4466, has changed styles with a move to digital art. Commando No… Read More ›

• New Dennis the Menace shows – and a musical – on the way

  By John Freeman on 23 January 2012

  Ahead of tomorrow’s London Toy Fair, DC Thomson has announced a renewal of its partnership with leading content producer Red Kite Animations to co-produce the new series of Dennis and Gnasher. As The Beano begins the countdown to its 75th… Read More ›

• Comics @ Glasgow Book Festival

  By John Freeman on 22 January 2012

  Aye Write!, Glasgow’s Book Festival, run by Glasgow Council’s libraries department at the Mitchell Library is much smaller than Edinburgh’s International Book Festival but normally turns up some comics talks and this year is no exception. Writing For Graphic Novels… Read More ›

• Weird Western set for release from Print Media

  By John Freeman on 21 January 2012

  On sale from Prnt Media Productons at the end of this month is the the much-praised graphic novel Frontier: Dealing with Demons, an all-ages ‘Weird Western’ by Jason Cobley and Andrew Wildman. The Wild West… and Daisy Adams is suddenly… Read More ›

• Duncan Fegredo provides cover to latest Dark Horse Presents

  By John Freeman on 21 January 2012

  The ace art of Duncan Fegredo graces the cover of the next Dark Horse Presents (#8), on sale 1st February. Fegredo’s British credits are of course extensive, including work for titles such as Crisis for Fleetway back in the 1980s,… Read More ›

• Comics @ Glasgow Film Festival

  By John Freeman on 20 January 2012

  Last year the Glasgow Film Festival at the Glasgow Film Theatre brought writer Mark Millar on board to curate a comics creators and movies strand which included amongst others a talk by artist/writer Dave Gibbons and screenings of Luc Besson’s… Read More ›

• Blasé Books releases Pictorial Guide to British 1950s Sci-Fi and Horror Comic Books

  By John Freeman on 19 January 2012

  (via Lew Stringer): Redditch-based Blasé Books have just released The Pictorial Guide to British 1950s Sci-Fi & Horror Comic Books. Designed by comics creator Mike Higgs, the 288-page full colour softback by comic historian Mike Morley (one of the contributors… Read More ›

• Is It Just Media launches free Robob title for schools

  By John Freeman on 18 January 2012

  Surrey based independent publisher, Is It Just Media?, have announced the arrival of The Adventures of ROBOB, a new interactive magazine and trading card game aimed at primary school children which includes an element of contributed comic strip. The magazine… Read More ›

• British Comedy Conference seeks papers on comedy and comics

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2012

  The organisers of the Sixth International Comedy Conference, which will take place later at the University of Salford have issued a Call for Papers. The theme for this year’s two-day conference is ‘Drawing The Line’ and the academic event aims… Read More ›

• Comica Conversation: Craig Thompson and Marcel Theroux

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2012

  Graphic novelist Craig Thompson.Image via Paul Gravett The first Comica Conversation of the year takes place in London next week: a chance to meet and chat with Craig Thompson, hailed for his graphic novels Blankets and Habibi, and novelist and… Read More ›

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