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• No Heroes But One Award!

  By John Freeman on 2 July 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 2 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 30 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 26 June 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 ›

• Project: Rooftop Announces "Fantastic Four: Fashion Forward" Redesign Contest

  By John Freeman on 26 June 2012

  They’re the first family of comic superheroes, and the first truly nuclear family in history; they’re the Fantastic Four. Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee for Marvel Comics, the F.F. rang in their fiftieth year last year with Reed… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Pays Tribute to artist Bruce Cornwell (Volume 25, Number Two)

  By John Freeman on 24 June 2012

  

  The latest issue of Eagle Times leads with a tribute to Dan Dare artist Bruce Cornwell, who died on 2nd March 2012. Summer 2012 Contents ‘The Hands of Gods’ – a look at how three talented artists, Frank Hampson, Ron Embleton… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Brockley (co)Max

  By John Freeman on 24 June 2012

  Above: Sarah Gordon, Howard Hardiman, Simone Lia, Gary Northfield, Julia Scheele, Kieron Gillen, Woodrow Phoenix and Alex Fitch at Brockley Max In the last of Panel Borders series of shows about comic book communities around the UK, Alex Fitch talks… Read More ›

• Moore and Reppion pen Damsels for Dynamite

  By John Freeman on 22 June 2012

  Fantasy comics are definitely seeing something of an upswing in popularity right now, a reflection, perhaps of a general desire to escape the doom and gloom of everyday life in a recession. Well, another title is about to join the… Read More ›

• Commando Steadfastly Soldiers On

  By John Freeman on 21 June 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 (with downthetubes being the… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: The Adventures of Tintin essay collection

  By John Freeman on 21 June 2012

  Abstracts are now being accepted for inclusion in an anthology to be produced by UK comic scholars on “The Adventures of Tintin.” Proposed essay topics should creatively engage with the critical, philosophical, and social issues explored in the Tintin universe…. Read More ›

• WebFinds: Writing Comics Resource

  By John Freeman on 20 June 2012

  Lee Robson and Matthew Badham alerted me to this last month but it got buried in my in-tray. Writer-To-Watch-Out-For Dan Hill has managed to recompile a huge collection of articles and links from professional comic writers about the various aspects… Read More ›

• In Review: Raising Amy

  By John Freeman on 20 June 2012 • ( 1 )

  Stref’, who is also known as Stephen White, has a diverse amount of work to his credit with strips in The Beano and The Dandy, his hardback anthology Milk and the violent X. Raising Amy, published by Markosia, is a… Read More ›

• Fringe Benefits: Manchester prepares for invasion by Robots of Death

  By Matt Badham on 19 June 2012

  

  Matt Badham goes behind the scenes on the new Manchester Fringe Festival

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