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• Dublin City Con downsizes, but back in style in 2011

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2010

  The organisers of the popular Dublin City Comic Con have announced the event is to “downsize” for 2010, with a smaller festival replacing the planned larger event which has been hit by venue problems. However, the organisers say they’ll be… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Books of Magic and Spirits of the Earth

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2010

  

  Continuing radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at horror and dark fantasy comics, in a pair of interviews recorded at this year’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, Alex Fitch talks to artists Charles Vess and Peter Gross… Read More ›

• Preview: Markosia’s The Indifference Engine by Dethan, Carey

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2010

  

  Cy Dethan and Robert Carey’s new project, The Indifference Engine, is set to be released soon by publishers Markosia. The team on the book have kindly sent us a review copy of this tightly-written multi-universe-spanning adventure tale — and it’s… Read More ›

• Sean Michael Wilson’s Hagakure manga debuts in Japan

  By John Freeman on October 21, 2010

  British comics creator Sean Michael Wilson is clearly a happy man – and has every right to be after his new book, Hagakure: The Manga Edition, went on sale in Japanese bookshops this week. Written by Sean, art is by… Read More ›

• Moominvalley recreated in Bury Art Gallery

  By John Freeman on October 20, 2010

  

  The magical world of the Moomins from Finland has delighted and captivated children and adults alike for the last 65 years. This week (Saturday 23rd October 2010), a new exhibition opens in Bury Art Gallery

• Sneek Peek: X-Men versus Dracula by John Royle

  By John Freeman on October 20, 2010

  Here’s a sneek peek at an upcoming cover for Panini’s Marvel Heroes title by fab artist John Royle. John’s also penciled the upcoming  X-Men and Dracula strip from what he tells us is a great script by Mitchel Scanlon, with… Read More ›

• Chris Claremont confirmed guest for MCM Expo

  By John Freeman on October 20, 2010

  Comic book creator Chris Claremont at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. Photo: Luigi Novi The London MCM Expo has announced that comics legend Chris Claremont is to be a special guest at the 29-31 October show’s Comic… Read More ›

• Hallowe’en Treats from artist Duncan Long

  By John Freeman on October 20, 2010

  

  Illustrator Duncan Long – featured in SciFi Art Now – is giving friends and fans two free ebooks to celebrate the Hallowe’en season: Edgar Allan Poe’s Eleonora (for which Duncan did the cover and inner illustrations for as well as… Read More ›

• Matt Smith’s Doctor Who Covered in New Book

  By John Freeman on October 19, 2010

  Books about Doctor Who aren’t exactly rare these days and downthetubes wouldn’t even begin to try to cover all of them. But every so often, a title of particular interest emerges which is worth looking out for. Often these are… Read More ›

• Academic Comics Forum registration opens

  By John Freeman on October 19, 2010

  Registration for Comics Forum, a two-day academic event taking place as part of this year’s Thought Bubble Sequential Art Festival in Leeds, is now open. The Forum includes the Women in Comics II conference on 18th November and Theory and… Read More ›

• Century 21 Reprint Books To Continue

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 18, 2010

  

  There’s hope yet for a continuation of the Gerry Anderson “Century 21” collections

• Neil Roberts creates Sarah Jane Adventures comic for the BBC

  By John Freeman on October 17, 2010

  

  A panel from the BBC’s new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic The BBC have published a new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic, which is being drawn by Neil Roberts, one of the artists featured in SciFi Art Now. Sarah Jane… Read More ›

• Neil Roberts creates Sarah Jane Adventures comic for the BBC

  By John Freeman on October 17, 2010

  A panel from the BBC’s new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic As Jeremy Briggs notes in his report on Doctor Who Adventures, the BBC have published a new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic. Although published in a web-friendly ‘sliding frame’… Read More ›

• Doctor Who (And Sarah Jane) Adventures

  By John Freeman on October 16, 2010

  With the new series of The Sarah Jane Adventures now being broadcast on various BBC channels, junior Who comic Doctor Who Adventures has given over pages to the series and in the current issue the 12 centre pages of the… Read More ›

• The Dandy – Pulling Back From The Xtreme

  By John Freeman on October 16, 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Take a long hard look at the cover of the current issue of Dandy Xtreme. Stripped of its free gifts (five chewy sweets and a small toy light sabre) there is nothing to suggest that it is a comic, let… Read More ›

• Argh! Tim Quinn reveals the ups and downs of life as a comic book creator

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2010 • ( 2 )

  If Beryl the Peril, Korky the Cat, Spider-Man, Desperate Dan and the Bash Street Kids are some of your favourite cartoon characters, then get along to Morecambe’s Platform venue on Friday, 29th October to meet Tim Quinn, who worked on… Read More ›

• That’s Novel new London comic exhibition

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2010

  THAT’S NOVEL: lifting comics from the page is a new exhibition at londonprintstudio which opens on 22nd October 2010, featuring the work of several artists including Charlie Adlard, Ho Che Anderson, Darryl Cunningham, the late John Hicklenton, the Metaphrog team,… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Nick Brokenshire

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2010

  

  Artist Nick Brokenshire, who has been illustrating and teaching for a few years now, has been a lifelong comics fan, consuming 2000AD, the 1980s Eagle “and anything from the US that I could get my hands on” He graduated from… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Stephen Baskerville

  By John Freeman on October 14, 2010

  

  Concept Art for the Astro Zoo game by Stephen Baskerville Stephen Baskerville is a videogame concept artist whose recent work included Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth for the Nintendo DS (as well as helping out on the Wii companion game, Doctor… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Neil Roberts

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2010

  

  Neil Roberts is a freelance artist and lecturer who’s worked in the videogame industry as a character artist for 12 years before going fully freelance in October 2008. In his time he worked on games such as Colin McRae Rally,… Read More ›

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