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• New Comical Animal released in the wild (web, that is)

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2012

  Happy Kitty Spa Holistic Day Spa, by Gemma Correll (with thanks to Matt Badham): The latest online edition of Comical Animal is online now, a diverse compendium of animal-inspired comic strips and cartoons. Released quarterly, Issue 7 includes tributes to… Read More ›

• Horrible Stuff coming from Eddie Campbell!

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2012

  Top Shelf and Knockabout are to co-publish Eddie Campbell’s new book The Lovely Horrible Stuff!, a delightful autobiographical voyage into the financial wilderness, ranging from the imaginary wealth of Ponzi schemes to the all-too-tangible stone currency of the Micronesian island… Read More ›

• New Scientist launches digital SF magazine

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2012

  

  Arc, a new magazine about the future has just been launched by the publishers of New Scientist. Edited by Simon Ings, author of acclaimed genre-spanning novels The Weight of Numbers and Dead Water, Arc explores the endless vistas opened up… Read More ›

• 2000AD, STRIP and CLiNT nominated for Eagle Award

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2012

  Which comic rocked your world last year? Which writers and artists really stood out from the crowd? The final round of voting is now underway for the 2012 edition of the Eagle Awards, so now’s the time to head on… Read More ›

• Neil Gaiman short story part of World Book Day app line-up

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2012

  A short story by comic creator Neil Gaiman is among the work by several authors being offered as part of a free World Book Day App, available now from iTunes for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The App features six… Read More ›

• Warren Ellis film makers plan Image Comics documentary

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2012

  Publishers Sequart and Respect Films, makers of films about comic creators such as Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis, have launched Kickstarter campaign to help fund their next documentary project charting the history of Image Comics. Image was originally founded in… Read More ›

• Lee Townsend joins Middle East Comic Con guest list

  By John Freeman on 29 February 2012

  2000AD artist Lee Townsend is to be one of the first guests announced for the first Middle East Film and Comic Con (20th & 21st April 2012) at the Dubai International Marine Club. The event, first mooted last year, has… Read More ›

• Commando re-branded into "Collections" – but new stories continue

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2012

  The latest batch of Commando releases sees some changes to the title’s format with it now coming four distinct guises – reflected on the covers – and a change to the focus of the stories inside. The digest comic stories… Read More ›

• In Review: Darwin’s Diaries – Death of A Beast

  By Jeremy Briggs on 28 February 2012

  Writer Sylvain Runberg returns from the future worlds of Orbital with Death Of A Beast, the second of the nineteen century set Darwin’s Diaries with art from Eduardo Ocana and colours by Tariq Bellaoui and which follows directly on from… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From Scripting and Art Droid David Baillie

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2012

  

  Name: David Baillie Currently working on: I’ve actually just this second finished a new script for 2000AD, which was as much fun as it always is. (I still occasionally pinch myself to check that the last few years haven’t just… Read More ›

• London Super Comic Convention: Pros and Cons

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2012

  Alan Woollcombe reports on the first London Super Comic Convention, held at the Excel Centre this weekend, which had a guest line-up that included Stan Lee (seen above, meeting and greeting, video from BleedingCool), George Perez and other comic creators… Read More ›

• Blackfriars set to chill

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2012

  The year is 793 AD. Savage, heathen armies from the north invade Northumberland, for today is the day of the viking, but the night… The night belongs to something else. Now available as a free PDF download, Blackfriars is a… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From comic creator and fan Malcolm Kirk

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2012

  Name: Malcolm Kirk Blog or web site: http://malcolmkirk.blogspot.com Currently working on: I’ve just finished putting together issue ten of the Temple APA pdf, a free downloadable showcase of the work of amateur and professional creators who are active in the… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD!

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2012

  Last month, I mailed out to pretty much every British comic creator in my address book, asking them for their 2000AD memories, for a series of ‘mini interviews’ for the downthetubes blog to mark the weekly comic’s 35th birthday this… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Buying and celebrating comics

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2012

  Concluding Panel Borders month of radio shows looking at non practitioners’ love of comics, Alex Fitch talks to auctioneer Lon Allen of Heritage Comics and Collectables in Texas, the company that last week began the auction of two thirds of… Read More ›

• Spaceship Away Themed Issues For 2012

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2012

  Des Shaw, editor of the impressive Dan Dare A4 magazine Spaceship Away has been in touch to show us dummies of the covers of the three issues that are due in 2012. Dare fans looking at them will see that… Read More ›

• Warren Ellis re-opens ‘Three Panels Open’ Challenge

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2012

  (with thanks to Matt Badham): Last year, top comic writer Warren Ellis did a thing for people who make comics called Three Panels Open. Literally, a three-panel comic. The only rules were that it had to be legible at a… Read More ›

• It’s Life Jimmy, But Not As We Know It

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2012

  In 2008, the National Library Of Scotland in Edinburgh put on their Local Heroes exhibition which displayed some of the library’s collection of comics and graphic novels and, impressively, Cam Kennedy’s original artwork for the Waverley graphic novel Kidnapped. This… Read More ›

• Egmont’s new ‘Bin Weevils’ gets massive promotion

  By John Freeman on 24 February 2012 • ( 1 )

  Egmont recently launched BinWeevils magazine, described by the publisher as the ultimate extension to the already successful online entertainment platform – and the second most visited website in the UK for children aged 7-13 and boasts a 91 per cent… Read More ›

• GOSH Comics host Tom Gauld ‘Goliath’ book launch

  By John Freeman on 24 February 2012

  Tom Gauld is a firm favourite at GOSH Comics in London, so they’re properly chuffed to be hosting the launch of his new graphic novel Goliath, a stripped-down, reworking of the David and Goliath myth, published by Drawn & Quarterly…. Read More ›

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