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• Private Eye cartoonist Wilbur Dawbarn joins New British Comics line up

  By John Freeman on 7 March 2011

  The latest issue of New British Comics, edited by Karol Wisniewski, co-creator of the upcoming Harbor Moon graphic novel published by Arcana, will soon go on sale, featuring the work of creators such as Dan White, Paul O’Connell and Lawrence… Read More ›

• Alternative Press Fair exhbitions and events announced

  By John Freeman on 7 March 2011

  The International Alternative Press Fair has announced several exhibitions relating to its two-day event in London at the end of May (Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th). Creators interested in being part of the actual Fair at the Conway Hall, Holborn,… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Dan Dare, Death’s Head and World Book Night outrage

  By John Freeman on 7 March 2011

  Some quick news items… • (via the Dan Dare Yahoo Group) A bust of Dan Dare is now sitting comfortably on a beautifully made plinth in a prominent position in the library of Southport College (where his creator, Frank Hampson… Read More ›

• The Tartan Bucket Prize Competition

  By John Freeman on 7 March 2011

  The Dundee Comics Day has been running since 2007 and in 2008 became part of the Dundee Literary Festival at Dundee University. The fifth comics day is due to be held in October and the University has announced that this… Read More ›

• Phoenix: a new British comic rises from the ashes of The DFC

  By John Freeman on 5 March 2011 • ( 1 )

  A new British comic is in the offing, edited by former The DFC editor Ben Sharpe. Contrary to earlier reports on Lew Stringer’s blog, bleedingcool.com and elsewhere, Ben says The Phoenix is not a revival of The DFC, although its… Read More ›

• A Comic Convention Returns to Glasgow

  By John Freeman on 5 March 2011

  

  It has been some 15 years since Glasgow hosted a comics convention with the last of the GlasCACs, the Glasgow Comic Art Conventions. Since then, Scotland has had two Oxfam Comics Days in Edinburgh, three Hi-Exs in Inverness, four Dundee Comics Days as… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine editor at Lancaster comics event on 19th March

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2011

  Lancaster’s Storey Creative Industries Centre will host a comic and science fiction fair on Saturday 19th March. A must for all collectors of Doctor Who, Marvel and DC Comics, film posters, trading cards and toys, along with an appearance by… Read More ›

• Sneek peek of 2000AD Lawgiver prop at National Space Centre’s BritSciFi event

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2011

  TV legend Gerry Anderson is to join the crew of Leicester’s National Space Centre on 19th – 20th March for a celebration of British science fiction that also includes an appearance by Blake’s 7‘s Gareth Thomas and a sneek peek… Read More ›

• David Pugh’s Slaine, Dan Dare art (and more) on sale for charity

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2011

  

  Check out some fantastic original comic art by David Pugh

• Convict Commandos debuts

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2011

  Four new Commando issues are on sale now in newsagents, continuing our 50th year countdown from 12 to one of re-issues of the original dozen Commandos. This month sees Number 10 “Hun Bait”, written by Dan Dare writer David Motton… Read More ›

• Roll Up for Roll Out with Furman, Senior and more this Sunday

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2011

  Transformers comic writer and ace scripter in his own right Simon Furman, artists Geoff Senior, Andrew Wildman, John Higgins and Martin Griffiths be in Fordingbridge, Hampshire on Sunday (6th March), for All the Cool Stuff’s combined Transformers/Action Force mini-con(vention), Roll… Read More ›

• In Review: Fallen Heroes #1

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2011

  Writer: Bary NugentWriter/Adaptor: Martin ConaghanArtist: Steve PenfoldPublisher: Beyond the BunkerWeb Link: www.fallenheroescomic.com and www.oxicomics.com/comics/fallenheroesAlso available on iTunes The Comic: A stalker of demons and legends, a pair of master criminals, a teenager on the brink of madness and a man… Read More ›

• Crucible: Truuglub Vanderpatz, the Daunting – Colour Notes

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2011

  

  Here’s another of Smuzz’ wonderful colour guides we’ve bombarded poor Kris Carter with. This is the oddest member of the Expeditioners in our story…  

• Cesar to release Judge Dredd costume, ideal for would-be vigilantes

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  The new Judge Dredd costumefrom Cesar. Solid helmet and Lawgiver not included! Costumed vigilante “The Statesman” may be gaining press coverage battling intoxicated baddies and wannabe burglars on the streets of Birmingham, as reported by papers such as the Daily… Read More ›

• Comics Grid web blog on the move

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  The Comics Grid, a collaborative, peer-edited and authored blog dedicated to comics scholarshiphas moved its website to www.comicsgrid.com Although the main focus of  the Comics Grid is on the analysis of specific comics page layouts and panels, the site also… Read More ›

• Comics Launchpad initiative kicks off to help British comic creators

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  Orgnaisers who brought us the British International Comic Show have announced Launch Pad, a one-day conference aimed at comic professionals, aspiring professionals and those with a serious interest in the business of making comics, promising it will be “an enlightening… Read More ›

• Comics @ Edinburgh International Science Festival

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  Edinburgh’s many festivals often offer comics events but they do tend to happen during the Book Festival or the Film Festival so it is unusual to see something turn up at the Science Festival. This year Paul Collicutt, author and… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Nelson Evergreen

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Flight of the Cosmicby Nelson Evergreen Nelson Evergreen’s work is mainly geared towards childrens’ publishing, but he tells us he likes to do a fair bit of slightly more adult/peculiar small press comics stuff on the side. His more recent… Read More ›

• WebFinds: Chris Weston, Movie Star

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2011

  Today’s WebFind: ace British artist Chris Weston has re-plugged some ‘motion comics’ created to promote last year’s Book of Eli film directed by the Hughes brothers and starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman. It looks like two comics were published,… Read More ›

• The Image on the Sleeve May Not Necessarily Correspond with the Film

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2011

  It isn’t often that we go eastern here on downthetubes and when we do it is normally manga or anime, so this is a little different. Maiti Jakku was a 13 episode live action TV series broadcast in Japan in… Read More ›

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