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• Scar Comics announces Madam Samurai sequel

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2011

  Empire award winning screenwriter Gary Young (Harry Brown and Eagle Award winning artist David Hitchcock (Springheeled Jack) are combining their considerable talents once again for the return of the mute female warrior known only as Madam Samurai. Since last year’s… Read More ›

• Ace Doctor Who fanzine Vworp Vowrp returns

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2011 • ( 1 )

  The team behind the wonderful Doctor Who fan magazine Vworp Vworp – a fanzine about the long-running and best-seling Doctor Who Magazine – are taking pre-orders for their second issue The new issue includes an all-new comic strip featuring the… Read More ›

• British comic shops trade on despite riot damage

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2011

  Forbidden Planet Manchester – shop window damaged in riots but still open Comic shops in Manchester, Birmingham and other cities are open for business as usual, despite coming under attack from looters over the past few days during Britain’s riots…. Read More ›

• Tank Museum to host Charley’s War exhibition

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2011

  

  Charley’s War creator Pat Mills will be appearing at an event celebrating the critically-acclaimed Battle Picture Weekly strip at Britain’s Tank Museum in October. The event ties in with a planned exhibition of Charley’s War art which is being loaned… Read More ›

• Dougie’s War – a modern day Charley?

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2011

  

    Many fans of Charley’s War often contact this site – and ask Pat Mills – wondering if there are plans to revive the saga, perhaps in a modern setting. Pat has mentioned in the past that he had always… Read More ›

• In Review: Orbital – Nomads and Ravages

  By Jeremy Briggs on 10 August 2011

  

  Orbital is Cinebook’s longest running science fiction series after the Worlds of Aldebaran books and which, like the Largo Winch books, tells each story over two books. The second pair of Orbital books, Nomads and Ravages, originally published in 2009… Read More ›

• British Newspaper Strip Club changes hands

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2011

  There’s a change of command at the All Devon Collectors Club, longtime archivists of British newspaper strips. An offshoot of the old South West Comic Collectors Club, the ADCCC, mainly centred on the Exeter area, has members far and wide… Read More ›

• Titan Books Grabs Gordon (Flash, that is)

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2011 • ( 2 )

  Flash Gordon: On the Planet Mongo is set for a March 2012 release Titan Books has announced the publication of The Complete Flash Gordon Library in 2012. Compiling every strip and every story, this series of restored full-colour hardcover volumes… Read More ›

• Mazeworld collection set for 2011 release

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2011

  Rebellion (the publishers of 2000AD) are to release a collection of Mazeworld, the acclaimed story written by Alan Grant, later this year. The creator-owned comic series ran in 2000AD between 1996 and 1999. With the tagline “Is Death the Door… Read More ›

• Second Northern Sequential Arts Competition launched

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2011

  In 2010, the Leeds-based comic festival Thought Bubble launched its very own national award with the support of Arts Council funding – and the second Northern Sequential Arts Competition has just been announced. The Northern Sequential Arts Competition is a… Read More ›

• Thought Bubble official hotel announced, event plans promise snapshot of UK comic industry

  By John Freeman on 8 August 2011

  The Leed-based comics festival Thought Bubble has just made a number of announcements – includinga remindert that this major comics event has been expanded over a week with a massive two day comic con. “Since our biggest and most successful… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – The Night Of August Third

  By Jeremy Briggs on 8 August 2011

  Who is XIII? Book 1 – Mr Alan Smith?Book 2 – Captain Steve Rowland?Book 3 – Prisoner Steve Rowland?Book 4 – Corporal Ross Tanner?Book 5 – Agent Jason Fly?Book 6 – Writer John Fleming? The seventh book in the XIII… Read More ›

• Beano’s Derek The Sheep On Stage

  By John Freeman on 7 August 2011

  

  While there have been a good few British comics characters that have made it onto the cinema and television screen, from the infamous Sylvester Stallone Judge Dredd to the delightfully unique BBC TV version of Jane, there have been very… Read More ›

• Tim Booth conquers pages of latest Spaceship Away

  By John Freeman on 7 August 2011

  Artist Tim Booth has pretty much taken over the latest issue of Dan Dare and Eagle-inspired comic magazine Spaceship Away, delivering not just art and story on most of its strips but colouring on a new Garth reprint, too. We’re… Read More ›

• US comics publisher Bluewater offers school lessons

  By John Freeman on 6 August 2011

  Here’s an interesting item from across the pond that might well be of interest to readers and publishers involved in comic workshops and comic art lessons here in the UK, or whose range might appeal directly to English teachers (such… Read More ›

• Panel Borders delivers PJ Holden, Al Davison

  By John Freeman on 6 August 2011

  This week’s edition of the radio show Panel Borders starts a month of shows about comic book shops with have three interviews recorded at Oxford’s small press comics convention ‘Caption’. Alex Fitch talks to Doctor Who comic illustrator Al Davison,… Read More ›

• Vatican hitman, Japanese warriors and more in Paragon 8

  By John Freeman on 6 August 2011 • ( 1 )

  Issue 8 of the indie comic anthology Paragon is just out featuring a complete 15 page adventure starring the time-travelling demon-hunting Japanese warrior Jikan, ending the current story arc written by The Legendary Shark and drawn by Davey Candlish. Also… Read More ›

• Planet Replicas launch Dredd costumes – ideal for vigilantes?

  By John Freeman on 6 August 2011

  Prepare to dispense justice like Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson – officially licensed Judge replica costumes from Planet Replicas are coming. (We can just see these being snapped up by those ‘real life superheroes’ the media loves reporting on at… Read More ›

• Scratch that fanzine urge!

  By John Freeman on 5 August 2011 • ( 1 )

  British and Irish comics fan Steve Green is to finally launch his long-planned online zine Scratch, early next year – and is on the look out for contributors. First mooted in 2008 but delayed by ‘real life’, Steve says the… Read More ›

• Classic and New Commando tales go on sale

  By John Freeman on 5 August 2011

  The latest salvo of DC Thomson’s Commando title are on sale in all good newsagents and on iPad — and there’s also some good news for fans of the glorious cover art that graces many of these comics this month…. Read More ›

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