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• Bizarre Omen Bodes Well for Strip Magazine?

  By John Freeman on 5 November 2011

  It’s a funny old world. This week, Print Media Productions launched their new comic magazine Strip, featuring reprints of the classic 1970s comic story Hookjaw, which features a shark with a hook stuck in its jaw as the main character…. Read More ›

• Photo Review: Dundee Comics Day 2011

  By Jeremy Briggs on 5 November 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  “The Dundee Comics Day has been the highlight of my comics year so far and I look forward in anticipation to what Chris Murray and his team have in store for next year” was how I ended my review of… Read More ›

• Angels – Immediate Launch!

  By John Freeman on 4 November 2011 • ( 1 )

  Despite Captain Scarlet being over 40 years old, Spectrum remains green. Spectrum’s Angel aircraft, as featured in Gerry Anderson’s 1967 TV series Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons, remain popular enough to have two new merchandise releases before Christmas. Featuring in… Read More ›

• Artist Spotlight: Jésus Blasco

  By John Freeman on 3 November 2011

  The Illustration Art Gallery is spotlighting the work of the late Jésus Blasco this month, offering a 20 per cent discount on any orders of his original art, which includes pages of perhaps his best-known strip in the UK, The… Read More ›

• Cartoonist Steve English wins first ‘Tartan Bucket’ prize

  By John Freeman on 3 November 2011

  Steve English with his‘Tartan Bucket’ Steve English has just been awarded the first Tartan Bucket Prize (named in honour of famous Scottish comics character Oor Wullie) organised by Dundee University in conjunction with D C Thomson. The aim of the… Read More ›

• Army photographer captures off duty moments of serving soldiers

  By John Freeman on 3 November 2011

  

    In her forthcoming photographic exhibition, ‘Make Do and Mend’, award-winning Terriotorial Army Sergeant Alison Baskerville has captured images of many off duty moments for soldiers serving overseas in today’s combat zones. Sergeant Baskerville returned this summer from a tour… Read More ›

• In Review: The Boss

  By Jeremy Briggs on 3 November 2011

  Mix the pupils of a single school year concept in something like Harry Potter plus the control of agents from a command centre from something like NCIS:Los Angeles with the child investigators of, say, Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers and Dog… Read More ›

• Remembering Lis Sladen, aka Sarah Jane Smith

  By John Freeman on 2 November 2011

  

  A bittersweet release

• Strip Magazine launches today in UK comic shops

  By John Freeman on 2 November 2011

  Read Strip Magazine Issue 1 Sneak Preview by clicking here STRIP Magazine Issue One is available in British comics shops from today. The digital edition for iPad is also available and can be downloaded from the iTunes Store. The cost… Read More ›

• Dick Turpin returns to Time Bomb Comics

  By John Freeman on 1 November 2011

  Time Bomb Comics has announced that their next release, Dick Turpin and the Crimson Plague, will be launched at the Leeds Thoughtbubble weekend of the 19th & 20th November, where the creative team will be conducting a mid-day signing session… Read More ›

• In Review: Lady S Volume 3 – Game Of Fools

  By Jeremy Briggs on 1 November 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Suzan Fitzroy, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Aymond’s reluctant spy who is codenamed Lady S, returns in Game Of Fools, the third of her books from Cinebook, originally published in the French weekly comic Spirou before being complied… Read More ›

• Email woes befall Northern Sequential Art Competition

  By John Freeman on 31 October 2011

  If you have entered the Northern Sequential Art Competition the organisers have been in touch to say  that they’ve  had some email issues and may not of received your entry. They’re urging entrants to check their website on Wednesday 2nd… Read More ›

• In Review: Antares – Episode 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on 31 October 2011

  After the five albums of the Aldebaran sequence followed by the five albums of the Betelgeuse sequence, the science fiction tales of the Worlds Of Aldebaran, written and illustrated by Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira), continue with the first episode… Read More ›

• Ladybird Art Exhibition At The Heritage Motor Centre

  By John Freeman on 30 October 2011

  The Ladybird Big Book of Motor Cars Exhibition is currently on at the Heritage Motor Centre near Warwick. This exhibition includes over 120 Ladybird books plus more than 30 original pieces of Ladybird artwork alongside many of the vehicles which… Read More ›

• Cam Kennedy’s Commandos

  By Jeremy Briggs on 29 October 2011

  

  A checklist of Cam Kennedy’s Commando work for DC Thomson

• Titan releases Star Wars Comic digital sampler

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2011

  Seeking to boost subscriptions to Star Wars: The Clone Wars Magazine, Titan Magazines is offering US fans a digital sampler of the title (but UK readers can view it, too). The title is packed full of incredible features about the… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine digital edition launches

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2011

  STRIP Magazine Issue 1 may not be on sale in good UK comic shops until next week (Wednesday 2nd November) but the digital edition – which has the same cover price but obviously doesn’t include the giveaway Mirabilis poster –… Read More ›

• Keith Page steampunk creation ‘The Iron Moon’ goes digital

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2011

  Britain’s dedicated mobile comics publisher ROK Comics, has just launched an iPad edition of the steampunk graphic novel The Iron Moon, a creator-owned comic story by acclaimed Commando comics artist Keith Page and film writer Stephen Walsh. Described as ‘Rorke’s… Read More ›

• Slow Toy Movement sets out challenge to Christmas shoppers

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2011

  

  Is the ideal toy for your child this Christmas really a battery operated dog that poos?

• In Review: Commando 4439 – Big Mike

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2011

  As Commando continues its 50th anniversary year, and its countdown to the reissue of number 1 in December, the current batch of Commandos reprints Big Mike, a story from 40 years ago and one of the earliest published comic strips… Read More ›

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