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• Modern Toss creators meet fans and sign copies of their new book at Fopp in Covent Garden

  By John Freeman on 2 November 2010

  Fans of the cult cartoon booklets and TV show, Modern Toss will get the chance to meet the creators in person when they visit the Fopp store on Earlham Street in London’s Covent Garden on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 to… Read More ›

• The Webcomic List Awards 2010 Nominations Start November 8th

  By John Freeman on 1 November 2010

  Launched last year to replace the now defunct Web Cartoonists’ Choice Awards, the Webcomic List Awards exist to recognise the best that online comics have to offer and nominations are open to everyone involved in the creation, promotion or distribution… Read More ›

• UK Artist Matt JOnes launches toy range

  By John Freeman on 1 November 2010

  Tea making, toy producing, resin casting, sketch book doodling artist Matt JOnes (AKA Lunartik – he likes to be called Matt JOnes with a large JO) has been designing Vinyl Toys for about seven years,  making custom pieces for all… Read More ›

• In Review: Mo-Bot High

  By Jeremy Briggs on 1 November 2010

  

  Collected from the pages of the weekly DFC comic, Mo-Bot High is Neill Cameron’s take on secondary school girls, their mobile phones and giant battle robots, all collected together into one multi-coloured hardback by the DFC Library. Asha has moved… Read More ›

• In Review: Lucky Luke – The Judge

  By Jeremy Briggs on 31 October 2010

  Cinebook continue their English language translations of the Lucky Luke books with their 24th book The Judge based on the real life Judge Roy Bean who lived in Texas during the late 1800s. While the character is probably best known… Read More ›

• Titan Star Wars Galaxy Comic in Review

  By John Freeman on 30 October 2010

  Amidst all the excitement surrounding the re-launch of The Dandy, another new comic has slipped almost unnoticed onto the shelves of British newsagents. Star Wars Galaxy is a new 4-weekly title from Titan, published in the same format as their… Read More ›

• Eagle Awards 2010: The Winners

  By John Freeman on 30 October 2010

  The winners of the Eagle Awards have been announced at a gala presentation held at London ’s ExCeL on Friday, October 29 2010. Superhero titles again dominated most of the favourite titles and 2000AD topping the boll for favourite British… Read More ›

• Wasted #6 heading for stores… mind your heads!

  By John Freeman on 29 October 2010

  The latest issue of adult comic Wasted (#6) has gone to press, with a cover by Cam Kennedy featuring Jon Haward and Alan Grant‘s Buddha.(Jon by the way, was recently interviewed here on the title’s blog). The new issue features,… Read More ›

• Catching up with Gibson Quarter

  By John Freeman on 29 October 2010

  Gibson Quarter is best known for his illustration work on War on Drugs strips with writer Alan Grant, for the adult comics magazine Wasted which will soon see a sixth issue on sale. He’s also drawn stories for numerous other… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Gibson Quarter

  By John Freeman on 29 October 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Gibson Quarter is best known for his illustration work on War on Drugs strips with writer Alan Grant, in the adult comics magazine Wasted. He’s also drawn stories for numerous other European magazines and comics including Northern Lightz, FutureQuake, Something… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Armand Cabrera

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2010

  

  Marooned by Armand Cabrera, featured in Sci-Fi Art Now. To view a walk through of how this art was created go to: http://www.myebook.com Armand Cabrera has been a professional artist now for 30 years. He did some book covers in… Read More ›

• The new Dandy: Who Did What, then?

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2010 • ( 1 )

  Following up on yesterday’s post about the new Dandy, editor Craig Graham has kindly taken time out of his busy schedule to give fans a run down of the creative team behind the brilliant revamp revealed in Issue 3508, which… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Bytes: Artist News…

  By John Freeman on 27 October 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Here’s a quick round up of  the work some SciFi Art Now artists have been engaged in recently… • Nelson Evergreen is one of seven artists who has work featured in Dreams Are The Genus, a new collaborative project edited… Read More ›

• Dandy relaunches – and returns to comics format

  By John Freeman on 26 October 2010

  (Updated 27/10/10) The Dandy – the real, comic strip driven Dandy – is back this week with a vengeance, ditching the magazine-style, TOXIC-inspired magazine format of Dandy Xtreme in favour of a weekly title with a £1.50 cover price. As… Read More ›

• Commandos storm into the the High Street

  By John Freeman on 26 October 2010

  Four new Commandos hit the decks of all good newsagents this week featuring art by John Ridgway, Vila, Macabich and Carlos Pino… Commando No 4335: Bad Blood Story: C G Walker Art: Vila Cover: Gordon LivingstoneFirst Published: 1993 as No… Read More ›

• Comical Hallowe’en Horror walks the streets of Lancaster!

  By John Freeman on 26 October 2010

  Lancaster’s First Age Comics is making its annual Hallowe’en celebrations something of an event, offering prizes to anyone who turns up in costume to buy their favourite comics this weekend. We doubt few will sport this fabulous mask created by… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Vicky Stonebridge

  By John Freeman on 26 October 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  Vicky Stonebridge at work Scottish Highlands-based Vicky Stonebridge describes herself as “an artist, firefighter, youth worker, convention organiser, and other things! “I think living in remote rural North West Scotland has caused this chaos,” she says. “It’s always been necessary… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Berislav Krzic

  By John Freeman on 25 October 2010

  

  Kids at primary school were often amazed by the drawings and paintings of Slovenian artist Berislav Krzic as he grew up and he often received awards for his artwork. After his animation, cartooning and strip phases, he became obsessed with… Read More ›

• John Hicklenton’s ‘100 Months’ Goes on Sale

  By John Freeman on 24 October 2010

  100 Months, the final work of the late, great 2000AD artist John Hicklenton is now available from publisher Cutting Edge Press. Pat Mills describes it as “magnificent” and hints that despite John’s passing earlier this year there is more work… Read More ›

• Life Begins at 40 for Who fans?

  By John Freeman on 22 October 2010

  Life Begins at 40, a new book by authors Chris Newton and Mark Charlesworth, is the story of two 30-something fanatics sharing a flat in Blackpool, out of pocket, out of luck and clinging to the hope that Life Begins… Read More ›

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