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• Flesh: The Dino Files on its way

  By John Freeman on 24 August 2011

  Think the dinosaurs became extinct after an asteroid hit Earth 65 million years ago? You couldn’t be more wrong. Saddle up, check your six-shooters and prepare for life in the Cretaceous as Flesh: The Dino Files collects together 35 years… Read More ›

• Are falling sales bad news for The Dandy?

  By John Freeman on 23 August 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  The Dandy’s sales figures have taken a tumble

• Eagle comic author’s biography released by Fantom Films

  By John Freeman on 23 August 2011

  Fantom Films has just published Auntie’s Charlie, the autobiography of BBC radio presenter, writer and producer Charles Chilton, creator and writer of Eagle‘s successful Riders of the Range strip as well as the classic science fiction radio series Journey into… Read More ›

• In Review: Commando Calendar 2012

  By John Freeman on 22 August 2011

  I’ve got into something of a routine with Commando calendars enjoying using one for a year and then not having one available to me the next year. The first one(s) came out in 2006 for use in 2007. Bizarrely there… Read More ›

• New Crikey! special available

  By John Freeman on 21 August 2011

  (Updated 27/8/11): The popular Crikey! fanzine (which takes a nostalgic look at classic British comics) may no longer be available as a print publication but the editors have just released a new special (comprising over 100 pages) which is available… Read More ›

• In Review: Crusade – The Master of Machines

  By Jeremy Briggs on 21 August 2011

  The Crusade that is missing from history continues with its third book The Master Of Machines as writer Jean Dufaux and artist Philippe Xavier continue their complex tale of religion, demons and the quest for control of the Holy Land…. Read More ›

• In Review: Western

  By Jeremy Briggs on 20 August 2011

  Every now and again Cinebook translate a Franco-Belgian bandes dessinee into English that isn’t, like the vast majority of their titles, part of an ongoing series. Written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by Grzegorz Rosiński, the team behind the… Read More ›

• In Review: Wuthering Heights

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2011

  By Emily BrontëAdapted by Sean Michael Wilson (script), John M. Burns (Art), Jim Campbell (Letters)Publisher: Classical ComicsOut: Now:The Book: Emily Brontë’s only novel is famous the world over and is the favourite classic of many readers. It is easy to… Read More ›

• Captain Clevedon: a local comic for local people!

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2011

  Kev F. Sutherland is the latest creator to join a number of talents who are publishing what I can suppose can be described as ‘hyperlocal comics’ – titles with a strong connection to one part of the UK, available, for… Read More ›

• Draw Your Weapons! New Commandos are on sale now…

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2011

  The latest issues of Britain’s only monthly war comic, Commando, are on sale now – and along with those comes details of the Draw Your Weapons exhibition at the National Army Museum, which includes a number of special events, listed… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: The Shop around the Corner

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2011

  Continuing radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at comic book shops, Alex Fitch talks to the former proprietors of comic shops that existed in the 1980s and 90s and have left lasting impression on their fans. Dark Horizons… Read More ›

• Thundercats UK TV Premiere date announced

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2011

  Promotional art for the new ThunderCats animated series. © Warner Bros. ThunderCats, one of the most beloved cartoons of the 1980s, returns to UK TV next month on Cartoon Network UK – and, as we previously reported, a new comic… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine on course for October launch in the UK

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2011

  Print Media Productions STRIP Magazine is on course for an October launch, with the strip line up now firmed up for the first issues. The company has also selected the first winners of its Strip Challenge – but the winners… Read More ›

• Broken Frontier celebrates British Comics

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2011

  Comic book news site Broken Frontier (www.brokenfrontier.com) has rolled out Brits on Top!, a special week-long event celebrating the British comics scene – with coverage of 2000 AD, The Dandy, Commando and the upcoming STRIP Magazine. The event includes plenty… Read More ›

• Dan Dare in the spotlight of new Judge Dredd Megazine

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2011 • ( 1 )

  As well as some great comic strip, the latest issue of Judge Dredd Megazine, on sale tomorrow (Wednesday 17th August) features two mammoth features by downthetubes occasional contributor Matthew Badham on the history of Dan Dare and the new Doctor… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Francisco Solano Lopez

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2011

  Francisco Solano Lopez at the Lucca festival in 2007. Photo by Giacomo Bartalesi. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. (via Lew Stringer,  The Comics Journal and lanaicon.com): We’re sorry to report the death of legendary Argentinian comics… Read More ›

• Lobey Dosser: A Very Surreal Glaswegian

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 August 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  (Updated with GI Bride pictures and extra information): I’ve been discussing the ephemeral nature of newspaper strips and newspaper strip characters with friends this week, so it seems apt that my attention was drawn to a character and artist whose… Read More ›

• Other War Comics: ‘Vietnam Journal’

  By John Freeman on 15 August 2011

  

  US publisher Transfuzion is re-publishing Vietnam Journal by Don Lomax – an epic re-telling of the Vietnam War through the eyes of a freelance reporter with the kind of gritty storytelling that might appeal to fans of Charley’s War and… Read More ›

• CDComics bring Salem to Sheffield

  By John Freeman on 13 August 2011

  Following up on the success of their digital comics Meadowhell and The Attercliffe Prowler, Sheffield-based independent comic company CDComics has produced the third in their local horror series. “I’m sort of on a mission to make Sheffield into Britain’s Salem.”… Read More ›

• Comic Book Auctions celebrates 20th birthday with mammoth catalogue

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2011

  The Autumn 2011 auction at British auction house Comic Book Auctions opened for bidding today (12th August) and closes on Tuesday 6th September and includes the original file copies of the first volume of Eagle and a copy of TV… Read More ›

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