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• Holy Mustard, Batman! It’s a competition

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2011

  Batman Live Opening Put on your apron, dust off your mixing bowls: it’s competition time and National Family Week is looking for a cooking hero – who could win a VIP pass to the Batman Live Arena show when it… Read More ›

• Writing Commando: The Blank Page Always Kicks My Ass

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2011 • ( 1 )

  Matt Badham wrote “Deserter!”, a story for DC Thomson’s Commando title back in 2008, which has just been published in Issue 4385 – giving you some idea how long some scripts can take to get into print. Here, Matt outlines… Read More ›

• Hellblazing! 25 Years of John Constantine

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2011

  Hellblazer writer Jamie Delano will be making a rare public appearance in the UK this weekend at in London. For those who don’t already know, John Constantine: Hellblazer, published by DC Comics, centres on a magus who investigates occult crimes,… Read More ›

• Blank Slate to release complete ‘Hugo Tate’

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2011

  (via Nick Abadzis and Forbidden Planet International): I missed this great news last week but make no apologies for plugging now. Comic creator Nick Abadzis has announced Blank Slate Books will be publishing a collection of his hugely popular strip… Read More ›

• In Review: The Boys – Highland Laddie

  By John Freeman on 18 April 2011

  The Boys: Highland LaddieWriter : Garth Ennis Artist: John McCreaCollecting issues #1-6 of the Highland Laddie series, along with a complete cover gallery.by Darick RobertsonOut: 22nd April 2011 (Titan edition) The Book: Mind reeling from recent events in The Boys… Read More ›

• Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos Vol 6 No 3 Now Available

  By John Freeman on 18 April 2011

  

  The new issue of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos has just been released with its usual selection of complete stories from artist Sydney Jordan’s Daily Express strip, detailed background notes on the strips themselves as well as other articles. Volume 6 Number… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Weddings, Selling, Voting and Recovery

  By John Freeman on 17 April 2011

  At the time of writing the royal wedding is less than two weeks away and Markosia’s Kate and William: A Very Public Love Story written by Bleeding Cool’s Rich Johnston and illustrated by Mike Collins (on the bride’s side) and… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Enters Its 24th Year Of Publication (Volume 24, Number One)

  By John Freeman on 17 April 2011

  

  Eagle Times, the journal of the Eagle Society, reaches its 24th year of publication (Volume 24, Number One) with three articles on British artists – from original Eagle, cutaway artist Hubert Redmill and the rather better known Brian Lewis, plus… Read More ›

• Countdown to Comics Launch Pad Begins

  By John Freeman on 16 April 2011

  2000AD editor Matt Smith, photographed at Bristol UK Comics Festival, 2004, holding a copy of small press comic FutureQuake Add a Caption Save CaptionCancel This summer, a unique event takes place at The Studio, Birmingham, bringing together seasoned professionals and… Read More ›

• Darkie’s Mob joins Titan’s ‘Battle’ line-up

  By John Freeman on 15 April 2011

  

  After a long wait, Titan Books has published a full, uncensored collection of Darkie’s Mob, John Wagner and Mike Western’s hard-hitting Far East World War 2 adventure, first published in Battle Picture Weekly. In the hellish, humid jungles of Burma,… Read More ›

• Commando crunches up sales, revamps digital app

  By John Freeman on 14 April 2011

  The latest issues of Commando are on sale in all good newsagents and includes a tale written by occasional downthetubes contributor Matthew Badham. Editor Calum Laird tells us the Commando iPad and iPhone app has just been updated and improved… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Spring Conventions – revealing nore about Sprit of Hope

  By John Freeman on 14 April 2011

  Continuing radio show and podcast Panel Borders‘ month of shows about anthologies and collectives, they have a trio of interviews recorded at two recent comic book conventions in London. Recorded at Kapow!, Islington Design Centre (April 2011): Alex Fitch talks… Read More ›

• Myriad Editions announces First Graphic Novel Competition

  By John Freeman on 13 April 2011

  Scouting through the large number of graphic novel publishers at the London Book Fair, I came across news of a graphic novel competition being run by Brighton-based publisher Myriad Editions, publishers of the brilliant Rumblestrip album by Woodrow Phoenix some… Read More ›

• London Book Fair maintains interest in graphic novels

  By John Freeman on 12 April 2011 • ( 1 )

  The London Book Fair will again be promoting graphic novels tomorrow (13th April) with a seminar entield The Graphic Novel Renaissance, chaired by Paul Gravett. Has a “tipping point” been reached for graphic novels? Leading editors and publishers from the… Read More ›

• Kapow breaks world records, announces 2012 return

  By John Freeman on 12 April 2011

  Kapow ComicCon. Photo: Stereo @rtist. See Original on flickr Guinness World Records, the official authority on record-breaking, has confirmed that two new Guinness World Records were set at the Kapow Comic Convention over the past weekend. Comic book artists from… Read More ›

• It’s a ¿@#!*$ exhibition and comics events thing in Belfast, innit…

  By John Freeman on 11 April 2011

  ¿@#!*$  What this unpronounceable series of symbols stands for is; ‘an exhibition and series of events incorporating the artistic mediums of Comics, Illustration and Zine making’. Exhibiting Artists are Malcy Duff, who will also be appearing, Travis Millard, Tom Gauld,… Read More ›

• Al Davison signs aboard for Blood and Light

  By John Freeman on 11 April 2011

  Renegade Entertainment has announced Al (The Spiral Cage, Doctor Who) Davison will draw Blood and Light, a new project from the publisher run by Alan Grant, Alexander Finbow and Doug Bradley.“Blood and Light is a story I’m very passionate about,… Read More ›

• Kapow 2011: A Round Up

  By John Freeman on 11 April 2011

  Kapow ComicCon. Photo: Stereo @rtist. See Original on flickr (with thanks to Dave Stokes for letting us re-publish his Round Up – original version, with swearing, on his blog here; and Stero @rtist Ketan Majmudar for permission to use some… Read More ›

• Cartoon Museum to exhibit ‘Doctor Who in Comics’

  By John Freeman on 7 April 2011 • ( 1 )

  (Updated with thanks to Anita O’Brien): London’s Cartoon Museum has announced it will host an exhibition of art charting Doctor Who’s career in comics, from his very first appearances in TV Comic in 1964 through to the present day. Doctor… Read More ›

• The Strange Attractions of Alan Moore

  By John Freeman on 7 April 2011

  (with thanks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid): The most recent issue of Strange Attractor Journal contains, amongst much else, the text for Alan Moore’s unfinished John Dee opera, focusing on the life of the well known English mage, which he was… Read More ›

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