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• Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards Closing Date Approaches

  By John Freeman on 28 April 2011

  A reminder that the closing date for entries to the new Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards is Monday 2 May 2011. The awards, presented in association with the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, are due to be handed out at the… Read More ›

• Crucible Cover for STRIP Zero

  By John Freeman on 28 April 2011

  An ace promotional image for the first DTT comic strip – now titled ‘Crucible’ – graces the cover of STRIP MAGAZINE Issue Zero, which will be given away free to Bristol International Comic Expo visitors next month. The sampler is… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine sampler prepped for Bristol Comic Expo

  By John Freeman on 27 April 2011

  

    Here’s the cover of STRIP MAGAZINE Issue Zero – which will be given away free to Bristol International Comic Expo visitors next month. The sampler is the first print promotion for the monthly STRIP Magazine from Print Media Productions,… Read More ›

• Who Remembers The Mighty Thor?

  By John Freeman on 27 April 2011 • ( 6 )

  (With thanks to various British comic fans): The launch of  the new Thor movie today in the UK prompted memories form British comic fans of Marvel UK’s short-lived Thor-inspired reprint, The Mighty Thor. Published in 1983 (Issue 1 cover dated… Read More ›

• In Review: Largo Winch – Golden Gate / Shadow

  By Jeremy Briggs on 27 April 2011 • ( 1 )

  Largo Winch, writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Francq’s James Bond-like billionaire returns in his latest two part adventure in Cinebook’s Golden Gate and Shadow. Winch’s old friend Simon Ovronnaz has been hired to play Mike Shadow in a… Read More ›

• Absence comic offers insights on epilepsy

  By John Freeman on 25 April 2011

  Writer Andy Luke and artist Stephen Downey have recently released Absence, a comic book based on Andy’s experiences over 30 years adapting to a life with epilepsies: puberty, first jobs, college and “sorting it out”. 10,000 copies of the booklet… Read More ›

• New Birmingham Comic Con announced

  By John Freeman on 25 April 2011

  (via Paul Birch at Speech Balloons): Birmingham is to host 2011 B.C., an all-new comic convention on Saturday 27th August. Reporting for the Birmingham Mail’s Speech Balloons coulmn, Paul Birch reports the new day and-a-half event of 2011 B.C. is… Read More ›

• In Review: Long John Silver – Neptune

  By Jeremy Briggs on 25 April 2011

  

  Literature’s best known pirate returns in Neptune, the second book of the ongoing story of Long John Silver written by Xavier Dorison and illustrated by Mathieu Lauffray. In the first book Lady Vivian Hastings employed Silver and his men to… Read More ›

• Tripwire back in Diamond Distributors Previews catalogue

  By John Freeman on 24 April 2011

  (with thanks to Joel Meadows): After a gap of two years, ace comic and media magazine Tripwire will be available to order from Diamond US in Previews. If you go to page 351 of Previews May 2011, you can order… Read More ›

• Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it

  By John Freeman on 21 April 2011

  

  Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it is the British Library’s first exhibition to explore science fiction through literature, film, illustration and sound and opens next month, running until September. The Library tells us “it… Read More ›

• Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it

  By John Freeman on 21 April 2011

  Ray Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder’, first published in Collier’s Weekly, 28 June 1952, illustrated by Frederick Siebel. Copyright © The Estate of Frederick Siebel. One of the images featuring in the Out of this World exhibition at the British… Read More ›

• In Review: Dreams and Everyday Life

  By John Freeman on 21 April 2011

  

  Dreams and Everyday Life by Aviv Ratzin Publisher: Tabella Publishing Out: Now The Book: Dreams and everyday life is about ‘the important things’ in life. Not careers, health, wealth, or social status, but rather the innumerable everyday, human situations and… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Dan Dare in the 20th Century

  By Alex Fitch on 21 April 2011

  

  Continuing Panel Borders month of shows about collectives and anthologies, the team have a recording of a panel discussion from Sci-Fi London in 2010, celebrating the continuing popularity of the iconic British Space Hero Dan Dare, whose first appearance in… Read More ›

• Hi-Ex 2012 Dates Announced

  By Jeremy Briggs on 21 April 2011

  Where are you going to be on Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April 2012? The chances are that many of you will be in Inverness – whether you know it yet or not. Hi-Ex organisers Vicky Stonebridge and Rich… Read More ›

• Doctor Who’s Elizabeth Sladen dies aged just 63

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2011

  The Seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip‘Train-Flight’, published in Issue 159 – 161. Elisabeth Sladen was paid the princely sum of £40 per issue as an ‘appearance fee’. Story by Andrew Donkin and… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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