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• Record attendance at London MCM Expo, Comics Village success

  By John Freeman on June 1, 2010

  MCM Expo, May 2010. Picture: Juliette Crawford Last weekend’s London MCM Expo was the most successful in the show’s history, with more than 41,000 visitors attending over the two days. Already established as the top UK entertainment event, the show… Read More ›

• Eagle Awards launch worldwide talent search

  By John Freeman on May 29, 2010

  The Eagle Awards committee is to offer untried talent a chance to demonstrate their abilities before a global audience which has already garnered some prestigious support from the likes of Chris Claremont, Dave Gibbons and Mark Waid. The project, which… Read More ›

• Marvel Super Heroes storm London’s Madame Tussauds

  By John Freeman on May 28, 2010

  Two of the world’s leading entertainment brands – Madame Tussauds, part of the Merlin Entertainments Group, and Marvel Entertainment – have joined forces to create a unique new visitor experience at the leading London attraction, scheduled to open in early… Read More ›

• Councils Of The Galaxy Visit Scottish Schools

  By John Freeman on May 28, 2010

  After last year’s comic adaptation of The First Men On Mercury, created by Metaphrog for the Association for Scottish Literary Studies, was given away free on National Poetry Day to Strathclyde’s school children, this year the charity Children in Scotland… Read More ›

• Zine Symposium this Saturday in London

  By John Freeman on May 27, 2010

  The London Zine Symposium takes place this weekend at the Rag Factory in East London. An annual event where people interested in zines, small-press, comics and/ or radical culture can get together, buy or sell zines and share ideas with… Read More ›

• Britforce finally arrives in stores from Moonface Press

  By John Freeman on May 26, 2010

  (Corrected credits, 27/5/10): Britannia! Bulldog! Lionheart! Stonehenge! Moonwitch! Helspawn! In the 1990s they were BritForce – the UK’s very own team of super-powered heroes. But driven appart by catastrophe, BritForce disbanded and haven’t seen each other in over a decade…… Read More ›

• Wallace & Gromit find a place in The Sun!

  By John Freeman on May 26, 2010

  A new newspaper strip featuring Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit, launched last week, is getting good feedback from the characters legion of fans. Replacing the long-running ‘strip-com’ George and Lynne, the new comic is being produced by Titan Comics and… Read More ›

• Tony Lee taks Zombies — and Jane Austen!

  By John Freeman on May 25, 2010

  British comics creator Tony Lee is a busy man: popping up at the Bristol Comic Expo last weekend, writing a number of projects, with more in the pipeline.  This week, he found time to talk to Mike Braff at the… Read More ›

• Pat Mills delight at Eagle Award Nomination for Charley’s War

  By John Freeman on May 25, 2010

  2000AD co-creator Pat Mills has expressed his delight at learning that the latest collection of Charley War, written by Pat and drawn by Joe Colquhoun, has been nominated for an Eagle Award. Nominated in the category for Favourite Reprint Compilation,… Read More ›

• In Review: The Bristol Comic Expo 2010

  By Matt Badham on May 24, 2010

  Matthew Badham reports on this year’s Bristol Expo, which attracted some 1000 fans and over 100 comic creators… I promised myself that I was going to do four things at the Bristol Comics Expo this year: make time to watch… Read More ›

• In Review: Classics from the Comics Issue 170

  By John Freeman on May 24, 2010

  The latest issue of DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics sports a new look, complete with revamped cover masthead reflecting it’s ‘retro’ appeal, but the line up of humour and adventure strips inside is the usual engaging mix of material… Read More ›

• Japanese publisher seeks colourists

  By John Freeman on May 24, 2010

  Tokyo-based publisher EigoTown is looking to have around 600 black and white and greyscale illustrations coloured for use on the iPhone and iPad and has put out an appeal for samples to British creators. “We’re creating Apps based on Oxford… Read More ›

• Voting opens for Eagle Awards

  By John Freeman on May 24, 2010

  Voting for this year’s Eagle Awards is now open on the official site. Introduced in 1976, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes, they have been featured on the covers of leading… Read More ›

• Striker comic to go free-to-view online in July

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2010

  

  The entire 25-year archive of the football strip Striker, first published in The Sun and now featuring in mens magazine Nuts, is to be available online as free to view comics on the Striker website when it relaunches in early… Read More ›

• Folk to watch out for at the Bristol Comic Expo

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2010

  (with thanks to Bryan Talbot, who can’t be there due to deadlines – but Watch the Grandville trailer!): Here’s a list of just some of the comics creators at the Bristol Comic Expo this weekend to look out for if… Read More ›

• Clint: The Origin of Mark Millar’s new comic title

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2010

  For those not already wondering, veteran publisher and editor Dez Skinn has just explained the origins of Mark Millar’s new comic title, CLINT, which Titan Magazines launch later this year. If you’re easily offended by bad language, don’t read on…. Read More ›

• Doctor Who Live: Tour Details

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2010

  Tickets for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who Live – The Monsters Are Coming! are now on sale. The show will be a  spectacular audio-visual experience – think their successful stage show version of Walking with Dinosaurs but with Doctor Who… Read More ›

• Comics International publisher company dissolved

  By John Freeman on May 21, 2010

  Cosmic Publications, previously publishers of Comics International (and, for a while, Dangerous Ink magazine), has been dissolved. News broke after fans of Comics International spotted the dissolution of the company on the Companies House web site spelling an end, perhaps,… Read More ›

• Time Bomb Comics explodes with new titles

  By John Freeman on May 20, 2010

  Hot on the heels of a move from Leicester to Birmingham, Time Bomb Comics has announced a number of forthcoming one-shots and graphic novels currently in development, including work by DC Thomson stalwart Keith Page. The Last Ride of Henry… Read More ›

• Strip! Goes Manga, Mills talks French (comics, that is)

  By John Freeman on May 20, 2010 • ( 1 )

  Continuing ‘cross cultural comics month’ on the show, the Strip! radio show this week is looking at the winners of last year’s Manga Jiman (Pride in Manga) competiton run by the Japanese Embassy in London to find the best new… Read More ›

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