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• Meet 2000AD’s new demon hunter: Absalom

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2011

  Dying of cancer, combating demons and swigging from a bottle of laudanum – Inspector Harry Absalom ain’t exactly Inspector b***** Morse. Mixing The Sweeney with The X-Files, Absalom is the latest dark tale from Necronauts writer Gordon Rennie, brought to… Read More ›

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

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2011

  

  The Martians from H G Wells’s The War of the Worlds; as depicted by Alvim-Correa in the Belgian edition, La Guerre des mondes (Brussels, 1906). Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it is the British… Read More ›

• Artist Neil Roberts part of Lincoln Book Festival line up

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2011

  Lincoln University is running an event titled The World of Comics later this month as part of the Lincoln Books Festival (11th – 15th May), featuring Sci-Fi Art Now contributor Neil (Sarah Jane Adventures, 2000AD) Roberts alongside Murky Depths editor… Read More ›

• Lincoln Book Festival explores the World of Comics

  By John Freeman on 3 May 2011

  

  Lincoln University is running an event titled The World of Comics later this month as part of the Lincoln Books Festival

• In Review: Blake & Mortimer – The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent Part 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on 3 May 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Edgar P Jacobs’ MI5 chief Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer return in the first part of a two part adventure, The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent. Originally published in French in 2003 as Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent,… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – The Jason Fly Case

  By Jeremy Briggs on 1 May 2011

  Who is XIII?Book 1 – Alan Smith?Book 2 – Captain Steve Rowland?Book 3 – Prisoner Steve Rowland?Book 4 – Corporal Ross TannerBook 5 – Jason Fly?The sixth book in the XIII series begins a new story arc within XIII’s ongoing… Read More ›

• New Commandos feature art by Keith Page, Rafael Auraleon

  By John Freeman on 29 April 2011

  Here’s the latest issues of Commando, on sale now in all good newsagents, which include a great new story drawn by Keith Page and two ‘classic’ tales from the archive, specially chosen to mark the title’s 50th Anniversary. ‘Red Runs… Read More ›

• In Review: Kate & William – A Very Public Love Story

  By John Freeman on 29 April 2011 • ( 1 )

  On the day of The Wedding it seems appropriate to review Markosia’s Kate and William: A Very Public Love Story, their take on the story that will climax in Westminster Abbey round Noon today. Written by Bleeding Cool’s Rich Johnston… Read More ›

• Tank Girl and Lenore head for iPad as part of new Titan Comics App

  By John Freeman on 28 April 2011

  Titan Publishing has announced the launch of a brand new comics app, featuring Tank Girl and Lenore comics, available on iPhone and iPad for the first time ever. The new stand-alone app allows iPhone, iPod touch or iPad users to… Read More ›

• Comics@SciFiLondon Schedule Released

  By John Freeman on 28 April 2011

  

  Comics @ Sci-Fi London takes place this weekend (30th April – 1st May) – a two day festival about the best of British Comics from the last 30 years in a lovely new space – The Blue Room – at… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Nobrow Press

  By Alex Fitch on 28 April 2011

  This week’s Panel Borders radio show and podcast concludes a month of shows about comic book anthologies and collectives. In today’s episode, Dickon Harris talks to Nick White and Alex Spiro from Nobrow Press in an interview recorded at the… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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