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• Scotch Corner: A New Daily Art Blog

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2009

  While the geographical Scotch Corner is (ironically enough) in England, on the web at least it will be firmly north of the border come Wednesday 1st of July. Six Scottish artists have grouped together to produce a team blog in… Read More ›

• Spaceship Away 18 Arrives!

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2009

  

  After a few printing delays, we’re pleased to report that Spaceship Away Part 18 – the British comics SF magazine inspired by space hero Dan Dare – is now available, and most prepaid subscriber issues have been posted. Apart from… Read More ›

• Starblazer Exhibition Details Announced

  By John Freeman on June 24, 2009

  

  As we’ve previously reported, top comics writer Warren Ellis will be headlining the Comics Conference at this year’s Dundee Literary Festival, but the Festival has now also released details of its planned exhibition dedicated to the 1980s SF comic Starblazer,… Read More ›

• Torchwood: They Are Coming Soon

  By John Freeman on June 23, 2009

  It began on BBC3, transferred to BBC2 and now Doctor Who’s adult spin-off, Torchwood is finally arriving on BBC1. The third season of Torchwood, which will run over the course of five consecutive nights on the BBC’s premier channel, is… Read More ›

• Alan Moore – Interviewed and Interviewing

  By John Freeman on June 21, 2009

  A quick reminder (courtesy of artist Graeme Neil Reid) that writer Alan Moore is being interviewed on the BBC Radio 7 programme Chain Reaction tonight, Sunday 21 June, at 10:30pm. The format of the series is that this week’s interviewee… Read More ›

• In Review: Lady S Volume One – Here’s To Suzie!

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 21, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  If you are looking at the cover and thinking that Lady S could to be a story along the lines of Modesty Blaise then you are not far off the mark. Like Modesty, Suzan Fitzroy has a complicated, and not… Read More ›

• Standby For Stingray Music

  By John Freeman on June 20, 2009

  Fanderson, the official Gerry Anderson Appreciation Society, have released the soundtrack for the puppet series Stingray on CD for the first time. The double CD has a total of 54 tracks consisting of over two and a half hours of… Read More ›

• Comics Events At the Edinburgh Book Festival

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 19, 2009

  It is almost that time of the year again when the chaos of Festival hits Edinburgh. International, Film, Fringe, Television and the Tattoo as well as many other smaller festivals invade the city, but the one of most interest to… Read More ›

• In Review: Doctor Who – The Time Machination

  By John Freeman on June 18, 2009

  Writer Tony Lee knows his Doctor Who – inside out, back to front, old and new, spin-offs and original. It is ten years since Queen Victoria banished Sir Doctor Of Tardis and the Lady Rose from the Empire and the… Read More ›

• Latest Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos Available

  By John Freeman on June 18, 2009

  The latest issue of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos, Volume 5 Number 2, is now available. Bill Rudling’s mammoth 88-page B&W A4 fanzine with colour covers continues to provide full length reprinted Jeff Hawke stories from the Daily Express newspaper. The cover… Read More ›

• The Sock Puppets Go To Hollywood

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2009

  Further to our Tube Surf about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival we now have more details about the shows of The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre. They will be appearing at the Gilded Balloon in Bristo Square each night at 10.15pm… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: One Man Lord of the Rings, Manga Cross Stitch and Space Hoppers!

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2009 • ( 1 )

  • Heading to Edinburgh’s Fringe later this summer? Perhaps to catch up with Kev Sutherland and the Falsetto Sock Company, who are sure to be there? Then you might also be interested in a new show from Canadian actor Charles… Read More ›

• Millidge on Comic Book Design

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2009

  When we think of comics it’s all too easy to reduce them to pictures and word balloons. But a good comic also relies on effective page layout, framing, point of view, story pacing, spacing, lettering and many other techniques that… Read More ›

• In Review: Paragon 4

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2009

  Just released is UK indie title Paragon 4, edited by Dave Candish, a 32-page anthology comic featuring the work of Stephen Prestwood, Dave and Alan Candlish, The Emperor, Terry Wilkinson and Paul Harrison-Davies. It’s an eclectic mix, with “We’re on… Read More ›

• Free Leeds Manga Event

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2009

  The Breeze International Youth Festival, comics festival Thought Bubble and the Leeds Young Peoples Film Festival have partnered up to host a special free two-day Manga event later this month. Taking place at Leeds Travelling Man comic shop and the… Read More ›

• Bear Alley Announces Cursitor Doom, Phantom Patrol Collections

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2009

  

  Top British comics archivist Steve Holland has been hinting at it for months now, but he’s finally announced the first titles publishing limited edition collections of some old, classic British comics under the imprint of Bear Alley Books: Cursitor Doom… Read More ›

• Ten Questions: An Interview with Comic Creator Amy Pearson

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2009

  Last year, DC Comics Zuda Comics showcased a stunning new adventure strip by hot new comics talent Amy Pearson. Now, the 22-year-old Sussex based artist has started publishing an updated, revamped edition of the strip on its own dedicated web… Read More ›

• SciFiPulse Interviews Flash Gordon Comic Writer

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2009

  UK cult TV, film and comics web site Sci-Fi Pulse will be presenting a podcast interview with film and television actor Casey Biggs (Broken Arrow, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) today, followed on Sunday 14th June by a chat with… Read More ›

• Comix Come To Telford: Creators Wanted

  By John Freeman on June 11, 2009

  Budding young comic artists in Telford have the chance to learn from Marvel/DC/DC Thomson pro’s. For the first time since it started five years ago, Midlands-based organisation Hi8us, which develops and delivers a range of arts and media projects collaborating… Read More ›

• Mindjammer is first Starblazer Adventures game add-on

  By John Freeman on June 11, 2009

  

  Rebellion-owned role-playing adventure games and card and board game publisher Cubicle 7 Entertainment has just announced Mindjammer, a self-contained campaign setting designed to bring the transhuman space theme to its new Starblazer Adventures role playing game, just released in the… Read More ›

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