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• With Great Power is now… Masked

  By John Freeman on 12 May 2010

  

  My friend Lou Anders, who used to work for me on Star Trek Magazine and Babylon 5 Magazine, but these days is an award-winning editor for Pyr Books, and who very kindly introduced me to artist John Picacio whose work… Read More ›

• In Review: The Bellybuttons – It’s Ugly Out There

  By Jeremy Briggs on 12 May 2010

  There are times when a book can take you completely by surprise and turn out to be completely different to what you were expecting. The Bellybuttons book It’s Ugly Out There with its teen girl talk, high school setting, caricatured… Read More ›

• In Review: Good Dog, Bad Dog

  By Jeremy Briggs on 11 May 2010

  

  It was the first of the DFC Library books to be released and Good Dog, Bad Dog is perhaps the most complete book of the three released so far. Written and illustrated by Dave Shelton, this is a fun ride… Read More ›

• Dan Dare gets Pulped!

  By John Freeman on 11 May 2010

  Every once in a while, the Internet throws up some gorgeous work featuring a famous character – but the origins of the art is clouded in mystery. Given all the interest in Dan Dare recently, it was perhaps no surprise… Read More ›

• Buy Your Commando…

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  New Commandos from DC Thomson now on the news stand in the UK highlight the work of top veteran comic artist Ian Kennedy and sees the start of the VE-Day stories, marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World… Read More ›

• Comic-inspired movie Largo Winch comes to London

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  Successful Belgian bande dessinée series Largo Winch has been made into a live action film. Its writer and creator Jean Van Hamme was on hand at the Institut Francais in South Kensington in London to answer questions after a screening… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: Nick Miller’s "Political Logic"

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  Lancaster-based cartoonist and downthetubes chum Nick Miller – co-creator of the long-running The Really Heavy Greatcoat, which most recently featured in the much-missd Comics International, came up with this strip in response to the current national political dilemma in the… Read More ›

• Classical Comics ‘The Tempest’ shortlisted for major book awards

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  

  Classical Comics adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest has been shortlisted for two different awards. The company will hear this week if it has won a gold, silver or bronze Independent Publisher (or “IPPY”) award from Independent Publisher Online: no small… Read More ›

• In Review: Cinebook Recounts The Battle Of Britain

  By Jeremy Briggs on 10 May 2010

  If you are looking at the cover of Cinebook Recounts The Battle Of Britain thinking that it looks a little familiar that is because this is the third time that it has been published in the UK. The first time… Read More ›

• New DC Thomson Books From Waverley

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2010

  Waverley Books are the Scottish publisher of DC Thomson tie-in books with many Maw Broon cookery titles under their belt as well as the magnificent History Of Beano and they will be adding to these titles over the rest of… Read More ›

• Nich Angell at work on Brief History of the Next Universe

  By John Freeman on 7 May 2010

  Comics artist and animator Nich Angell has a full colour collection of short sci fi stories entitled A Brief History of the Next Universe due soon. “The book is going to pull together brand new stuff I’m doing right now,… Read More ›

• Free Comic Book Day: a report from the (British) front line

  By John Freeman on 6 May 2010

  Free Comic Book Day – an annual event to promote the comics industry worldwide – gets bigger and better every year, and for First Age Comics, based in the Assembly Rooms on King Street, Lancaster, the latest incarnation was easily… Read More ›

• Classics from the Comics plays Cops and Robbers

  By John Freeman on 6 May 2010

  Issue 169 DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics is now on sale in all good newsagents — another gem of a 68-page retro monthly, full of comic classics from the publisher of The Beano and The Dandy. Humour strips in… Read More ›

• In Review: Comics at the London Book Fair

  By John Freeman on 5 May 2010

  Last month the London Book Fair cranked up its coverage of comics and graphic novel publishing this year and David Baillie went along for downthetubes to see what was happening… LBF photos by Joel Meadows The London Book Fair is… Read More ›

• In Review: The Spider Moon

  By Jeremy Briggs on 5 May 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  The Spider Moon is the last of the first batch of books from the new DFC Library range, written and illustrated by Kate Brown it is set in a manga styled fantasy land of islands floating not just in the… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Modesty Blaise creator Peter O’Donnell

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2010 • ( 1 )

  We’re very sorry to report the death of Modesty Blaise creator Peter O’Donnell, who died over the Bank Holiday weekend at the age of 90. Peter, who lived in Brighton, celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this month, had been ill… Read More ›

• Meet "Lil", the Girl who Left Home

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2010

  Fans of Brighton-based creator Paul O’Connell‘s work with brilliant artist Lawrence Elwick may already be familiar with his gentle comic, She’s Leaving Home. Inspired by inspired by now-designer Laura O’Callaghan-White’s frequent yearnings for what was “out there” as a youngster,… Read More ›

• Titan to launch "Eagle for the 21st Century"

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2010 • ( 5 )

  Comics by two of the UK’s most outspoken TV personalities and burgeoning writing talents – Jonathan Ross and stand-up comedian Frankie Boyle – will feature in CLiNT Magazine, an exciting new joint venture between Kick Ass creator Mark Millar and… Read More ›

• In Review: Lady S Volume 2 – Latitude 59 Degrees North

  By Jeremy Briggs on 4 May 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Born as Shania in Estonia, now a naturalised American as Suzan, while blackmailed into espionage activities as Lady S, the leading lady of writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Aymond’s Lady S series has such a complicated back story that… Read More ›

• In Review: Clifton – Black Moon

  By Jeremy Briggs on 3 May 2010

  Colonel Sir Harold Wiberforce Clifton, British Secret Service (retired), returns to temporary active duty in Black Moon the (chronologically) second of Cinebook’s publications of the new Clifton stories by writer Bob de Groot and artist Michel Rodrigue. In the previous… Read More ›

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