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• Merry Christmas: 2 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2008

  Two days to go to Christmas and a slight cheat on our Christmas cover today in that it is the cover of an annual rather than a weekly title. That said Christmas covers on war comics are few and far… Read More ›

• Hinton Memorial Anthology Released

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2008

  Shelf Life, the tribute anthology dedicated to Doctor Who author Craig Hinton, who sadly died two years ago, is now available. The memorial anthology, edited by Factor Fiction‘s Jay Eales, David McIntee and Adrian Middleton is an unofficial collection of… Read More ›

• New Thunderbirds Merchandise in 2009

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2008 • ( 2 )

  

  It’s just been announced that Gerry Anderson’s classic puppet series Thunderbirds has been re-licensed to Sci Fi Channel UK. SCI FI has renewed its license for the 32-episode show, for launch in the spring, and has also taken two additional… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 3 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on December 22, 2008

  Just when you though that there couldn’t possibly be any Christmas covers that Lew hadn’t used in his mammoth, and excellent, coverage of Christmas comics over on Blimey, let us bring you just a few more in this countdown to… Read More ›

• Simon Mackie’s Christmas Credit Crunch!

  By John Freeman on December 19, 2008

  

  Tis the season for Christmas e-cards, and this one from cartoonist and illustrator Simon Mackie, creator of the Flick and Jube web comic, is one of my favourites so far… not only funny but summing up the mood of the… Read More ›

• Sock Puppets at Christmas…

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2008

  The Sock Puppet Theatre, scourge* of many a British comics event is counting down the Christmas with The Socks’ Advent Calendar, a wee musical treat! Eat your heart out Aled & Terry. And Bing and David… Comic creator tells us… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 18 December 2008

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2008

  • Latest details on the subscription-only weekly comic The DFC are among the updates to our British Comics On Sale Now list on the main downthetubes site. The page has gotten quite lengthy thanks to all the information some publishers… Read More ›

• Drawn to be Wild!

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2008

  Broadcaster and comedienne Jenny Eclair explores the world of outrageous animated ladies in Drawn to be Wild, a show for BBC Radio 4 broadcast last week, and available for now via iplayer until 12:02pm Thursday 18th December, and considers why… Read More ›

• Merry Fringemas

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2008

  Gene the Cow from ABC’s Fringe, showing on Sky in the UK, is working overtime this month to provide milk for Santa Claus, but she still found some time to wish you all a Happy Fringemas.

• Stick-Man’s Christmas Adventure

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2008

  Courtesy of Scottish cartoonist Malcolm Kirk, whose hilarious Stick Man discovers Santa has gone a bit, well, strange this year… Check out www.myspace.com/mal_comix for more of Mal’s work, and there are more of his Stick Man cartoons here on ROK… Read More ›

• No Heroics Gets ITV1 Airing

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2008

  ITV2’s superhero sitcom No Heroics will be repeated on ITV1 from 6 January, screening at 11.35pm on the terrestrial channel, after a successful debut run on ITV2 over the autumn. The six-part series features a group of British off-duty superheroes… Read More ›

• Connecting Conversations in London

  By John Freeman on December 16, 2008

  Two masters of their craft, award-winning children’s author David Almond and author and illustrator Quentin Blake, will talk about the drive to write and the visual expression of emotion with experts from the field of psychoanalysis at two forthcoming Connecting… Read More ›

• 2009 Book & Book Cover Illustration Awards

  By John Freeman on December 16, 2008

  The closing date for the 2009 Book & Book Cover Illustration Awards, sponsored by the Enid Linder Foundation and organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, is fast approaching. Entry into the Awards is free, with winners will be chosen… Read More ›

• Comic Christmas Covers

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2008

  Over on his ever-wonderful Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics!, Lew Stringer has been running a series of features on British Christmas Comic Covers, offerings samples from a wide range of titles, from Film Fun and TV Express to the… Read More ›

• Full Colour Crikey!

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2008

  

  As reported here last month, Issue 8 is a milestone edition for British comics fan magazine Crikey! with this 52-page issue published in full colour throughout. “So far, the response has been tremendous and the issue has only been on… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 15 December 2008

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2008

  

  • Warren Ellis has announced he will be writing a column for Conde Nast’s upcoming Wired UK magazine, edited by David Rowan, which launches next spring. “This attempt involves the services of Ben Hammersley, whose CV is twice as long… Read More ›

• In Review: Dick Turpin And The Restless Dead

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2008

  A break from the keyboard and other projects have jointly conspired in my attempts to write this review of TimeBomb Comics‘ Dick Turpin And The Restless Dead, written by Steve Tanner and drawn Andrew Dodd. Notorious highwayman Dick Turpin stumbles… Read More ›

• Starscape Comic Turns Magazine

  By John Freeman on December 12, 2008

  For the past seven or so years, Chris Smillie’s Starscape has been a comic then a webcomic, inspired by the idea of the evolution of traditional British comics, such as 2000AD, Mighty World of Marvel, Eagle and the Victor, taking… Read More ›

• Dragons, Duels and Deadly Danger in The DFC!

  By John Freeman on December 12, 2008

  Mirabilis: Year of Wonders is a new ongoing series that starts in Issue 30 of Random House’s comic subsscription-only weekly comic The DFC on 19th December. Written by Dave Morris and illustrated by Leo Hartas, the series tells of a… Read More ›

• Spider-Man Sneek Peek

  By John Freeman on December 12, 2008

  Courtesy of artist John Royle, here’s a sneek peek to the cover of Panini UK’s upcoming Spectacular Spider-Man Issue 180, on sale in February. The issue sees Spidey up against Kraven the Hunter, side by side with Spider-Woman.

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