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• Titan Books seeks book cover artists

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2010

  

  Titan Books has put out an open call to recruit book cover illustrators for their future fiction titles. The call appeared this week on the new blog of Titan’s revamped website and Twitter feed asking if their fans and readers… Read More ›

• Titan Books seeks book cover artists

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2010

  Titan Books has put out an open call to recruit book cover illustrators for their future fiction titles. The call appeared this week on the new blog of Titan’s revamped website and Twitter feed asking if their fans and readers… Read More ›

• First Leeds Alternative Comics Fair set for September

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2010

  The first Leeds Alternative Comics Fair takes place on the 18th September 2010, 12 noon-6.00pm, at A Nation of Shopkeepers bar (behind Leeds City Art Gallery). The event is being organised by comic creators Steve Tillotson of banal pig comics… Read More ›

• Gerry Anderson’s ‘Protectors’ gets DVD release

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2010

  It’s not Gerry Anderson’s best-loved series – even though it was his most expensive to date – and it certainly isn’t the kind of science fiction that made his name, such as Thunderbirds and UFO. But The Protectors – out… Read More ›

• Draw the World Together Art Auction

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2010

  Comic creator charity Draw the World Together is running a series of three eBay auctions,  the the first starting at 11pm GMT on the 26th August. Draw the World Together is an organisation that has been created to unite arts… Read More ›

• Temple APA moves web home

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2010

  The Temple APA – a group of some of Britain’s most enthusiastic comic creators, most of them on the indie press scene – has moved homes on the internet after the closure of its ning site, after that community hosting… Read More ›

• Mills, Langley Signing in London in Sptember

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2010

  Forbidden Planet London will host a signing by Pat Mills and Clint Langley on Thursday 16th September (6 – 7pm), signing ABC Warriors: The Volgan War Volume 3. Pat Mills is one of the founding fathers of 2000AD, while artist… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Alan Moore, web/hyper/small press/all types of comics and events aplenty too!

  By John Freeman on 19 August 2010

  Alan Moore guests on Utter Shambles, a podcast hosted by comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long. Pete Ashton will be talking about the emergence of the British small press comics scene in the early eighties at the Birmingham Zine Festival… Read More ›

• Cal-Hab Droids Infiltrate Megazine 301

  By John Freeman on 18 August 2010

  The latest issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine, Meg 301, has a distinctly Scottish flavour to its art and script droids. Behind a lovely Judge Inspector Inaba cover by Frank Quitely, from Cal-Hab’s west coast, comes the Dredd story The… Read More ›

• Dan Dare Ray Guns, Card Games and Radios, Oh My…

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2010

  Following up on our past stories on new Dan Dare merchandise, a mention for UK toy company Russimco’s Dan Dare retro toy line is long overdue here, so let’s redress that right now. All the toys – due for release… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – The Day Of The Black Sun

  By Jeremy Briggs on 16 August 2010

  Who is XIII? Cop, gangster, secret agent or mercenary? The stories concerning the amnesiac man with “XIII” tattooed on his shoulder written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by William Vance ran to a total of 19 French albums with… Read More ›

• Bristol and London Small Press Expos for 2011

  By John Freeman on 15 August 2010

  Next year’s Bristol International Comic and Small Press Expo will be on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th May 2011. With 3 extra exhibitor and trading spaces and 8 extra event areas this is now the largest independent and small press… Read More ›

• Reality Check: Comics versus Film

  By John Freeman on 14 August 2010

  Cartoonist Woodrow Phoenix This year’s cinematic interest in comic book adaptations shows no sign of slowing down with adaptations of Scott Pilgrim vs. the world and Tamara Drewe hitting screens over the next few weeks. To coincide with this, the… Read More ›

• Exercises in Instant Gratification: An interview with Tom Humberstone

  By John Freeman on 13 August 2010 • ( 1 )

  Tom Humberstone is a cartoonist and editor. As the man behind such comics as Art School Scum, My Fellow Americans and the Eagle Award-winning How To Date A Girl In 10 Days, he’s had critical plaudits aplenty. In this interview,… Read More ›

• Sequart’s Watchmen Book details

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2010 • ( 1 )

  Sequart Research and Literacy Organization’s Minutes to Midnight: Twelve Essays on Watchmen is now available for order through comic shops (use Diamond order code AUG101288). The book, edited by Richard Bensam, is currently listed in the books section of August’s… Read More ›

• In Review: Alpha – The List

  By Jeremy Briggs on 12 August 2010

  Cinebook publish a number of spy or spy-like series including IR$, Lady S and Largo Winch, but the only CIA agent on (or rather in) their books is Alpha. The List was originally published by Le Lombard in 1999 as… Read More ›

• In Review: Scared To Death – Malevolence and Mandrake

  By Jeremy Briggs on 11 August 2010

  Horror comics for children have had an awkward time of it in the past so full marks to Cinebook being brave enough to translate the Belgian series Mort De Trouille into English for the first time. Written by Virginie Vanholme… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Behind the Scenes, Adults Only and Travelling in Japan

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2010 • ( 1 )

  A fairly short tube surf today as I’m in deadline hell… Fans of The Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing can get a peek behind the scenes of that comic over at the Forbidden Planet International blog as the cartoonist takes… Read More ›

• Corel’s Quest for the Best Challenge

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2010

  

  ‘The Calm Before the Storm‘, SciFi Art Now contributor John Malcolm’s entry for Corel’s contest. Illustrators in North America, the UK and Germany still lhave time to both enter software maker Corel’s Quest for the Best Creativity Challenge. The challenge… Read More ›

• Eagle Awards partners with MCM Expo

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2010

  After two years of nomadic existence, the Eagle Awards will take up residency at London’s hugely popular MCM Expo at Excel, where the 2010 awards will be announced. As of 2011 and going forward, the awards will become part of… Read More ›

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