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• In Review: Biggles – Spitfire Parade

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 26, 2009

  

  Jeremy Briggs reviews Cinebook’s Biggles collection

• Tube Surfing 26 June: Awards, Phantom Patrol and Steampunk!

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2009

  • Comics artist Francesca Cassavetti has confirmed her brand new 24 page comic will be on sale at the upcoming 176 event in London tomorrow (Saturday 27 June). Put your best foot forward and stride on down to 176 for… Read More ›

• Doctor Who RPG Release Date Announced

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2009

  Cubicle 7, producers of the new DC Thomson-comic inspired Starblazer game, have just announced that their Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space RPG will be released in October 2009. There’s no more details yet about the game. • Look… Read More ›

• The Furies Preview Released

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2009

  The full first chapter of Time Bomb Comics forthcoming graphic novel The Furies, written by Steve Tanner with artwork by Andy Dodd is now up and running at myebook. A dark, apocalyptic tale set in 2012, The Furies is also… Read More ›

• Storm Comics Thief Taker #2 On Sale Now

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2009

  British indie publisher Storm Comics (www.stormcomics.com) has just released Thief-Taker General #2, concluding the true-life stories of two legends of 18th century London, Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard. Sheppard was a petty thief who has gone down in legend for… Read More ›

• Moon Landing Anniversary Art Appeal

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2009

  

  Next month is the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing (20th July 1969). We’re already planning some special posts to mark this occasion…

• Battle Picture Weekly Now on Sale

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2009

  Nostalgia fans are in for a summer treat with the release of a special Battle Picture Weekly collection this week, marking the return of the classic war comic to new stands for the first time 21 years. The second in… Read More ›

• 5 By 5 Festival Cancelled

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2009

  The mysterious 5 By 5 Festival announced for this year, which caused plenty of discussion on comics news groups on both sides of the Atlantic after it was wrongly linked with rumoured plans for a ComicCon in the UK, has… Read More ›

• Creator Signings in Bedford

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2009

  This coming Saturday (27th June), an all-star line up of talent will be in Bedford attending the five year anniversary signing for comic shop Close Encounters. Leah Moore and John Reppion (Dracula), David Hine (Strange Embrace), Adi Granov (Iron Man),… Read More ›

• Strip!: The Art of Rutu Modan

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2009

  Concluding cross cultural comics month on Resonance FM’s Strip! radio show, Roehampton University Illustration lecturer Ariel Kahn talks to award-winning graphic novelist Rutu Modan about her work, in an interview conducted live at the Jewish Community Centre in North London…. Read More ›

• 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 ›

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