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• It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!

  By John Freeman on September 19, 2008

  So, let’s celebrate… • Talk Like A Pirate Day Official web site

• EyeCandy iPhone Kids Comic

  By John Freeman on September 19, 2008 • ( 1 )

  … an idea which speaks for itself from Paul J. Holden after his content problems with Murderdrome, so let’s let him do the talking about his new iphone app, EyeCandy, available from the iApps Store soon for 99 cents. •… Read More ›

• In Review: The Tripwire Annual 2008

  By John Freeman on September 18, 2008

  Review by John Freeman Joel Meadows has edited and designed Tripwire since 1992, and, as editor of the magazine and a freelance journalist for newspapers such as The Times, The Indpendent and various other titles, has interviewed almost everyone of… Read More ›

• Comic Timing at Harrods!

  By John Freeman on September 17, 2008

  

  Check out this fantastic comics exhibition at Harrods

• Abracadabra! It’s Shaun the Sheep

  By John Freeman on September 17, 2008

  Baa! Another bunch of great woolly adventures for Shaun, Bitzer, Shirley and the flock, not to mention those troublesome pigs is about to be released on DVD, as they go looking for more sheep thrills. The shear delights in this… Read More ›

• Dreaming Up The DFC: An Interview with Publisher David Fickling

  By John Freeman on September 17, 2008

  Earlier this year, David Fickling Books and Random House launched The DFC, a new weekly comic in the UK, the first of its kind in terms of the levels of originated, new characters for many years. Packed to the gunnels… Read More ›

• Beano, Dandy Too PC?

  By John Freeman on September 16, 2008 • ( 2 )

  Euan Kerr, former editor of The Beano, has hit out at the current content of the comic and the Dandy arguing they have become too politically correct. In an article in the Telegraph, picking up on a report in Scotland… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright

  By John Freeman on September 16, 2008

  

  I was sorry to hear that founding Pink Floyd member and keyboardist Richard Wright has died at the age of 65 after losing a short struggle with cancer. Wright performed with the legendary rock outfit from their very early beginnings… Read More ›

• Etherington Brothers ‘Go Nuts!’

  By John Freeman on September 15, 2008

  After a summer spent diligently producing page after page of comic book nonsense in their Bristol studio, the Etherington Brothers, creators of strips such Monkey Nuts and Malcolm Magic are about to begin an frenetic End of Year appearance schedule,… Read More ›

• Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine "Market Tested"

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2008

  Last month, we reported on a new Doctor Who magazine in development from part works publishers GE Fabbri, publishers of the Doctor Who magazine Battles in Time and magazine-video titles such as Ronnie Barker, Charmed and Stargate SG-1. Although GE… Read More ›

• Secrets of Ceres joins Spaceship Away

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2008

  A bit of shameless self-promotion: I’m delighted to report that Secrets of Ceres, the first part of a new SF strip drawn by Mike Nicoll and written by me, John Freeman, will feature in the next issue of the Dan… Read More ›

• Silverfin Graphic Novel announced

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2008

  (with thanks to Reuben Willmott): Penguin Books will publish a graphic novel version of Charlie Higson’s first Young James Bond story, Silverfin, in October. Drawn by 2000AD‘s Kev Walker, the story begins with James Bond’s first day at Eton, and… Read More ›

• Black Boar Goes Gothic

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2008

  Dave Hitchcock, the man behind Black Boar Press and highly acclaimed indie comics such as Whitechapel Freak and Springheeled Jack, is about to self publish another newspaper/comic called Gothic. “It will include some of my short stories from way back,”… Read More ›

• End of the Road for Flick and Jube

  By John Freeman on September 14, 2008

  Simon Mackie’s ace Flick and Jube web comic, published over on DrunkDuck (along with several more of his comics such as Dr Ballard The Golem Rises and Bikini Blow Up, is finally complete. “Now to try and find a publisher,”… Read More ›

• To Infinity and… er, Japan!

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2008

  Russell Willis produced and published a number on important underground cartoon magazines in the 1980s including Infinity, which included interviews with creators such as Alan Moore, Posy Simmonds and David Lloyd and later issues of The Alternative Headmaster’s Bulletin. He… Read More ›

• To Infinity and… er, Japan! An interview with Russell Willis

  By John Freeman on September 13, 2008 • ( 1 )

  Russell Willis produced and published a number on important underground cartoon magazines in the 1980s. He moved to Tokyo in the early 1990’s where he now runs a web based publishing company in Tokyo. UK underground cartoonist, Simon Mackie, who… Read More ›

• Comics International Goes Ape!

  By John Freeman on September 12, 2008

  In the latest issue of Europe’s comics industry trade paper, which goes on sale week beginning 29 September, writer Karl Kesel, artist Ramon Bachs and editor Steve Wacker talk exclusively to Comics International about making monkeys out of superheroes in… Read More ›

• ROK Comics Now Free

  By John Freeman on September 12, 2008

  Marking a major change in its distribution model almost all the comics on the comics-to-mobile service ROK Comics (www.rokcomics.com) are now Free To View on the web. After experimenting with various sales techniques since its launch last year, ROK Comics… Read More ›

• Fighting back against the Internet…

  By John Freeman on September 12, 2008

  Never let it be said that the French lag behind when it comes to technological advances. The Times reports today that instead of turning wholeheartedly to the internet as a way of saving the dwindling popularity of newspapers in Paris,… Read More ›

• New Chernobyl-inspired Game goes on sale

  By John Freeman on September 11, 2008

  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, a nifty looking First Person Shooter inspired by the 2007 Shadow of Chernobyl release, should now be on sale in your local games shops from Koch Media — and we liked the imagery so much we decided… Read More ›

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