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• Wallace & Gromit find a place in The Sun!

  By John Freeman on 26 May 2010

  A new newspaper strip featuring Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit, launched last week, is getting good feedback from the characters legion of fans. Replacing the long-running ‘strip-com’ George and Lynne, the new comic is being produced by Titan Comics and… Read More ›

• Tony Lee taks Zombies — and Jane Austen!

  By John Freeman on 25 May 2010

  British comics creator Tony Lee is a busy man: popping up at the Bristol Comic Expo last weekend, writing a number of projects, with more in the pipeline.  This week, he found time to talk to Mike Braff at the… Read More ›

• Pat Mills delight at Eagle Award Nomination for Charley’s War

  By John Freeman on 25 May 2010

  2000AD co-creator Pat Mills has expressed his delight at learning that the latest collection of Charley War, written by Pat and drawn by Joe Colquhoun, has been nominated for an Eagle Award. Nominated in the category for Favourite Reprint Compilation,… Read More ›

• In Review: The Bristol Comic Expo 2010

  By Matt Badham on 24 May 2010

  Matthew Badham reports on this year’s Bristol Expo, which attracted some 1000 fans and over 100 comic creators… I promised myself that I was going to do four things at the Bristol Comics Expo this year: make time to watch… Read More ›

• In Review: Classics from the Comics Issue 170

  By John Freeman on 24 May 2010

  The latest issue of DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics sports a new look, complete with revamped cover masthead reflecting it’s ‘retro’ appeal, but the line up of humour and adventure strips inside is the usual engaging mix of material… Read More ›

• Japanese publisher seeks colourists

  By John Freeman on 24 May 2010

  Tokyo-based publisher EigoTown is looking to have around 600 black and white and greyscale illustrations coloured for use on the iPhone and iPad and has put out an appeal for samples to British creators. “We’re creating Apps based on Oxford… Read More ›

• Voting opens for Eagle Awards

  By John Freeman on 24 May 2010

  Voting for this year’s Eagle Awards is now open on the official site. Introduced in 1976, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes, they have been featured on the covers of leading… Read More ›

• Striker comic to go free-to-view online in July

  By John Freeman on 21 May 2010

  

  The entire 25-year archive of the football strip Striker, first published in The Sun and now featuring in mens magazine Nuts, is to be available online as free to view comics on the Striker website when it relaunches in early… Read More ›

• Folk to watch out for at the Bristol Comic Expo

  By John Freeman on 21 May 2010

  (with thanks to Bryan Talbot, who can’t be there due to deadlines – but Watch the Grandville trailer!): Here’s a list of just some of the comics creators at the Bristol Comic Expo this weekend to look out for if… Read More ›

• Clint: The Origin of Mark Millar’s new comic title

  By John Freeman on 21 May 2010

  For those not already wondering, veteran publisher and editor Dez Skinn has just explained the origins of Mark Millar’s new comic title, CLINT, which Titan Magazines launch later this year. If you’re easily offended by bad language, don’t read on…. Read More ›

• Doctor Who Live: Tour Details

  By John Freeman on 21 May 2010

  Tickets for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who Live – The Monsters Are Coming! are now on sale. The show will be a  spectacular audio-visual experience – think their successful stage show version of Walking with Dinosaurs but with Doctor Who… Read More ›

• Comics International publisher company dissolved

  By John Freeman on 21 May 2010

  Cosmic Publications, previously publishers of Comics International (and, for a while, Dangerous Ink magazine), has been dissolved. News broke after fans of Comics International spotted the dissolution of the company on the Companies House web site spelling an end, perhaps,… Read More ›

• Time Bomb Comics explodes with new titles

  By John Freeman on 20 May 2010

  Hot on the heels of a move from Leicester to Birmingham, Time Bomb Comics has announced a number of forthcoming one-shots and graphic novels currently in development, including work by DC Thomson stalwart Keith Page. The Last Ride of Henry… Read More ›

• Strip! Goes Manga, Mills talks French (comics, that is)

  By John Freeman on 20 May 2010 • ( 1 )

  Continuing ‘cross cultural comics month’ on the show, the Strip! radio show this week is looking at the winners of last year’s Manga Jiman (Pride in Manga) competiton run by the Japanese Embassy in London to find the best new… Read More ›

• In Review: Thorgal – The Master Of The Mountains

  By Jeremy Briggs on 20 May 2010

  Writer Jean Van Hamme may be more familiar to us for his contemporary thrillers such as Lady S, Largo Winch and XIII with Largo Winch having been turned into a movie and XIII into a mini series, but he has… Read More ›

• First Beano Book, Marvelman Cover Art up for auction

  By John Freeman on 19 May 2010

  Over 200 items of British comics and art form the Summer 2010 auction at UK auction house Compalcomics, including a rare Beano book discovered in a charity shop and cover art for an early issue of Marvelman by creator Mick… Read More ›

• VE Day Anniversary marked in new Commandos

  By John Freeman on 19 May 2010

  The first two stories of the latest Commandos from DC Thomson, on sale this week, continue the VE-Day series first issued for the 50th anniversary 15 years ago. Denis McLoughlin handles the tank story with Commando regular, Ibanez, take care… Read More ›

• Smuggling Vacation sequel Day of the Deal finally goes on sale

  By John Freeman on 19 May 2010

  

  There will be plenty to look out for and buy at this weekend’s Comic Expo in Bristol this weekend (if you’re one of the lucky ones who have a ticket for this now sold out event) – but one title… Read More ›

• Get Wasted! Issue 4 hits the stands

  By John Freeman on 19 May 2010

  Issue 4 of adult humour magazine Wasted is on sale now, featuring a sexy cover by the ever-brilliant Dave Taylor. This issue features more War On Drugs, Alan Kerr’s absolutely superb Lusi Sulfura (“She was sent to Earth to drag… Read More ›

• In Review: Psychiatric Tales by Darryl Cunningham

  By John Freeman on 18 May 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  By: Darryl Cunningham Publisher: Blank Slate The Book: Psychiatric Tales delves inside the mysteries of mental disorders – presenting explanations and recollections using the cartoonist’s own experiences as both a psychiatric and care nurse and as someone who himself has… Read More ›

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