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• Paul Rainey’s 2000AD marathon draws to a close

  By John Freeman on 13 May 2010

  In November 2006, after an impetuous, ill-thought out bid on eBay, comic creator Paul Rainey won the first 1188 programmes of 2000AD… and so began a marathon read that became a long-running decision to rad and review them every issue… Read More ›

• In Review: Pandora’s Box – Gluttony

  By Jeremy Briggs on 13 May 2010

  The third of the Pandora’s Box series of individual but themed stories based on the seven deadly sins, it was inevitable that Gluttony would concentrate on food. The book takes the BSE and vCJD scares of recent years and sets… Read More ›

• IPC Media, owners of classic comic archive, considers title closures

  By John Freeman on 12 May 2010 • ( 3 )

  IPC Media – owners of classic but no longer published titles such as Lion and many comic characters such as the Steel Claw, the Spider and Robot Archie – has announced that it is undertaking a strategic review of its… Read More ›

• Hairsine delivers "Masked" cover

  By John Freeman on 12 May 2010

  Top artist Trevor Hairsine has provided the cover to a new superhero short story anthology edited by my friend and ace SF book editor Lou Anders, who used to work for me on Star Trek Magazine and Babylon 5 Magazine…. Read More ›

• With Great Power is now… Masked

  By John Freeman on 12 May 2010

  

  My friend Lou Anders, who used to work for me on Star Trek Magazine and Babylon 5 Magazine, but these days is an award-winning editor for Pyr Books, and who very kindly introduced me to artist John Picacio whose work… Read More ›

• In Review: The Bellybuttons – It’s Ugly Out There

  By Jeremy Briggs on 12 May 2010

  There are times when a book can take you completely by surprise and turn out to be completely different to what you were expecting. The Bellybuttons book It’s Ugly Out There with its teen girl talk, high school setting, caricatured… Read More ›

• In Review: Good Dog, Bad Dog

  By Jeremy Briggs on 11 May 2010

  

  It was the first of the DFC Library books to be released and Good Dog, Bad Dog is perhaps the most complete book of the three released so far. Written and illustrated by Dave Shelton, this is a fun ride… Read More ›

• Dan Dare gets Pulped!

  By John Freeman on 11 May 2010

  Every once in a while, the Internet throws up some gorgeous work featuring a famous character – but the origins of the art is clouded in mystery. Given all the interest in Dan Dare recently, it was perhaps no surprise… Read More ›

• Buy Your Commando…

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  New Commandos from DC Thomson now on the news stand in the UK highlight the work of top veteran comic artist Ian Kennedy and sees the start of the VE-Day stories, marking the 65th anniversary of the end of World… Read More ›

• Comic-inspired movie Largo Winch comes to London

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  Successful Belgian bande dessinée series Largo Winch has been made into a live action film. Its writer and creator Jean Van Hamme was on hand at the Institut Francais in South Kensington in London to answer questions after a screening… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: Nick Miller’s "Political Logic"

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  Lancaster-based cartoonist and downthetubes chum Nick Miller – co-creator of the long-running The Really Heavy Greatcoat, which most recently featured in the much-missd Comics International, came up with this strip in response to the current national political dilemma in the… Read More ›

• Classical Comics ‘The Tempest’ shortlisted for major book awards

  By John Freeman on 10 May 2010

  

  Classical Comics adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest has been shortlisted for two different awards. The company will hear this week if it has won a gold, silver or bronze Independent Publisher (or “IPPY”) award from Independent Publisher Online: no small… Read More ›

• In Review: Cinebook Recounts The Battle Of Britain

  By Jeremy Briggs on 10 May 2010

  If you are looking at the cover of Cinebook Recounts The Battle Of Britain thinking that it looks a little familiar that is because this is the third time that it has been published in the UK. The first time… Read More ›

• New DC Thomson Books From Waverley

  By John Freeman on 9 May 2010

  Waverley Books are the Scottish publisher of DC Thomson tie-in books with many Maw Broon cookery titles under their belt as well as the magnificent History Of Beano and they will be adding to these titles over the rest of… Read More ›

• Nich Angell at work on Brief History of the Next Universe

  By John Freeman on 7 May 2010

  Comics artist and animator Nich Angell has a full colour collection of short sci fi stories entitled A Brief History of the Next Universe due soon. “The book is going to pull together brand new stuff I’m doing right now,… Read More ›

• Free Comic Book Day: a report from the (British) front line

  By John Freeman on 6 May 2010

  Free Comic Book Day – an annual event to promote the comics industry worldwide – gets bigger and better every year, and for First Age Comics, based in the Assembly Rooms on King Street, Lancaster, the latest incarnation was easily… Read More ›

• Classics from the Comics plays Cops and Robbers

  By John Freeman on 6 May 2010

  Issue 169 DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics is now on sale in all good newsagents — another gem of a 68-page retro monthly, full of comic classics from the publisher of The Beano and The Dandy. Humour strips in… Read More ›

• In Review: Comics at the London Book Fair

  By John Freeman on 5 May 2010

  Last month the London Book Fair cranked up its coverage of comics and graphic novel publishing this year and David Baillie went along for downthetubes to see what was happening… LBF photos by Joel Meadows The London Book Fair is… Read More ›

• In Review: The Spider Moon

  By Jeremy Briggs on 5 May 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  The Spider Moon is the last of the first batch of books from the new DFC Library range, written and illustrated by Kate Brown it is set in a manga styled fantasy land of islands floating not just in the… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Modesty Blaise creator Peter O’Donnell

  By John Freeman on 4 May 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  Our tribute to the creator of Modesty Blaise

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