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• Crikey! It’s The Cloak!

  By John Freeman on 29 January 2010

  British comic fans heading to their local comic store should ask if they’re stocking Crikey!, the monthly magazine devoted to British comics, if only because the latest issue marks the return of Mike Higgs’ The Cloak. The Cloak first appeared… Read More ›

• Make Your Own Film-Inspired Comic Strip Challenge

  By John Freeman on 29 January 2010 • ( 3 )

  (via Andy Diggle and Creative Review): UK indie film magazine Little White Lies is challenging comic creator to re-imagine your favourite film as a six frame comic book story. The best mini-strips will then be featured in the next issue…. Read More ›

• Comic creators to deliver serial killer talk in Edinburgh

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2010

  Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering, creators ofnew graphic novel Burke & Hare, will be at the Edinburgh Central Library in the Edinburgh Room on 28th January presenting a talk on the history of the serial killers and the production of… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: William Ritchie

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2010

  Willie Ritchie, sitting at DC Thomson editor Morris Heggie’s desk in DCT Meadowside, Dundee with his beloved “Baby Crockett” in October 2009. Photo courtesy Morris Heggie We’re sorry to report the passing of the popular comics artist William Ritchie, who… Read More ›

• Dying to be dead? Forbidden Planet has the answer…

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2010

  The top comics and specialist store Forbidden Planet London is offering horror fans an exclusive opportunity to win your own gruesome demise in John Meaney’s (Thomas Blackthorne’s) next Angry Robot title – or to get your hands on a gorgeous… Read More ›

• Accent’s "Fastest Man" one shot goes on sale

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2010 • ( 1 )

  Accent UK‘s latest one shot, Whatever Happened To The World’s Fastest Man?, which has picked up glowing reviews from all who read review copies, is now available in all those UK comic stores which ordered it. Co-written and created by… Read More ›

• Thunderbirds Aren’t Go: Sylvia Anderson cancels nationwide tour

  By John Freeman on 26 January 2010

  Fans of Gerry Anderson’s 1960s cult puppet show Thunderbirds are downhearted that Lady Penelope, aka Sylvia Anderson, has pulled out of a nationwide tour – citing lack of interest. Sylvia, now in her 80s, was to have been in conversation… Read More ›

• Comics @ Glasgow Film Festival

  By John Freeman on 26 January 2010

  It is a sign of the times in Mark Millar’s career that he has moved from talking to a professional librarian audience in 2008 to the Edinburgh International Book Festival audience in 2009 while in 2010 he will be talking… Read More ›

• ICA threatened with closure?

  By John Freeman on 25 January 2010

  London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, recently the hub for many brilliant and much-praised ComICA events, could close later this year due to funding cuts. The Guardian reports the ICA, founded in 1947, could fall victim to recession with costs needing… Read More ›

• Doctor Who-inspired Star Tigers returns as animated fan project

  By John Freeman on 25 January 2010

  Altered Vistas, an amateur production company dedicated to creating Doctor Who-related features from the “fringes” of the franchise, has just released its twenty-first animated CGI release – the first chapter of an all-new Star Tigers adventure, plucked from the pages… Read More ›

• Commando celebrates Ian Kennedy anniversary

  By John Freeman on 22 January 2010

  The latest batch of issues of DC Thomson’s long-runing war picture library title Commando includes the first two of four re-issues of classic Ian Kennedy illustrations for the comic. Number 4261 was the first cover he executed and 4262 was… Read More ›

• Bart Simpson tops UK readers poll

  By John Freeman on 21 January 2010

  In a recent poll to mark the twentieth anniversary of The Simpsons, Bart Simpson has been named the nation’s favourite Simpsons character by the official Simpsons Comics, published in the UK by Titan Magazines and the company’s top-selling title. Simpson’s… Read More ›

• TV21 Turns 45…

  By John Freeman on 20 January 2010

  

  — or at least it would have done, had it had the longevity of The Beano! We have Lew Stringer to thank for pointing out that 45 years ago, City Magazines launched the first issue of TV Century 21 –… Read More ›

• Foundry supports Haiti relief effort, comic creators wanted

  By John Freeman on 19 January 2010

  London’s The Foundry is running an evening to raise money for earthquake victims in Haiti on 27th January – and comic creators are invited to get involved. The event is just part of a joint fund raising campaign by the… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Alternative Press, Bryan Talbot, Comic Sales Figure and more Mackie!

  By John Freeman on 19 January 2010

  • The Alternative Press Fair is back! Taking place in London on 13th February, this is a free event celebrating all things self-published and DIY: Comics and Zines, Radical Literature, Poetry, Printmaking, Book Arts and even a bit of DIY… Read More ›

• Striker bounces back again – into Nuts

  By John Freeman on 18 January 2010

  

  Football comic Striker has kicked off its 25th anniversary year by signing exclusively to Nuts, Britain’s biggest-selling weekly mens lifestyle magazine published by IPC. (We’re betting the team mascot might just be a bit racier than its past cheerleader, pictured… Read More ›

• The Dark, Freeman titles from Markosia

  By John Freeman on 18 January 2010 • ( 1 )

  (Before any hardcore fans of this blog get hugely excited, we should point out that Freeman is the name of one of the books due soon from Markosia, not the name of one of its creators…) March will see the… Read More ›

• Beezer Blog Launched

  By John Freeman on 18 January 2010

  Comic creator and Beezer fan Simon Mackie has launched a new blog that aims to chart the history of DC Thomson’s best-known large format humour comic. The Beezer was a large format (tabloid newspaper/A3 sized) weekly published by DC Thomson… Read More ›

• New Biography of Showbiz Legend Lew Grade

  By John Freeman on 18 January 2010

  A new biography of British media entrepeneur Lew Grade – without whom shows such as Thunderbirds, UFO and The Muppets might never have been made – is to be published by Aurum Press next month. All My Shows are Great… Read More ›

• How to create comics the Steve Whitaker way

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2010 • ( 2 )

  The late, great Steve Whitaker drew this guide to creating comics back in the 1990s and it’s available online via Flickr if people want to use it for teaching purposes, published under a Creative Commons license. Printed in the Society… Read More ›

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