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• Markosia Dances out The Dark

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2009

  British indie publisher Markosia Enterprises have teamed up with Chris Lynch (Monkeys with Machineguns, Photonic Graffiti) and Rick Lundeen (100 Covers, Epoch) to publish The Dark — a four-issue, cyberpunk-styled comic series. With nods toward the novels of authors such… Read More ›

• Bear-Shaped Comics Collection Launched!

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2009

  Richy K. Chandler, the creative force behind UK indie title Tempo Lush comics, has been wanting to put out a collection of his Tempo Lush Mini Comic range since the first one featuring Lucy the Octopus was released to the… Read More ›

• Moon Landing: T Plus 4 Days – Splashdown

  By Jeremy Briggs on 24 July 2009

  

  Of the 365 feet of Apollo Saturn V that launched on 16th July, only the 11-foot high Command Module, Columbia, returned to Earth where it safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean

• Moon Landing: T Plus 3 Days – The Future

  By Jeremy Briggs on 23 July 2009

  

  As the Apollo 11 Command Service Module covered the quarter of a million miles back from the Moon back to the Earth, NASA had big plans for the Moon

• Birmingham Comic Show Wins Lottery Grant

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2009 • ( 1 )

  In a major coup for the organisers – perhaps signifying comics are indeed becoming more mainstream once more – the annual British International Comic Show has been awarded a £6,000 Arts Council grant to help further their work in bringing… Read More ›

• Insomnia Joins "Buskers" Project

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2009

  Popquiz, hotshots: What do Mos Def, Kevin Spacey, former Blur front man Damon Albarn, musician Ian Brown, comic writer and publisher Sean Michael Wilson and Japanese cartoonist and illustrator Michiru Morikawa have in common with Insomnia Publications? Answer: the fledgling… Read More ›

• Meet and Greet Dave Gibbons Competition

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2009

  Podcast website Geek Syndicate have just launched a competition to offer a Watchmen fan the chance to win an exclusive Meet and Greet with original Watchmen illustrator, Dave Gibbons. The winner will have their favourite character drawn by Dave Gibbons…. Read More ›

• British Dragon Joins Marvel Advisors

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2009

  Cypriot-born British businessman Theo Paphitis – one of the judges on BBC TV’s Dragons’ Den – has joined Marvel Comics International Advisory Board. Comprised of business leaders from key international growth markets, the Advisory Board works with Marvel executives to… Read More ›

• Moon Landing: T Plus 2 Days – The Return Trip Begins

  By Jeremy Briggs on 22 July 2009

  

  It was actually 21st July that Apollo 11’s return to Earth began. Armstrong and Aldrin spent less than three hours walking on the Moon

• Rainey’s Book of Lists Collected At last

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2009

  Ace British comic creator Paul B Rainey has just been in touch to say that he’s finally put together a collection of his critically-acclaimed Book of Lists comic strips in trade paper back form. Suicidal birds, edible guitars, licky dogs,… Read More ›

• Moon Landing: T Plus 1 Day – First Footsteps

  By Jeremy Briggs on 21 July 2009

  

  Americans would have us believe that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969 because they saw it happen in their late evening

• Starblazer from the Command Deck

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  DC Thomson editor Bill McLoughlin has kindly given downthetubes his account of the rise and fall of DC Thomson’s 1980s SF digest title Starblazer, which has recently spawned its own Role Playing Game (see our review). Revealing the origins of… Read More ›

• Engines of Enchantment at Cartoon Museum

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  London’s Cartoon Museum is to host an exhibition dedicated to the work of eccentric genius Rowland Emett this summer. Described in TIME Magazine as “a nostalgic-romantic artist-humorist social commentator-engineer,” this exhibition brings together, for the first time in Britain, the… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Comic Cutbacks, San Diego Schedules, Dinsoaurs and Weird Fishes…

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  • Filming has started on the new series of Doctor Who that will see Matt Smith will take on the eponymous role. Matt is seen here in costume, side by side with Scottish actress Karen Gillan who plays new companion… Read More ›

• 2009 Graphic Short Story Competition Launched

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  UK Sunday newspaper The Observer has just launched this year’s Graphic Short Story competition, part of the activities of the ComiICA Festival. The winner of last year’s Graphic Short Story prize, Julian Hanshaw, is about to publish a book, so… Read More ›

• Graeme Neil Reid: Walking on the Moon

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  

  Here’s the latest contribution to our marking of the 40th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing: “Walking on the Moon” by Graeme Neil Reid

• Moon Landing: T Minus 0 Days – The Eagle Has Landed

  By Jeremy Briggs on 20 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the Lunar Module, Eagle, and undocked from the Command Service Module, Columbia

• Moon Landing: T Minus 1 Days – What Could Go Wrong

  By Jeremy Briggs on 19 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, the crew of Apollo 11 were almost at the Moon with their mission progressing smoothly

• Ian Rankin’s Comics Debut

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2009 • ( 1 )

  International bestselling crime writer and recipient of an OBE for his services to literature, acclaimed Scottish author Ian Rankin makes his comics debut with the tense and twisting tale inspired by reality TV, Dark Entries – on sale from Titan… Read More ›

• Moon Landing: T Minus 2 Days – The Spacecraft

  By Jeremy Briggs on 18 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew were at the half way stage in their journey from Earth orbit to lunar orbit in their Command Service Module, Columbia

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