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• Ex Astris Artist Celebrates Moon Landings

  By John Freeman on 2 July 2009

  

  Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll), the creator of CGI comic Ex Astris featured in Spaceship Away, has sent us this fab piece of art to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first human moon landing, which forms part of a… Read More ›

• Pride Illustrated at Foyles

  By John Freeman on 2 July 2009

  Illustrators, cartoonists and artists gathered in London yesterday to discuss graphic literature and queer culture as part of Pride London, for an event chaired by comics expert Paul Gravett. The line up at the event, held at Foyles book shop,… Read More ›

• Combat Colin: The New Brickman

  By John Freeman on 2 July 2009

  Brickman is dead and there’s a new Brickman patrolling Guffon City – ex-Marvel UK hero of the 1980s, Combat Colin! The bobble-hatted bucaneer ditches the bobble hat for a black cowl and cape in US publisher Active Images Elephantmen #20… Read More ›

• In Review: Timeframes Dundee

  By Jeremy Briggs on 1 July 2009

  

  Now in its third year, Dundee University’s comics conference has become established as a regular part of the British comics year and both the number and the recognition factor of the comics creators who attend has increased year on year…. Read More ›

• Eagle Times Volume 22 Number Two – Summer 2009

  By John Freeman on 1 July 2009

  

  Following up on our brief mention for the latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22 Number Two) yesterday, here’s the full details for the issue. The cover story is a look at the nature artwork of Tom Adams, nowadays best known for… Read More ›

• Blink Twice Battle to Save Mankind!

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2009

  All right, all right — we admit we did a bit of a double take when we got this piece of hyperbole in our mailbox — surely even for those plucky Etherington Brothers, the creators of Monkey Nuts, Moon and… Read More ›

• Ex Astris: Homecoming on myebook

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2009

  

  In addition to publication of Ex Astris on ROK Comics and Clickwheel.net, a web version Ex: Astris Homecoming, a 10-page strip which first appeared in the British comic in Bulletproof Comics #2, is now available via myebook. This standalone story,… Read More ›

• Cartoon Festival Planners Gather in London

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2009

  London-based comic creators will be gathering again next week (Tuesday 7th July) to discuss ideas for next year’s planned London International Cartoon Festival. This is the first of what are now bi-monthly Festival meetings at the Cartoonist Pub and, as… Read More ›

• 2009 Harvey Award Nominees Announced

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2009

  The 2009 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced with the release of the final ballot, presented by the Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con, with British creators Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely among the honoured nomimees…. Read More ›

• Tube Surfing, 30 June 2008: Baxendale, Bernice Summerfield and Graveyards!

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2009

  

  • (via FPI): Leo Baxendale features in The Times today, recalling the early 1950s and his first approaches to DC Thomson, them taking on Little Plum, Minnie the Minx then the immortal Bash Street Kids. More details and links over… Read More ›

• More Who Comics Mythos Leaps to Audio Adventures

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2009

  Stockbridge – an English village created for the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip – will feature in a new trilogy of audio adventures from Big Finish. To date, Stockbridge has featured in the strips The Tides of Time, The Stockbridge… Read More ›

• Hard Lessons in Self Publishing

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  How many people publishing their own comics have posed themselves the question “If only I knew when I started my web comic what I know now”? Well, Andrew John Standish, creator of the web comic Psychodialetical, certainly has. But if… Read More ›

• Summer Edition 2009 in Dublin This Weekend

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2009

  (via poopsheet and BugPowder); Summer Edition 2009, the first event of its kind in Dublin, is a free, day long fair where over 30 exhibitors from across the spectrum of artist’s books, comics and zines will get together to showcase… Read More ›

• Adventure Comes To… Kirkcaldy

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2009

  In these downbeat times, it’s rare to have something to celebrate – especially the opening of a new comic shop. But that’s exactly what’s just happened north of the border. Kingdom of Adventure, which opened complete with a visit from… Read More ›

• Razorjack Special Editions Released

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2009

  Limited edition book publisher Foruli Publications has just published two very special box sets of John Higgins’ graphic novel Razorjack, recently released in paperback by revived publisher Com.X. In Razorjack, a trio of college kids inadvertently create an unstable nexus… Read More ›

• Tripwire Annual 2009 UK Only

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2009

  Bad news for the publishers of ace comics and cult magazine Tripwire, whose 2009 Annual has been hit by distribution that mean the issue is not being carried by Diamond US. “We got hit by the benchmark,” says editor-in-chief Joel… Read More ›

• Furman Turns Japanese!

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2009

  After years of writing Transformers stories for the UK and US, writer Simon Furman has finally broken into one of the most notoriously difficult comic markets: Japan. This is no small achievement: very few Westerners have broken into the world… Read More ›

• Cameron’s A-Z of Awesomeness

  By John Freeman on 28 June 2009

  (via FPI Blog); Neill Cameron is hard at work on his latest project: The A-Z of Awesomeness. Well into its stride (he’s just delivered “Nina and the Neurons Neutralising the Ninky-Nonk with Nitrogen”, it was originally inspired by Garen Ewing’s… Read More ›

• Comics Artist In Residence at the V&A

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2009

  (via ComicBitsonline): Award-winning comics artist and animator Karin Rubins, whose work includes the indie mini-series Dark, Urban Beasts and Tales by Ghost Light, takes up her post as Comics Artist in Residence at London’s prestigious V&A Museum next week. Working… Read More ›

• Temple APA Issue 4 Online

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2009

  The indie British creators group known as the Temple APA has just released the fourth issue of their ‘portfolio’ comic, available free in hi-res PDF format from their Forum here. Intended as a digital showcase of British comic writers and… Read More ›

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