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• Gerry Anderson at Forbidden Planet

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2009

  (Date Updated): Gerry Anderson, who is 80 on 14th April, will be making a public appearance at the Forbidden Planet flagship store in Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on Saturday 18th April, from 1.00pm. He’ll be there to sign copies of Reynolds… Read More ›

• Razorjack On Sale This Week

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2009

  John Higgins collection of Razorjack, which includes a new four-page strip, goes on sale in the UK in all good comic shops this Thursday (2nd April). The collection has been published by revived indie Com.x, headed up by publisher Eddie… Read More ›

• GhostNet Comment

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2009

• Roy of the Rovers in Newsagents again This Week

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2009

  

  A quick reminder that this week sees the release of the first of four collections of classic British comic strip in newsagents, starting with Roy of the Rovers. As we previously reported, Egmont UK and WH Smith have teamed up… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Saturday 28th March 2009

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2009

  

  • British comics creator Sean Michael Wilson, whose recent credits include writer for Classicial Comics upcoming Canterville Ghost (out in November) and Sweeney Todd (out next year) adaptations, has become, we believe, perhaps the first British creator to have a… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 27 March 2009

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2009

  • This weekend sees the opening of the touring Doctor Who exhibtion in Glasgow’s superb Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum with costumes, props and more from the revived series going on show from this Saturday through to January 2010. Forbideen… Read More ›

• Scottish Uni Launches Comic Writing MA

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2009

  Edinburgh Napier University has announced a new MA course in creative writing aimed at aspiring computer games and graphic novel writers. The one-year postgraduate course, part of a range from the University’s School of Creative Industries, has been created by… Read More ›

• Howard Chaykin on Board for BICS

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2009

  Legendary comics creator Howard Chaykin, creator of American Flagg, Time2, American Century and more is the latest overseas guest confirmed for this year’s British International Comic Show taking place in Birmingham in October. With a career spanning four decades, Chaykin’s… Read More ›

• Bryan Talbot in Preston This Weekend

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2009

  Top comics creator Bryan Talbot is paying a visit in Preston on Saturday night (28th March) at 8.00pm at The Continental pub. “It’ll be a bit like one of the old SF group meetings,” says Bryan, referring to Preston’s popular… Read More ›

• Justice Bill Petition: Opposition Mounts

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2009

  Concerns about Britain’s Criminal Justice & Immigration Act 2008 which came into effect in January 2009 and Section 49 of the Coroners and Justice Bill which is currently being reviewed in Parliament are growing among comics creators and fans, with… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Volume 22 Number One

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2009

  

  The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22, Number One) is available now from the Eagle Society. Spring 2009 contents Operation Saturn – but not as we know it. Details of Frank Hampson’s original 1952 story outline for Dan Dare’s… Read More ›

• DFC Strips Continue Online

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2009

  Sadly, today, Friday 27 March 2009, sees the last issue of David Fickling’s innovative weekly subscription-only comic – The DFC – at least in its current form. Despite its demise — unless Random House have found a buyer — there… Read More ›

• Alan Moore’s Unpublished Big Numbers #3 Discovered on eBay

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2009

  

  Comics collector Pádraig Ó Méalóid and documenter of Alan Moore‘s prestigious career has turned up a remarkable find — art for Big Numbers #3 — on eBay. Big Numbers is an unfinished comic book series by Moore and artist Bill… Read More ›

• The Trouble with Twitter…

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2009

  (With thanks to Ron Callari) You can catch SuperNews!, which this sketch is part of, on the CurrentTV website at this link: http://current.com/topics/76254232/supernews/new/0.htm

• Diggle Signs For Marvel

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2009

  As rumoured a couple of weeks back, former 2000AD editor and top writer Andy Diggle has signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics and will soon begin a run on Daredevil, and a Hawkeye mini series, Dark Reign: Hawkeye, starts… Read More ›

• Alex Maleev Strips

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2009

  

  Classic heroes month continues on Alex Fitch’s radio show and podcast Strip!, which airs on London’d Resonance FM, with a look at the red-suited vigilante Daredevil – blind lawyer by day and superhero by night, soon to be written by… Read More ›

• In Review: Great Expectations

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2009

  

  by Charles Dickens Adapted by Jen Green Art: John Stokes Colourist: Jason Cardy The tale of Pip, Miss Havisham, and the spiteful Estella, retold with fresh enthusiasm… No, you haven’t been transported to an alternate dimension where downthetubes reviews literary… Read More ›

• Jackie: New Collection

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2009

  

  (With thanks to Jeremy Briggs): News of Egmont’s Comic Specials prompts us to mention this new collection of material from Jackie magazine, which was published by D C Thomson & Co Ltd. Launched in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania,… Read More ›

• Comics Theme Park Opens in Kuwait

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2009

  A new theme park based on comic book series The 99, which has featured work by British artists John Royle and John McCrea, has opened at the Slayel Al-Jahra Resort in Jahra, Kuwait. Based on the Teshkeel Comics’ comic of… Read More ›

• Phantom Fleet Appears

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2009

  Officially on sale this week is Dan Dare: Phantom Fleet from Titan Books, the latest in the company’s high quality collections of the classic Eagle comic character. First published in 1958 and written by Frank Hampson and Allan Stranks with… Read More ›

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