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• In Review: Doctor Who – The Time Machination

  By John Freeman on 18 June 2009

  Writer Tony Lee knows his Doctor Who – inside out, back to front, old and new, spin-offs and original. It is ten years since Queen Victoria banished Sir Doctor Of Tardis and the Lady Rose from the Empire and the… Read More ›

• Latest Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos Available

  By John Freeman on 18 June 2009

  The latest issue of Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos, Volume 5 Number 2, is now available. Bill Rudling’s mammoth 88-page B&W A4 fanzine with colour covers continues to provide full length reprinted Jeff Hawke stories from the Daily Express newspaper. The cover… Read More ›

• The Sock Puppets Go To Hollywood

  By John Freeman on 17 June 2009

  Further to our Tube Surf about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival we now have more details about the shows of The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre. They will be appearing at the Gilded Balloon in Bristo Square each night at 10.15pm… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: One Man Lord of the Rings, Manga Cross Stitch and Space Hoppers!

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  • Heading to Edinburgh’s Fringe later this summer? Perhaps to catch up with Kev Sutherland and the Falsetto Sock Company, who are sure to be there? Then you might also be interested in a new show from Canadian actor Charles… Read More ›

• Millidge on Comic Book Design

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2009

  When we think of comics it’s all too easy to reduce them to pictures and word balloons. But a good comic also relies on effective page layout, framing, point of view, story pacing, spacing, lettering and many other techniques that… Read More ›

• In Review: Paragon 4

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2009

  Just released is UK indie title Paragon 4, edited by Dave Candish, a 32-page anthology comic featuring the work of Stephen Prestwood, Dave and Alan Candlish, The Emperor, Terry Wilkinson and Paul Harrison-Davies. It’s an eclectic mix, with “We’re on… Read More ›

• Free Leeds Manga Event

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2009

  The Breeze International Youth Festival, comics festival Thought Bubble and the Leeds Young Peoples Film Festival have partnered up to host a special free two-day Manga event later this month. Taking place at Leeds Travelling Man comic shop and the… Read More ›

• Bear Alley Announces Cursitor Doom, Phantom Patrol Collections

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2009

  

  Top British comics archivist Steve Holland has been hinting at it for months now, but he’s finally announced the first titles publishing limited edition collections of some old, classic British comics under the imprint of Bear Alley Books: Cursitor Doom… Read More ›

• Ten Questions: An Interview with Comic Creator Amy Pearson

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2009

  Last year, DC Comics Zuda Comics showcased a stunning new adventure strip by hot new comics talent Amy Pearson. Now, the 22-year-old Sussex based artist has started publishing an updated, revamped edition of the strip on its own dedicated web… Read More ›

• SciFiPulse Interviews Flash Gordon Comic Writer

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2009

  UK cult TV, film and comics web site Sci-Fi Pulse will be presenting a podcast interview with film and television actor Casey Biggs (Broken Arrow, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) today, followed on Sunday 14th June by a chat with… Read More ›

• Comix Come To Telford: Creators Wanted

  By John Freeman on 11 June 2009

  Budding young comic artists in Telford have the chance to learn from Marvel/DC/DC Thomson pro’s. For the first time since it started five years ago, Midlands-based organisation Hi8us, which develops and delivers a range of arts and media projects collaborating… Read More ›

• Mindjammer is first Starblazer Adventures game add-on

  By John Freeman on 11 June 2009

  

  Rebellion-owned role-playing adventure games and card and board game publisher Cubicle 7 Entertainment has just announced Mindjammer, a self-contained campaign setting designed to bring the transhuman space theme to its new Starblazer Adventures role playing game, just released in the… Read More ›

• Spanish Artists Go Global in Work Hunt

  By John Freeman on 10 June 2009

  Vampirella by Sanjulian Originally uploaded by JohnFreeman. The “green shoots” of an economic upturn don’t seem much in evidence today, as more creators get in touch to tell me they are seeking work in a depressed and rapidly diminishing market…. Read More ›

• Matters of Convention: “We like original voices…”

  By John Freeman on 10 June 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Matthew Badham goes behind the scenes of the Caption (taking place at the East Oxford Community Centre on August 15-16th) with two of several co-organisers, Jay Eales and Selina Lock. This is the third of a series of interviews with… Read More ›

• 8th Fantastic Film Weekend in Bradford

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009

  The National Media Museum in Bradford will be presenting their 8th Fantastic Film Weekend from 12 to 14 June. The Film Weekend has become a hugely popular event for fans of sci-fi and horror movies and this year there’ll be… Read More ›

• Enter Burke and Hare…

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  After critical acclaim for Cancertown, Burke and Hare by writer Martin Conaghan, artist Will Pickering and letterer Paul McClaren is the next book from Insomnia Publications, which will be launched at the British International Comic Show) in early October. The… Read More ›

• Tim Quinn on Tour

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009

  

  Comics writer Tim Quinn is back on the cartoon workshop and lecture circuit, appearing at The Brindley in Runcorn tonight and elsewhere in the UK (see current dates below). Tim, whose credits include The Beano, Doctor Who Magazine and The… Read More ›

• In Review: Khaki Shorts Issue 19

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009

  I was sent this issue of Khaki Shorts, probably Glasgow’s longest running small-press comic, a while back but somehow it got buried between a copy of the local Chamber of Commerce business magazine and a review copy of Erotic Comics… Read More ›

• Dez Skinn – Dragged from the Grave!

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  Dez Skinn, writer and former editor of Warrior, Comics International, British MAD and many more has been persuaded back to Manchester’s fab Lass O’Gowrie pub for another event. “The b****** have dragged me out of mothballs to do a talk… Read More ›

• In Review: Aldebaran – The Catastrophe

  By Jeremy Briggs on 8 June 2009 • ( 2 )

  Created by a Brazilian and originally published in French, Aldebaran was never going to be that traditional a story for British bande dessinee publisher Cinebook to translate into English for the first time. Set on the human colony world of… Read More ›

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