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• Sock Puppets at Christmas…

  By John Freeman on 18 December 2008

  The Sock Puppet Theatre, scourge* of many a British comics event is counting down the Christmas with The Socks’ Advent Calendar, a wee musical treat! Eat your heart out Aled & Terry. And Bing and David… Comic creator tells us… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 18 December 2008

  By John Freeman on 18 December 2008

  • Latest details on the subscription-only weekly comic The DFC are among the updates to our British Comics On Sale Now list on the main downthetubes site. The page has gotten quite lengthy thanks to all the information some publishers… Read More ›

• Drawn to be Wild!

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2008

  Broadcaster and comedienne Jenny Eclair explores the world of outrageous animated ladies in Drawn to be Wild, a show for BBC Radio 4 broadcast last week, and available for now via iplayer until 12:02pm Thursday 18th December, and considers why… Read More ›

• Merry Fringemas

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2008

  Gene the Cow from ABC’s Fringe, showing on Sky in the UK, is working overtime this month to provide milk for Santa Claus, but she still found some time to wish you all a Happy Fringemas.

• Stick-Man’s Christmas Adventure

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2008

  Courtesy of Scottish cartoonist Malcolm Kirk, whose hilarious Stick Man discovers Santa has gone a bit, well, strange this year… Check out www.myspace.com/mal_comix for more of Mal’s work, and there are more of his Stick Man cartoons here on ROK… Read More ›

• No Heroics Gets ITV1 Airing

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2008

  ITV2’s superhero sitcom No Heroics will be repeated on ITV1 from 6 January, screening at 11.35pm on the terrestrial channel, after a successful debut run on ITV2 over the autumn. The six-part series features a group of British off-duty superheroes… Read More ›

• Connecting Conversations in London

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2008

  Two masters of their craft, award-winning children’s author David Almond and author and illustrator Quentin Blake, will talk about the drive to write and the visual expression of emotion with experts from the field of psychoanalysis at two forthcoming Connecting… Read More ›

• 2009 Book & Book Cover Illustration Awards

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2008

  The closing date for the 2009 Book & Book Cover Illustration Awards, sponsored by the Enid Linder Foundation and organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, is fast approaching. Entry into the Awards is free, with winners will be chosen… Read More ›

• Comic Christmas Covers

  By John Freeman on 15 December 2008

  Over on his ever-wonderful Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics!, Lew Stringer has been running a series of features on British Christmas Comic Covers, offerings samples from a wide range of titles, from Film Fun and TV Express to the… Read More ›

• Full Colour Crikey!

  By John Freeman on 15 December 2008

  

  As reported here last month, Issue 8 is a milestone edition for British comics fan magazine Crikey! with this 52-page issue published in full colour throughout. “So far, the response has been tremendous and the issue has only been on… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 15 December 2008

  By John Freeman on 15 December 2008

  

  • Warren Ellis has announced he will be writing a column for Conde Nast’s upcoming Wired UK magazine, edited by David Rowan, which launches next spring. “This attempt involves the services of Ben Hammersley, whose CV is twice as long… Read More ›

• In Review: Dick Turpin And The Restless Dead

  By John Freeman on 15 December 2008

  

  The legendary highwayman rides again – from Time Bomb Comics

• Starscape Comic Turns Magazine

  By John Freeman on 12 December 2008

  For the past seven or so years, Chris Smillie’s Starscape has been a comic then a webcomic, inspired by the idea of the evolution of traditional British comics, such as 2000AD, Mighty World of Marvel, Eagle and the Victor, taking… Read More ›

• Dragons, Duels and Deadly Danger in The DFC!

  By John Freeman on 12 December 2008

  Mirabilis: Year of Wonders is a new ongoing series that starts in Issue 30 of Random House’s comic subsscription-only weekly comic The DFC on 19th December. Written by Dave Morris and illustrated by Leo Hartas, the series tells of a… Read More ›

• Spider-Man Sneek Peek

  By John Freeman on 12 December 2008

  Courtesy of artist John Royle, here’s a sneek peek to the cover of Panini UK’s upcoming Spectacular Spider-Man Issue 180, on sale in February. The issue sees Spidey up against Kraven the Hunter, side by side with Spider-Woman.

• Dan Dare Returns Again!

  By John Freeman on 11 December 2008 • ( 1 )

  US Comics news site Newsarama has reported that Dynamite Entertainment, who also publish titles such as Battlestar Galactia, has picked up the rights to publish new Dan Dare comics based on Garth Ennis’ interpretation of the character, first published by… Read More ›

• Cartoon Days of Christmas!

  By John Freeman on 11 December 2008

  Cartoonist and friend Rich Diesslin came up with this Cartoon 12 Days of Christmas. Enjoy. You can check out more of his work at the-cartoonist.com

• Tube Surfing: Gerry Anderson News

  By John Freeman on 10 December 2008

  

  British publisher Reynolds and Hearn are to release two books reprinting strips from TV Century 21 comic and other titles first published by City Editions in the 1960s such as Joe 90: Top Secret. Scheduled for release early next year and titled Century 21 – Classic Comic… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Oliver Postgate

  By John Freeman on 9 December 2008 • ( 3 )

  “Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were two overgrown boys called Oliver and Peter. And Peter lived on a farm. It was a rather unusual farm because it didn’t grow any crops and there were no sheep… Read More ›

• New art team tackles villains for BVC’s Shades

  By John Freeman on 9 December 2008

  

  British online comics publisher Broken Voice Comics has just published Chapters 9 and 10 of its flagship title Shades on its website (www.brokenvoice.co.uk). Written by David A J Berner, the new chapters of the comic continue BVC’s timely examination of… Read More ›

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