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• Rethinking Mental Illness: How Creating Comics helped artist Darryl Cunningham 

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2015

  

  Darryl Cunningham, author of the brilliant Psychiatric Tales and Supercrash, is featured on the Rethink Mental Illness blog, talking frankly and positively about how creating comics helped him through difficult times. Rethink Mental Illness aims to help millions of people… Read More ›

• Thought Bubble Guests Pre-Festival Signing Tour Dates Announced

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2015

  

  With less than two weeks away from the start of this year’s Thought Bubble Festival, the organisers have just announced a signing tour taking place as part of 2015’s Festival, bringing some Thought Bubble guests to a comic shop near you during the Festival week,… Read More ›

• New Discworld-inpsired game, Clacks, on sale now from Backspindle Games

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2015

  

  Backspindle Games – the Northern Ireland-based games design company, the creators of fun and strategy board games such as Guards! Guards!, the pocket strategy game Codinca and the award-winning Luchador! Mexican Wrestling Dice – have begun shipping their new Discworld-inspired game, Clacks, featuring art… Read More ›

• Art by Darwyn Cooke, Stuart Immonen and Charlie Adlard added to Lakes Festival fund-raising auction

  By John Freeman on November 4, 2015

  

  Art from the Walking Dead comic by Charlie Adlard, superhero drawings by Darwyn Cooke and Stuart Immonen and cartoons by Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell and VIZ artist Graham Dury have been added to the catalogue for Lakes International Comic Art Festival Grand Auction of Original Comic Art, which will take place live and online from London’s Orbital… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Breaking the mould with Save Our Souls magazine

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2015

  

  Save Our Souls is a stunning looking new British magazine currently seeking crowdfunding of £3000 to launch, which will feature written articles by brilliant writers and journalists, alongside some of the best short comics and illustration you can find. The… Read More ›

• Crucible: The Walking-Notes of Truuug Vanderplatz ‘The Daunting’

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2015

  

  Here’s another “Crucible” extra from co-creator Smuzz, focusing on our resident medical expert, Truug Vanderplatz, set before the first adventure. There’s more about Crucible here, and you can read the strip on Tapastic (publisher interest welcome). Truug’s notes are presented… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Lloyd and the Bear by Gibson Grey

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2015

  

  It’s already hit its target, but there’s still time to back Gibson Grey‘s planned trade paperback of his terrific Lloyd and the the Bear strip, collecting the first four issues of Lloyd comic adventures with updated artwork and a whole… Read More ›

• In Review: Lew Stringer’s Brickman Returns

  By John Freeman on November 3, 2015

  

  By Lew Stringer Out: Now! The Story: Lew Stringer’s seriously-stupid superhero Brickman is back after an equally stupidly-long absence from comics – and his creator has finally realised a long-held ambition to bring the character’s many fans a new comic… Read More ›

• Great British Comic Characters Reinvented: Adam Eterno

  By John Freeman on November 2, 2015

  

  We launched our British Comic Characters Made New Competition earlier this week and we’ve just received our first entry – Adam Eterno by Graham Hill. First published in Thunder in 1970, Adam was an immortal time traveller, vulnerable only to… Read More ›

• Simon Bisley delivers 2000AD variant Christmas cover – and Jesus Redondo is back in same Prog!

  By John Freeman on November 2, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  2000AD is bidding UK comics retailers a merry Christmas this year as superstar artist Simon Bisley returns to the comic that launched his career with a special cover. The legendary weekly anthology has teamed up with Diamond UK to offer comic… Read More ›

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