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• Tube Surfing: 18 November 2008

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2008

  • Happy Birthday, Alan Moore. The comics legend and mage, writer of Top Ten, Lost Girls, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Swamp Thing, Doctor Who, Maxwell the Magic Cat, Watchmen and much, much more is 55 today. • (via Kasterborous): Would… Read More ›

• Grab yourselves some The Beano and The Dandy collectables

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2008

  

  If you’re looking for something a little bit special for the British comic fan in your life this Christmas, how about one of these limited edition The Beano and The Dandy figurines from Robert Harrop Designs?

• Kev’s Comic Art MasterClass: 2009 Dates

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2008

  Beano comics artist Kev Sutherland has been in touch to say he has a fair cluster of his Comic Art Masterclasses in 2009 that will be open to the public, rather than just being in schools and colleges. Wednesday 18th… Read More ›

• Creature Comforts USA Released on DVD

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2008

  Creature Comforts USA: Complete Series 3 has just been released on DVD in the UK by 2Entertain, offering more unscripted voices of the great American public hilariously brought to life with animated animals and wildlife. Based on Aardman Animation’s original… Read More ›

• Star Trek XI Official Trailer

  By John Freeman on 18 November 2008

  … do I need to say more? Response as always is mixed so far from fans but it looks superb…

• Ken Barr Prints On Sale

  By John Freeman on 17 November 2008

  Comicsmagazines.com and comics artist Ken Barr have jointly pubished a limited edition art print, “Para Sarg” painted by Ken. The release is the first of a planned series of limited edition prints based on great British regiments and landmark battles… Read More ›

• Lloyd in London – New Exhibition Announced

  By John Freeman on 17 November 2008

  The work of Kickback and V for Vendetta artist David Lloyd will feature in an exhibition in London in December. “Kickback – An Exhibition of the Dynamic Sequential Art of David Lloyd” runs from 4th until the 23rd December at… Read More ›

• Gaiman’s "Coraline" Strangest Film Ever?:

  By John Freeman on 17 November 2008

  (with thanks to Chris Taormina): FilminFocus, an editorial site on film culture recently launched by Focus Features, has published an article on the upcoming animated adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novella Coraline, which was adapted into a graphic novel by… Read More ›

• Thought Bubble This Saturday

  By John Freeman on 14 November 2008

  The Thought Bubble One Day Comic Convention is tomorrow (Saturday 15th November) in Leeds. If you didn’t buy a ticket yet don’t worry, there will be plenty on the door. Price will be £6/£4.50 concession. Cosplayers get in free! Guest… Read More ›

• Dayglo joins Mutated Britain!

  By John Freeman on 14 November 2008

  (with thanks to Matthew Badham): Comics artist Rufus Dayglo (whose credits include 2000AD, the new Tank Girl comics from IDW) is taking part in the Mutoid Waste Exhibition in London from 21st November. “I’ve been asked by the good people… Read More ›

• Win Tickets To New Wallace And Gromit Film Preview

  By John Freeman on 13 November 2008

  Leonard Cheshire Disability and Aardman Animations are offering one lucky winner two tickets to preview the new Wallace and Gromit film, A Matter of Loaf and Death, at the Aardman studios in Bristol on 22 December. The competition is part… Read More ›

• Macbeth wins Book Award

  By John Freeman on 13 November 2008

  This week’s ceremony for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2008 was a great success for Classical Comics. Macbeth: Original Text, drawn by Jon Haward, was the winner of the Secondary Education category and was also Highly Commended (2nd… Read More ›

• In Review: The Leather Nun and Other Incredibly Strange Comics

  By John Freeman on 12 November 2008

  It’s not just leather nuns that provide the strange fare that makes up this fun title from Paul Gravett & Peter Stanbury (released as Holy Sh*t! by St. Martins Press in the US): for just under ten quid you can… Read More ›

• Marvel Reveals some Digital Costs

  By John Freeman on 12 November 2008

  The Paid Content website recently reported that Marvel Comics plans on investing upwards of $10 million in the digital media aspect of their company, including digital comics. Despite the initial investment’s affect on their current profit loss, Marvel forecasts a… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 12 Novmber 2008

  By John Freeman on 12 November 2008

  • Over on Bear Alley, Steve Holland reports that Tim Pilcher’s Erotic Comics: A Graphic History, Volume 1: From Birth to the 1970s book, published by Ilex in the UK, has been banned by Australian customs from entering the country…. Read More ›

• Erotic Comics, Round Two

  By John Freeman on 11 November 2008

  

  Picking up from where the international best-selling Erotic Comics: A Graphic History (Volume 1) left off, Ilex press have just announced Volume 2 will reveal how European, American and Asian artists have explored the possibility of the form in the… Read More ›

• In Review: Charley’s War Volume 5 – Return to the Front

  By John Freeman on 11 November 2008

  In the week of Armistice 90, the arrival of the latest collection of Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun’s brilliant First World War series Charley’s War, first published in Battle Picture Weekly in 1981, seems more than apt. Return to the… Read More ›

• Moore’s ‘Beat Poem’ Finally Published

  By John Freeman on 11 November 2008

  US publisher Avatar Press has announced publication of Light of Thy Countenance, an adaptation of Alan Moore’s damning poem/essay on television, fully painted by Felipe Massafera, five years after the script was written. Moore wrote might best be described as… Read More ›

• Cosmos Fireworks

  By John Freeman on 11 November 2008

  The latest issue of the Jeff Hawke magazine Cosmos is now available from the Jeff Hawke Fan Club (www.jeffhawkeclub.com) Issue One of the fifth volume of the magazine edited by William Rudling features several stories, including Uncanny Deep, plus features… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 9 November 2008

  By John Freeman on 9 November 2008

  

  • Forbidden Planet International has posted up a new competition to win one of five copies of the new Vertigo Encyclopedia. “It’s pretty good,” feels FPI’s Joe Gordon, “obviously no in depth on each series, but it’s a good a-z… Read More ›

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