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• Wrong Door Reviews…

  By John Freeman on 29 August 2008 • ( 3 )

  — which are pretty mixed so far, reflecting comment here and elsewhere on the net. Broadcast reports that The Wrong Door attracted 546,000 (3.5%) at 10.30pm last night, the highest ever audience for the launch of a comedy on the… Read More ›

• Birmingham Gets Watchmen Fever

  By John Freeman on 28 August 2008

  The Birmingham International Comics Show returns to Millennium Point in Britain’s second city for second year running in October and has a distinct Watchmen flavour to proceedings with the inclusion of co-creator Dave Gibbons to the growing guest list and… Read More ›

• Andersonic Hits Six with new Gerry Anderson Interview

  By John Freeman on 28 August 2008 • ( 1 )

  The sixth ‘episode’ of Richard Farell and Vincent Law’s Gerry Anderson fanzine Andersonic is now on sale via the Andersonic web site Another 40 page issue, it features a new interview with Gerry Anderson who discusses, amongst other things, UFO,… Read More ›

• Wrong Door Day

  By John Freeman on 28 August 2008 • ( 2 )

  It’s Wrong Door day — the launch of BBC3‘s new comedy show written by Ben Wheatley whose credits also include work for web, TV such as Time Trumpet and advrtising such as Pot Noodle Crumlin and more. Anyone who likes… Read More ›

• More Comics on iphone

  By John Freeman on 28 August 2008

  Owners of Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices have been downloading millions of games, utilities, books, and tools from Apple’s recently launched iTunes App Store. Now, starting later this year millions of iPhone/iPod Touch owners will have the opportunity to… Read More ›

• Virgin Comics closes New York office, projects cancelled?

  By John Freeman on 27 August 2008

  Updated 24/9/08: Publishers Weekly reports that Virgin Comics, the two year-old joint venture between the Virgin Group and India’s comic book publisher Gotham Entertainment and publishers of the recent Dan Dare mini series by Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine, has… Read More ›

• Temple APA Seeks Contributors

  By John Freeman on 27 August 2008

  The Temple APA, one of Britain’s longest-running amateur comics communities (which has several professional-standard creators in its midst!) is looking for writers and artists to contribute to the new digital version of the Temple. The new version will be a… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 26 August 2008

  By John Freeman on 26 August 2008

  • Bulletproof Comics #2, an anthology title of top comics talent, is now at the printers and will be available soon from the Bulletproof web site (www.bulletproofcomics.co.uk). It’s another 80-page beast of an issue, but this time around the title… Read More ›

• Marvel Heroes Turning Japanese

  By John Freeman on 26 August 2008

  US publisher Marvel Comics is partnering with top Japanese animation studio Madhouse to create brand new characters inspired by the Marvel Universe for the Japanese market. Working closely with Marvel, Madhouse will produce cutting edge Japanese anime series based on… Read More ›

• In Pictures: Colin Baker’s Brief Encounter!

  By John Freeman on 26 August 2008

  

  200 science fiction fans of all ages enjoyed a “Brief Encounter” with Doctor Who star Colin Baker this weekend on Carnforth railway station, Lancashire. When the event sold out – surprising even the organisers, Carnforth’s new TARDIS Shop – Colin’s… Read More ›

• Photo Review: Edinburgh BookFest

  By Jeremy Briggs on 25 August 2008

  by Jeremy Briggs The tent village of the Edinburgh International Book Festival springs up in the private Charlotte Square Gardens in the city centre each August. Over half a dozen theatre tents, a box office, two bookshops, a café and… Read More ›

• War of Words: Comic Writing Tips

  By John Freeman on 25 August 2008

  

  In December 2007 Matt Badham was fortunate enough to interview DC Thomson editor Calum Laird, currently editing Commando, as research for an article about writing. The interview includes tips on pitching to various DC Thomson titles such as The Dandy,… Read More ›

• Trripwire Returns!

  By John Freeman on 25 August 2008

  Top comics magazine Tripwire returned to comic shop shelves this week with its eagerly-awaited second annual issue, an extravagant 144-page smorgasbord of pop culture content kicked off by an original Doctor Who cover painted by Tommy Lee Edwards. The magazine… Read More ›

• War of Words: An interview with Calum Laird

  By Matt Badham on 24 August 2008

  

  In December 2007 I was fortunate enough to interview Calum Laird, who edits DC Thomson’s Commando. The interview was conducted as research for an article about writing and Calum was very generous with his time. I felt it seemed a shame to waste… Read More ›

• It’s Not Comics, But…

  By John Freeman on 22 August 2008

  As a show of solidarity with the Dalai Lama and Tibet, 20 artists have come together to release a historic double album on the eve of the Beijing Olympics, The Art of Peace. These recordings – some original for the… Read More ›

• Murderdrome Comes to the iphone

  By John Freeman on 22 August 2008

  Top British comic creators Al Ewing and PJ Holden have developed an iphone version of their new comics project Murderdrome. Find out more by watching the video below or visiting their blog. While comics on phones are not a new… Read More ›

• Alison Carroll is Tomb Raider

  By John Freeman on 22 August 2008

  Meet Alison Carroll – actress, gymnast and arguably the greatest living embodiment of Lara Croft so far. There have been several memorable real-life incarnations of England’s first lady of adventure over the last decade, but few have managed to capture… Read More ›

• Exhibition celebrates the life of Beano cartoonist, Robert T Nixon

  By John Freeman on 21 August 2008 • ( 1 )

  

  The life of cartoonist Robert T Nixon has been celebrated this summer

• TMNT: Back to the Sewer on its way to the UK

  By John Freeman on 21 August 2008

  4Kids Entertainment has completed deals with several broadcasters, including CITV in the UK, for a new series based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, which celebrates its 25th anniversary next year. TMNT: Back to the Sewer will be launched… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Pauline Baynes

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2008

  by John Freeman I’ve just been catching up with some recent email and read that Pauline Baynes, whose illustrations gave life to Narnia, as well as appearing in books by J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary Norton, Richard Adams and countless others, passed… Read More ›

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