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• Tube Surfing: 23 July 2008

  By John Freeman on 23 July 2008

  Two DVD releases coming soon from the worlds of Gerry Anderson are worth a mention. The last of the major Anderson productions to reach UK DVD, the 1969 live action feature film Doppelganger, will be released under its American title… Read More ›

• More Halloween Comics on the way

  By John Freeman on 23 July 2008

  Following the success of Halloween: Nightdance, the four issue mini-series based on the popular film franchise, more Halloween-inspired comics are on their way, after issues one and two of the mini series proved so popular publishers Devil’s Due have had… Read More ›

• Les Starblazeurs

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2008

  It has been eleven months since both downthetubes and Bear Alley mentioned the Starblazer Adventures role-playing game due out from Cubicle Seven. The Starblazer Adventures core rulebook is now scheduled to be in games stores in “Autumn/Winter 2008” according to… Read More ›

• Comic Book Adventures in Time and Space!

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2008

  

  A group of Manchester comic and Doctor Who fans have organised a special event on 18 October at the Lass O’Gowrie, Manchester featuring several top creator names including Paul Cornell (left) and Steve Dillon. Vworp Vworp! Comic Book Adventures in… Read More ›

• The Graphic Art of Comment

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2008

  With the flurry of outrage over New Yorker‘s recent Barrack Obama cover, a new exhibition of cartoons commenting on politics and more published by Britain’s Guardian newspaper may well gain more attention than usual.The Graphic Art of Comment runs from… Read More ›

• Beano Mischief on Radio 4!

  By John Freeman on 21 July 2008

  Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park and Beano editor Alan Digby were interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, part of the ongoing celebrations for the weekly comic as it fast approaches its 70th birthday. Park, who is… Read More ›

• Crikey’s DC Thomson Special

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2008

  The next issue of British comics history magazine Crikey! (Number 6) on sale soon, with the editors promising that the “Summer Special” (remember those?) is a DC Thomson focused issue, apt given the upcoming 70th birthday celebrations for that company’s… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 20 July 2008

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2008

  • Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett has been interviewed by The Guardian. “His is the pen behind Eighties comic-strip heroine Tank Girl, virtual band Gorillaz and the opera Monkey,” the article opens, “and soon you’ll be seeing his animated title… Read More ›

• How to Draw a Cartoon Cat

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008

  Esbjorn Jorsater, who runs the Comic Art School forum on Ning, has come up with a novel use for ROK Comics — as a way to deliver tutorials! Esbjorn has created this simple guide to creating a cartoon cat, which… Read More ›

• New British ebook service launches

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008

  Just launched in the past few weeks is Myebook.com (www.myebook.com), a new web-based ebook community from a British company, which aims to give people the tools to create book content and ‘get it out there’ for free. Every aspect of… Read More ›

• Classical Comics Video Interview

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008

  Comics artist Jon Haward and writer John McDonald, part of the creative team on Classicial Comics Macbeth, have been interviewed for the BookZone TV, an online video channel from the Borders bookshop. View the video here Classical Comics recently announced… Read More ›

• Comic Book Movies

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008 • ( 1 )

  Brian Bolland has provided the artwork for the “Comic Book Movies – Graphic novels on the big screen” festival at the BFI on London’s Southbank. Showing a non-identified spandex-wearing hero (is it Directorman? FirstGripman? Gafferman?) the season of movies is… Read More ›

• Celebrate 70 years of Comic Mayhem!

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008

  Ken Harrison has provided this great illustration for the forthcoming Beano and Dandy exhibition at the Cartoon Muesum in London. While some of the characters featured will be familar to today’s readers of The Beano and Dandy Ken has also… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 19 July 2008

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008

  Tom Spurgeon of the Comics Reporter interviews British comic creator Daniel Merlin Goodbrey here. ‘What little I know about the writer and cartoonist Daniel Merlin Goodbrey intrigues in a way that it’s surprising I didn’t interview him a long time… Read More ›

• Cancertown Graphic Novel Planned

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008

  Cancertown (out at the end of the year from Insomnia Publications) is a new original graphic novel from British comic writer Cy (Starship Troopers) Dethan with art by Stephen Downey, colours by Melanie Cook and letters by Nic Wilkinson. It’s… Read More ›

• In Review: Him and Her’s Smuggling Vacation

  By John Freeman on 19 July 2008 • ( 1 )

  

  by Jason WilsonPublished by Dealer Comics The Book: A 74-page graphic novel telling the story of an ordinary British couple – he works in IT, she works in Marks and Spencer – who, when on holiday in Spain, stumble across… Read More ›

• Creepy Curtain Crawlers!

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2008

  Comic creator Chris Reynolds, the groundbreaking talent behind the classic Mauretania graphic novel, has just added a new Moon Queen adventure to the comics to mobile service ROK Comics. Titled Curtain Crawlers, the spooky tale is different to the previous… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 17 July 2008

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2008

  • Due to unforeseen circumstances Jimi Gerkin’s much anticipated ‘Pens, Pencils and Photocopiers’ Comics and Zines Event in London this Saturday is going to cost exhibiting contributors £7 each. More details here: Jimi has asked that contributors get in contact… Read More ›

• Pubishing News Closes, Victim of Web Competition

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2008

  British book trade weekly Publishing News, which has occasionally covered graphic novels and related illustrated books in its pages, is to cease publication. The issue of Friday July 25th will be the last. In a statement on the magazine’s website… Read More ›

• Bell Defends New Yorker Obama cover

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2008

  Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell has sprung to the defence of the New Yorker magazine, currently embroiled in controversy for its latest cover depicting US presidential candidate Barrack Obama and his wife Michelle. Barack Obama supporters are said to be furious… Read More ›

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