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• In Review: Classics From The Comics 149

  By John Freeman on 21 September 2008

  It has been out for a while but it is still worth giving the latest issue DC Thomson’s monthly reprint magazine Classics From The Comics a hearty pat on the back. Issue 149 includes two sections that are new to… Read More ›

• Solar Wind: The Last Hurrah

  By John Freeman on 21 September 2008

  The are some constants in life: night follows day, the episode written by Steven Moffat will be the best story in any given season of new Doctor Who, and original Eagle fans will always hate any new version of Dan… Read More ›

• Scotland’s Celebrity Chef

  By John Freeman on 21 September 2008

  The latest cookbook from Scotland’s newest celebrity chef, Maw Broon, has just been released. Last year’s offering, simply entitled Maw Broon’s Cookbook, sold over 170000 copies and so Mrs Brown has released a second this time entitled Maw Broon’s But… Read More ›

• It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!

  By John Freeman on 19 September 2008

  So, let’s celebrate… • Talk Like A Pirate Day Official web site

• EyeCandy iPhone Kids Comic

  By John Freeman on 19 September 2008 • ( 1 )

  … an idea which speaks for itself from Paul J. Holden after his content problems with Murderdrome, so let’s let him do the talking about his new iphone app, EyeCandy, available from the iApps Store soon for 99 cents. •… Read More ›

• In Review: The Tripwire Annual 2008

  By John Freeman on 18 September 2008

  Review by John Freeman Joel Meadows has edited and designed Tripwire since 1992, and, as editor of the magazine and a freelance journalist for newspapers such as The Times, The Indpendent and various other titles, has interviewed almost everyone of… Read More ›

• Comic Timing at Harrods!

  By John Freeman on 17 September 2008

  

  Check out this fantastic comics exhibition at Harrods

• Abracadabra! It’s Shaun the Sheep

  By John Freeman on 17 September 2008

  Baa! Another bunch of great woolly adventures for Shaun, Bitzer, Shirley and the flock, not to mention those troublesome pigs is about to be released on DVD, as they go looking for more sheep thrills. The shear delights in this… Read More ›

• Dreaming Up The DFC: An Interview with Publisher David Fickling

  By John Freeman on 17 September 2008

  Earlier this year, David Fickling Books and Random House launched The DFC, a new weekly comic in the UK, the first of its kind in terms of the levels of originated, new characters for many years. Packed to the gunnels… Read More ›

• Beano, Dandy Too PC?

  By John Freeman on 16 September 2008 • ( 2 )

  Euan Kerr, former editor of The Beano, has hit out at the current content of the comic and the Dandy arguing they have become too politically correct. In an article in the Telegraph, picking up on a report in Scotland… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright

  By John Freeman on 16 September 2008

  

  I was sorry to hear that founding Pink Floyd member and keyboardist Richard Wright has died at the age of 65 after losing a short struggle with cancer. Wright performed with the legendary rock outfit from their very early beginnings… Read More ›

• Etherington Brothers ‘Go Nuts!’

  By John Freeman on 15 September 2008

  After a summer spent diligently producing page after page of comic book nonsense in their Bristol studio, the Etherington Brothers, creators of strips such Monkey Nuts and Malcolm Magic are about to begin an frenetic End of Year appearance schedule,… Read More ›

• Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine "Market Tested"

  By John Freeman on 14 September 2008

  Last month, we reported on a new Doctor Who magazine in development from part works publishers GE Fabbri, publishers of the Doctor Who magazine Battles in Time and magazine-video titles such as Ronnie Barker, Charmed and Stargate SG-1. Although GE… Read More ›

• Secrets of Ceres joins Spaceship Away

  By John Freeman on 14 September 2008

  A bit of shameless self-promotion: I’m delighted to report that Secrets of Ceres, the first part of a new SF strip drawn by Mike Nicoll and written by me, John Freeman, will feature in the next issue of the Dan… Read More ›

• Silverfin Graphic Novel announced

  By John Freeman on 14 September 2008

  (with thanks to Reuben Willmott): Penguin Books will publish a graphic novel version of Charlie Higson’s first Young James Bond story, Silverfin, in October. Drawn by 2000AD‘s Kev Walker, the story begins with James Bond’s first day at Eton, and… Read More ›

• Black Boar Goes Gothic

  By John Freeman on 14 September 2008

  Dave Hitchcock, the man behind Black Boar Press and highly acclaimed indie comics such as Whitechapel Freak and Springheeled Jack, is about to self publish another newspaper/comic called Gothic. “It will include some of my short stories from way back,”… Read More ›

• End of the Road for Flick and Jube

  By John Freeman on 14 September 2008

  Simon Mackie’s ace Flick and Jube web comic, published over on DrunkDuck (along with several more of his comics such as Dr Ballard The Golem Rises and Bikini Blow Up, is finally complete. “Now to try and find a publisher,”… Read More ›

• To Infinity and… er, Japan!

  By John Freeman on 13 September 2008

  Russell Willis produced and published a number on important underground cartoon magazines in the 1980s including Infinity, which included interviews with creators such as Alan Moore, Posy Simmonds and David Lloyd and later issues of The Alternative Headmaster’s Bulletin. He… Read More ›

• To Infinity and… er, Japan! An interview with Russell Willis

  By John Freeman on 13 September 2008 • ( 1 )

  Russell Willis produced and published a number on important underground cartoon magazines in the 1980s. He moved to Tokyo in the early 1990’s where he now runs a web based publishing company in Tokyo. UK underground cartoonist, Simon Mackie, who… Read More ›

• Comics International Goes Ape!

  By John Freeman on 12 September 2008

  In the latest issue of Europe’s comics industry trade paper, which goes on sale week beginning 29 September, writer Karl Kesel, artist Ramon Bachs and editor Steve Wacker talk exclusively to Comics International about making monkeys out of superheroes in… Read More ›

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