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• Venal Muse Goes Online

  By John Freeman on 12 June 2008

  (Via: Richard Bruton of Fictions): Small press artist Marc Ellerby has just made Venal Muse, his mini comic from 2006, available in its entirety online. ‘I drew this in late 2006, but I think it eventually came out around February… Read More ›

• BBC Online Archive Plan Details Announced

  By John Freeman on 11 June 2008 • ( 1 )

  The BBC has announced plans to produce a web-page for every episode of every television show it has ever made, as part of an online archive that will span nearly eight decades of broadcasting history. “From Dixon of Dock Green… Read More ›

• Animated Adventures Exhibition in Leicester

  By John Freeman on 10 June 2008

  Animated Adventures, featuring Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit, is now open at the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery in Leicester and runs until 12 October 2008. Visitors will get a behind-the-scenes look at how animators including Aardman – the film… Read More ›

• Weird Web Finds…

  By John Freeman on 10 June 2008

  Most peculiar…

• Charlotte Corday: The Hampstead Horror

  By John Freeman on 10 June 2008

  Here are the first two ‘chapters’ of a new Charlotte Corday story, The Hampstead Horror, created by Commando, New Eagle and Spaceship Away artist Keith Page specifically for ROK Comics, the mobile comics publisher. (Read more about the project here)…. Read More ›

• In Review: Comic Art Now

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2008

  Almost every creative industry has its creative directory but comics seems to have missed the boat — until Comic Art Now. Edited by industry veteran Dez Skinn, this impressive a 200-page “comic art directory” has been published by HarperCollins Design… Read More ›

• Afterlife Released

  By John Freeman on 8 June 2008

  After a year of long evenings after work, indie British comic creator Michael Crouch has finally produced Afterlife, a one-off science fiction tale. Afterlife is the story of a group of people on the distant Earth colony world of Nightfall…. Read More ›

• Tube Surfing : 7 June 2008

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2008

  Gerry Anderson fanzine Andersonic, which is currently on issue 5, now has a related website. The site details the current and back issues and will eventually have a shop to allow the issues to be purchased direct. Issue 6 of… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing : Beano At 70

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2008

  Book And Magazine Collector issue 296 has a 15 page article by Norman Wright and David Ashford to celebrate the 70 anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the Beano dated July 30 1938. The issue is available… Read More ›

• Commando Webbing

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2008

  DC Thomson’s official Commando website have just completed their first web version of a Commando comic. Wall of Death was originally published in July 1966 in Commando issue 221, written by Redbridge and illustrated by Cortez. The website has formatted… Read More ›

• New Hammer and Carry On stamps from Royal Mail

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2008

  2008 is the fiftieth anniversay of both Hammer’s classic Dracula movie and the Carry On films (although in the case of the latter you’d be forgiven for not knowing that giving the lack of fanfare over such a milestone!). To… Read More ›

• In Person – Ray Harryhausen In Edinburgh

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2008

  There are few movie makers other than some actors and a few directors that could be said to have become legends in their own lifetime. Special effects creator Ray Harryhausen is one of those select few with his skeleton fight… Read More ›

• Highway Robbery Comics

  By John Freeman on 6 June 2008

  British creators David Hailwood and Tony Suleri (artist on Cosmogenesis) have a a new webcomic online via Bulletproof Comics (www.bulletproofcomics.co.uk). Highway Robbery features the adventures of ape bounty hunter Pubba Gintaro, as he defends the population of Hounddog City from… Read More ›

• Illustration House Auction

  By John Freeman on 6 June 2008

  New York auction company Illustration House has announced a fine selection of paintings and drawings with its new Auction of Illustrative and Cartoon Art, which takes place tomorrow, 7th June, at their Manhattan Gallery. Absentee bidding available. The works, which… Read More ›

• Torchwood Sigining News

  By John Freeman on 6 June 2008

  Gareth David-Lloyd, best known to a legion of Who-iniverse fans for his portrayal of the super-efficient Ianto Jones in Torchwood, will be making not one but two personal appearances on Saturday 28th of June. The first will be at Nostalgia… Read More ›

• Ian Rankin and Alan Grant

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2008

  (with thanks to Matthew Badham): Author Ian Rankin returns to the Borders Book Festival in Melrose, Scotland later this month, but not, this time, to talk about Inspector Rebus. Instead he will pose questions about Judge Dredd, Batman, The Terminator,… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Hannah Berry Interviewed

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2008

  Over on the Forbidden Planet International blog, Joe Gordon has posted an interview with Brighton-based Hannah Berry, author of the recnetly-published Britten & Brülightly from publishers Jonathan Cape, a film noir-styled debut graphic novel that centres on ‘Private Researcher’ Fernández… Read More ›

• In Review: Rumble Strip

  By John Freeman on 4 June 2008

  If you want to get away with murder, buy a car. That could easily be the “message” of Woodrow Phoenix’ latest graphic novel, Rumble Strip – except that of course, the reality is never that simple. The truth is far… Read More ›

• ROK Drops Crumb Into China

  By John Freeman on 4 June 2008

  ROK Comics has announced that several top comic creators are having their work translated for distribution in China as part of the company’s ongoing development — with over 30,000 downloads delivered in one weekend. Crumb, created by top cartoonist David… Read More ›

• Gordon Brown, Superhero…

  By John Freeman on 4 June 2008

  As trailed yesterday, Blink Twice artist Lawrence Etherington appeared on BBC Breakfast this morning, as part of the BBC’s coverage of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s role in Marvel’s new Captain Britain and MI13 comic, written by Paul Cornell. (Brown is… Read More ›

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