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• Online Digital Comics Woes

  By John Freeman on 12 April 2007

  Just read this rather worrying note about poor customer service from digital comic store Direct2Drive on the Kung Fu Rodeo blog. Sounds to me like a lesson in how not to run your business in an age when comments on… Read More ›

• More Blair and Bush

  By John Freeman on 12 April 2007

• Create your own comics

  By John Freeman on 11 April 2007

  ROK’s new comics project, now in beta, is up and running – check out www.rokcomics.com — and we’ve had some terrific and positive feedback from a wide variety of comics creators. Delivery to mobile is still in progress but the… Read More ›

• Johnny "BC" Hart Dies

  By John Freeman on 9 April 2007

  76-year-old Johnny Hart, award-winning creator of the popular B.C. comic series and co-creator of The Wizard of Id with Brant Parker, died this weekend. He apparently suffered a stroke while working at his drawing table at home in Nineveh, Broome… Read More ›

• Promoting Comics rant

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2007

  Hmf. I’ve been trying to add old blog entries from previous blogs to this one, back dating as I go. I’m having little success doing this – it either works once, and then starts treating the entry as a modern… Read More ›

• Mite-Sized Judge Reid!

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2007

  Brilliant artist Gary Hall joins in this growing gallery of dangerous present day politicians adopting 2000AD-styled law giving with “Mite-Sized Judge John Reid”. Thanks, Gary!

• Zombie Captain America

  By John Freeman on 2 April 2007

  Thought you might appreciate this April Fool story Forbidden Planet’s Kenny Penman spotted via a German comics news site: a new Marvel book starring a zombie Captain America, drawn by Charlie Adlard… although given the popularity of zombies right now… Read More ›

• 2000AD Britain – It’s Really Happening

  By John Freeman on 31 March 2007

  Responding to an appeal for comic images of Britain inspired in part by news of the establishment of a Ministry of Justice, straight from the pages of 2000AD, the ever brilliant SMS sent me this image, hot on the heels… Read More ›

• Judge Reid by Nick Miller

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2007 • ( 1 )

  Comics artist Nick Miller has quickly risen to my “Drawn Judge John Reid Challenge” and delivered this cracking version of the savage Scot from the new British Ministry of Justice! Thanks, Nick!

• Move over Dredd, it’s Judge Reid!

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2007

  Anyone fancy whipping up a better version of this quick and crude montage in response to the impending creation of a Ministry of Justice by British Secretary John Reid? I’m more than happy to post the results! Here’s som edirect… Read More ›

• In Review: Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot

  By Jeremy Briggs on 30 March 2007

  

  Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot Published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse in the US The Book: Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago, it was the greatest centre of learning in the whole of Christendom and the… Read More ›

• Monkeys discuss creationism

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2007

  It’s been fun doing the full run through of Monkey News this week. I particularly enjoyed this edition, where Russell the Monkey reads a story about Creationism…

• Marshall Rogers dies

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2007

  Just read via Newsarama that US artist Marshall Rogers has died. His work on Mister Miracle, Detectives Inc. and Doctor Strange remain personal favourites, but it was his Batman strips for Detective Comics which originally made him an artist whose… Read More ›

• Monkey News continues

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2007

  

  Shameless self promotion for a Rok project

• Old enough to remember this?

  By John Freeman on 22 March 2007

  You’re probably 2000AD’s core audience, then…

• Comics on Your Mobile – Exclusive

  By John Freeman on 21 March 2007 • ( 1 )

  Well, it’s been five years (at least) in the making — but I’m delighted to report that I’m in the middle of a first round testing of a new comics-to-mobile service for ROK Media, that should launch soon, and we’ll… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Jim Cronin

  By John Freeman on 21 March 2007 • ( 4 )

  I was very sorry to hear from my Mum last night that ape rescue campaigner Jim Cronin died this week. Jim was the co-founder of Dorset’s Monkey World with his wife Alison, an internationally renowned ape rescue centre I’ve visited… Read More ›

• Re-visiting childhood

  By John Freeman on 21 March 2007

  Talk about a labour of love. dtb contributor Matthew Badham’s just passed on a note from 2000AD fan Paul (Book of Lists, There’s No Time Like the Present) Rainey, who’s re-visitng the entire 30 year run of the title, after… Read More ›

• Flat Pyramid

  By John Freeman on 20 March 2007

  This might be a useful site for artists: Flat Pyramid, founded by professionals in the creative media and corporate America, is dedicated to the creation, management, worldwide promotion, and distribution of digital content online. The website provides an intermediary platform… Read More ›

• Some things just aren’t right…

  By John Freeman on 20 March 2007

  Case in point: Bratz dolls. I can’t believe I’m alone in thinking they’re deeply disturbing in terms of look (quite frankly, they give me the heebie jeebies), and now Worth 1000’s running a competition to turn the world into them…. Read More ›

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