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• More on those Dan Dare sales figures…

  By John Freeman on 20 December 2007

  Earlier today, I posted news of Dan Dare #1’s strong sales in the UK and a round up of just some of the reviews I found about the title (which have apparently astonished some Dan Dare fans who didn’t like… Read More ›

• In Space No One Can Hear You Build…

  By John Freeman on 19 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  If the Forbidden Lego book hasn’t sparked your imagination for something to do with the kids’ Lego once they have become bored with it after Christmas, maybe this website will give you a few ideas. Lego Sci-Fi has Lego representations… Read More ›

• Dan Dare UK Sales Success, Review Round Up

  By John Freeman on 19 December 2007 • ( 4 )

  ** Warning! Potential spoilers in the comments on this post!** UK sales of the first issue of Virgin’s new Dan Dare have made the title one of the most requested and most difficult to find in the run up to… Read More ›

• My Wife Left Me…

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  Before the sublime Doctor Who: Blink, before the gory Jekyll, before his two consecutive Hugo awards for new Doctor Who episodes, before even the four seasons of Coupling, Steven Moffat wrote two seasons of a little gem of a sitcom… Read More ›

• In Review: Cosmogenesis

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  Just released by Clown Press and available via amazon.co.uk, Waterstones and other good bookshops is Adam Grose and Tony Suleri’s epic Cosmogenesis, a fully revised and updated version of the sprawling, magnificent space epic these two British creators have been… Read More ›

• One for those of us working in publishing…

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2007

  – and advertising, marketing, promotions etc. etc. For the record, we of course don’t know any pubisher or anyone in advertising who behaves like this. (Do you?). This mashup was conceived, written and produced by World Wide Wadio (“an All-Star… Read More ›

• For More Action And Adventure

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2007 • ( 1 )

  While former Commando editor George Low continues with the Carlton (and SevenOaks) Commando reprint books, new Commando editor Calum Laird has made his mark on DC Thomson’s official website for the comic. The site has be given a revamp with… Read More ›

• Daily Telegraph Doctor Who Story

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2007

  Paul Cornell’s Doctor Who short story for Christmas, The Hopes and Fears of All the Years will be appearing in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday 22 December, and then on the Telegraph’s website, www.telegraph.co.uk. “There are some lovely illustrations by… Read More ›

• Rumble in the Jungle!

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2007

  (Report originally posted by Richard Sheaf) Two of Carlton’s Commando collections currently available have now been produced in alternative covers by Ian Kennedy. Fetaured here are the two Anzacs at War and the True Brit covers… There’s also a new… Read More ›

• Forbidden Lego

  By John Freeman on 14 December 2007

  A book showing children how to make guns out of LEGO is causing parents to have fits as it climbs the list of must-have Christmas presents. Forbidden Lego, written by two former employees of the Danish plastic-brick firm, Ulrik Pilegaard… Read More ›

• Eagle Times launches blog

  By John Freeman on 14 December 2007

  

  New blog for the august Eagle Society

• The future of newspapers?

  By John Freeman on 14 December 2007

  (With thanks to the Daily Cartoonist for the link): American editorial cartoonist Ted Rall has recently written a three-part column on the future of the newspaper industry. • Part IAs big newspapers and magazines start giving away their content “violating… Read More ›

• Should Have Been Christmas Number One…

  By John Freeman on 14 December 2007

  Well this, or Shaun the Sheep…

• Infinite Accquisitions

  By John Freeman on 14 December 2007

  In a marriage of SF makers, independent British television producer Impossible Pictures, makers of Prehistoric Park and Primeval for ITV has acquired the Manchester-based animation company Firestep. The acquisition expands Impossible Pictures’ operations outside of London and the company says… Read More ›

• More Spider-Man from Panini

  By John Freeman on 13 December 2007

  US comics site Newsarama has just posted an interview with Panini’s Ed Hammond, editor of Spectacular Spider-Man and reprint editor of Marvel Pocketbooks, interviewing him about their UK range of Marvel reprints. Spectacular Spider-Man is reprinted in a number of… Read More ›

• An Embuggerance: Terry Pratchett has Alzheimers

  By John Freeman on 13 December 2007

  Possibly the best sellling fantasy novelist ever and certainly Britain’s biggest selling author until J.K. Rowling, Terry Prachett has announced he is suffering from a rare case of early onset Alzheimer’s. The news has come to his millions of fans,… Read More ›

• Eisner Awards 2008 – Includes web comics

  By John Freeman on 13 December 2007

  Submissions are now being accepted for consideration by the judges for the 2008 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards. Publishers wanting to submit entries should send one copy each of the comics or books and include a cover letter indicating what… Read More ›

• Hammer Stills Exhbition at BFI

  By John Freeman on 13 December 2007

  Hammer Films, now in revival with plans to launch a 20 episode version of Beyond the Rave on its MySpace site, became synnonymous with horror. Yet the company produced a wide range of films including comedies, period costume adventures, psychological… Read More ›

• Journeyman Cancelled?

  By John Freeman on 7 December 2007 • ( 14 )

  (Updated 12 December 2007, 11 August 2008): NBC will air the twelfth, final produced episode of Journeyman on Wednesday 19 December at 10.00 pm ET/PT in the US. It’s currently screening on Sky One in the UK. Broadcast reported 12… Read More ›

• New ways to order comics?

  By John Freeman on 7 December 2007

  

  With 2000AD going digital, here’s another interesting use of new technology.

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