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• Kids Comics Competition announced

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2007

  The Birmingham International Comics Show (BICS) in partnership with Peters the Booksellers and TBK Magazine recently launched the National Comic Art Competition. Kids across the UK and beyond have been invited to tell a two page comic story about how… Read More ›

• Read Yourself Raw

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2007

  Online comics ‘zine Read Yourself Raw has just had another update, which includes previews of new book, comic and manga releases for October 2007 and a new Essential Reading list. The site’s worth a visit for its huge links section… Read More ›

• Star Wars Exhibition extended

  By John Freeman on 20 August 2007

  Star Wars – The Exhibition has today announced that due to overwhelming popular demand the run at County Hall, Westminster, London will be extended until 12 January 2008. Exhibition Coordinator Jonathan Sands said: “The Exhibition is proving so popular that… Read More ›

• Comics Artist Phil Gascoine: Tributes Pour In

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2007

  

  Tributes to one of Britain’s unsung comic heroes, Phil Gascoine, who has died after a short illness, have poured into downtheubes after an online appeal. You can read them alongside a 2006 interview with Phil here, while over on Bear… Read More ›

• Reboot Competition

  By John Freeman on 17 August 2007

  Here’s some news of a great competition (its deadline 26 August) for comic artists courtesy of Josh Roberts, who runs the terrific comics web site comicspace – if you want to track down your favourite comic creators, try here! Vancouver-based… Read More ›

• Celebrity Chef

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2007

  First we had Fanny Craddock, next Delia Smith, then Nigella Lawson, and now we have Maw Broon! Courtesy of those nice people at Waverley Books, Maw Broon’s Cookbook is due to be released on an unsuspecting world in October, just… Read More ›

• CBBC LIne Up includes "Sarah Jane Adventures"

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2007

  The BBC’s revamped CBBC launches its new programming season on 3 September 2007 with a slew of fantasy and drama shows including Adventure Rock, a new online game and play environment for children which allows children to inhabit a virtual… Read More ›

• Babylon 5: The Lost Tales – Region 2 release news

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2007

  The previously-mentioned Region 2 release of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, a straight-to-DVD B5 project has been scehduled for 3 September 2007, quickly followed on 10 September by the release of Supernatural Season Two. The Region 1 DVD was released… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Phil Gascoine

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2007

  

  I’m very sorry to report that artist Phil Gascoine has died after a short illness. For those of you who knew him the news comes as a terrible shock. He was once chairman of the Society of Strip Illustrators and always… Read More ›

• Escape from New York – Again

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2007

  Goodness only knows why, but a remake of Escape from New York is in the works. Various trade papers are reporting that New Line Cinema is in final talks with Len (Live Free or Die Hard) Wiseman to direct its… Read More ›

• Painkiller pulled

  By John Freeman on 16 August 2007

  The SCI FI Channel US has cancelled the action series Painkiller Jane, according to Hollywood Reporter, which stars starring Kristanna Loken. The show, based on the comic book heroine created by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada for Event Comics in… Read More ›

• Online superhero drama for SciFI UK in works

  By John Freeman on 15 August 2007

  Sci Fi channel UK has ordered a superhero-themed mockumentary drama – the first commission for its new broadband player Sci Fi Play. Legion of Fire stars Ron Moody, playing 80-something Cecil Roper, aka Flash Harry, who runs a Croydon-based superhero… Read More ›

• Conan Films on their way

  By John Freeman on 15 August 2007

  Paradox Entertainment, the company which owns the stories and characters created by pulp author Robert E. Howard, including Conan, Kull, Bran Mak Morn and Solomon Kane, has announced it has sold the option for Conan movies to Millennium Films. Development… Read More ›

• Bear Alley Is (The) One

  By John Freeman on 14 August 2007

  It hardly needs a plug from me here since if you are interested in the history of British comics you have probably already read it but, for those few of you who may not yet have succumbed to its charms,… Read More ›

• Hammer launches repro quad posters

  By John Freeman on 14 August 2007

  HammerWeb, the official Hammer Films web site, has been updated today with information about the new range of official reproduction Quad posters which were launched last week. These comprise a set of 12 posters, released one a month, featuring digitally… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Magazine Original Comic Art for sale

  By John Freeman on 12 August 2007

  I’m selling four outstanding illustrations on ebay by top artist Gary Erskine (Knights of Pendragon etc) used to illustrate the short story “Pathfinders” published in Doctor Who Magazine #173 by Michael E.P. Stevens. The illustrations are on two boards measuring… Read More ›

• Voltron Returns?

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2007 • ( 1 )

  Shape-shifting robots continue to entice Hollywood with Variety reporting that the Fox-based production entity New Regency has teamed with the Mark Gordon Company (who make Grey’s Anatomy and produced The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen film) to produce a movie adaptation… Read More ›

• The Thirteenth Floor to be republished

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2007

  

  Max is back!

• From The Land Beyond Beyond

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2007

  What is the first thing you look for when you open that bumper Christmas edition of the Radio Times in December? As a long time fan of Ray Harryhausen’s brand of stop motion-films, I always look to see how many… Read More ›

• State Course And Speed

  By John Freeman on 9 August 2007 • ( 1 )

  It was with sadness that I hear that Peter Tuddenham has died at the age of 88. He will always be remembered in the British telefantasy community for the voices that he gave to the various computers in Blake’s 7:… Read More ›

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