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• Gorilla Sex?

  By John Freeman on 10 March 2007

  Gorillas may have been responsible for the introduction of pubic lice in humans, according to a new study. Evolutionary biologist David Reed of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville USA has traced the genetic structure of lice and… Read More ›

• Shatner versus Wheaton

  By John Freeman on 9 March 2007

  Somehow, no matter how immersed in a show you become when editing or being part of the production of its official Magazine, some aspects of that show’s history slip you by. Case in point: Wil Wheaton‘s apparently revived beration of… Read More ›

• Captain America

  By John Freeman on 8 March 2007

  I think Adam Rogers over on Wired‘s Blog Network neatly sums up my similar feelings (aside from how the character has best been handled in the past) on recent developments Hey, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m… Read More ›

• Cam Kennedy on Kidnapped

  By Jeremy Briggs on 7 March 2007

  

  Over on the Forbidden Planet International blog, Joe Gordon has delivered a full transcript of the recent Kidnapped event at the Scottish Book Trust where artist Cam Kennedy was talking with publisher Ron Grosset about Cam and Alan Grant’s adaptation… Read More ›

• Kidnapping Edinburgh

  By Jeremy Briggs on 7 March 2007

  

  Jeremy Briggs reports on how a new comics adaptation of Robert Louis Stevens classic novel took Scotland’s capital by storm in February 2007… February 2007. In Edinburgh, you just could not get away from Cam Kennedy’s artwork for the new… Read More ›

• 20 years of cartoon craziness celebrated

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2007 • ( 1 )

  Angry aliens, terrified police and bemused party goers. Yes, it’s the 20th Anniversary Really Heavy Greatcoat – three pages of mothball-inspired mayhem! Artist Nick Miller has pulled out all the stops to mark this momentous date for the strip and… Read More ›

• Are Games really Killing Comics?

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2007 • ( 4 )

  2000AD artist Ian Gibson’s renewed claim that computer games are killing comics, comments reported in the BBC’s feature on the comics’ 30th anniversary, have been savaged up by some games press web sites such as Games Radar and Addict3D, the… Read More ›

• Jack Lord is Kirk!

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2007

  

  With all the excitement over the announcement that there will be a new Star Trek film, casting discussions can begin in earnest. But what about the casting of the original Star Trek series this film will apparently reboot, with new… Read More ›

• Steve Jobs Reinvents… Iran

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2007 • ( 3 )

  

  Since I’m clearly in a silly mood, here’s one of my occasional pastiches of Apple’s Steve Jobs at work re-designing the world, etc.

• Fun while shopping

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2007

  Okay, nothing to do with comics, but this e-mail joke tickled me, cited as evidence of what can happen if a wife or girlfriend drags her husband or boyfriend along shopping. Sadly, the letter below, allegedly sent by Tesco’s Head… Read More ›

• Greatcoat restored on Wikipedia

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2007

  I’m delighted to report that The Really Heavy Greatcoat entry on Wikipedia has been restored. While there was apparently no consensus on the debate about its inclusion (now closed), Wikipedia’s editors ruled in favour of restoration on the grounds that,… Read More ›

• Greatcoat Support Grows…

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2007

  

  (I amended this entry as the debate has now closed) Some of the great folks over at Forbidden Planet International have just pitched in to the debate over Wikipedia about the proposed deletion of an entry about my cartoon strip,… Read More ›

• One for railway fans…

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2007

  One of those fun profits from a search of the net while tracking down some eastern European cartoonists: right is a cartoon on the South Eastern Railways Group site by Bobisa Todorovic. It’s one of the winning cartoons of a… Read More ›

• Is the Really Heavy Greatcoat notable?

  By John Freeman on 24 February 2007 • ( 1 )

  Note: the debate on the inclusion of the RHG on Wikipedia has closed in the RHG’s favour. I keep this post for its ‘historical’ value! … I ask because last year an entry for my 20-years-and-counting strip The Really Heavy… Read More ›

• Albion Artist Shane Oakley Interviewed

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2007

  

  In the third of three exclusive features marking the recent release of Titan and Wildstorm’s Albion collection — interviews with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion, and IPC’s Andrew Sumner were published earlier this month — artist Shane Oakley offers… Read More ›

• Comics International 201 arrives!

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2007

  New Comics International editor has sent me two spiffy covers for the delayed-but-here-now Comics International #201, which should be on sale soon. Comics International was sold by Dez Skinn earlier in the year and the administrative side of the handover… Read More ›

• Science Fiction stories on your mobile

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2007

  Interesting find for mobile/cell phone users: www.wattpad.com It’s a very small downloadable app for your phone, compatible with most modern handsets – simply bluetooth it from your PC to your phone and then you can read stories on your mobile…. Read More ›

• The Good Soldier Art for sale

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2007

  Another lot for ebay, this time a page from a three-part Cyberman story “The Good Soldier”. This page was published in Doctor Who Magazine #177, cover dated 4th September 1991. Written by TV Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel, drawn… Read More ›

• Life on Mars, Who get Saturn nominations

  By John Freeman on 21 February 2007

  Let’s hear it for the Brits – again. Nominees for the 33rd annual Saturn Awards, which celebrate the best SF&F and Horror movies and TV work, include Doctor Who and Life on Mars, with Daniel Criag’s outing as James Bond… Read More ›

• One for Morecambe fans…

  By John Freeman on 19 February 2007

  I compered the monthly Spotlight Club at the Yorkshire House, Lancaster on Friday night (yes, it was me who welcomed a bemused audience with “Ladies, Gentlemen and dolphins — you know who you are…”) Finishing the bill, which included four… Read More ›

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