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• Eagle Times Volume 19 Issue Four

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2007

  

  The latest issue of Eagle Times, the quarterly journal of the Eagle Society, came out just before Christmas. Volume 19, issue 4 is 50+ A4 pages and includes articles on Frank Hampson’ Southport, a PC49 Christmas story, 1950s pop music and Dick Barton…. Read More ›

• New Issue of Jeff Hawke: Cosmos Released

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2007

  

  (with thanks to Richard Sheaf and William Rudling): The new issue of the Jeff Hawke fan magazine has just been published and includes two complete stories from the Daily Express — “The Gamesman” and “Sitting Tenants”. Every issue of Cosmos… Read More ›

• Horror Artists Wanted

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2007

  

  Horror artists and writers are needed for a demonic new comic experiment! BackfromtheDepths.co.uk, the long running tribute site devoted to the 1980s classic IPC horror comic Scream!, is looking for writers and artist to contribute fresh material for a new… Read More ›

• Animated Doctor Who

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2007

  After all the recent excitement over a possible new Star Trek animated show, the BBC is reporting that David Tennant and Freema Agyeman will carry their roles as The Doctor and Martha over to The Infinite Quest, a 13 week… Read More ›

• Doctor Who – Phobos airs this weekend

  By John Freeman on 27 January 2007

  Writer Eddie Robson has just dropped me a line, to plug the first of three episodes he’s written in BBC7’s Doctor Who radio series, entitled Phobos. If you can get digital radio through a DAB radio, a Freeview box or… Read More ›

• Spaceship Away On the Approach Run

  By John Freeman on 25 January 2007

  

  Issue 11 of the original Eagle-inspired title Spaceship Away is now at the printers and should be available in 10 days time. This latest issue of the critically acclaimed magazine is another 44 page issue, featuring all the regular strips and items, plus… Read More ›

• Steve Jobs Reinvents…

  By John Freeman on 24 January 2007

  After the latest MacWorld Expo, I began to wonder what else Apple boss Steve Jobs might reinvent, now he’s reinventing the mobile phone…

• Eagle Award Nominations Sought

  By John Freeman on 24 January 2007

  

  Introduced in 1976, the Eagles are the comics industry’s longest established awards. Acknowledged as the pre-eminent international prizes, they have been featured on the covers of leading US and UK titles across the last 30 years. Unique in that they… Read More ›

• Alan Moore talks new League of Gentlemen project

  By John Freeman on 23 January 2007

  (with thanks to Matthew Badham): Alan Moore has just been interviewed about his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier project over on World Famous Comics. “There’s an immense amount of stuff in the Dossier,” he outlines, revealing the book spans… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Joe Gill

  By John Freeman on 22 January 2007

  (Thanks to Shaqui): Joe Gill is probably not a name most of British comics fans will be familiar with, but Joe Gill was one of the most prolific US comic writers, mainly for Charlton, and contributed strips to their Space:1999… Read More ›

• Computer Woes

  By John Freeman on 22 January 2007

  My laptop keeled over and died last Thursday, its logic board giving up the ghost. Although fixed thanks to some amazingly speedy service from Apple I now have to reinstall everything so if you’re looking for UK comics news from… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Bryan Pearce

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007

  I was very sorry to hear about the passing of artist Bryan Pearce, who died 11 January. My late father was the vicar of St. Ives Parish Church in the 1970s and I recall meeting Bryan as a child on… Read More ›

• 40 Years of Spider-Man in the UK

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007 • ( 1 )

  It’s an incredible 40 years this week since Spider-Man first made a regular appearance in a British comic, so cartoonist Lew Stringer has done a little tribute to that title, POW!, on his blog. There’s a few entries about the… Read More ›

• Comics designed in CBR format

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007 • ( 2 )

  Interesting development on the digital comics front: a group of creators including Pierre Villeneuve and Jim Shelley have begun releasing their comics in CBR format online at Flashback Universe. As I’m sure folk reading this know, CBR is the file… Read More ›

• London Calling

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007

  Spent yesterday in London meeting people about a variety of things. Some interesting developments happening soon regarding some classic comics being reprinted, but can’t say more than that at this point. Yes. I am a tease…

• Commando goes Space Opera with “Shuttle Down!”

  By Jeremy Briggs on 17 January 2007

  

  For those who would like some new British space opera in the gap between issues of Spaceship Away, one of the early January batch of DC Thomson’s Commando comics is titles “Shuttle Down!” Commando Issue 3971 – one of four Commando titles released this… Read More ›

• Collected Hook Jaw Hardback Up For Auction

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2007

  

  One of five special hardback versions of the upcoming Hook Jaw collection from Spitfire Comics is up for auction on ebay. The softcover is due for release soon through online and high street bookshops. Prior to the official release of Hook Jaw, Spitfire Comics… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 8

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

• One of the Most Beautiful Women in the World: Yvonne De Carlo

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  I was sorry to read about the death of actress Yvonne De Carlo, star of The Munsters, who died on Monday of natural causes aged 84. The Munsters, which ran for two seasons and enjoyed a couple of follow up… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 7

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  As part of this strip, I added the contents of a note using an image map in the version on the main part of the downthetubes site, but here it is in an easier to find display (plus I have… Read More ›

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