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• Free Classic Comic to Flood Edinburgh in February

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  

  (Updated 17/1/07 with thanks to Jeremy Briggs and Alan Grant): 25,000 free copies of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped – including a graphic novel version by Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy – are to be distributed throughout Edinburgh in February in a campaign to get… Read More ›

• Look and Learn Returns

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  

  (With thanks to Steve Holland): The first issue of the Look and Learn Company‘s limited run (48 issues) of a magazine made up of the best of the original Look and Learn has just been published and released to subscribers, printed to… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 6

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2007

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 5

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2007

• Comics Nostalgia

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007 • ( 1 )

  Cartoonist and writer Lew Stringer has just blasted us with the past on his new blog with a number of covers from fanzines, some going back as far as 1976 headlined with news of the death of Frank Bellamy. It’s… Read More ›

• High Praise for the “Worry Doll” by Matt Coyle

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007

  

    (With thanks to Liam Sharp): The Daily Telegraph has published in interview with Matt Coyle, creator of the forthcoming graphic novel from UK publisher Mam Tor, Worry Doll. The book is a noir story about three dolls who discover the horrific murder… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 4

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007

• The power of personal e-mail marketing…

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007

  

  Some good news from my friend Lou Anders, Editorial Director at US publisher Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books. Last year Lou wrote plugging one of Pyr’s authors, David Louis Edelman, whose novel Infoquake, described on America’s National Public Radio… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 3

  By John Freeman on 7 January 2007

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 2

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2007

• Surely straight from the imagination of Charles Stross…

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2007

  Dutch researchers have recently announced a piece of kit called “RFID Guardian“, which sounds like something straight out of the devilish imagination of SF author Charles Stross (I’m still trying to finish the mind-boggling Accelerando) and could be one in… Read More ›

• Rainbow Orchid wins award

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2007

  Congratulations to Rainbow Orchid creator Garen Ewing, who I interviewed for downthetubes last year. Rainbow Orchid, a wonderful acrion adventure strip which makes an affectionate tip of the hat to Tin Tin (and has a loyal French comics fan following)… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2007

  Nick and I started this Really heavy Greatcoat storyline last year but it got interrupted by (yay!) paid work. So I’m posting it here – adapting my blog design to better present the strip, hopefully – in its entirety over… Read More ›

• Credit cards for cats

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2007

  This surely has to be a theme for a new Really Heavy Greatcoat, when I get time to write some. Reuters reports today that an Australian bank has been forced to apologize after it issued a credit card to a… Read More ›

• The Top Linked-To Blog Posts In 2006

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2007 • ( 1 )

  Those infamous Danish cartoons, US TV channel Comedy Central’s news analysis mock-up, “The Colbert Report,” which orchestrated a “wikiality” check for Wikipedia, a petition by LiveJournal bloggers angry about interface changes, anti-Bush sentiment and Technorati proved to be the top… Read More ›

• Tourists ask the strangest things…

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2007 • ( 2 )

  After the national press reported some of the strange questions asked of tourist offices across the country this week, including “Are there any lakes in the Lake District?”, “Is Wales closed in the Winter?” and ” What time of night… Read More ›

• Comics on My Radio

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2007

  

  (with thanks to Bugpowder): London radio station Resonance 104.4FM is to air three shows on comics this month, presented by Alex Fitch. “I’m Read For My Close Up” can also be heard online and include contributuons from creators such as author… Read More ›

• Iraq in comics

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2007

  

  Over on Slate, there’s a selection of some of the best new comic books commenting on the Iraq war, including a mention for the much-talked about Web comic Shooting War by Anthony Lappé which Warner Books is publishing in 2007… Read More ›

• Titan Magazines Seeks New Talent

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2007

  

  Titan Magazines, UK-based publisher of the originated Wallace & Gromit Comic and such best-selling licences as The Simpsons, Futurama, SpongeBob SquarePants and Star Wars, will be expanding its range of originated comics based on high-profile TV and movie properties in 2007. The company is now seeking versatile… Read More ›

• A few links to strike fear into your very soul…

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2006

  It’s downtime, so time to see what’s out there in web land… And my goodness, there’s some strange stuff. Even stranger than the last time I looked. First, one for PC fans, especially those with a professed hatred of all… Read More ›

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