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• Comics Preview – Edge of Extinction: Day One

  By Antony Esmond on March 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

      Written by Baden James Mellonie Art and Letters by Paul Peart-Smith Cover and design by Stephen Sampson (also known as Steve Sampson) Variant Covers by David Millgate and Ryan Brown Published by Eighth Continent Publishing 28 pages –… Read More ›

• United Nations organises “Gender Equality: Picture It!” Comic Competition

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2015

  

  UN Women, together with the European Commission, the Belgian Development Cooperation, and the United Nations Regional Information Centre have organised a comic and cartoon competition on Gender Equality, “Picture It”, which closes on 20th April 2015. Conducted by the UN Women Brussels… Read More ›

• Spaceship Away 35 Launched, featuring two “Dan Dare” tales and more

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2015

  

    Notching up an impressive 35th issue, the latest 40-page issue of the Dan Dare-inpsired Spaceship Away is on sale now, available on subscription or as a single issue from the title’s official web site. This latest magazine – offering… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: A Tale of Shadows

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  British comic artist and illustrator Lyndon White recently launched his second Kickstarter campaign, for his new comic A Tale of Shadows, a fantasy comic set in a world ideologically split by the arrival of new technology. The comic is written by podcaster Paul Clark-Forse, who has… Read More ›

• Tonight’s Gotham on Channel 5: Welcome Back, Jim Gordon

  By John Freeman on March 23, 2015

  

  Jim Gordon is back on the beat in Gotham tonight and investigates the death of a witness inside the station house – and quickly realizes that it’s an inside job. When no one on the force can help him, he… Read More ›

• Is Print Still King in a Digital World?

  By John Freeman on March 21, 2015

  

    Across the globe, millions of us now read comics, newspapers, catch up on the latest bestselling novels, or research work or school assignments on digital devices. Reading onscreen has many virtues. It can be convenient, save money, and enable… Read More ›

• Big Finish to publish “The Avengers” from Diana comic

  By John Freeman on March 21, 2015

  

      (With thanks to Jeremy Briggs and Shaqui le Vesconte): Big Finish, best known for its Doctor Who audio adventures, has announced it is to publish The Avengers: Steed and Mrs Peel, a collection  of the adventures which appeared in… Read More ›

• Three Cheers for Professor Elemental – and his splendid comics anthology!

  By John Freeman on March 21, 2015

  

    I recently stumbled across Professor Elemental Comics (no, I don’t know how I missed it, either) – a glorious comics anthology series filled with short, whimsical tales of adventure, centring around a mad Victorian scientist/explorer/inventor/drinker of tea named Professor Elemental and… Read More ›

• Titan Comics to publish “21st Century Tank Girl” as three-issue mini series

  By John Freeman on March 20, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

        Titan Comics are to serialise the Kickstarter-funded  Smash Hit 21st Century Tank Girl, starting in June 2015. After a break of more than 20 years, artist extraordinaire Jamie Hewlett has returned to the iconic character which made his name, which… Read More ›

• Celebrating Sherlock Holmes “The Hound of the Baskervilles” in comics as Blu-Ray Hammer film release announced

  By John Freeman on March 20, 2015

  

  Arrow Video will release a Blu-Ray edition of Hammer Films‘ classic Sherlock Holmes adaptation, The Hound of the Baskervilles, on 1st June 2015, so we thought we’d chart some of the story’s comics retellings by way of marking the event. Sherlock Holmes… Read More ›

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