Commando Picture Library writer Sean Blair has just provided downthetubes with a terrific piece on his experiences writing Commando. Special thanks to Sean for taking time out to write the piece, which includes some useful tips on writing Commando. Also… Read More ›
Hmm, I seem to have passed to the dark side this week with all these US comic comments, but it seems I’m not the only one being naughty. As several fans have spotted, Ms Marvel clearly does have the sexiest… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
(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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Cartoonist Lew Stringer has just added a cracking tribute to Express Weekly to his increasingly wonderful British comics blog (I just wonder where he’s finding time to do some cartooning!) This near-forgotten title included contributions from Ron Embleton and Mike… Read More ›
Here’s another piece of comics art I’m offering via e-bay: a superb Dalek cutaway by Lee Sullivan, commissioned by me while editor of Doctor Who Magazine as a page for Marvel’s Doctor Who Year Book 1993, this cutaway of an… Read More ›
I’m having a spring clean of some of my comics collection and am offering a complete Doctor Who comic strip, drawn by Geoff “Transformers” Senior, on e-bay. Titled “Stitch in Time” and written by me as an affectionate comment on… Read More ›
Well, not Hookjaw himself, which would just be gut-wrenching sounds of gnashing shark teeth, but with the Collected Hook Jaw about to munch its way through the swimming public once more (just when you thought it was safe to go… Read More ›
Joe Gordon from Forbidden Planet International has just dropped me a quick line to advise of a pretty cool 2000AD competition he’s lined up. “I just can’t let the 30th anniversary of 2000AD at the end of this month pass… Read More ›
I’ve just posted the first of three interviews to mark the release of Titan Books Albion collection, the first being with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion. Interviews with IPC’s Andrew Sumner and the project’s brilliant artist Shane Oakley –… Read More ›
Just posted a couple of news on the main site about the new BeanoMAX – I’d say DC Thomson have noted the success of TOXIC, Wallace & Gromit and the clear ABC sales figure records that have been racked up… Read More ›
(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 ›
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 ›
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…
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 ›
Quick plug, especially as I have known artist Tim Keable’s work for years, since back in my days of editing Doctor Who Magazine, and West: Texas Drama sounds like a gem of an indie title well worth tracking down… Texas,… Read More ›