In the run up to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17th – 19th October), we’re aiming to run a number of interviews spotlighting at least a few of the huge number of guests and comic creators who will be at the event,… Read More ›
Emma Vieceli
Comics Uncovered conference for aspiring comic creators wins Lottery Award
Do you think you’ve created the next Judge Dredd, Dan Dare, Batman or the next X-Men? Or would you like to be the next artist to draw Superman or Green Arrow? If you think you’ve got what it takes to… Read More ›
Emma Vieceli announced as patron for Lakes International Comic Art Festival
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17th-19th October) has announced that Emma Vieceli has joined Grandville and Luther Arkwright author Bryan Talbot, artist Sean Phillips and writer Mary Talbot as a patron of the annual event. “We were thrilled when Emma… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival Tickets Go On Sale Today
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced that tickets are now on sale for its massive weekend of comic events in Kendal, Cumbria in October (17th – 19th October 2014). In just its second year the Festival features an… Read More ›
Charlie Adlard, Emma Vieceli, Mark Buckingham and more join Lakes Festival line-up
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced six more guests for its 2014 event, including welcome return visits from The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard and Vampire Academy artist Emma Vieceli. Top designer and comics creator Rian Hughes, Fables… Read More ›
Photo Report: Creators At Lakes 2013
The inaugural Lakes International Comic Art Festival took place in a rather damp Kendal over the weekend of 18-20 October 2013. The festival had a great many creators selling their wares in both the main sales venue, Kendal Town Hall… Read More ›
Dublin International Comics Expo headlines Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo
The Dublin International Comics Expo (DICE) 2013 takes place 28th-29th September and has lined up an impressive list of both US and homegrown talent. Run by the award-winning comic shop Big Bang, the two-day event in Dundrum, Dublin will offer a… Read More ›
Photo Review: 2D Festival – Creators At The Comics Fair
This year’s 2D Comics Festival in the UK’s 2013 City of Culture, Derry-Londonderry, was the largest comics event ever held in Northern Ireland. With talks and work shops in the days running up to the weekend, the weekend itself had… Read More ›
Breaking talent to be showcased at Kendal-based comic art festival’s Clock Tower
Some of the UK’s best emerging and established comic art talent will be showcasing their skills at the specially-dedicated Comics Clock Tower venue as part of Kendal’s The Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, rubbing shoulders with the likes… Read More ›
Thrill Electric now on iTunes
At long last the wait is over. The Thrill Electric is now free to read on iPad and iPhone via iTunes. This free ten-part (150 page) enhanced comic is set in Victorian Manchester and demonstrates the extraordinary parallels between the… Read More ›
Channel 4 launched The Thrill Electric web and mobile comic
Channel 4 Education has announced details of its launch of The Thrill Electric – a 10-part enhanced comic series written by Leah Moore and John Reppion, designed by Emma Vieceli, illustrated by the all-female comic book studio Windflower and produced… Read More ›
Phoenix: a new British comic rises from the ashes of The DFC
A new British comic is in the offing, edited by former The DFC editor Ben Sharpe. Contrary to earlier reports on Lew Stringer’s blog, bleedingcool.com and elsewhere, Ben says The Phoenix is not a revival of The DFC, although its… Read More ›
Moore and Reppion announce steampunk motion comic "The Thrill Electric"
“We are very pleased to say we are now officially allowed to talk about a very exciting new project we have coming up in 2011,” the writing team announced on their blog. “This project came about from a writing cliché,… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Comic Heroes, Jon Haward, Dragons and Night Salad
We’ve run Mr Matthew Badham ragged with our demands on his multi-layered brain, so he’s taking a little break. You will, instead, have to put up with my meanderings around various British comic creators equally meandering (at times, anyway) web… Read More ›
Sci-Fi London Lines Up Comic Creator events
Garry Leach, Rian Hughes, Dez Skinn, Gary Erskine, Emma Vieceli and Simon Furman are just some of the comic creators who will be appearing at this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON event on Saturday 1st May. At last year’s SCI-FI-LONDON (www.sci-fi-london.com) the organisers… Read More ›
Emma Vieceli’s Dragon Heir: Reborn
British artist, writer and general ambassador for all things Manga, Emma Vieceli, has added a webcomic to her website. Dragon Heir was the first comic series that she worked on providing the story and art with Andrew Ruddick providing the… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Emma Vieceli, promoting new British Manga
Continuing ‘Women in Comics’ month on podcast Panel Borders – and originally broadcast on Resonance FM – this week Alex Fitch talks to Emma Vieceli, illustrator of the Manga Shakespeare adaptations of Hamlet and Much ado about Nothing who has… Read More ›
Tube Surfing, 11 July 2009: Starblazer Sculptures, Moon Landings and an Oxfam ComicFest
• Dundee-based artist Trevor Gordon has been in touch, to let you us of a collaborative art project going ahead in Dundee at the Mills Observatory. “I am working with archival material from DC Thomsons and creating sculptural pieces influenced… Read More ›
In Review: Timeframes Dundee
Now in its third year, Dundee University’s comics conference has become established as a regular part of the British comics year and both the number and the recognition factor of the comics creators who attend has increased year on year…. Read More ›
Starblazer Exhibition Details Announced
As we’ve previously reported, top comics writer Warren Ellis will be headlining the Comics Conference at this year’s Dundee Literary Festival, but the Festival has now also released details of its planned exhibition dedicated to the 1980s SF comic Starblazer,… Read More ›