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Watchmen goodies

11. March 2009

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The Times’ Blockbuster Buzz is running a competition to wing a swag bag full of Watchmen goodies from the studio, including a Rorschach hoody.

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Jings! Dudley Watkins sketches in auction

10. March 2009

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The Scottish media are reporting a rare sale of comics art by the immortal Dudley Watkins, appropriately enough at an auction house – Curr & Dewar – in Dundee, home city to the mighty  DC Thomson publishing empire. Four pencil sketches – one of Oor Wullie, the Bairn from the Broons, Pa and Grandpa Broon [...]

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Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition

5. February 2009

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The Aydın Doğan Foundation‘s annual International Cartoon Competition has just opened an exhibition of the winners and selected other cartoons from artists from around the world in the Caddebostan Culture Center in Istanbul (over 6, 000 entries were received for the competition from 130 different countries). The 2009 competition is now underway and the call [...]

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A chance to appear in Tozo

4. February 2009

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David O’Connell is offering up readers the chance to appear in a future issue of his gorgeous-looking strip Tozo to mark its second anniversary: “There will be a few extra pages of story in the print version, one of which will be a full page spread of the ballroom at the palazzo of Count Gleb, [...]

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Eustace Tilley competition

8. January 2009

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Kenny pointed me in the direction of the New Yorker’s Eustace Tilley competition – the famous mag (home to many a fine cartoon over the years) is inviting artists to create their own interpretation of the iconic dandy Eustace Tilley, who appeared on the New Yorker’s very first cover back in 1925 and has returned [...]

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Win a thousand pound shopping spree at FPI Belfast!

25. November 2008

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Yes, you read that right – we’re giving one extremely fortunate person in Northern Ireland a chance to win a shopping spree in the Belfast branch of Forbidden Planet International (52-54 Ann Street) worth a whopping great one thousand pounds. For one lucky person Christmas is going to come early – imagine winning the chance [...]

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Hi-Ex kid’s comic art competition

13. November 2008

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Vicky and Rich, organiser of the Hi-Ex comics convention in the Scottish Highlands city of Inverness tell me that as part of their outreach programme they are inviting kids in the region to take part in a comics art competition, where one of the judges will be top Scottish comics scribe Alan Grant. Its a [...]

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Win a serious case of Vertigo

5. November 2008

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I’ve already mentioned the new Vertigo Encyclopedia by Alex Irvine which Dorling Kindersley published recently. As you might infer from the title its an A-Z reference guide to the darker and more fantastical realms of the DC Universe, charting the major series, the one-offs and the mini-series of the Vertigo world, from the cigarette reek [...]

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John Wyndham competition

14. October 2008

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John Wyndham is, without a doubt, one of the great British (and world) science fiction writers of the 20th century, penning fascinating works which often explored the darker side of humanity, fear of the Other, the impact of technology and evolution and mankind’s seemingly endless ability to flirt with disasters of its own making. Some [...]

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ROK humour winners

7. October 2008

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ROK Comics, part of the mobile comics content provider which includes Down The Tubes’ John Freeman among its number, has announced the winners of their recent Humour Comics competition. The top spot went to New Zealand-based David Fletcher, whose work has appeared in the New Zealand Herald and the Australian Daily, for Pitter Patter which [...]

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Graphic short story competition

11. August 2008

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The Observer, Comica and Jonathan Cape have teamed up again this year for a second graphic short story competition following the success of the first such endeavour last year (which was won by Cathy Brighton’s Away in a Manger – see here for links to PDFs of the winners). Entries are now being sought for [...]

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Alex’s comics shows for the week

12. June 2008

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Thursday rolls around once more and that means it is time for Alex Fitch to update us with his comics, SF and movie-related shows coming up over the next week; as ever check the Panel Borders blog for more details and links to current and past shows: “As Resonance is broadcasting repeats all week to [...]

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manga Jiman competition

7. June 2008

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The Embassy of Japan is holding another large-scale manga creation competition to encourage cross-cultural development between Britain and Japan. The Manga Jiman 150 competition will be open to anyone over the age of 14, with some pretty fine prizes on offer as well as the chance to have some of the work exhibited in the [...]

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European Cartoon Contest 2008

5. June 2008

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The details for any artists interested in trying their luck with this year’s European Cartoon Contest, organised with the Portugeuse Printing Press Museum, are now available as a PDF. Apparently this year is European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (well we’ve had some good European comics stories via Wim, so I suppose we’ve accidentally taken part [...]

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Sliders competition

19. May 2008

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Fans will be delighted to hear that the Emmy-nominated science fiction series Sliders will soon have the fourth season DVDs appearing on shelves. The dimension-hopping series which saw the cast ‘slide’ through portals between a wide variety of alternative Earths, will have a box set of the fourth season hitting stores from today (the season [...]

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