Tag Archive | "British comics"

Ken Harrison speaks to Alec Worley

Friday, May 25, 2012

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Comics writer Alec Worley was recently interviewed for the Judge Dredd Megazine by Ken Harrison (Megazine #324, released earlier this week and available now). This is the original email exchange that formed the basis of that interview. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Ken Harrison, Alec Worley and Judge Dredd Megazine Editor [...]

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Debuting at Kapow this weekend: Overload

Friday, May 18, 2012

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Launching this weekend at London’s Kapow comic-con is new 36-page Brit comic Overload, boasting this absolutely splendid piece of zombie Thatcher cover art by Graeme Neil Reid. The brainchild of writer/editor Martin Conaghan (who brought us the fine Burke and Hare), it is, in classic Brit comics fashion, an anthology (using creator owned tales), with [...]

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The Great Beast Rises…

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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Adam Cadwell drops us a line with some absolutely cracking new: he and Marc Ellerby are launching a brand new British Indy comics publisher, Great Beast. It will be “for professionally self published, creator owned comics”, with an unashamed embracing of pop culture (and why not?) influences and happy to take in comics for all [...]

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Brass Sun, coming soon

Thursday, April 12, 2012

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Reading this week’s 2000 AD (Prog 1778) and among the Thrill Powered strips what do I spy but a little teaser pic for a ‘Thrills of the Future’: Brass Sun -  The Wheel of Worlds. And just which droids are responsible for this upcoming work in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic? Only Ian Edginton and INJ [...]

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Nelson and the Eisner’s – Hurrying, Hurrying…

Thursday, April 5, 2012

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As you may know by now, our book Nelson has been nominated for an Eisner in the best anthology category (see here). It’s widely held that the Eisners are comics equivalent of the Oscars. I’m pleased for Blank Slate and for editors Rob Davis and Woodrow Phoenix who, along with more than fifty top British [...]

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Director’s Commentary : Zaucer of Zilk

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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As we noted earlier on the blog, just this week venerable Thrill Power merchants 2000 AD launched a brand new and intriguing looking new series from the delightfully deranged minds of Al Ewing and Brendan McCarthy which we have been looking forward to for some time, Zaucer of Zilk. The first episode is in this [...]

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Zaucer of Zilk

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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New tomorrow in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, Prog 1775 boasts the start of a new strip by Al Ewing and Brendan McCarthy, one we’ve been eagerly anticipating, Zaucer of Zilk, with Bren’s fabulously colourful artwork gracing the cover of this week’s Prog, with brilliant art and colours like an LSD bullet to the brain. Oh [...]

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Stamped!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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Out this very day, partly to honour the immortal Dandy which is celebrating 75 years of making the kids of Britain chuckle (including during the dark days of World War II – even Hitler’s hordes couldn’t stop Brit kids enjoying their comics!), a new set of stamps from the Royal Mail paying homage to decades [...]

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Meanwhile, in 1947

Monday, March 12, 2012

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The fine chap Lew Stringer has started a new occasional post on his blog over the weekend, This Week in… sees Lew casting his eye over some strips from a classic comic relating to the week ahead. He kicks off with a look at the Illustrated Chips from March 1947, noting that the issue has [...]

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Snapshot – Diggle and Jock return to the Megazine

Friday, March 2, 2012

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Andy Diggle and Jock are teaming up once more (hurray!) and returning to the 2000 AD fold with a creator-owned new series starting in the Judge Dredd Megazine #322 out at the end of this month (personally I love that the Megazine dedicates some space each month to creator owned series, kudos to them for [...]

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Hugo Tate launch at Gosh

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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We’ve been blogging about how delighted we are at the prospect of a long-overdue collection being published of Nick Abadzis‘ brilliant Deadline strip Hugo Tate (available now for pre-order) – the nice folks at Blank Slate are bringing this unusual slice of Brit comics history out this spring and the equally nice folks at Gosh! [...]

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My 2000 AD

Monday, February 27, 2012

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I can’t let our brace of 2000 AD 35th anniversary posts go past without adding in a personal view on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. 2000 AD has always had a very close place in my heart and been hugely influential in how I view comics – you see I was there right at the start, [...]

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Prog 1771 – it’s zarjaz!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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On shelves this very scrotnig day, Prog 1771 of The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic, celebrating 35 years of publication, available with two alternate covers, the one above with an ensemble of various 2000 AD characters from across the decades, drawn by art droid Chris Weston (paying homage to the great Bolland, a nice touch, Chris) that [...]

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Angouleme – Sean’s French Diary

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Continiung our reports from this year’s Angoulême comics festival  which Wim kicked off live from the event on Friday, today we have a special treat as the excellent Sean Azzopardi, now a confirmed veteran of the BD festival, kindly agreed to give us his take on Angoulême from the point of view of an independent [...]

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TCJ profiles Nobrow and Blank Slate

Monday, January 16, 2012

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Over on the very fine Comics Journal Rob Clough has some very kind things to say about two of the fab Indy presses that have been making the UK comics scene such a delight: Blank Slate Books and Nobrow: “Every now and then, when a new publishing concern pops up, one wonders how it’s possible [...]

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