Tag Archive | "dfc"

The Spider Moon Book 1 – a review by Mia (age 9)

Monday, July 11, 2011

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In my role as Librarian at my Yorkshire Primary School, we’ve been very, very successful in building a big graphic novel library. I’ve written about the genesis of that previously on the FPI Blog (here and here). Well, it’s a tremendous success. Our children now love their graphic novels and comics. It’s helping to make [...]

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Phoenix news….

Sunday, May 29, 2011

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Well, not really news, just a new blog post with their logo, and confirmation of the sorts of things to expect in January 2012 when new weekly children’s comic The Phoenix is launched. Just 7 months to go now. (Thanks to Lew Stringer for the heads-up)

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Frontier joins the ever growing list of DFC alumni books….

Saturday, May 14, 2011

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Jason Cobley and Andrew Wildman’s Frontier strip is the latest comic from the DFC to get a graphic novel collection. It’s being published by Print Media, with hopefully a November 2011 release at Leeds ThoughtBubble festival. This from artist Andrew Wildman: “The soon to appear Frontier book has now had all the pages reformatted. this is due [...]

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Fancy submitting to Phoenix?

Saturday, April 23, 2011

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Well here’s your chance. The Phoenix Comic – a new weekly children’s comic, launching in 2012, has it’s submissions page live now. It’s being put together by the team behind the much loved, much missed (at least in the Bruton household), DFC Comic.

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More on The Phoenix…. UPDATED 4th March….

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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Okay, nothing too concrete or detailed still, but news from yesterday’s meeting of various comic people with David Fickling, Ben Sharpe and various comic people, most of which were associated with the DFC, the subscription only weekly comic published by David Fickling Books/ Random House that ran for 43 issues from May 2008 to March [...]

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DFC emerges from the ashes as Phoenix….

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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Well, the rumours were right – the intent was there from David Fickling all along after all – take this back in April 2010 – but according to a few vague reports it does look like we’ll be seeing something DFC-ish sometime this year or maybe next. Entitled Phoenix, the comic is reported as featuring some [...]

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Mirabilis gets (another?) print edition… (UPDATED)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

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News via Down The Tubes that Mirabilis, another good DFC strip cruelly curtailed by the ending of the comic, is getting a print edition – 2 hardcovers available in 2011 from Print Media Productions: “Print Media Productions has announced it will be publishing hardcover editions of Mirabilis: Year of Wonders — a huge graphic novel project by Dave Morris [...]

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Mirabilis makes it to the app store….

Saturday, December 18, 2010

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Mirabilis, the fantasy serial by Dave Morris, Leo Hartas and Martin McKenna that remained unfinished when the weekly DFC comic was cancelled, is making a return – to the iTunes store: “The epic opening instalment of an exciting new ongoing graphic novel adventure. The first 8 issues collect the entire Mirabilis: Winter season into one 200-page [...]

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Mo-Bot High – your school days were never this bizarre, nor this much fun.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

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Mo-Bot High  Book 1 by Neill Cameron DFC Library When new girl Asha walks through the gates of her new school, she’s expecting all of the normal problems; fitting in, getting to grips with the cliques, working out who she should be hanging out with and who to avoid, finding out where to go, who [...]

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Vern and Lettuce – Molly’s favourite comic (and I’m rather fond of it as well…)

Monday, September 27, 2010

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Vern And Lettuce by Sarah McIntyre DFC Library Sarah McIntyre burst onto the comic scene with the very first Vern And Lettuce strip in the very first issue of the DFC Comic back in 2008. And from that very first exposure to her work the strip became a highlight of the comic, both for myself and [...]

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Monkey Nuts! Daft monkeys, robot vending machines and lots of fun.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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Monkey Nuts By The Etherington Brothers DFC Books Monkey Nuts is the first in the next wave of releases of material collected from the DFC comic, David Fickling’s much loved, much missed attempt at creating a weekly comic anthology not tied down to franchises, merchandising or plastic tat anchored to the covers. We featured the [...]

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Lore Of The Things begins…..

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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Over at The Lore Of The Things blog the talented Etherington Brothers have begun their new adventure…. new strips every two weeks at this point (they’re in the middle of final prep for their new book Baggage and in the middle of advance stuff for their Monkey Nuts DFC Volume which is out in September.

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The return of The DFC Comic – 2012?

Friday, April 23, 2010

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The London Book Fair happened last week and amongst the many announcements was one that sort of sneaked out – the return of The DFC Comic. Very few details around and this post from the Geek Syndicate is about the most detailed I can find: “…during the panel the DFC’s publisher David Fickling announced that [...]

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More Good Dog, Bad Dog fan art….

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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Two more examples of lovely fan art for Dave Shelton’s Good Dog, Bad Dog: (Paul Harrison-Davies) (Rob Davis) (via Super Comics Adventure Squad)

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Lorenzo Etherington wants you to join his One Man Army…

Saturday, March 13, 2010

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Lorenzo writes to tell us (and you) about his new solo exhibition of work that he’s calling One Man Army. It takes place on Friday 26th March at the Weapon Of Choice gallery in Bristol (here) and he wants you all to pop along and say hello and view his brand new paintings and exclusive [...]

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