Tag Archive | "Pat Mills"

Upcoming… way, way into the future… Marshal Law by Mills and O’Neill

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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DC have (finally) scheduled the Marshal Law Omnibus Edition collecting every solo Marshal Law appearance as written by Pat Mills and drawn by Kevin O’Neill for Spring 2013. Well, it’s always nice to have some time to plan your purchases isn’t it? So far Mills and O’Neill’s superhero hunter killer has found a home at [...]

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Pat Mills on Comics & Conflict podcast

Thursday, February 2, 2012

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Pat Mills points us to a podcast recording of the talk he had with Grant Rogers at the Comics & Conflicts events last summer in the Imperial War Museum, organised by Alex Fitch, Paul Gravett and Ariel Khan, now online so those of us who couldn’t be there can get a listen.

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Where I last saw Charley

Friday, November 11, 2011

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The day the guns fell silent; the old soldiers slowly fade away, but we remember. Not every war tale involves derring-do of single-handed charges against the enemy, spitting bullets for King and Country, some performed heroism through the dangerous act of carrying their wounded fellows from the battle. Many became casualties themselves saving their comrades. [...]

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So Shall You Reap – Judge Dredd Megazine 316

Thursday, November 3, 2011

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For me, the route into a science fictional hobby for life began with 2000AD, and although I was a regular reader for many years, I admit that I opt to buy the graphic novels rather than go out every week and buy the comic. I remember when Crisis, Revolver and the Judge Dredd Megazine were [...]

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American Reaper

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Pat Mills kindly drops us a line to alert us to a new series he’s kicking off soon with frequent collaborator, the excellent Clint Langley: American Reaper. From Pat’s description: “It’s a  dark science fiction thriller about future cops – known as Reapers – hunting down criminals  who carry out illegal identity transplants.  With the  [...]

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Edinburgh Book Festival: Pat Mills, Rodge Glass, William Goldsmith & Nick Hayes

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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(Pat Mills on the left and Rodge Glass on the right signing after their talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the weekend; all pics from my Flickr, click for the larger versions) The Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2011 came to an end last night and over the final weekend I was lucky [...]

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Comics and Conflict

Friday, August 12, 2011

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Alex Fitch reminds us of the upcoming Comics and Conflict conference which is being held in the Imperial War Museum on August 19th and 20th, which will include panel discussion, workshops and a film screening, as well as boasting some impressive guests such as Pat Mills, Roger Sabin and Garth Ennis among others.

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Pat Mills talks girl’s comics

Friday, August 12, 2011

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The Bring Back Bunty blog talks to the excellent Pat Mills about comics for girls, once a part of the thriving UK comics publishing industry (I remember racks full of all sorts of weekly comics for girls alongside the boy’s own and younger reader’s kids, the newsagents were stacked with them in the 70s), now [...]

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Pat Mills, the right-wing, and Frank Miller…..

Sunday, August 7, 2011

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Pat Mills has put up some thoughts over on a Facebook notes page about Frank Miller’s Holy Terror, and the current right-wing perspective on our world….. the whole thing is well worth reading. As he quite rightly says, with Charley’s War (“a blatant and full-on attack on establishment heroes and values with large doses of [...]

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Alex’s audio roundup

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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As half the comics world descends on San Diego for the nerd-nirvana that is Comic-Con, here is Alex Fitch to lift the spirits of those of us who can’t make it over. As ever check the Panel Borders site for more details and links to podcasts of previous shows. Panel Borders: Infamous games and comics, [...]

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Pearson and Beiber, a new pop cultural phenomenon?

Thursday, June 30, 2011

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With Sony about to launch the new InFamous 2 computer game, the fantasy superhero game for the Playstation 3, they decided on a bit of comics fun to go along with the launch. In InFamous the decisions players make all have consequences, be they good or ill and deciding that the people who know most [...]

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Contributors for second Lovecraft Anthology announced

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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Editor Dan Lockwood, fresh from the success of the recently released and rather fine Lovecraft Anthology has been revealing the line up of writers and artists involved in the second volume, which is due next spring from SelfMadeHero. Yes, various many tentacled creatures have slithered forth through the jagged cracks in reality from their dark [...]

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Pat Mills and Bryan Talbot on Kooba

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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Kooba Radio has the whole of their recent chat with two giants of the British comics scene, Pat Mills and Bryan Talbot, up on their site, recorded by Jonny Yeah at the SFX Weekender, go, listen. (pic of Koba Radio’s Johnny with Bryan Talbot and Pat Mills, borrowed shamelessly from the Kooba site)

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Charley’s War website revamp

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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John Freeman writes to report the successful relaunch of a revamped Charley’s War website. The site has a long and important history, first published on Tripod in 2002 by Neil Emery, a fan turned campaigner for the WWI set series written by Pat Mills and drawn by Joe Colquhoun. Sadly, Emery passed away suddenly in 2010, [...]

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Professor Mills

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Igor Goldkind kindly drops us a line to let us know that the great Pat Mills (interviewed here just last week by Matt Badham) has been made an honorary Professor by Liverpool University “for his contributions to popular culture and national literacy.” It isn’t just an honour on paper though, there is a practical element [...]

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