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• Remembering Heroes
7/5/08: There was a time not that long ago when British boy's
comics celebrated the heroism of British and Commonwealth servicemen.
As London celebrates the current British forces with the City
Salute, Jeremy Briggs takes a look back at how British comics once
celebrated them... Read the feature
• British
comics and TV news on the downthetubes blog
Updated 6/5/08: Wolfmen Review, Eisner Award news, Road
Death Comics, Never Been Exhibition, Bulletproof
Comics launch Jump
to the blog
• Comics
and SF Events
5/5/08: Film release list updated.
• British
Comics On Sale Now
5/5/08: Listing of current UK comic titles, or titles
that include comic strip. Information and updates from publishers welcome. Read
More...
• British
Graphic Novels On Sale Now
A two-page guide to upcoming British comics collections
and other comic-related titles from UK publishers.
LATEST FEATURES
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• British
Comics on Film
9/3/06: American superheroes such as Hulk, Spider-Man,
Batman and others may well grab the headlines today, but British heroes
have proven no slouches when it comes to grabbing the celluloid. Jeremy
Briggs (with help from Steve Holland, Graeme Neil Reid, Richard Sheaf
and Lew Stringer and some additional research by John Freeman) delivers
a hopefully useful list...
• Zombies: A Review by David Hailwood
29/2/08: As Accent Press prepares to publish its latest
anthology, Robots (see
news story) ,
David Hailwood reviews their previous collection, Zombies...
LATEST
INTERVIEWS
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• Interview:
Commando Editor Calum Laird
8/4/08: First published in 1961 Commando is
Britain's last war comic. As the title approaches issue 4100 in 2008,
Jeremy Briggs talked to new editor Calum Laird, who joined DC Thomson
in 1979, on the recent changes he has made and the growth in Commando related
tie-ins...Read
the Interview
• Calling
All Warlord Agents!
2 April 2008: Jeremy Briggs talks to Bill Graham,
editor of past DC Thomson titles such as Starblazer (profiled
here) and Spike (read
the companion feature) and many more, on his long and varied
career with D C Thomson and his current involvement with their comic
strips for Wendy.
• Artist
David Fletcher
11/3/08: New Zealand cartoonist David Fletcher claims that for the last
twenty years he's been pretending to work from home as a comic strip, drawing
a daily strip called The
Politician and several weekly strips including The
TV Kids which appears in the TV Guide.
His cartoons are syndicated to Europe, Britain, Africa, Malaysia, Australia
and New Zealand.
People still keep asking him when is he going to get a proper job...
• Interview:
Comic Artist Jon Haward
3/3/08: Artist Jon Haward talks about his work on Classical
Comics' Macbeth graphic novel and his career
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