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NEW BRITISH COMICS COLLECTIONS AVAIALBLE NOW... This is the first Dan Dare collection I've edited for Titan Books, comprising work by Frank Hampson, Frank Bellamy and Don Harley.
Superb World War 1 strip first published in Battle and another collection edited by me for Titan
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YESTERDAY'S
HERO RETURNS!21/11/07: Yesterday's hero is back. Everyone's favourite space adventurer, Dan Dare, returns this month in a new action-packed series from Virgin Comics and top creative team Garth Ennis and Gary Erskine. Matthew Badham caught up with the Ennis and Erskine to find out how they've interpreted Dare for the new millennium and what this very British hero means to them. Read the Interview...
BEWITCHED REBORN FOR THE UK
16/11/07: The classic US sitcom Bewitched is
set for a British makeover by My Hero creator Paul Mendelson.
Broadcast reports Sony Pictures Television International, which owns
the rights to the original show, has agreed to a UK adaptation, which
is likely to be made for the BBC. Read More...
A VERY ENGLISH CARTOONIST
15/11/07: Earlier this year cartoonist Steve English,
creator of Madd
Science and Peter's Cat,
started contributing comics to mobile comics service ROK
Comics -- and won the $10,000 prize in the company's 2007 Humour
Competition. It's one more milestone in the career of the artist, as
Jeremy Briggs discovered... Read the Interview
I'M A CELEBRITY COMIC!
13/11/07: ROK Comics has teamed up with UK TV company
ITV to enable I'm
a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here fans to create comics based on the
stuck-in-a-jungle reality entertainment show, which has just begun its seventh
season.
UK residents can check out the special IACGMOOH Comic
Creator over on ITV Mobile. (There's also a WAP
version of the Creator that
enables yout to create comics on your mobile).
Comics cost £1.50 each and you can also send them to friends (if you know their
network).
All comics are moderated prior to publication.
NOTTINGHAM PUBLISHER SEEKS CREATORS
1/11/07: Nottingham-based publisher Five Leaves Publications is inviting
East Midlands artists and/or writers to submit samples of current work
for a book of graphic short stories to be produced next year.
The theme will be chosen to suit the artists and writers selected to contribute
original pieces.
Writers not paired with an artist should submit a sample graphic short story
script.
Sample artwork (low res.), scripts & enquiries to: brick@ntlworld.com
Hard copy to (not returnable): Comic Book, Five Leaves Publications PO Box
8786 Nottingham NG1 9AW
For further information telephone: 0115 967 6023
