Comics News
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• Book and Magazine Collector
Link: www.bookandmagazinecollector.com
Established in 1984, Book and Magazine Collector is the UK's leading publication for lovers of rare books, magazines, comics and related memorabilia. Written by leading experts and beautifully illustrated, the title covers a wide range of literature from the 18th Century to the present day.
• The
Comics Interpreter
Features interviews with plenty of small press
creators. You can buy copies from the site via PayPal.
• Comics
International
Editor: Mike Conroy
Cosmic Publications Ltd., PO Box 9844, Colchester C01 9EE UK
Tel: 01322 340207 (011 44 1322 340207 from North America)
Subs House: Comics International, 8 Guildford Road, Maldon,
Essex CM9 7XD
UK Subscriptions until 16 April 2007: £24
for 12 issues (second class delivery), £30 for 12 issues (first class).
Subscriptions by credit card call 01621 877 231. Yo pay by PayPal: sales@comics-international.co.uk
100 page print magazine with web site attached.
Great source of comics industry news. It also
features all-new The
Really Heavy Greatcoats - the strip's first ever regular
appearance in a paid for print magazine.
Comics International is
owned by Cosmic Publications Ltd., comprising a triumverate fronted by:
• Peter Boyce who works in the movie and TV industry. His main company is Movie New Media (www.movienewmedia.com) although he will shortly be premiering an Internet TV station. TheReelThing.tv is to include a strand that Peter describes an audio/visual version of Mike Conroy's CI Frame to Frame column.
• Forbidden Planet International published an
interview with CI editor
Mike
Conroy on his plans for the title in February 2007
• Martin "Biff" Averre,
who owns Colchester's Ace Comics. He's responsible for admin and for the
title's mail order operation.
CI's long-suffering production manager and Reviews
Editor is Loriann Luckings.
Online Comics News Sources
• All the Rage
• Alternative
Comics
• Alien Online
Link: www.thealienonline.net
Excellent source of British SF and comics news, including creator interviews
•
Border Walker
An online comics magazine featuring adventure,
fantasy, sci-fi, and humour.
• Bugpowder
Link: www.bugpowder.com
BugPowder is a self-sustaining
noticeboard for the small press community. It was originally developed
and run by Pete Ashton (http://peteashton.com)
from 2000 to early 2006. The power behind the throne is Jez Higgins (www.jezuk.co.uk/cgi-bin/view/jez)
who also looks after Bugpowder's TRS2
reviews.
BugPowder is not a group, co-operative, publisher, clique, gang or club. It serves
to reflect and report on the UK and Irish small press, self published and hand-made
comics scene, encouraging a sharing of ideas and fostering a sense of community.
As such anyone in the UK small press scene is welcome to get involved at whatever
level they feel able, be it posting regularly to the weblog or just sending in
information now and then. If you're involved with small press comics and think
BugPowder fails miserably at covering the stuff you're aware of then you're the
perfect potential contributor, so get in touch.
• The Comic Book Net Web Page: members.aol.com/ComicBkNet
Terrific weekly comics newsletter, which sadly
ceased publication in 2006 but every issue is archive here.
• Comic Book Radio Show
Link: www.comicbookradioshow.com
Weekly radio interviews with artists, writers,
editors and other creators of comic books, comic strips, fanzines and more.
All eras. All styles.
Broadcast in the US at 99.5 FM and via
the internet (requires
RealPlayer) and now archived for 14 days after each show
• Comics Continuum
• The Comic Foundry
Link: www.comicfoundry.com
Comic Foundry strives to be the magazine the comic world deserves.
It checks fandom at the door and instead brings a respect for the industry
and the readers. With diverse coverage that spans all genres and mediums,
we aim to bring our readers unique stories, presented in a unique way.
We have an ear to the underground and a finger on the pulse of the
mainstream, and provide opportunities for both. Comic Foundry combines
analysis with the aspiring and molds wit with wisdom. In short, it's
your comic magazine.
• The Comic Wire
• Comic
World News
The Comic Book Industry at the Click of a Button
• Comics Village
Link: www.comicsvillage.com
Your source for independent, creator-owned and non-mainstream comics.
Warning!
This site has a pretty hands off editorial approach. At this site, you
may well experience undiluted opinions, bad language and offensive haircuts.
If you are in any way offended by this sort of thing, back off now! Yes,
you! The Daily Mail (or if you are not local,
insert reactionary newspaper of your choice) reader at the back. Walk
away and don't look back.
• DC Comics
• Diamond
Comics
Comics distributor: good port
of call for plenty of ordering information of advance releases.
• Forbidden Planet International Comics Blog
Link: forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog
Fab online news source on comics, including indoe British titles, compiled
by the irrepressible Joe Gordon and others. Highly recommended (and worthy
of an Eagle award, in my opinion...)
• The Geek Syndicate
Link: geeksyndicate.libsyn.com
The Geek Syndicate were nominated in the
Best Entertainment category for 2007 Podcast Awards 2007 run by a British
team that includes Barry Nugent, author of Fallen
Heroes.
• ICV2
Excellent US-based news source,
geared toward shop owners
• idigcomics
Link: www.idigcomics.com
A Digg-style site where comic fans can vote for their favourite comics
news stories, post links to news stories and comics art
• Lying in the Gutters
Published Mondays, Lying In
The Gutters is Rich Johnston's long running news/rumour
column. Scoops well before anyone
else, office intrigue and a lot of fun.
•
Journalista!
The launch of Journalista!, the new daily weblog
from America's most respected magazine of comics news and criticism, The
Comics Journal, was announced in November 2002. Edited by Dirk Deppey, Journalista!
covers the entire spectrum of the comics world - from art comics to children's
comics, from strips to editorial cartooning to the latest experiments in
online comics. The weblog also includes business and technical aspects of
the medium.
• Marvel Comics
• Newsarama
• New Comics Releases - www.comiclist.com
•
Orca
A huge number of interviews with comics creators
appears on this site.
Organized Readers of Comics Associated, or ORCA, is an international comic
book association that is as aggressive and different as a 'killer whale'
in its mission to promote the reading of comic books.
ORCA gives away thousands of comics each year, to inspire readership and
support of our hobby and the business of comic books.
It is the only such group of its kind, recognised throughout the comicbook
entertainment industry, and other affiliate industries comprising the wider
interest in imagination mediums.
• The Pulse
Part of the excellent Comicon web site
• The Scoop!
• Sequential
Tart
Sequential Tart is a monthly
webzine written by women
and dedicated to exploring the
comics industry. "We provide
interviews with creators, artists, writers, movers and shakers in the industry,
as well as articles and reviews on current, up and coming, and past greats,"
the team explains on its site. "Our
mandate is to increase the visibility
and raise the awareness of the
participation of women in comics
as both creators and fans. In addition
to comics, we provide articles
and interviews on popular culture,
including movie and book reviews,
and we have recently expanded to
include a section dedicated to
the burgeoning field of anime and
manga. Where there are women in
popular culture and fandom,
there will be a Tart."
• SilverBullets
• Splash
Up to the minute comics news on the comicon.com
site.
• Superhero Hype!
• X-Fan
• Zentertainment
Comics
News Blogs and Columnists
Paul Gravett
Web Link: www.paulgravett.com
Writer, editor, publisher -- this may perhaps not be the best page for Paul Gravett,
whose name is synonymous in the UK with promoting independent and non-English
language comics, fostering new comics talent, promoting manga... oh, and lining
up my
first ever writing gig, The Science Service. But he is a news-filled sort of guy! He also writes also a column for Comics International magazine.
• Heidi MacDonald's The Beat
Link: pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog
• Kevin Melrose
Link: thoughtballoons.blogspot.com
• Paul Howley
Link
: www.thatse.com
•
Graeme McMillan
Link: fanboyrampage.blogspot.com
• Joel
Meadows
Link: joelm1-joelmead.blogspot.com
Joel
Meadows, journalist and former editor of award-winning comics magazine
(but no longer published) Tripwire, moved his Walls
and Bridges blog to a new home on the web in 2006: joelm1-joelmead.blogspot.com.
Here he talks about comics, TV, film, architecture, photography, his
new book on comic artists - Studio Space -
and whatever else takes his fancy. Stop by and take a look...
• Paul
Dale Roberts
Link: www.jazmaonline.com
• Richard Vasseur
Link: www.jazmaonline.com
• Michael Vance
Link: www.starland.com/sus
• Mark Allen and Jonathan A. Gilbert: www.twmgrafix.com
• Sarah Haslett: www.HeroRealm.com and www.geocities.com/silva_shado
• Alex Ness: www.Popthought.com
