Category: Comic News

  • Toonpunk Goes Loco on the Gringo Trail

    Toonpunk Goes Loco on the Gringo Trail

    Samuel Hamilton and James Smith have announced the release of their collaboration Toonpunk Goes Loco on the Gringo Trail, a 64 page colour graphic novel is based on the duo’s real life adventures in Mexico. Toonpunk Goes Loco on the Gringo Trail is written by Samuel Hamilton (Welcome to the Machine), who has been producing…

  • Geary’s The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans Strikes in June

    Geary’s The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans Strikes in June

    This June NBM will be releasing the latest in their ghoulish A Treasury of XXth Century Murder series, The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans. Part of the Junior Library Guild selection, this graphic novel by Rick Geary explores the infamous Louisiana serial killer’s reign of terror. Press Release below: Nights of terror! A city awash…

  • Spring Memorabilia Show at NEC Birmingham, 27-28 March 2010

    Spring Memorabilia Show at NEC Birmingham, 27-28 March 2010

    Venue: NEC, Birmingham Date: 27-27th March 2010 Time: 11am to 5pm (Early entry from 9am Sat, 10pm Sun) Price: Adults £10, Children £5, Family Ticket (2 Adults and up to 3 children) £30 Website: www.memorabilia.co.uk This March the Memorabilia Show at the NEC in Birmingham will include videogames, with several major games publishers making an…

  • Cheapjack Shakespeare Hits The Stage On Kindle

    Cheapjack Shakespeare Hits The Stage On Kindle

    Writers Shaun McLaughlin and Gabriel Benson have announced Cheapjack Shakespeare, the first project from Cheapjack Partners. The partnership plans to create graphic novels for the Kindle, which will be used to promote the new properties for other media such as film and television. McLaughlin’s writing credits include work for DC (Aquaman) and Dark Horse during…

  • Comics Fighting Cancer: RIP Preview

    Comics Fighting Cancer: RIP Preview

    With so many writers and artists currently struggling to make a living, it’s rare that we see comics being put to such a good cause as Black Snake Studios’ new Comics Fighting Cancer charity initiative, which commences with the release of RIP #1 this month. Press Release: Comics Fighting Cancer is a new way to…

  • Events: Comic Creators

    How do comics and graphic novels go from the imagination to the page? Panel discussion with Alasdair Duncan, Alexander Wilmore, Lauren Sharp and Peter Mcleod. Followed by a workshop for aspiring writers and illustrators to have a go. Venue: Harlow Library, Harlow Date: 06/03/2010 Time: 10:30:00 Price: Free from the library   Map: Click Here…

  • Kisenja Superhero Fashion Store Opens its Virtual Doors

    Kisenja Superhero Fashion Store Opens its Virtual Doors

    Love comics? Wear Clothes? Of course you do, otherwise: a) you probably wouldn’t have found yourself stranded on these here shores in the first place, and b) there’s something irrevocably wrong with you. Anyway, Swedish fashion designer Katarina Emgård has opened her Kisenja Superhero Store, which features outfits modelled by her characters in the webcomic…

  • Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption

    Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption

    Where: Lazarides Gallery, Greek Street, London When: 6th – 28th November 2009 (Tues-Fri, 11am-7pm, Sat 12pm-5pm) Ctrl.Alt.Shift, a youth charity aiming to bring social justice to public attention via digital and contemporary media, are launching a month-long Soho exhibition and accompanying comic book anthology promoting sequential art as a channel for political activation. The exposing…