30 April. David Fickling is taking David Fickling Books solo after years under the wing of Random House. Where this leaves The Phoenix is uncertain. Presumably still with Fickling, although I was under the impression that Random House were financing it for two years. Can anyone confirm?
28 April. Glenn Fabry is returning to 2000AD to draw the next Slaine yarn, Slaine: The Book of Scars, later this year following an appearance on the cover of prog 1833. R. M. Guerra (of Scalped fame) is pencilling a Judge Dredd yarn for Megazine #338.
19 April. Neil Gaiman's keynote speech at the Digital Minds Conference on 14 April 2013. (video)
17 April. Sean Phillips has four nominations in the 2013 Eisner Awards. Fatale is nominated twice (Best Continuing Series, Best New Series) and Phillips is up twice himself (Best Penciller/Inker, Best Cover Artist). Other British nominees include Paul Grist (Best Lettering) and 2000AD (Best Anthology).
10 April. Future Shock! The story of 2000AD is the title of a documentary feature currently in production with Paul Goodwin directing. Goodwin plans to blog as during production ... just follow the link.
5 April. Tim Pilcher has a Kickstarter project that will offer an insider's memories of the UK Vertigo office in the 1990s. Expect plenty of drink and drugs.
Although virtually everyone remembers The Trigan Empire from Look and Learn, there were some quality strips involving other characters such as Dan Dakota, Jason January and Rob Riley and probably many other alliterative names! Any chance, Steve, of showing other yarns from the 60's/70's?
With the indulgence of the various copyright holders, I'm hoping to keep up the reprints on Bear Alley for as long as I can, and not just from Look and Learn.
Any and all suggestions are welcome. Some won't be possible (Dan Dakota, for instance, was a translated strip licensed in from abroad and I've no who holds the rights) but I'll look into any that are suggested.
Anthony, I agree. It's a superbly drawn strip and Arthur Ranson is one of Britain's finest comics' artists.
When I interviewed Mike Noble for the book 'True Brit' I mentioned the relationship with Ranson as they both worked on Look-In during a difficult time for Mike and I got the impression he held Arthur Ranson in high regard. I loved some of that Look-In stuff by those guys! Who'd like a Noble Look-In reprint book? Who wouldn't?!
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Those are great sketches.
Although virtually everyone remembers The Trigan Empire from Look and Learn, there were some quality strips involving other characters such as Dan Dakota, Jason January and Rob Riley and probably many other alliterative names! Any chance, Steve, of showing other yarns from the 60's/70's?
Mike,
With the indulgence of the various copyright holders, I'm hoping to keep up the reprints on Bear Alley for as long as I can, and not just from Look and Learn.
Any and all suggestions are welcome. Some won't be possible (Dan Dakota, for instance, was a translated strip licensed in from abroad and I've no who holds the rights) but I'll look into any that are suggested.
Anthony, I agree. It's a superbly drawn strip and Arthur Ranson is one of Britain's finest comics' artists.
When I interviewed Mike Noble for the book 'True Brit' I mentioned the relationship with Ranson as they both worked on Look-In during a difficult time for Mike and I got the impression he held Arthur Ranson in high regard. I loved some of that Look-In stuff by those guys!
Who'd like a Noble Look-In reprint book? Who wouldn't?!
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