Monthly Archives: September 2008

A Comic Event? Yeah,sure…

Well,it was a hot sunny day and a trio of old farts,Messrs Brown,Hooper & Northall,met outside Temple Meads rail station with the intention of visiting the much publicised,locally [via TV,newspapers and at least one radio item],Victoria Gallery comic art exhibition in … Continue reading

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WASTED

 Some info just forwarded from Jon Haward: “Very pleased to say after 2 yrs and alot of work wasted is now out printed and ready for todays youth gone wild published by alan grants bad press ltd ,I draw tales … Continue reading

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DFC

This from John Freeman at Down The Tubes:     Earlier this year,David Fickling Books and Random House launched The DFChttp://www.thedfc.co.uk/,a new weekly comic in the UK,the first ofits kind in terms of the levels of originated, new characters for … Continue reading

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Bruce The Little Blue Spruce plus!

PRESS RELEASE – SHADOWLINE LAUNCHES ALL-AGES LINE, SILVERLINE BOOKS! New Shadowline imprint to exclusively feature all-ages graphic novels and books! 16 September, 2008 (Berkeley, CA) – This October, Image Comics’ Shadowline will debut Image’s first ever all-ages graphic novel and … Continue reading

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EURO COMICS GROUP

And BOY! would I have loved to have owned one of those Mikros figures!  But that’s beside the point. Currently making it known that the Yahoo eurocomics group is open to membership so if interested check it out.  The link … Continue reading

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Neon Monster

PRESS RELEASE – CELEBRATE TEN YEARS OF RED ROCKET 7 WITH THE ALLREDS AND SAN FRANCISCO’S NEON MONSTER! Mike and Laura Allred to celebrate anniversary with signing, party and original art gallery!   15 September, 2008 (Berkeley, CA) – In … Continue reading

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Spike Island and the Ignorance Of Publishers

 Saturday,13th September,2008. The day I realised I was an out-dated fossil. The Spike Island event,as noted elsewhere on site,was an add-on to a showing of some of the scrappiest artwork I’d seen in ages,though according to Doc N [aka. Darron … Continue reading

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British Comic Bok Archives -Oh Yeah:It’s Back

 After 12 years of trying,via the internet,to get scans of old British comics that could be used as the basis of a central repository -free to historians and creators families- I gave up. I knew there were members on the … Continue reading

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G4 -The Feed

Don’t forget if you want some podcast reviews of new comics you need to check out Ms.Butler over at G4 [and why not!]. I’ll add the link to Blog Roll for future reference.  http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/tag/72/Fresh_Ink.html

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Victoria Art Gallery Comic Art Exhibit

Anyone going to the above to check out the exhibit,starts Saturday? If so,let me know and we can meet up and insult “old farts” [myself not included]. T

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