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> There are many reasons that American comics readers should know Garth Ennis, from his long run on Marvel’s The Punisher to his iconic Vertigo Comics series Preacher, to his more recently adapted hit The Boys. However, those who know Ennis best know him also as a writer of war comics, such as War Stories his Battlefields series at Dynamite Entertainment, or his graphic novel Sara at TKO Studios. He’s even infused that influence into his work at Marvel on characters like Nick Fury, most recently in the Vietnam War-set Marvel MAX series Get Fury, co-starring a pre-Punisher-transformation Frank Castle. > > More recently, Ennis’ talents as a teller of war tales have served him well while writing stories appearing in British comics anthologies Battle Action and 2000 AD from Rebellion Publishing. In Battle Action, Ennis revived the character Johnny Red, a British fighter pilot leading a Russian Squadron during World War II, leading into the story of Johnny’s final flight. In 2000 AD, Ennis is penning stories featuring Rogue Trooper, the next 2000 AD character set to appear in a film, blending the genre line between war stories and sci-fi. > > ComicBook had the opportunity to ask Ennis questions about transitioning from American comics to these storied British magazines, including what he has in store for this year’s 2000 AD Christmas issue. Here’s what he had to say: > > *After many years working with US-based publishers, you’ve been doing work for Rebellion for a while now. How has your experience working with Rebellion and on anthologies rather than ~20-page American monthly serials been? Has there been an re-adjustment period at all?* > >Garth Ennis: Not really, stories are stories. So long as there are competent people at editorial I’m happy to work for anyone, and Oliver Pickles and Matt Smith are among the best I’ve worked with. > > I do enjoy the shorter episodes on Battle Action and 2000 AD– less space means more focus, and it’s nice to exercise that particular muscle again. That doesn’t mean I don’t write with the eventual collection in mind- that’s how stories like Rogue Trooper and Johnny Red are going to exist long-term, after all- but there’s still a particular pleasure to be found writing one-offs like Dredger, Hellman, or Strontium Dog/Robo Hunter. > > *You’ve been writing Rogue Trooper stories in 2000 AD and Johnny Red stories in Battle Action. Both fall into the “war comics” genre, of which you’re considered a master by many, but Rogue and Johnny are very different beasts, the former being sci-fi, and the latter rooted in real history. Have you found they offer unique storytelling opportunities or challenges compared to your other work in the genre? Is there any thematic commonality between them?* > > Not much beyond the fact that they’re both war stories. Johnny Red has its roots in actual history, as you say, whereas Rogue Trooper is out-and-out science fiction. The latter takes care of itself, with the broad parameters of the strip having been laid down a good forty years ago. > >With Johnny Red the hyperbole of ’70s comics means the story is one step removed from my usual war stories; things like Sara or The Stringbags don’t ask the reader to believe in anything that didn’t happen. But there was never an Englishman in command of a Russian fighter squadron, and even if there was, someone with Johnny Redburn’s attitude would have been shot dead by the Soviet authorities inside a couple of weeks. > > There’s also a larger-than-life quality to the original strip, with people and aircraft able to do things they simply couldn’t have. What I find interesting is that the old Johnny Red stories got so much right, in terms of setting and events, and finding ways of making the unreal a little more believable in that context is one of the things that keeps me engaged. > > ... > > *Your current Rogue Trooper story in 2000 AD, “When a GI Dies,” follows your previous story with Patrick Goddard, “Blighty Valley.” What can readers expect from this new Rogue story, and are there any thematic connections between this and last year’s story?* > >It’s much more specific to the original Rogue Trooper strip, rather than the notion of considering conflict in a wider sense that you saw in “Blighty Valley.” The new one looks at the origins of the Genetic Infantry regiment, their engineering- including the biochips and the implications thereof- and the people on Milli-Com who sent them into combat. It also considers the Dolls, and what they were left with once the dust had settled on the Quartz Zone massacre. > > ... > > *We’ve also just found out that you’re working with Henry Flint on a Strontium Dog story this Christmas. Can you offer any hints as to what that’s about?”* > > “Doghouse Roses” sees a pair of mutant civilians from Milton Keynes visiting the base of the Search/Destroy Agency, intent on making a fly-on-the-wall documentary about their Strontium Dog heroes. You’ll see all the old favourites- Johnny & Wulf, obviously, but also Middenface, the Torso from Newcastle, Evans the Fist, Spud Murphy, the Stixes and more- but from a point of view that may seem a little unfamiliar. > >There’ll also be some odd goings-on in the showers, a CUR prisoner we’d all like to see the back of, and a brief discussion on the future of the ancient English county of Durham. Oh my poor heartses, etc etc. > >And Henry is, of course, knocking it out of the park.
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> Two of weekly sci-fi anthology 2000 AD's most famous creations unite for the first time later this month in a new one-off strip from The Boys and Preacher co-creator Garth Ennis. Robo-Hunter Vs Strontium Dog, which will be published in October 30's 2000 AD Prog 2406, is a fast and funny tale that finds bounty hunter Johnny Alpha take on a job that will throw him into conflict – and perhaps an alliance – with Robo-Hunter Sam Slade. > > Both characters were originally created by John Wagner (who also devised 2000 AD's most famous star, Judge Dredd, alongside artist Carlos Ezquerra) in 1978, in the very early days of the comic's run. Slade, particularly, holds a special place in Ennis's heart, as he explains to Newsarama in an exclusive interview, which also includes a first look at some of artist Henry Flint's unlettered pages from the new story. > > ... > > *These characters share some similarities – they're both guns for hire, in a sense – but they also have some pretty stark differences in tone. So how do they get on?* > > What makes them similar comes from their roots – along with Dredd, they form the trio of all-time great 2000 AD characters created by John Wagner, and as such are born of the American pulp fiction/tough guy tradition that John loves so much. Really they're variations on that particular theme – the gunslinger, the private eye, the cop. That's why they work so well together (in terms of the narrative, not practical cooperation). > > ... > > *Both Johnny and Sam debuted in 1978, making them two very long-running characters! What do you think has made them so enduring* > >See above. Their pulp origins notwithstanding, John put enough original ideas into both characters that readers were constantly curious about them, we were always left wanting more. Their personalities, settings, supporting casts, technology and so on were endlessly intriguing, and their individual motivation meant we'd be getting plenty more – Johnny keeps on hunting bad guys because he doesn't know what else to do with his life, Sam will always take on another job because he's desperate for cash (even when he did eventually make his fortune and quit, bloody Hoagy and Stogie could be relied upon to ruin everything for him). > > ... > > 2000 AD Prog 2406 is published by Rebellion on October 30. The bumper-sized issue also includes new episodes of Judge Dredd, Rogue Trooper, The Out, Azimuth, and Brink.
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/18623090 > > Many readers of Alan Moore—the prolific and influential author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Jerusalem, and, most recently, The Great When—are enchanted by the magic of his creative vision. For his next trick, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, Moore would like you to come away with a respect for, and perhaps even a belief in, magic itself. > > > >The 400+ page grimoire, coauthored with the late Steve Moore (no relation) and published by IDW’s Top Shelf Productions imprint, combines a lively and accessible history of ritual magic, practical guidance on how and why to use such techniques as tantra and Tarot, and amusing summaries of the lives of magical practitioners through the years—from Hermes Trismegistus to Alistair Crowley—done as single-page comics. Moore spoke with PW via email about the Bumper Book, magic, superheroes, and more. > > > > ... > > > > On the matter of the comic strip medium and its possible links to occult consciousness, however, I think there’s a much stronger case to be made: I believe it was during the 1980s that a Pentagon study concluded that the comic strip medium’s combination of pictures and words in sequence was the most efficient way of passing on complex information in a way that was likely to be retained. Unsurprised, but wondering why this might be, it occurred to me that the image, being preverbal, is the prevailing unit of currency in what used to be called our right brain, while the word is the prevailing currency of what used to be called our left brain. Might it be that the way we read comic strips engages these two “halves” of our brain on the same task, both at once? > > > >In the Bumper Book, we propose that it was representational markings, or imagery, that gave us the key to written language, which in turn provided the key to modern consciousness, which our gradually dawning minds interpreted as magic. I suggest that the comic strip form, used correctly, can be a near-perfect medium for transmitting magical ideas, a bit like the poetic “language of the birds” that the alchemists construed as the ideal way to communicate concepts pertaining to alchemy. After all, our earliest cave-wall comic strips were probably intended magically. > > > > *Historically and even today, most people's conception of magic involves invoking supernatural forces to affect the outside world, and people typically either believe in it credulously or dismiss it as mumbo-jumbo. In The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, you make clear that the purpose and effect of these belief systems has mainly been to transform our inner selves and perceptions. How and why do you think these two distinct ideas got so muddled throughout history? Does magic have a PR problem?* > > > > ... > > > > Amidst all this, we felt that any real human importance or social use for magic was being lost in a sea of either fatuous make-believe or Master of the Dark Arts theatrics. So, with the Bumper Book, we wanted to present what we hope are lucid, coherent and joined-up ideas on how and why the concept of magic originated and developed over the millennia, a theoretical basis for how it might conceivably work along with suggestions as to how it might practically be employed—and, perhaps most radically, a social reason for magic’s existence as a means of transforming and improving both our individual worlds, and the greater human world of which we are components. And we wanted to deliver this in a way that reflected the colorful, psychedelic, profound and sometimes very funny nature of the magical experience itself. That, we felt, would be the biggest and most useful rabbit to pull out of the near-infinite top hat that we believe magic to be.
Picked up the Halloween special edition of Monster Fun in Sainos the other day. I don't recall seeing on supermarket shelves before but I only whizz into Sainsbury's for a couple of items these days (their fiery ginger beer does what it says on the tin). I didn't read many comics before Star Wars came out which led me to the Marvel UK Star Wars comics and 2000AD but I would pick up old annuals at jumble sales so I have a couple of Monster Fun ones from back in the day (along with ones from Eagle, various Jerry Anderson spin-offs, etc). So while it doesn't quite hit the nostalgia button it might for others of my age I am happy to see it back and doing well - [it went monthly in May 2023 due to popular demand](https://downthetubes.net/monster-fun-goes-monthly-due-to-popular-demand/). Also good to see it doesn't have some plastic tat on the cover that goes straight to landfill despite received wisdom being that you couldn't shift comics any other way. Overall it's a great comic - nicely put together (large glossy pages) with plenty of stories running from 2-5 pages created by some top talent in a range of styles (getting Roger Langridge is a bit of a coup), all mixed in with activities and a page for reader's art. Price: it is a quid more than the usual £3.99 but it does have extra pages.
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> The aim of this site is to create a digital repository of as many of the Comics Fanzines published in the UK as possible . > >These fan publications contained work by artists and writers who would sometimes later move into, and shape, the industry that they loved. > >Equally, they contain work by people who simply appreciated the sense of community offered by taking part in fandom, and who may now look back fondly on a hobby no longer followed. > >These fanzines were printed in very limited numbers, sometimes as few as 50 copies, and have become quite rare over the years. > >This site celebrates these publications, and the people who produced or contributed to them.
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> A collection of TV adverts for comics and magazines like the Dandy, Bunty and Jackie are being shared online, more than half a century after they were made. > >The 99 films were found in the basement of a building in Dundee owned by publisher DC Thomson. > >DC Thomson used the ads to persuade readers to become regulars. Free gifts were common across all their titles. > >A record of social history of the time, they also offer insight into the early days of commercial television advertising. The films - which date back to the 1950s and 60s - were discovered still in their cans. > >Thanks to a partnership between DC Thomson and the National Library of Scotland (NLS), they have been restored and digitised and can be seen online [at the Moving Image Archive](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgeyq99ezdwo).
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> “When I went to comic book stores, I would've been the only girl there." > >Comic books have been a huge part of Marianna Mooney's life growing up and in recent years she believes stereotypes have changed. > >Originally from Kildare, Marianna moved to Belfast in 2021 and she is among a number of local artists to feature in the debut print issue of Low Intensity, a comics anthology. > > ... > > Low Intensity's founder, Andrew Pope, said the publication's aim is to showcase comics and sequential art from this part of the world. > >“Having it in print really felt important,” he said. “Now, market forces are against us, and it's totally understandable why print media has gone the way it has. > >“But having comics in print; I like it, I really do like it”. > >Andrew’s hope for Low Intensity is to eventually print older archived material to include in the anthology. > >“I would love to get some stuff from the seventies, eighties, nineties and two thousands, reprinted and in the anthology to show to a new audience,” he continued. > >Low Intensity is being published by Local Colour Comics, which also runs the Belfast Comic Jam, a collaborative comic making event, where many of the artists became involved in the project.
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> Rebellion/2000AD publishes a 40th anniversary of the horror comic book Scream!, as published by IPC Comics, in the eighties, with Alex Paknadel, VV Glass, Anna Readman, Torunn Gronbekk, Alejandro Aragon and Emily Schnall, as part of their November 2024 solicit and solicitations, though only making their way to the US in December. As well as plenty of Judge Dredd, 2000AD, Battle Action, Monster Fun and more.
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> Well, this may be the biggest plug that Judge Dredd has gotten since the last film. Elon Musk posted today to social media (guess which one) saying, "Judge Dredd Would Drive A Cybertruck". Alex Jones replied "No doubt". It's been seen by quite a few people. > > And a few people, potentially quite close to the old Judge himself wanted to comment. And some agreed, possibly for reasons other than intended. After all, Judge Dredd is actually meant to be the bad guy, a point missed by a fair few over the years. > > ... > > And yes, if nothing else, it was an excuse for Judge Dredd writers and artists to call Elon Musk a creep, while in defensible character. He is the bad guy after all. Elon Musk wore Judge Dredd T-Shirts in his youth. We are not entirely sure how much of the subtext he got > > ... > > Still, it's probably a good reason to plug Michael Molcher's book, I Am The Law, about the history of Judge Dredd and the cultural and social implications of the time that saw Judge Dredd emerge as a popular character, in which the police in South Africa, where Elon Musk, played a crucial part in his creation, and the future he pointed to. It just won an Eisner Award for Best Comic-Related Book on Friday night!
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> Given the character's enduring success, movie adaptations invariably surfaced, the first being 1995's Sylvester Stallone vehicle Judge Dredd. Unfortunately for fans, the movie was a commercial and critical flop, universally panned for marring the character. Following years of development hell, it wasn't until 2012 that an unrelated adaptation in the form of Dredd—starring Karl Urban—surfaced. Though still a financial flop, Dredd was far better received by fans and critics alike for its greater adherence to the source material. However, this movie still garnered criticism in some sectors for its depiction of Mega-City One and lack of 2000 AD's signature satire, leading to another uneven adaptation. As such, fans are still clamoring for a movie that encapsulates everything that makes Judge Dredd so special. > > ... > > Ultimately, filmmakers should learn from past mistakes in any future Judge Dredd adaptation by combining the successes of Judge Dredd and Dredd. Indeed, if Judge Dredd's depiction of Mega-City One were fused with Dredd's characterization of the titular lawman, fans would no doubt be deeply satisfied. Furthermore, Dredd could have benefitted from including the iconic antagonists of Judge Dredd rendered in a comic-accurate manner. Importantly, both adaptations lack 2000 AD's characteristic playful yet biting humor and satire, and this should undoubtedly be addressed to ensure the financial and critical success of any future effort. > > Moreover, it is important to note that none of Judge Dredd's quintessential storylines beyond The Return of Rico have ever been adapted for the big screen despite now boasting two adaptations. The Day the Law Died, Judge Death, The Judge Child, Oz, and Judge Death Lives! are all iconic tales that are yet to see any semblance of adaptation, meaning there is still a wealth of source material to mine. In particular, having never seen Judge Dredd's arch-nemesis Judge Death grace the big screen seems incredibly perverse—imagine if no Batman movie had yet featured the Joker. By learning from the mistakes and successes of the past, filmmakers will hopefully one day grace fans with the Judge Dredd movie they deserve.
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/14189934 > > Neil Gaiman — the best-selling author whose work includes comic book series The Sandman and the novels Good Omens and American Gods — has denied sexual assault allegations made against him by two women with whom he had relationships with at the time, Tortoise Media reports. > > > > The allegations were made during Tortoise’s four-part podcast Master: the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman, which was released Wednesday. In it, the women allege “rough and degrading sex” with the author, which the women claim was not always consensual. > > > > ... > > > > According to Tortoise’s investigation, K did not file a police report. Scarlett filed a complaint to New Zealand police in October 2022. > > > > Gaiman told Tortoise that the police did not pursue his offer to assist the investigation regarding the complaint, claiming that this showed the lack of substance of the complaint. But New Zealand police told the outlet it made a “number of attempts to speak to key people as part of this investigation and those efforts remain ongoing,” adding that there are “a number of factors to take into consideration with this case, including location of all parties.” > > [The Tortoise Investigates series](https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/07/03/exclusive-neil-gaiman-accused-of-sexual-assault/)
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> After an absence of three decades, the first 2000AD Annual of the 21st Century arrives in November – in plenty of time to make it under the tree – from all good comic book shops, as well as the 2000AD webshop. > > This gorgeous hardcover collection will feature a mix of brand new and classic stories from top creators – including John Wagner (A History of Violence), Alan Grant (Batman), Simon Spurrier (Hellblazer, Coda), Dan Abnett (Warhammer 40k), Phil Winslade (Lawless), Fernando Blanco (Detective Comics), Ian Gibson (Halo Jones), Dave Gibbons (Watchmen), Mick McMahon (The Last American), and Emma Vieceli (Life Is Strange). > > It will come in two editions with stunning new covers bringing a fresh twist to the annuals of yesteryear – the standard edition will feature a bold, contemporary ensemble of 2000AD’s greatest heroes by breakout Judge Dredd and Rok of the Reds artist Jake Lynch (Judge Dredd), while the 2000AD webshop-exclusive edition will have a special retro cover by the legendary Brian Bolland (Batman: The Killing Joke), drawing his first 2000 AD annual cover since 1983! > > And, due to popular demand, the 2000AD Annual will be joined by a brand new Treasury of British Comics Annual! > > Last year’s sold out hardcover returns this November with three brand new stories from industry superstars, including Simon Furman (Transformers) and Mike Collins (Doctor Who) on Kelly’s Eye, Alec Worley (Hook-Jaw) and Anna Morozova (Lowborn High) on Black Beth, and Paul Grist (Jack Staff) and Simon Williams (The HOFF: Heroes of Fearless Freedom) on Robot Archie. > > Rebellion has delved in its vast archive to craft a selection of some of the greatest strips ever to appear in British comics – including Adam Eterno, Cursitor Doom, Stryker, and Major Eazy from such esteemed titles as, Scream!, Battle, Tiger, Valiant and Lion!
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> Secondary school pupils have created a comic which shares some of the unique historical stories of Scotland’s oldest Highland regiment. > > For the past three months, a group of 30 Perth Grammar School pupils have been putting pen to paper and bringing history to life, detailing seven stories from within the city’s Black Watch Castle and Museum. > > The finished product is a colourful 12-page comic book, which will be made available to visitors through the summer holidays. > > First year pupil Holly Harrold told STV News: “We started off by getting a sheet of questions, and we went through them on our phones and laptops and researched (the story). > > “Then we sketched out a base idea on some plain paper, then wrote what we were going to say about it.” > > ... > > The collaboration between the museum, school and developing the young workforce has been described as “groundbreaking”. > > Funded by Museum Galleries Scotland, the partnership is aimed at inspiring the next generation of heritage enthusiasts.
> Grant Morrison released a previously unpublished short story written for Marvel Comics decades ago – a short, humorous Captain Britain vignette that builds off Alan Moore's iconic run with the character in the 1980s. The story offers a look at the writer's early career, showcasing that their talent and creativity have been there from the very beginning. > > Posted on their newsletter Xanaduum, Morrison's story features an alternate version of the nationalistic character Captain Britain, called Captain Anglia. As the author explained, [Anglia] was just one of many alternatives to "Captain Britain" that they pitched to Marvel. > > Morrison noted that while most of these ideas never made it past the conceptual stage, one of them – Captain Granbretan – did manage to make it to the page. The Captain [Anglia] story shared by the author is the only other one they wrote, which readers can now enjoy after forty years of waiting. > > With alternate versions of Marvel characters gathering together for a party held by Captain Anglia and his sister Bet, Morrison has ample room to poke fun at the tropes of superhero comics. > > In their Xanaduum post, Morrison explained how the story came to be: > > A favourite of mine when I was getting back into comics in the early ‘80s was the Captain Britain strip, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Alan Davis for Marvel UK’s The Daredevils comic and later the Captain Britain title...Eager to generate work for myself at the time, I suggested the idea of text stories based around the alternate universe Captain Britain characters. > > While the idea was greenlit by Marvel UK, Morrison only produced two of the vignettes, with only one appearing in publication. Now, Morrison has shared the previously unpublished second story, entitled “CAPTAIN ANGLIA in Bri and Bet’s Big Garden Party” for the first time in over four decades. Though it is a very short humor piece, it still contains many ideas that are pure Grant Morrison. As an insight into their early career in comics, it represents an undeniably fascinating piece of primitive work. > > Morrison introduced the story this way: > > Inspired yet again by Monty Python’s ever-giving ‘Bicyclerepairman’ sketch, it depicts a world where Captain Anglia and his sister Bet are England’s Royal Family, as well as being superheroes in a world where everyone is a superhero. Copy edit: they couldn't keep the character name consistent
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> Greggs has become a British institution. I first came across the home of the quintessential sausage roll in Newcastle when I was a student there in the early nineties, and then they seemed to follow me when I moved to Manchester, Oxford and then London. Now they are everywhere, an iconic British staple, they even appeared in a car crash in the Fast And Furious franchise. And as of this week, get a mention – if not an appearance – in Marvel Comics' Blood Hunt tie-in comic, Union Jack The Ripper. > > Blood Hunt has seen the Marvel world taken over by vampires as the sky has gone dark, courtesy of Blade. And in Manchester, they are even eating English teachers. Rochdale is to the North East of Manchester and has a number of Greggs to its name, courtesy of British writer Cavan Scott and British artist Kev Walker channelling Paul Grist, John McCrea, Philip Bond and Mark Stafford. 
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> Garth Ennis and Brian K Vaughan are teaming up on a brand new series of Battle Action, launching this August from Rebellion/2000AD. A ten-issue magazine-sized monthly anthology will also see John Wagner, Torunn Grønbekk, Chris Burnham, Dan Abnett, Rob Williams, John Higgins, Henry Flint, John McCrea, Steve White, Keith Burns and Tom Foster. > > This includes a brand new revival of the controversial series Kids Rule OK from Brian K Vaughan and Chris Burnham based on the original strip from the seventies weekly comic from IPC, Action, that saw questions asked in Parliament and the comic book cancelled in 1976, with copies pulled from the shelves in outrage. And the final, terminal story of WWII aerial ace Johnny Red by Garth Ennis and Keith Burns. > > Battle Picture Weekly was created in 1975 by writers and editors Pat Mills and John Wagner, it introduced new grittiness into British comics with a cast of anti-heroes, misfits with a bombast and energy that sparked a sea-change in what comics could do, leading to Mills' creation of the controversial Action and then 2000 AD. Which being science-fiction meant the could get away with a lot more, without anyone in government or the tabloid press noticing.
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> Just before the new Doctor Who series returns to our screens – the weekend before in fact – Titan Comics will be launching their new Doctor Who comic book series featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby Sunday on a journey in the TARDIS that looks like it might well fit in between the Christmas edition and the first episode to come. Saturday, the 4th of May is, as well as Star Wars Day, is Free Comic Book Day. And Dan Watters and Kelsey Ramsay are bringing the first chapter of a new story, in which the Doctor hears a siren call across Space and Time. A tune that taps into some of his darkest moments, from the earliest days of the First Doctor, the end of days of the Third, and more recent troubles for the Tenth and Eleventh. > > But where will it actually take him? Why, 1789 in Yorkshire. I'm from Yorkshire and, believe you me, it often feels like 1789, even now. And it's to the day of the execution of famed highwayman Dick Turpin. Man, everything is coming up Dick Turpin these days, one version on Apple TV, another (kinda) on Disney+, but this Dick Turpin seems to have a cyborg arm with a laser blaster on it. Which looks a little out of sorts in eighteenth-century Britain, even in Yorkshire. As well as the first glimpse.of Fifteen in comic form, [Titan Comics also have a Conan comic out for FCBD](https://bleedingcool.com/comics/robert-e-howards-howardverse-launches-for-conan-free-comic-book-day/) that features more than the titular Cimmerian: > Earlier this month, we followed that with the news that The Battle Of The Black Stone was not just Conan and not just the Hyborian Age. And that this was to be a Robert E Howard crossover event. > > And now we have the proof, with Conan, Solomon Kane. Dark Agnes De Chastilion, El Borak. Professor John Kirowman. And the word that this is to be referred to as the Howardverse.
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> British graphic novelist Bryan Talbot is set to be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame, the highest accolade for comic writers and artists from across the world. The BBC spent an afternoon with him in his studio. > > ... > > Born in 1950s Wigan to a coal miner and hairdresser, Bryan's love of comics began before he could even read. > > The word-free visuals of nursery tales gave way to Rupert The Bear and Giles cartoons strips, before he fell deeply for the Beano and Dandy, first bought for him as he lay in a hospital bed after having his tonsils removed. > > "They were just so anarchic", he says of Dennis the Menace and the Bash Street Kids. > > "Before that, comics were very respectful and genteel. Suddenly teachers, park keepers and even parents were the enemy." > > He started drawing his own comics aged about five and excelled in English and art at school. > > He was supported in his ambitions by his mother, who would sketch out hairstyles for her customers, and his father who enjoyed water colouring. > > Bryan was the first in his family to attend higher education, studying fine art and graphic design before finding work in the underground comics industry burgeoning in the 1960s and 70s. > > It was a world of counter-culture, anti-establishment comics from the "hippy generation", full of "sex, drugs, rock and roll" as well as "whimsy and surrealism", Bryan recalls with obvious fondness. > > "The important thing these writers did was reclaim comics as an adult medium," he says. > > But he always harboured a fantasy for something much more ambitious - a full novel told in comic form. > > He tried to create a Lord of the Rings spin-off graphic novel when he was 17, but now says he lacked the skill to pull it off then. > > He certainly had the talent and experience by 1981 when The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, his science-fiction tale of trans-dimensional wars and alterative histories, was published to wide acclaim. > > The nine-part story was released as a single volume at around the same time as Raymond Briggs' When The Wind Blows and Posy Simmonds' True Love. > > "The three of them are the first British graphic novels," Bryan says with a humble pride. > > As an artist he has collaborated with numerous writers, including Neil Gaiman on the Sandman series, Pat Mills on 2000 AD's Nemesis The Warlock and Alan Moore.
> Posting to their newsletter Xanaduum, Morrison shared examples of thumbnails they created for their seminal Vertigo series from the 1990’s, The Invisibles. According to Morrison, they start each comic project by drawing it out themselves. > > “I start by drawing the story as it appears in my head in comic book form,” Morrison wrote in a subsequent installment of Xanaduum, “basing the major beats around interesting and arresting images and sequences.” For Morrison, it’s all about finding exciting things for them and their artists to draw: “I’d never ask an artist to draw something I wouldn’t enjoy drawing myself!” > > After laying out the issue in “thumbnails” – akin to storyboards for comic books – Morrison then transcribes their images to script form. “I convert the drawings into text descriptions with accompanying dialogue ,” Morrison explained, “ and hand the ensuing script version to the artist.” > > Morrison's description of their process is as fascinating as their completed work. “Dialogue and narrative caption ideas appear at this time and can be seen developing in the margins,” Morrison wrote, explaining how the writing flows organically from the images. After laying out the issue in “thumbnails” – akin to storyboards for comic books – Morrison then transcribes their images to script form. “I convert the drawings into text descriptions with accompanying dialogue,” Morrison explained, “and hand the ensuing script version to the artist.” > > While their own thumbnails are crucial to Morrison’s process, the writer also explained in their Substack posts that they usually don’t share the first-draft sketches with their eventual artists: “The artist rarely gets to see the original thumbnails before they go to work turning the descriptions back into artwork!” This insight into Morrison’s process for creating comics is revealing in a number of ways. It absolutely makes sense that Morrison would start with the images when crafting their stories, as comics are a visual medium, and Morrison's writing is so deeply tied to the corresponding visuals.
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> Starblazer – Space Fiction Adventure in Pictures was a British small-format comics anthology in black and white published by DC Thomson from 1979 until 1990. DC Thomson recently put out a second volume of Starblazer, this time including early work by Grant Morrison and Bryan Talbot and an introduction by Paul Cornell. > > ... > > A first volume was published by DC Thomson back in 2019, with the previous Mikal R Kayn story Operation Overkill by Grant Morrison and Enrique Alcatena on the cover.
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A treasure from the past. Print run was 2.5 years through 86-88. Lying halfway between Buster and Viz, was Oink! A cheeky, pig-themed, politically aware comic, that generated some hilarous lampoons of other comic strips and media personalities. Great writers, who came from, and went on to do some further outstanding works. Favourite strip was New Wave Dave.
> Alan Moore is generally considered the greatest writer in the comic medium. This year, Moore releases one last comic — The Moon And Serpent Bumper Book — a mixture of prose and traditional comic format from indie publishers Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Limited. Moore has crafted indie comics since the '90s, after his split from DC Comics... > > Alan Moore also wrote some brilliant stories in the indie comic genre (some of which, the Big Two published at a later date). Writing indie comics, Moore had the freedom to take his projects in any direction he wanted, resulting in masterpieces that readers could hardly put down. Alan Moore is a legend, and his indie work often surpasses the Big Two comics that he's known for. The list is: * Big Numbers * 1963 * WildC.A.T.s * The Ballad of Halo Jones * Promethea * The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier * Marvelman/Miracleman * Providence * The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume Two * From Hell
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> Co-written by Moore and his mentor, the late Steve Moore (no relation), it’s safe to say that The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic could be described as “long-awaited”; it’s been a project in the works for years at this point — Steve Moore died a decade ago, to give you an idea of just how this book has been gestating — and it’s easy to see why: a mix of prose, illustration and comics that spans 352 pages and features contributions from artists John Coulthart, Steve Parkhouse, Rick Veitch, Ben Wickey, and the late Kevin O’Neill, the Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic is nothing less than a guide to the supernatural and unknown from two writers who have firsthand experience. > > The book will be co-published by Top Shelf Productions and British publisher Knockabout Ltd., with Top Shelf editor-in-chief Chris Starks releasing a statement saying, “One of the great honors of my publishing career has been to work with Alan Moore on so many monumental projects, like From Hell and Lost Girls. The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic represents an amazing capstone, created by Alan and Steve, and brilliantly brought to life by five unforgettable artists. It’s been a privilege to watch those magical minds spend years building this grimoire, and I’m proud to join Knockabout in finally sharing it with the world.” > > The book, gloriously described by Top Shelf as a “clear and practical grimoire of the occult,” will finally be unleashed on the world in October.
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> Judge Dredd is, as he’s said on more than one occasion throughout his near-50-year career, the law — but despite some people’s perceptions, that doesn’t mean that the Judge Dredd comic strip is anything close to an endorsement of his support for the inflexible fascistic regime he works for. Proof of that can be found in the current Dredd storyline running in iconic UK anthology 2000 AD; ‘A Better World’ sees the Justice Department deal with the success of a trial program that seemingly proves that defunding law enforcement in favor of social programs results in a healthier, more secure society. > > The current arc builds on a long-running thread through the past few years of Dredd comics, with writers Arthur Wyatt and Rob Williams demonstrating that forces on both sides of the argument over policing are suspicious of the idea of law enforcement attempting to reform itself in any meaningful way. (And, because it’s a sci-fi action strip, the extremes that some of those people will go to influence the conversation.) According to the duo, who talked to Popverse last month about the storyline, they were aware that this kind of “Defund the Police” story would get a lot of attention, but was never likely to escape criticism from readers. > > “Some people are just going to be upset at something no matter what, and if we spent all our time second guessing them we’d never get anything done,” Wyatt argued. “Any time I’ve been writing Dredd and something like Ferguson or some other horrible thing has come on the news I’ve felt bad about not dealing with the real world enough and letting Dredd be a sort of copaganda fantasy, so if anything I’m pushing a bit harder so I’m not disappointed in myself.”
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/7250203 > > Aneurin Barnard, Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden lead the cast of science fiction movie “Rogue Trooper,” written and directed by Duncan Jones, whose credits include “Moon,” “Source Code,” “Warcraft” and “Mute.” > > > > The animated film, which is being created with Epic’s 3D tool Unreal Engine 5, was adapted by Jones from the comic book published by 2000 AD, home to “Judge Dredd,” “Halo Jones” and “Sláine.” “Rogue Trooper,” produced by Rebellion and Liberty Films, has wrapped principal photography at Rebellion Film Studios in the U.K. The film is set to be finished next year. > > > > Barnard (“The Goldfinch,” “Dunkirk”) stars as the eponymous Rogue Trooper. Cast alongside him are Atwell (“Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One”), Lowden (“Slow Horses,” “Dunkirk”), Daryl McCormack (“Bad Sisters,” “Good Luck to You Leo Grande”) and Reece Shearsmith (“Inside No. 9,” “Saltburn”). > > > > ... > > > > “Rogue Trooper” tells the story of 19, a “Genetic Infantryman,” who finds himself the sole-survivor of an invasion force. Desperate to track down the traitor who sold him and his comrades out, the super soldier is accompanied by three killed-in-action squad mates, whose personalities have been stored in his gun, helmet and rucksack. > > > >The “Rogue Trooper” comic book was created by artist Dave Gibbons (“Watchmen,” “Kingsman”) and writer Gerry Finley-Day (“Dan Dare”). > > > > Jones said: “2000 AD offers a very different flavor of comic action: Political and brutal at times, but always with a Pythonesque twinkle in the eye. ‘Dredd’ (2012) was a taste of what 2000 AD has to offer and now we get to show the world another side of the beast. It is a genuine privilege to be given the opportunity to make ‘Rogue Trooper.'”
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> For American audiences, though, one of its primary differentiators is the fact that it’s been coming out almost every week without fail — a printers strike and planned holiday season slowdowns aside — for more than four decades now. What does it take to keep up that kind of schedule? Popverse asked editor Matt Smith, who’s been in charge of 2000 AD since 2002, that very question. > > ... > > American periodicals released in the comic shop-centric Direct Market — which offers material to retailers on a traditionally non-returnable basis, with those retailers selling it to customers who are willing to be patient for their favorites — 2000 AD is primarily sold on newsstands in the United Kingdom, which means there are very different pressures to hitting deadlines. > > “Newsstand is very unforgiving on titles that don't hit their on-sale date, so if the issue doesn't go to print on its particular day, then it gets knocked back and that puts pressure on whether it'll reach the shops in time. And then, if it goes on sale late, then [newsstand retailers] get a bit sniffy and you could end up getting fined for not hitting your own sale dates,” Smith explained. “Also, it affects the audience as well. Once the comics doesn't appear when they think it's going to appear, then they start drifting away. You've seen that with other titles that have been and gone, where they start drifting and staggering their on-sale dates, and the audience just loses interest and then gradually the magazine winds up [folding]. So they absolutely have to hit those on-sale dates to keep that audience on board.”
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> In 1980, Doctor Who Weekly, published by Marvel Comics UK, included a new comic book strip by Pat Mills, John Wagner, and Dave Gibbons, edited by Dez Skinn, Star Beast. Pat Mills is best known as the founder of 2000AD and co-creator of Judge Dredd, Punisher 2099 and Marshall Law; John Wagner is his Dredd co-creator and the longest-serving creator on that character. Dave Gibbons is best known as the co-creator of Watchmen, Give Me Liberty, and Kingsman and the creator of The Originals. And Dez Skinn, former Marvel editor, publisher of Warrior, Captain Britain, Marvelman, V for Vendetta, Starburst, Comics International and much more. David Tennant is quoted as saying that the Doctor Who Weekly strips were "better than the telly at that time" and he read Star Beast as a kid. > > And tonight that 43-year-old comic book story has been adapted into the 60th anniversary returning Doctor Who starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, written by Russell T Davies, with Miriam Margoyles as Beep The Meep. Pat Mills will be telling us a lot more about what went down then, in his new book Pageturners: How To Create Iconic Stories From The Creator of 2000AD as an e-book tomorrow, on the 26th of November, after Doctor Who and the Star Beast has broadcast, with the paperback on sale at the same time. All paying subscribers to his Substack will also get a download link to the book tomorrow founding members will receive a signed paperback copy.
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> Somewhere, hidden in deepest, darkest Oxford — okay, the darkness might simply have been the weather when I was there — is a legitimate piece of comic book history. Or, more precisely, multiple pieces of comic book history: the archive of Rebellion’s Treasury of British Comics and 2000 AD, which consists of more than a century of back issues, original art, and more. > > Easily one of the largest archival collections of comic book history (and almost certainly, one of the most substantial archives of British comic history in particular), Rebellion’s archive is predominantly made up of material published by what was one of the largest UK comic book publishers of the 20th century, IPC, and its many alternate names, subsidiary companies, and publishers purchased or absorbed into it across the years. (Including but not limited to Amalgamated Press, Oldhams Press, Fleetway Publications, and many more.) While Rebellion bought long-running British sci-fi anthology series 2000 AD at the start of the 21st century, it wasn’t until 2018 that it acquired the complete back catalog of IPC, reuniting what is in effect 130 years of material, and a record of pop culture unlike any other. > > Yes, I wrote 130 years; the Rebellion archive includes copies of Comic Cuts from the 1890s, some of the earlier cartoon papers in the world. To see them — collected in bound editions that are, most likely over a century old in and of themselves, labeled with yellowing paper that they are “library editions” and not to be removed from the collection of a publisher that no longer exists — is a curious experience, because they are at once objects from a distant past and oddly contemporary, using illustration tricks and techniques (and employing a wicked sense of satire) still in use today. > > ... > > The intent, I was told, was not to make the archive a hidden, private collection of material owned and controlled by Rebellion [but] to maintain it as a piece of collective cultural history available to the UK in multiple forms. It’s a bold aim, true, but one that feels thrilling to consider the impact of in years to come. Just imagine what having access to all of this history could inspire in the future.
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Anna Readman has been named winner in the Observer/Faber graphic short story prize 2023. This is her entry.
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/3471692 > > Originally published during the adventure gamebook boom of the 1980s, Dice Man has never been reprinted in its entirety before, but now the complete run of the popular magazine is presented in this massive collection. > > > > Using dice and a pencil, you will become Judge Dredd as he faces off against the Dark Judges, or guide Nemesis the Warlock as they race through the Torture Tube, or help Sláine steal the Cauldron of Blood from the Tower of Glass! > > > > Written by John Wagner, Pat Mills, and Simon Geller, with art by Bryan Talbot, Garry Leach, Graham Manley, John Ridgway, Kevin O’Neill, Mark Farmer, Mike Collins, Nik Williams, Steve Dillon, David Lloyd, Glenn Fabry, and David Pugh, this is the definitive collection of these fantastic dice-based role-playing games.
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> The 2000 AD Art of Steve Dillon: Apex Edition will contain work from throughout Dillon's career at 2000 AD. The collection spotlights his work on Judge Dredd through stories that include Block Mania and the Emerald Isle storyline, an early collaboration with Ennis, as well as art from Rogue Trooper and Harlem Heroes. On top of all this, the book will also include the complete art for Red Planet Blues, the sole A.B.C. Warriors story written by Alan Moore, with painted color by John Higgins (Watchmen).
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cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/124375 > [ [comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37832662) | sourced from [HackerNews](https://news.ycombinator.com/) \]
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> BHP Comics publisher Sha Nazir has announced that he is to wind down BHP as a comic book publisher. Set up in 2011 as an underground comics collective Black Hearted Press, had grown by 2015 into a limited company rebranded as BHP Comics, becoming one of Scotland's premier indie publishing companies. It was shortlisted for publisher of the year multiple times and was a consistent presence on the List Hot 100. > > In mid-2019, BHP successfully expanded into the US market. Volumes included Art & Sketches volumes from Frank Quitely and Charlie Adlard, as well as the series Killtopia, John Wagner and Alan Grant's Rok of the Reds, Clare Forrest's Mighty Women of Science, Gary Chudleigh and Tanya Robert's Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles, Jack Lothian and Garry Mac's Tomorrow, its Full Colour and Bold comics diversity projects, its women in politics anthology We Shall Fight Until We Win and its books found in every secondary school in Scotland. > > However, Nazir stated that the challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit significantly impacted the business with shrinking profit margins and escalating costs, exacerbated by Brexit, had rendered international publishing less economically feasible for the company.
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> The comic book author and graphic novelist Bobby Joseph has become the first person of colour to be appointed the UK’s comics laureate. > > Joseph, who was one of the first authors to create a British comic with black characters, was appointed to the role at the Lakes international comic art festival (LICAF) in Bowness-on-Windermere in the Lake District on Saturday. > > He is the fifth person to hold the post, which was created in 2014 to raise awareness of the impact comics can have on increasing literacy and creativity. One of the laureate’s key focuses is to increase the acceptance of comics as a tool for learning in schools and libraries.
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It's a lengthy interview about his book but I thought I'd focus in on his thoughts about comics from his novel-length "short" story "What We Can Know About Thunderman": > I mean, 'Thunder Man' was an odd story. I'd been trying to write something like that for a couple of years, and I'd even made a start on a story, but I threw it all out because it hadn't got any real life to it. I realised that this was because I was setting it in England, where I had my first experiences of the comics industry. But I kind of realised that no, England is not where the comics industry is really happening. You've got to go to the source. > > And I'd also had other vague thoughts going through my head. I'd been thinking about superhero costumes and neurological addiction since reading some interesting articles in New Scientist that seemed to suggest that a logo can actually imprint itself upon a child's brain, which I suppose shouldn't be surprising, that's what logos are designed to do! > > Most superheroes can be reduced to just a color combination and a chest emblem. I had a strange image that was like something from an old Superboy comic, and I had no idea what it meant. It was an image of a normally dressed person walking in from the left of a kind of an archetypal 1960s comic book panel with a sort of a bland Midwest landscape and, on the other side, a fantastically-costumed superhero, and they're just walking towards each other as if to shake hands. That became the seed for the final scene. It was a really interesting experience writing that story. > > *Let's ask the obvious question... 'What We Can Know About Thunderman' is a satire of the comics industry. How much of it is true?* > > Some of the most grotesque scenes I've embellished and in some of them I've flat out lied, but I think that it captures the character of the comics industry and a lot of the most physically appalling things in there are very close to actual reality. > > That said, it isn't a roman a clef. Most of the people in it are composites or inventions. One of the things that I was most pleased with about it was all the names. I've no idea where they were coming from: Jerry Binkall. Brandon Chuff. Worsley Porlock. You know that you're on a roll if you've got names like that cropping up. > > *You're retired from comics and you've talked about your bad experiences with the industry before. So why return to the subject now? Is this an exorcism?* > > That's exactly the word. I've disowned most of my comics work, including stuff like Watchmen, V For Vendetta, all of the ABC stuff, everything that I don't own. The only active thing I could do was disown it, which was painful. I put an enormous amount of work and energy and a great deal of love into all of those projects and it felt like a bit of an amputation to disown them. > > At the same time, that was the only way to cut out the poison. I don't have a copy of any of those works. I'll never be looking at them again. And even thinking about them, all I've got is memories of having my intellectual property rights stolen and then when I complained about that, being typified as a crazy angry guy; "Alan Moore says 'get off my lawn.'" And yes, alright, I was quite cross, but I don't think without reason and also to suggest that I'm angry about everything is an evasion. It's a means of going, "Oh well, if he's angry about everything then we don't have to worry about what he says about the way that people are treated in the comics industry, he's just angry about everything." > > And once these things have been taken from my hands and made into franchises then they can be given to anybody to do what they want with and that will somehow still be associated with me. > > The comics medium is perfect. It is sublime. The comics industry is a dysfunctional hellhole. So why did I want to return to it in this story? Like you say, it's exorcism. As one of the characters finds in 'Thunderman' it's one thing to quit comics, but quitting comics is a different thing to being able to stop thinking about them. Writing this got an awful lot out of my system. It said a lot of the things that I'd always wanted to say but I'd never really had the right context to say them in. But doing them in a Kafka-esque satire, that worked perfectly. And when I say a Kafka-esque satire, what I mean is that Franz Kafka, while he was reading his stories to his followers and appalled friends, he would be laughing almost too hard to get the lines out. It's horrible, hideous, appalling - but the author was probably giggling when he wrote it. > > *You called comics "sublime" just then and it really does feel like, despite everything, you still have a love for the medium. Is that fair?"* > > Absolutely. I hope that my love of it comes across; my love of Jack Kirby and many of the other artists and a couple of the writers of his generation. The descriptions of a six-year-old kid glimpsing a comic book rack could not have been written without being able to tap into my memories of what that was like, a first exposure to comics. > > The medium can do anything. Its potential is still almost completely untapped. So it was attempting to express my love of the medium, some of the wonderful people who worked in it, and to also express my horror at the fact that this this little offshoot, the superhero genre, has become a monoculture that's in danger of taking down at least a considerable part of the comics medium with it when superhero movies finally aren't interesting. When that happens, my worry is that a lot of the comic shops won't be able to continue and a lot of interesting independent comics would perhaps not have outlets.
cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/2785199 (!lemmings@lemmings.world) > >  > >  > >  > >  > >  > >  > >  > > From Max Overload, issue 2.
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> Millar was not alone in expressing derision at the advert, part of the “Made in the UK, sold to the world” campaign run by the Department for Business and Trade. > > It depicts Dennis and Gnasher alongside the headline “Created in London. Unleashed in more than 100 countries” and in smaller print clarifies that it is referring to the animated television series produced from DC Thomson’s Fleet Street office. > > But this distinction did not lessen the ire of many Beano fans, who on X described the advert variously as “insulting”, “disrespectful” and “predictable”. > > Chris Law, the Scottish National party MP for Dundee West, called the campaign “cultural appropriation” and “utter garbage”. “Perhaps before the UK government start appropriating local Dundee created characters in the Beano they ought to do a bit of basic research,” he said.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5523686 > [Annotation Index](https://factsprovidence.wordpress.com/moore-lovecraft-comics-annotation-index/) - This page accesses all the annotations of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows H.P. Lovecraft comics issue by issue, including covers – as well other Moore/Lovecraftian works in collaboration with other artists, and related items.
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> After more than 46 years, the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic — that’s 2000 AD for those not in the know — keeps on going strong, offering up groundbreaking sci-fi comics on a weekly basis from some of the best creators from the UK and beyond. If that sounds a little daunting for a newcomer, don’t worry; the long-running series’ upcoming issue, it’s 2351st (yes, really), is specifically intended to act as a perfect place for new readers to start… and also for some old fans to get an unexpected thrill, as well…! > > "2000 AD has always strived to publish at least a couple of jumping-on issues per year for those readers looking for the best place to climb aboard. Prog 2351 on September 27th is our latest chance for people to get into 2000 AD - with a great line-up of new stories in Judge Dredd, Feral & Foe and Helium to grab new and returning readers, with handy recaps to get you up to speed," editor Matt Smith told Popverse. "Plus Garth Ennis and Henry Flint have cooked up an epic face-off between two classic 2000 AD characters – an idea that was all Garth’s – that will certainly please long-term readers as well!" > > Those two classic 2000 AD characters Smith is talking about? Well, one is the iconic Judge Dredd, as might be expected — he is, after all, the most well-known 2000 AD character by far. The other, however, might come as much more of a surprise, as Sam Spade Robo-Hunter comes out of retirement to take on the Mega-City One lawman on his own turf. 2000AD have these jump-on issues a few times a year where all the stories sync-up and start in the same issue. It looks like this one has a big hook too. There's quite a bit of publicity for it including: * [Rob Williams and PJ Holden talk their Judge Dredd story in ‘2000 AD’ new “jump on” issue](https://aiptcomics.com/2023/09/21/2000-ad-jump-on-interview/) * [2000 AD Jump On Issue Features All New Stories, Including Return of Abnett and Elson's Feral & Foe](https://comicbook.com/comics/news/2000-ad-prog-2351-jumping-on-issue-feral-and-foe-dan-abnett-rich-elson-interview/)