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British creators Liam Sharp, Richard Starkings and Bryan Talbot, among 2024 Eisner Award nominees

Comic-Con International announced the 2024 nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards last week, and once again, there are many British creators among them, including Liam Sharp, Richard Starkings, and Bryan Talbot and Zoe Thorogood

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Coming Soon: I Am The Law, the 2000AD guide to British policing?

This year sees the publication of I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher

This year sees the publication of I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher, an in-depth examination of the ways in which the comic strip “Judge Dredd”, published in 2000AD, has predicted the changing face of policing in Britain over the last 45 years. The book is due for release in bookshops from the end of October, according to various bookstore sites, and in comic…

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In Memoriam: Comics Writer, Editor and TV Script Writer Si Spencer

In Memoriam: Comics Writer, Editor and TV Script Writer Si Spencer

Artist Dix and writer Si Spencer at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in 2015 Much deserved tributes aplenty have poured in for comic creator, comic editor, TV writer and author Si Spencer, whose sudden passing was announced by his family earlier this week. He was just 56 and his most recent work, the supernatural series “The Returners: Heartswood” drawn by artist Nicolo Assirelli is…

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Garth Ennis writes new "Rat Pack" story for 2020 Battle Special

Garth Ennis writes new “Rat Pack” story for 2020 Battle Special

The cover of Battle, cover dated 17th April 1976 – featuring Rat Pack. Art by Carlos Ezquerra. With thanks to Great News For All Readers

The latest 2000AD Thrillcast offers a recording of the war comics panel from New York Comic Con – and writers Alex de Campi and Garth Ennis have both revealed they have written strips for a new Battle Special from Rebellion out next year, Garth writing a new “Ra…

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The company’s [Amazon] ‘Ring’ doorbell camera system has been branded ‘the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen’. Heavily marketed at neighbourhood watch groups, one in ten police departments are able to access its videos without a warrant and sometimes even order people to aim their Ring cameras at their neighbours.53 In 2022, Amazon admitted that it had provided Ring doorbell footage to police without owners’ knowledge or consent,54 and a function to automatically activate cameras near where a 911 call is made could be introduced in the ‘no-so-distant future’.55

Meanwhile, the ‘Neighbours’ app, which allows people to upload footage from Ring products or other security cameras, has since developed a culture ‘completely obsessed with crime and the self-policing of neighbourhoods and users often resort to racial profiling’.56

In summer 2021, authorities in Jackson, Mississippi unveiled a pilot program that would give police livestrean access to private security cameras throughout the city, including doorbell cameras placed in private homes, described by city mayor Chokwe Lumumba as ‘an opportunity to better observe and fill in the gaps’.57 It wasn’t the first; a city in Florida had earlier approved a similar plan and a proposed law in San Francisco would allow police to co-opt private cameras in real time.58

53 Lauren Bridges, ‘Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen’ - theguardian.com (18 May 2021) https://bit.ly/3Q4USri

54 Tim Marcin, ‘Amazon admits Ring gives cops footage without customer’s knowledge or consent’ - mashable.com (16 July 2022) https://bit.ly/3q2jmXP

55 Alfred Ng, ‘Amazon’s Ring wanted to use 911 calls to activate its video doorbells’ - cnet.com (24 September 2019) https://cnet.co/3v3rsSx

56 Caroline Haskins, ‘How Ring Transmits Fear to American Suburbs’ - vice.com (6 December 2019) https://bit.ly/3Az1Cbr

57 Jon Schuppe & Bracey Harris, ‘Police in Jackson, Mississippi, want access to live hone security video, alarming privacy advocates’ - aclu-ms.org (02 December 2020) https://bit.ly/3Skt2JY

58 Jessica Lyons Hardcastle, ‘San Francisco cops want real-time access to private security cameras for surveillance’ - theregister.com (11 July 2022) https://bit.ly/3bnH258

I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher

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2000 AD Thrill-Cast returns with exclusive interview with "Stainless Steel Rat" writer (and comics editor) Kelvin Gosnell

2000 AD Thrill-Cast returns with exclusive interview with “Stainless Steel Rat” writer (and comics editor) Kelvin Gosnell

The 2000AD Thrill-Cast is back! After some … technical difficulties Michael Molcher returns with a new episode of the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast celebrating the slippery-est son-ovva-gun in the whole cosmos – Jim diGriz, aka The Stainless Steel Rat… and there’s an Airfix secret (unconnected with the character) revealed, too! To complement the summer’s release of the deluxe edition of the classic…

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Three British Comics Legends - One Great Thrill-Cast!

2000AD’s The Lockdown Tapes continue this week as The 2000AD Thrill-Cast continues to broadcast the joys of Thrill-power during the Coronavirus Pandemic.The latest episode, hosted by Michael Molcher, offers three legends in just one podcast!

Playing host to artists Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, and Mick McMahon, The 2000AD Thrill-Castoffers just under two hours of chat and laughs! Whether it’s…

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Latest 2000AD Thrill-Cast reveals what's in store for 2018 for Galaxy's Greatest Comic - and Treasury collections

Latest 2000AD Thrill-Cast reveals what’s in store for 2018 for Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – and Treasury collections

From Charley’s War to Halo Jones,  we’ve already revealed in two posts (here for 20000AD, here for Treasury of British Comics releases) that it’s going to be a busy year for Rebellion, with 34 new graphic novels due to be unleashed. From the devastation of World War One in the definitive edition of Charley’s War, to the hijinks of Von Hoffman’s Invasion, and the newly coloured adventures of…

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