Dave Gibbons Archives

But then, it gave me a great opportunity to talk to him about his career so far, which you've read already, right? It certainly was a full day from start to finish. Sunday and Comics Uncovered served up breakfast as well as a varied menu of workshops and seminars covering all areas of comic creation and[...]

(Twitter @lianaleslie) In her spare time over the course of the past year, she's taken one of the most information dense comics ever created, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, and described the art of every single aspect of the comic in text, so that blind fans can have text-to-speech programs read it aloud for[...]

This is an artist friendly convention run by Steve Wyatt that is big enough to draw some great names and small enough that you can get around and see everyone you want to see. Artists guest for this years show include: Jim Steranko, Dave Gibbons, Arthur Adams, Neal Adams, Tim Bradstreet, Frank Cho, Steven Bissett, Adam[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/OiCPodcastEpisode117.mp3] Following on from last week's debut of the retitled Orbital in Conversation (OiC) podcast featuring Kurtis Wiebe and friends (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with Comics Laureate and all-round good guy Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, Green Lantern, Kingsman: The Secret Service). Dave and I met up in his home[...]

As he did with Kick-Ass, Vaughn has taken a Millar comic that was violent, crass, and cynical, and turned it into a film that is violent, crass, and silly. The comic series The Secret Service, from Millar and Dave Gibbons, is the story of a young London punk recruited by his super-spy uncle into MI:6, contrasting[...]

An Amazon Glitchwatchmen? Okay, so this is peculiar. A copy of the complete Watchmen collection is on Amazon Kindle for free, USA only. Except it appears

Ho ho.

Quite a wonderful promotion this, Parker Bros have supplied the makers of the Kingsman movie with their bespoke clothing needs for the movie, epitomising a certain British style, and as a result have also launched a Kingsman line, replicating the very items used in the film. And ahead of tomorrow's London premiere of this film based on[...]

Gilbert, Jim Starlin, Joe Kubert, Arthur Adams, Walter Simonson, Paul Norris, Mike Grell, Mary Wilshire, Andy Kubert, Gil Kane, Kurt Schaffenberger, Bob Kane, Curt Swan, George Pérez, Howard Chaykin, Jan Duursema, Carmine Infantino, Jim Steranko, Gray Morrow, Neal Adams, Murphy Anderson, Dave Gibbons, Gilbert Hernandez, Dan Spiegle, Frank Thorne, Ramona Fradon, Matt Wagner, Ernie Colon, Irwin[...]

It was with great happiness I signed up for 'An Evening with Dave Gibbons', put together by IDW Publishing to promote their Artifact Edition of Watchmen Even at $500 a pop, I drooled at the thought of having dinner and conversation with one of my all-time favourite comicbook creators, a bona fide industry master to[...]

And artists such as John Romita Jr, Dave Gibbons and Klaus Janson have also been named as involved – Romita worked with Frank on Man Without Fear, Gibbons with Frank on the criminally underrated Give Me Liberty and Janson of course inked Miller on the original Dark Knight There definitely seems to be the aim[...]

Today Dark Horse unrolled the content of their landmark 200th issue of Dark Horse Presents coming in February, and it's a massive 80 page tour-de-force of their most celebrated creators as well as adding the first US appearance of the series Masks by Gone Girl's Gillian Flynn and the legendary Dave Gibbons.   The 200th issue will[...]

London Super Comic Convention always has steady waves of announcements leading up to the event, running from March 14th to 15th of 2015 this time, and the

It's delicately and evocatively pencilled and written by David Hitchcock in full steampunkish style. It turns out that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons are fans They provided the following supportive blurbs: An ambitious and masterfully executed Victorian fever-dream – Alan Moore Expertly told and truly creepy – Dave Gibbons Here's our preview of Springheeled Jack courtesy of the estimable Mr[...]

Paul Levitz moderated a panel on the depiction of women in comics at Baltimore Comic Con this year on Friday with panelists Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Marguerite Bennett, Adam Hughes, Christina Blanch, and Thom Zahler. Levitz opened by pointing out that whether a character is depicted as sexy or sexualized in comics is a very old[...]

It's all comics all the time, and the All-Star Reception is no exception. This year, the All-Star Reception, held on Friday, September 5th at 8PM on the top floor of the show hotel, overlooking Baltimore, and features guests Dave Gibbons, most of the art team from Miracleman including Alan Davis, Rick Veitch, John Totleben and Mark[...]

A new collected editon of The Secret Service, or rather Kingsman: The Secret Service, is being rush-published by Marvel Comics for the end of September when they suddenly realised that that was when the film was out and someone suddenly decided that maybe it would be better not to wait until November for the book[...]

With an exclusive variant painted Rorschach cover by Watchmen's co-creator Dave Gibbons And just enough copies to fit round a table in a private dining room in a premier restaurant in the Gaslamp area of San Diego, minutes from the Convention Center. Because that's what's happening A steak dinner with Dave Gibbons, who will sign and sketch[...]

The renowned artist Eddie Campbell (From Hell) has illustrated the story and FourPlay String Quartet have created an entirely new underscore to the story. Hayley Campbell, author of the forthcoming book The Art of Neil Gaiman, will be interviewing Neil, Eddie and FourPlay on stage. Monday 7th July A British Revolution: 2000 AD and Beyond British Library 18.30-20.00 – Book now Some of the key figures in[...]

Creating pairings such as these… Gillian Flynn and Dave Gibbons AM Homes and Frazer Irving Margaret Atwood and Christian Ward Michel Faber and Roger Langridge Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell Dave Eggers Eggers, of course, already stretching across both worlds It's a stunning achievement on The Guardian's part A different comic will run every day from tomorrow on the Guardian website but will all appear[...]

Here are the newly revealed covers for Bryan Hitch's Real Heroes #2 by his best buddies Dave Gibbons and Jock. The second issue of Hitch's superheroic version of Galaxy Quest (with subtle clues as to his work on the Fantastic Four movie) gets its Final Order Cut-Off date on Monday Which means, if you want these covers,[...]

Did anyone else notice no new Rogue Trooper in the June Previews from IDW, only the classic reprint series? I'm told that the new originated series from IDW by Brian Ruckley and Alberto Ponticelli, based on the 2000AD sci-fi soldier created by Gerry Finley-Day to Dave Gibbons, has been put on hold due to disappointing sales. But[...]

As we discussed, I've been reading from a very young age and I've been able to publish many of the creators and characters that I read growing up. Creators and characters like Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, Donald Westlake (Richard Stark), Robert Bloch, John Romita's Spider-Man, John Byrne's Fantastic Four, Chester Gould, Berkeley[...]

Scott Dunbier, senior editor at IDW, is on the hunt for original art pages for upcoming IDW Artist Editions, that seeks to reproduce artboard pages as

The London Super Comic Convention is convening March 15th and 16th, and in the lead-up they've revealed that their cover art for this year's program guide has been designed by the great Dave Gibbons, one of their guests at the con, and features Rorschach and Big Ben That's a thought Wonder what his musings would[...]

–Dave Gibbons 13thDimension gets a first look at the Watchmen Artifact Edition from IDW And a page from Neil Gaiman Did we know that Neil took part in the creation of the comic? We do now… In fact, I was talking to Neil Gaiman a couple of weeks ago — managed to have a catch-up with[...]

Including those who might even appear in the book… I just backed Comic Book People: Photographs from SDCC in the 1970s and 1980s on @Kickstarter http://t.co/1JWsur1Q15 — Dave Gibbons (@davegibbons90) January 27, 2014 THE WHEDON WITH ALL THE FOLLOWERS How to make Mike Carey's day over his new book, The Girl With All The Gifts. Finally had time to read[...]

CB CALLING Marvel's Senior Talent guy, CB Cebulski, is on the trail of hunting down amazing new inspiration. Still no luck finding Mountain Dew Cheetos in

The Watchmen Deluxe edition by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 448 pages of it, for $4.99. Bargain. This may be the Kindle deal that digital refuseniks may find hard to argue with The Watchmen Deluxe edition by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 448 pages of it, for $4.99. Bargain. This may be the Kindle deal that digital[...]

Anyone care to translate the flag? COMICS LIBRARIAN Paul Gravett writes; First announcements and first image (Dave Gibbons' cover to The Trials of Nasty Tales from 1973, below) are out this week from The British Library in London about their exciting forthcoming exhibition on British comics John Dunning and I are co-curating Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in[...]