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Albion (comics)
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Albion is a six-issue comic book
limited series
plotted by Alan Moore
, written by his daughter Leah Moore
and her husband John Reppion
, with covers by Dave Gibbons
and art by Shane Oakley
and George Freeman
. As a result of a deal forged by Vice President Bob Wayne of DC Comics
and Publishing Director Andrew Sumner
of IPC Media
, it was published through DC Comics
' WildStorm
imprint. The series aimed to revive classic IPC-owned British comics characters such as Captain Hurricane, Robot Archie
, The Steel Claw
and The Spider (as well as minor characters like Fishboy
and Faceache
), all of whom appeared in comics published by Odhams Press
and later IPC Media
during the 1960s and early 1970s, such as Valiant
and Lion
.
Debuting with a cover date of August, 2005
the first two issues were released monthly, with the third issue delayed two months (Moore & Reppion cited delays in scheduling impacting the art production). Initially solicited release between October 2005 and January 2006, issues 4-6 were subsequently resolicited, and finally released throughout 2006, with cover dates between June and November. The TPB collection followed swiftly after #6 was released in both the US and UK, from WildStorm and Titan Books
respectively.
The logo is similar to the one used by Scottish car manufacturer Albion Motors
, renowned for their superior engineering and slogan "Sure as the Sunrise".
Most of the IPC heroes are now interred within an asylum (comparisons are drawn with Camp X-Ray
), and the daughter of one of the inmates (who calls herself Penny) is determined to reveal their existence to the larger public. Using a similar narrative device to that which Alan Moore employed in Supreme
and Tom Strong
, flashbacks are related in the style of comics of yesteryear. For example, Penny Dreadful's childhood is drawn in a style similar to Dennis the Menace
or the Bash Street Kids.
and was arrested and placed in the government prison.
The House of Dolmann
Eric Dolmann is a master inventor and robotics expert, he has created a range of robots to fight crime. Over twenty years ago he was arrested by The Spider, an event that is witnessed by his daughter Penny. He died in prison.
Faceache
Faceache, Frederick Akeley has the ability to change his features. He is a trustee in the prison, and does impressions of Bruce Forsyth
for the guards. He is dating Martha of the Monster Make-Up.
Grimly Feendish
Grimly Feendish (aka Grymleigh Gartside Fiendstien) began his life of crime over thirty years ago, committing crimes including theft, arson, murder and acts of gross indecency. He is eventually arrested and imprisoned in the government prison.
, a prisoner and friend of Tim Kelly. Crandall has the ability to turn invisible, except for his prosthetic right hand.
Charlie Peace
A Victorian thief who travelled forward in time to the 1970s when he stole a magical watch from Cursitor Doom. He set up a music shop under the alias "Charles Love" and later took over an antique store. He became aware that the government was arresting unique individuals and is very careful about revealing his identity.
Robot Archie
Robot Archie was a hero who was deactivated and served as a display in a cafe until Penny and Danny rescued and reactivated him.
in November 2007
in hardback, with a cover by Brian Bolland
. This volume was designed to showcase the characters featured in Albion as they originally appeared in various IPC
, Fleetway
and other British comics. It featured reprints of several Cursitor Doom, Tim Kelly, Janus Stark and Dolmann stories, as well as newly written articles exploring the history of these characters' comics.
, a "spinoff" of Albion - written by Dave Gibbons
and drawn by John Higgins
, with covers by Gibbons - was launched as a five issue mini-series in 2006
. A trade paperback was released in 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1257-3, which contained some additional info on the original character.
) based on IPC's classic WWII air ace, Wing Commander Robert "Battler" Britton. Britton was the star of such comics as Sun, Knockout and the long-running digest
titles Air Ace Picture Library and Battle Picture Library. The script is by well-known comics author (and WWII expert) Garth Ennis
, with art by New Zealand's Colin Wilson
. Covers are by Garry Leach
. A trade paperback was released in 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1378-2, which contained some additional info on the original character.
collection of the six-issue miniseries was released in the US on December 13, 2006 by WildStorm
(ISBN 1-4012-0994-7). Titan Books published the UK edition a month later, on January 26 (ISBN 1-84576-351-3).
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
limited series
Limited series
A limited series is a comic book series with a set number of installments. A limited series differs from an ongoing series in that the number of issues is determined before production and it differs from a one shot in that it is composed of multiple issues....
plotted by Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...
, written by his daughter Leah Moore
Leah Moore
Leah Moore is an English comic book writer. She is the daughter of Alan Moore and Phyllis Moore, and is married to John Reppion. She has worked with both Alan and John on the comic Albion. She has also written for other comics and publications including Tom Strong and The End Is Nigh...
and her husband John Reppion
John Reppion
John Mark Reppion is a British writer. He is married to Leah Moore, the daughter of Alan Moore, and he has worked with both on the comic Albion.-Biography:...
, with covers by Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
and art by Shane Oakley
Shane Oakley
Shane Oakley is a British illustrator and comic book artist from Stoke-on-Trent, England.-Biography:He began his career contributing to the alternative comics review Deadline Magazine in the 1980s . In 1989 Shane worked as the penciller on issues 1 to 6 of Mister X volume two...
and George Freeman
George Freeman
George Freeman is a Canadian comic book penciller, inker, and colorist.Freeman's comic book illustrating career began with Richard Comely's independent Canadian publication, Captain Canuck. He made the move to the majors and subsequently worked on several superhero comics, such as Green Lantern,...
. As a result of a deal forged by Vice President Bob Wayne of DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
and Publishing Director Andrew Sumner
Andrew Sumner
Andrew Sumner is a British movie journalist and magazine publisher.Sumner wrote for John Brown's comics news magazine, Speakeasy, in the late 80s...
of IPC Media
IPC Media
IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...
, it was published through DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
' WildStorm
WildStorm
WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, published American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
imprint. The series aimed to revive classic IPC-owned British comics characters such as Captain Hurricane, Robot Archie
Robot Archie
Robot Archie is the name of a fictional comic book character who first appeared in Lion #1 published in February 1952.-Publishing history:...
, The Steel Claw
Steel Claw
The Steel Claw was one of the most popular comic book heroes of British weekly adventure comics of the 1960s and 1970s. The character was revived in 2005 for Albion, a six issue mini-series published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics....
and The Spider (as well as minor characters like Fishboy
Fishboy
Fishboy: Denizen of the Deep was a black and white comic strip appearing in the British comic book Buster between 1968 and 1975, written by Scott Goodall and drawn by John Stokes and others...
and Faceache
Faceache
Faceache was a comic strip in, originally, the UK comic Jet, first appearing in issue 1, dated 1 May 1971.Drawn by Ken Reid, Ricky Rubberneck was a boy with a "bendable bonce" , his skin like stretch rubber. At will, he could scrunch his face into anything...
), all of whom appeared in comics published by Odhams Press
Odhams Press
Odhams Press was a British publishing firm. Originally a newspaper group, founded in 1890, it took the name Odham's Press Ltd in 1920 when it merged with John Bull magazine. By 1937 it had founded the first colour weekly, Woman, for which it set up and operated a dedicated high-speed print works...
and later IPC Media
IPC Media
IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...
during the 1960s and early 1970s, such as Valiant
Valiant (comic)
Valiant was the title of a British boys adventure comics anthology which ran from 1962 to 1976. It was published by IPC Magazines and was one of their major adventure titles throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.-Publication history:...
and Lion
Lion (comic)
Lion was a weekly comic published by Fleetway from 23 February 1952 to 18 May 1974. It lasted for 1,156 issues.-Publishing history:...
.
Debuting with a cover date of August, 2005
2005 in comics
- January :* January 3: Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, dies at age 87.-April:*April 13:**DC Comics announces the discontinuation of its Humanoids and 2000 A.D. titles....
the first two issues were released monthly, with the third issue delayed two months (Moore & Reppion cited delays in scheduling impacting the art production). Initially solicited release between October 2005 and January 2006, issues 4-6 were subsequently resolicited, and finally released throughout 2006, with cover dates between June and November. The TPB collection followed swiftly after #6 was released in both the US and UK, from WildStorm and Titan Books
Titan Books
Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London, England's Bankside area. The Books Division has two main areas of publishing: film & TV tie-ins/cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics reference/art titles. The...
respectively.
The logo is similar to the one used by Scottish car manufacturer Albion Motors
Albion Motors
Albion Automotive of Scotstoun, Glasgow is a former Scottish automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer, currently involved in the manufacture and supply of Automotive component systems....
, renowned for their superior engineering and slogan "Sure as the Sunrise".
Fictional setting
The story revolves around a modern-day Britain where comic book characters have turned out to really exist. The British public had been largely unaware of their existence throughout the '60s and '70s, thinking them to be fictional.Most of the IPC heroes are now interred within an asylum (comparisons are drawn with Camp X-Ray
Camp X-Ray
Camp X-Ray was a temporary detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp of Joint Task Force Guantanamo on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.The first twenty detainees arrived at Guantanamo on January 11, 2002....
), and the daughter of one of the inmates (who calls herself Penny) is determined to reveal their existence to the larger public. Using a similar narrative device to that which Alan Moore employed in Supreme
Supreme (comics)
Supreme is a fictional superhero created by Rob Liefeld and first published by Image Comics, then Maximum Press, and later by Awesome Entertainment...
and Tom Strong
Tom Strong
Tom Strong is a comic book created by writer Alan Moore and artist Chris Sprouse initially published bi-monthly by America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics' Wildstorm division.-Background:Tom Strong, the title character, is a "science hero"...
, flashbacks are related in the style of comics of yesteryear. For example, Penny Dreadful's childhood is drawn in a style similar to Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace (UK)
Dennis the Menace, later called Dennis the Menace and Gnasher and now Dennis and Gnasher, is a long-running comic strip in the British children's comic The Beano, published by D. C...
or the Bash Street Kids.
Characters
A number of characters from UK comics appear in Albion, some are prisoners, others prison guards, others are at large include;Captain Hurricane
A World War II hero who is the final line of defense in the government prison. He has an old-fashioned style about him; he uses quaint phrases ("The whole ruddy lot of us", "I could do with forty winks", etc.) and is casually racist. Captain Hurricane's origin is revealed in Albion, he is the result of hundreds of experiments to create a supersoldier through the use of drugs. His assistant 'Maggot' Malone is a medical doctor monitoring his condition.Eagle-Eye
Ian Eagleton, as a child he had many encounters with Grimly Feendish who terrified him. When he grew up, he became the Warden of the government prison that held all the heroes.Jason Hyde
Jason Hyde was exposed to radiation that resulted in him developing x-ray vision and mind reading abilities. He currently works as a security guard in the prison.Zip Nolan
Once a police detective, who served in both Korea and Vietnam, is now a member of Special Operations, who is investigating problems in the Castle.Brian's Brain
A computer in the shape of a human head, Brian's Brain is an "inmate" in the government prison who has become integrated with the prison computer systems, and has predicted an upcoming disaster.The Cloak
The Cloak was a secret agent who admired The ShadowThe Shadow
The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town"...
and was arrested and placed in the government prison.
Cursitor Doom
Cursitor Doom is a psychic investigator who has been in a coma for the past “twenty-something years”. His castle is being used as a prison by the government.The House of DolmannThe House of Dolmannwas a British comic strip from the pages of Valiant. The serial ran weekly from 1966 to 1973. The serial was among the titles reprinted in Vulcan from 1975 to 1976. Eric Bradbury drew the majority of the strips produced....
Eric Dolmann is a master inventor and robotics expert, he has created a range of robots to fight crime. Over twenty years ago he was arrested by The Spider, an event that is witnessed by his daughter Penny. He died in prison.FaceacheFaceacheFaceache was a comic strip in, originally, the UK comic Jet, first appearing in issue 1, dated 1 May 1971.Drawn by Ken Reid, Ricky Rubberneck was a boy with a "bendable bonce" , his skin like stretch rubber. At will, he could scrunch his face into anything...
Faceache, Frederick Akeley has the ability to change his features. He is a trustee in the prison, and does impressions of Bruce ForsythBruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson, CBE , commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality...
for the guards. He is dating Martha of the Monster Make-Up.
Grimly FeendishGrimly FeendishGrimly Feendish is a villainous character in the British Wham! and Smash! children's comics from the 1960s. He was created by Leo Baxendale. Grimly's first appearance was in Wham! #4...
Grimly Feendish (aka Grymleigh Gartside Fiendstien) began his life of crime over thirty years ago, committing crimes including theft, arson, murder and acts of gross indecency. He is eventually arrested and imprisoned in the government prison.Kelly's Eye
Tim Kelly discovered a jewel, the Eye of Everlasting Life, which granted him invulnerability. He is currently a prisoner in the government prison, much aged after the jewel's confiscation. The Eye itself is shown to be in the possession of the British Prime Minister.Louis Crandall
Better known as the Steel ClawSteel Claw
The Steel Claw was one of the most popular comic book heroes of British weekly adventure comics of the 1960s and 1970s. The character was revived in 2005 for Albion, a six issue mini-series published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics....
, a prisoner and friend of Tim Kelly. Crandall has the ability to turn invisible, except for his prosthetic right hand.
Martha's Monster Make-Up
Martina has make up that can transform her face into that of a monster, she is in prison and is dating Faceache.Rubberman
James Hollis, had a curse placed on him that turned his bones to rubber. He attempted an escape with Tri-man which failed. He is being stored in a cooled cell.The Spider
The Spider was a master criminal who was employed by the UK government to arrest all superheroes and inventors, as his reward he was also imprisoned. He loves playing mind games and is always looking for ways to escape.Tri-Man
Johnny Small obtained superpowers from Professor Meek’s ray, he had supersight, superspeed, and superstrength. He was a prisoner until The Spider encouraged him to attempt an escape with Rubberman, and was killed during the attempt.Bad Penny
Penny Dolmann, daughter of inventor Eric Dolmann, was a child who loved to get in trouble and play with her father's robots. She was put into foster care after her father was arrested by the government and had a very difficult time in school. She has inherited her father's inventive genius, and has been locating her father's missing "dolls" since she was 18. At the start of Albion she is looking for allies to find and rescue her father and the other heroes.Charlie PeaceCharlie PeaceThe Astounding Adventures of Charlie Peace was a comic strip in the UK comic Buster, based on the real-life exploits of nineteenth-century thief Charles Peace, though the first strip appeared July 20, 1964 in Valiant...
A Victorian thief who travelled forward in time to the 1970s when he stole a magical watch from Cursitor Doom. He set up a music shop under the alias "Charles Love" and later took over an antique store. He became aware that the government was arresting unique individuals and is very careful about revealing his identity.Janus Stark
A Victorian hero, born with rubber bones and who is a brilliant escapologist, and also solves crimes and fights evil.Robot ArchieRobot ArchieRobot Archie is the name of a fictional comic book character who first appeared in Lion #1 published in February 1952.-Publishing history:...
Robot Archie was a hero who was deactivated and served as a display in a cafe until Penny and Danny rescued and reactivated him.Albion Origins
A tie-in volume entitled Albion Origins was released by Titan BooksTitan Books
Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London, England's Bankside area. The Books Division has two main areas of publishing: film & TV tie-ins/cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics reference/art titles. The...
in November 2007
2007 in comics
-January:*January 10: Superman & Batman vs. Aliens & Predator released.*January 24: The Boys is canceled with issue #6.-February:*February 2: Newsarama reports that The Boys has been picked up by Dynamite Entertainment....
in hardback, with a cover by Brian Bolland
Brian Bolland
Brian Bolland is a British comics artist, known for his meticulous, detailed linework and eye-catching compositions. Best known in the UK as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in...
. This volume was designed to showcase the characters featured in Albion as they originally appeared in various IPC
IPC Media
IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...
, Fleetway
Fleetway
Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a UK publishing company which mainly produced comic magazines. For a time owned by IPC Media, they are now a division of Egmont Publishing....
and other British comics. It featured reprints of several Cursitor Doom, Tim Kelly, Janus Stark and Dolmann stories, as well as newly written articles exploring the history of these characters' comics.
Thunderbolt Jaxon
Thunderbolt JaxonThunderbolt Jaxon
Thunderbolt Jaxon is a superhero comic-book character who first appeared in an Australian comic in 1949. His first appearance in the UK was in Comet #76 in 1949...
, a "spinoff" of Albion - written by Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything"...
and drawn by John Higgins
John Higgins (comics)
John Higgins is an English comic book artist and writer. He did significant work for 2000 AD, and he has frequently worked with writer Alan Moore, most notably as colourist for Watchmen.-Biography:...
, with covers by Gibbons - was launched as a five issue mini-series in 2006
2006 in comics
-January:*January 1, 2006: Newsweek offer a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. *January 2, 2006: The Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process...
. A trade paperback was released in 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1257-3, which contained some additional info on the original character.
Battler Britton
Battler Britton, a five-part series (starting in July 20062006 in comics
-January:*January 1, 2006: Newsweek offer a look back at 2005 through editorial cartoons. *January 2, 2006: The Cincinnati Enquirer cartoonist Jim Borgman starts a blog to detail his creative process...
) based on IPC's classic WWII air ace, Wing Commander Robert "Battler" Britton. Britton was the star of such comics as Sun, Knockout and the long-running digest
Digest size
Digest size is a magazine size, smaller than a conventional or "journal size" magazine but larger than a standard paperback book, approximately 5½ x 8¼ inches, but can also be 5⅜ x 8⅜ inches and 5½ x 7½ inches. These sizes have evolved from the printing press operation end...
titles Air Ace Picture Library and Battle Picture Library. The script is by well-known comics author (and WWII expert) Garth Ennis
Garth Ennis
Garth Ennis is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise...
, with art by New Zealand's Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson (comics)
Colin Wilson is a comic book artist, born in Christchurch, New Zealand on 31 October 1949.He is known for his detailed artwork which he uses in 2000 AD stories like Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd. According to Andy Diggle, the 2000 AD editor who got him back to the title in the late nineties and has...
. Covers are by Garry Leach
Garry Leach
-Biography:Garry Leach studied Graphic Design at St. Martin's School of Art. He was first noted for his early work for 2000 AD, which was mainly on one-off stories featuring Dan Dare and M.A.C.H. 1. He then became a fan-favourite for his work on the series The VCs.In 1981 he joined Dez Skinn's...
. A trade paperback was released in 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1378-2, which contained some additional info on the original character.
Collections
A trade paperbackTrade paperback (comics)
In comics, a trade paperback is a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or more titles...
collection of the six-issue miniseries was released in the US on December 13, 2006 by WildStorm
WildStorm
WildStorm Productions, or simply WildStorm, published American comic books. Originally an independent company established by Jim Lee and further expanded upon in subsequent years by other creators, WildStorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999...
(ISBN 1-4012-0994-7). Titan Books published the UK edition a month later, on January 26 (ISBN 1-84576-351-3).
External links
- Leah Moore and John Reppion's Albion page
- International Hero - A website devoted to British comics heroes.
- Andrew Sumner of IPC Media on Albion
- More detail about the IPC comics universe and the history of Albion from Andrew Sumner
- Inside the DC-IPC Deal, NewsaramaNewsaramaNewsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about the American comic book industry.-History:Newsarama began in Summer 1995 as a series of Internet forum postings on the Prodigy comic-book message boards by fan Mike Doran. In these short messages. Doran shared...
, August 2, 2004 - In The Fifty-Pee Box: An ALBION Website
- ALBION Annotations
Interviews
- Andrew Sumner interview, November 22, 2004, The IndependentThe IndependentThe Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
- Talking to Leah Moore and John Reppion, NewsaramaNewsaramaNewsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about the American comic book industry.-History:Newsarama began in Summer 1995 as a series of Internet forum postings on the Prodigy comic-book message boards by fan Mike Doran. In these short messages. Doran shared...
, February 16, 2006 - John Reppion, February 23, 2006
- Leah Moore and John Reppion talk Albion, Forbidden PlanetForbidden Planet (bookstore)Forbidden Planet is the trading name of two separate science fiction, fantasy and horror bookshop chains across the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States of America, after the feature film of the same name....
, July 20, 2006 - Leah Moore Brings Back the Brits Publishers WeeklyPublishers WeeklyPublishers Weekly, aka PW, is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents...
, January 16, 2007 - Forever Albion, John FreemanJohn Freeman (editor)John Freeman is a British writer/editor/designer known for his work with Marvel UK, and on Doctor Who Magazine and The Really Heavy Greatcoat.-Biography:...
interviews Moore & Reppion, February 7, 2007 - Albion Man, John FreemanJohn Freeman (editor)John Freeman is a British writer/editor/designer known for his work with Marvel UK, and on Doctor Who Magazine and The Really Heavy Greatcoat.-Biography:...
interviews Andrew SumnerAndrew SumnerAndrew Sumner is a British movie journalist and magazine publisher.Sumner wrote for John Brown's comics news magazine, Speakeasy, in the late 80s...
, February 12, 2007 - Shane Oakley: Albion Artist, John FreemanJohn Freeman (editor)John Freeman is a British writer/editor/designer known for his work with Marvel UK, and on Doctor Who Magazine and The Really Heavy Greatcoat.-Biography:...
interviews Shane OakleyShane OakleyShane Oakley is a British illustrator and comic book artist from Stoke-on-Trent, England.-Biography:He began his career contributing to the alternative comics review Deadline Magazine in the 1980s . In 1989 Shane worked as the penciller on issues 1 to 6 of Mister X volume two...
, February 23, 2007 - Panel Borders: The work of Leah Moore and John Reppion part 1, October 12, 2007
- Leah Moore & John Reppion, May 2, 2008
Reviews
- Superheroes in graphic detail, The ScotsmanThe ScotsmanThe Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
, February 11, 2007 - Albion #4 and #5, Comics BulletinComics BulletinComics Bulletin is a website with an emphasis on the American comic book industry, updated daily with news, reviews, interviews, and editorial content. Coverage ranges from mainstream to independent/small press comic book and graphic novel publishers.-History:...