The deadline for submissions to the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing Anthology is fast approaching! If you have a story to tell that fits with the 'Important Stuff' theme, check it out.

Just a reminder in case you haven't already nominated, the Eagle Awards Nomination Ballots are still open. Vote for or add your favourites, then the top 5 in each category will go on the final voting form.

Oliver East' Trains Are…Mint 2 has just been printed. It's thirty-two pages, full colour throughout, £4.99 and has very few actual trains in it. It’s available from the Rolling Stock Press website, Travelling Man in Manchester, Page 45 from 9th feb and also Travelling Men in Leeds, Bristol and hopefully Nottingham. There are preview pages on the website and a regularly updated blog.

Also, Trains Are…Mint 4, will be one of a kind, painted directly onto the pages of an already published book. As it’s one of a kind, it’ll be a tad pricey but most of the 95 fully painted pages will be posted on the Blog.

SPACESHIP AWAY ON APROACH RUN...
25/1/07: Issue 11 of the original Eagle-inspired title Spaceship Away is now at the printers and should be available in 10 days time.
This latest issue of the critically acclaimed magazine is another 44 page issue, featuring all the regular strips and items, plus two more Frank Hampson Studio development sketches and a Graham Bleathman centrespread - "Battle for Mekonta".
But the really big news is what is coming in Spaceship Away #12. That issue will have the first new Dan Dare artwork from Bruce Cornwell in 45 years, and also the start of a three part, brand new, Denis Steeper Dan Dare story - Murder on Mars (which will mean the title will then be running four Dan Dare stories at once!).
More strips will join the title in 2007, which really makes it a must-read magazine for anyone who enjoys science fiction comics. "2007 looks like an exciting year all round," says publisher Rod Barzilay, and he'll get no argument here.
• Full contents for #11 and ordering information are available on the Spaceship Away web site

Gerhard - Sim Split.

Jeremy Dennis plays the blame game

• Blog EGON lists many comics-related art and workshop events

UK Private Eye At 45
Runs until 11 February 11 2007
The Cartoon Museum, 35 Little Russell Street, London
An exhibition of over 130 cartoons from the last 45 years of Private Eye magazine by over 50 cartoonists.

UK 10 March - Bath Literature Festival: The Jonathan Cape Graphic Novel Event
7.00 - 8.00pm Guildhall, Bath
Paul Gravett, Simone Lia, Paul Wright and Bryan Talbot discuss process, inspiration and the balancing of words and images.

Tove Jansson Conference
Pembroke College, Oxford
A conference devoted to the Finnish author and artist Tove Jansson, popularly known for creating the Moomin characters.

This may be of interest to Indy Publishers:

The new mainstream comics website www.13comics.co.uk is now also listing many small press and UK Indy titles.

They are supplied by smallzone distrubution and have already generated a wide regular customer base.

The owners also plan to open up an actual comic shop in the North East area in the near future.

Jeff Newelt, PR guru, sometimes comics commentator and comics editor at Smith Mag (where he was involved with the excellent Shooting War and the new A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge) is interviewed on the Gothamist, discussing the webcomics collective ACT-I-VATE among other things and also commenting on Shooting War.

I had the pleasure of meeting Sarah McIntyre recently, and she does some fantastic work. Examples at her blog. She'll be contributing to Chrissie Harper's Freedom anthology.

(It's worth noting that small presser Chrissie Harper is also a talented illustrator and designer).

Terry Moore has stuff to say. You should listen

Spiderman manga

Superhero comics for non-superhero fans

Top Shelf announce new Owly, plus the debut of Korgi and what's coming soon (previews and trailers at the website).

(Here's the english translation of the German dialogue n Lost Girls)