Dean Simons

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He/Him. UK-based freelance culture writer/journalist [news & features]. Interests: world comics, global comics history, digital comics; gaming and portable technology

Contr. writer @ Comics Beat: https://www.comicsbeat.com/author/deansimons/

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Judge Dredd Megazine, published by @2000ad.bsky.social From 42 months behind in April…to six months behind today. Phew. Highlights: Dreadnoughts, Spector, Lawless, Johnny Red (Titan reprint)

Fnac is a superstore chain in France. It offers a mix of tech, music, and books. And the book section is often well stocked. Imagine a Best Buy with a brilliant bookshop inside. Likewise the comics (bande dessinée) department. Here is Bordeaux’s.

Manga Kat is the manga-focused offshoot of my fave Bordeaux bedetheque (comic shop) Krazy Kat. It has a great selection and splits its manga by genre. France has vintage series Captain Tsubasa translated, which makes me a bit jealous. Likewise Kingdom.

Countdown to Angoulême…A weekend in Bordeaux.

Phew. Despite being super busy, I played plenty on my Switch. How did everyone else do?

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Numa Sadoul's landmark interviews with Jean "Moebius" Giraud are gathered in this English-language debut of the exploration of the mind of maestro Moebius. Doctor Moebius and Mister Gir is available this week--details: bit.ly/3RJDLQd

I wrote a thing www.comicsbeat.com/the-rise-and...

The Rise and Fall of Comixologywww.comicsbeat.com With the official end of the Comixology app, a look back at its history and gradual absorption into Amazon's Kindle program

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the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

this is exactly why i still buy discs in 2023. it's crazy to think that we are reaching a point where piracy will be the only option to own media once dvds and blu-rays are gone.

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New Breakdown Press now available to order! Originally published in 1982, I Wish I Was Stupid by Garo pioneeer, Ebisu Yoshikazu, surpasses in shamelessness the artist’s cult classic Pits of Hell. Translated by Ryan Holmberg. floating-world-comics.myshopify.com/search?q=Ebi...

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Blambot's biggest sale of the year begins next Monday, the 27th! Are you ready?

My annual deep dive into the Angoulême Official Selection lists to check what you can find in English. (Sadly I didn’t have room to point out the books not currently in translation that stood out to me). If people want me to, i can write about them separately. www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-of...

Angoulême Official Selection 2024www.comicsbeat.com Angoulême Official Selection 2024

I have reached the point where the phrase “Bug fixes and performance improvements” on any app or software patch/update means shuffling the board, seldom actually leading to real noticeable “improvements”. It would be nice for a little transparency to assuage increasingly jaded end-users.

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Huh. Cute.

Really pleased with myself - i am four regular progs away from being up to date with 2000 AD. I can’t remember the last time I was this close to being on top of the weekly. (Don’t ask me how far behind I am with the Megazine)

Back on the 2000 AD catchup train and spotted a part of a panel in August’s Prog 2343 that spoke to me in these stressful and troubled times. From “Azimuth: The Stranger”. Text by Dan Abnett, illustration by Tazio Bettin and Matt Soffe.

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52,000 comics sold £323,000 sales 105,000 unique visitors So proud to have conceived of, curated, organised, and run -single-handedly- one of the biggest comics festivals in the world ✨ Thank you for all your support 🌷

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Just won the World Fantasy award, for the 2nd time in row, for best anthology. & the only African editor to have won. Congrats to our publishers @tordotcom.bsky.social, the entire team, my co-editors Sheree Renee Thomas & Zelda Knight, all our amazing contributors, WFA judges, all involved

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Want to know how you put together a creator-owned comic from inception to getting it on the shelves? I wrote a long blog-post, with lots of initial designs by @PyeParr , about the making of PETROL HEAD #1. www.robwilliamscomics.co.uk/archives/1565

WRITING PETROL HEADwww.robwilliamscomics.co.uk How to make a creator-owned comic come to life

Looking through Dragonball Daima trailer - seems to potentially take place before Super (no Beerus and Whis) and involves something to do with Bibidi and Majin Buu. Maybe Bibidi’s father or a relative is involved. Looks fun as heck. I am in. Fall 2024!

My childhood! (They reran the Clangers on CBBC into the 90s, when I were a lad)

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Wilko: End of a fabulous ride for shop that sold it all

Wilko: End of a fabulous ride for shop that sold it allwww.bbc.co.uk Workers and shoppers tell us what they'll miss about the brand as the final stores close.

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Big feelings can be expressed with little loving gestures.

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The creator of the ‘Oh No’ webcomic needs help in raising funds so he can continue his legal battle against a shady as fuck board game company trying to claim ownership of all his artwork. Don’t know how these assholes sleep at night. Plz contribute to this if you can, & re-skeet #HelpSmallArtists

Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norriswww.gofundme.com I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for h… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics

Best part of getting sick after a comics festival: quarantined with plentiful reading material. Currently reading Pinoy graphic novel The Fireflies of Crimson Ashes by RH Quilantang. (Shame i had to get covid though)

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If you don't know who to give your invite code - there's a great place to donate it

BlueSky Invitesdocs.google.com Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, and members of related communities or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and w...

the history of early Spirou is astonishing. Esp when WW2 starts +Belgium is occupied. The Dupuis family scattered, what is left returns to the homestead to try to get the publisher running again. Jijé pretty much says about taking over Spirou - every alt artist was either “disappeared or captured”

May 1937, the Dupuis family had weekly meetings to discuss the company. In 1922 they expanded into publishing - first with a women’s magazine, then a humour publication. Founder/patriarch Jean Dupuis wanted to do a children’s magazine. Here they were deciding potential names for what became Spirou.

I think my mantelpiece collection is coming together nicely