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D C Fontana best known for writing  Star Trek
https://intl.startrek.com/news/dc-fontana-1939-2019

MICHAEL J. POLLARD
The Oscar-nominated actor, best known for portraying the role of C.W. Ross in "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967),

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/michael-j-pollard-scene-stealing-actor-in-bonnie-and-clyde-dies-at-80/ar-BBXcbDc?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=U452DHP

Colin Skipp, who played Tony Archer in BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers for 47 years, has died at the age of 80.

 For all you old hippies out there on Saturday, 23 November 2019 between 1:00 pm & 2:00 pm Gilbert Shelton will be signing his new exclusive Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers print at Gosh in London
Or you can order the signed print from them for only £25

https://www.goshlondon.com/events/gilbertshelton

Carlos Ezquerra only did 4 episodes of book2 along with John Hicklenton, Duncan Fegredo & Sean Phillips and several other artists
The official page count for each book as from the comic is:
Book 1: Episodes: 14,Pages: 196 of strip, plus 14 pages of text
Book 2: Episodes: 23, Pages: 322
Book 3: The Big Heat:Episodes: 8, Pages: 112
Book 4: Ivan's Story: Episodes: 3, Pages: 42 & The Final Problem, Episodes: 1, Pages: 14

The Original letterer was Gordon Robson
The guy giving the bird was based on a young punk he knew back in Colchester at the time as were all the other main characters

Announced via Nerdist there is to be a new "Best Of 2000AD" 12 part collection in the US formate coming in April 2020
No mention of what stories it will contain but I'm sure they will be dropping hints soon

https://nerdist.com/article/get-to-know-the-best-of-2000-ad-with-a-new-monthly-series-exclusive/?fbclid=IwAR1lthQrIdn90CRcGSGMtnavCi2Ny04f83_Fzw_FNj1XmyZzlKtGigYlOkA

Gay Byrne the legendary Irish presenter of The Late Late Show aged 85

https://inews.co.uk/news/world/gay-byrne-dead-age-85-irish-broadcaster-late-late-show-826716

Just noticed one of the names on the whiteboard in the hospital in the Hellblazer Special  is a Proff M. Molcher (D.N.R)

DeAgostini have a page up advertising the Star Wars Graphic Novel Collection but when you click on the order now button you get a notice saying that this page cannot be found It may have been moved or deleted.

Just got a promo email from Hachette today advertising the X-Men and the Aliens & Predator collections as both being 4 issue runs

I contacted them awhile back  they said that the X-men had printing issues so it had been postponed and there had been no decision made on the Aliens and Predator

Last day on kickstarter they still need £4200 so if you have not back this now is your last chance

Kept mainly to the Comic Village had a great chat with John Wagner and picked up a couple of the classic Judge Dredd Titan trades he was selling from his own private collection. John Shooter was interesting to talk to listening to his stories about his time with Marvel both as the editor in chief and as a writer/artist. All of the artists I spoke to were great and on form especially Glenn Fabry, Mark Buckingham and Ian Churchill. Nice display of costumes from Doctor Who, Jason Mamoa turned up for awhile at the premier of his new TV series "SEE".
Bit disappointed that Rebellion/2000AD were only in the Gaming zone, but as they were there just to promote Zombie Army 4 they did have some TPBs for sale and free promo copies of a US comic of Third World War which had the first episode and "A history of the Third World Wars in Crisis" from the  Megazine issue 276. The Cosplayers became a bit of annoyance trying to get around  with them blocking most of the walk ways making it hard to get around

If anyone is at mcm John Wagner is selling some of his original Titan books of Judge Dredd for only £10 each