Just like the hardcover, the book is crammed with extras including an afterword by world renowned Holmes and Dracula scholar Leslie S. Klinger, an original Conan Doyle Holmes tale – The Devil’s Foot – illustrated by Campbell and lots more.

You can read a nine page preview of the story here.

Buy the Sherlock Holmes paperback from Amazon.co.uk

Buy the Sherlock Holmes paperback from Amazon.com

The big shiny hardback edition of The Complete Alice in Wonderland is also out now.

Collecting all four issues of our mammoth double adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There with beautiful artwork by Erica Awano and colours by PC Sequeira, the book also features loads of extras like poems, the “lost” chapter The Wasp in the Wig, scripts, and so on.

There’s even a rather beautiful French edition!

You can read a seven page preview here.

Buy the Complete Alice In Wonderland hardcover from Amazon.co.uk

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Well…

We’ve written an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth for a Self Made Hero anthology which is due out in 2011. The ever impressive Mr. Leigh Gallagher is handling the art and is currently wrangling with our mammoth script even as I type these words.

We’ve plotted a four issue follow up to a Dynamite Entertainment horror book we wrote a few years back which Mr. Mike Raicht is scripting and we’re overseeing. We’ve seen a bit of artwork already and it’s looking very nice.

We’ve just today finished writing #2 of our second five issue Sherlock Holmes series which is entitled The Liverpool Demon and is proving to be lots of fun thus far. Not sure who the artist is going to be yet but we’ll let you know.

On top of all that, we’ve got a big comics-but-not-as-we-know-them type project lined up which we’re very, very excited about and which we will tell you all about as soon as we possibly can. We promise.

And… I’m sure there’s other stuff too… Oh, we’ve got a couple of new collected editions out too. I’ll blog about those right now.

What’s that? Shut up? Fair enough.

Cult comic author Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor, has died at the age of 70.

Pekar’s life and work provided the basis for the 2003 film American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti.

Eschewing superheroes, capes and other more traditional comic material, Pekar preferred to show the mundanity of the daily grind.

Adam Cadwell has started a group on Flickr for other people to add their drawings of Harvey, called, Draw Harvey! and invites anyone to add a drawing. Adam’s own Harvey portrait here is pretty damn wonderful, incidentally.

Frank Sidebottom was instantly recognisable by his large spherical head, styled like an early Max Fleischer cartoon. This was initially made from papier-mâché, but later rebuilt out of fibreglass.

Frank, usually dressed in a 1950s-style sharp suit, was portrayed as an aspiring pop star from the small village of Timperley near Altrincham, Greater Manchester. His character was cheerfully optimistic, enthusiastic, and seemingly oblivious to his own failings. Although supposedly 35 years old (the age always attributed to Frank irrespective of the passage of time), he still lived at home with his mother, to whom he made frequent references. His mother was apparently unaware of her son’s popularity. Frank sometimes had a sidekick in the form of “Little Frank”, a hand puppet who was otherwise a perfect copy of Frank.

From menmedia.co.uk

Manchester has joined forces to raise thousands of pounds to give the man behind comedy legend Frank Sidebottom a fitting send-off.

Fans and friends of Chris Sievey, famous as his alter ego Frank, raised a staggering £8,000 within four hours of launching a massive internet fundraising campaign to pay for his funeral.

The appeal was set up after the M.E.N. revealed the 54-year-old, who died following a cancer battle, was virtually penniless and facing a pauper’s funeral.

Generous offers of support have flooded in from across the region, including from a number of funeral directors. The family are now considering which one to use, but hope to use a Timperley based one – because that is what ‘Frank would have wanted’.

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From Comic Book Resources:

Iconic fantasy illustrator Frank Frazetta passed away today at the age of 82.

A New York City native whose career began in the comic book field at the end of the Golden Age, Frazetta was best known for his fantasy illustrations. From his character and genre-defining run of cover images depicting sword-and-sorcery hero Conan The Barbarian to his own haunting Death Dealer painting and character, the artist found immense popularity across a wide spectrum of fans. From fantasy buffs to heavy metal bands and from comic collector’s to western enthusiasts, Frazetta’s paintings not only inspired many imitators and followers but also made him incredibly popular and comparatively wealthy for a creator in the field of genre art.

Dynamite’s Complete Adaptation concludes here! For three issues prior, Dynamite has presented the most faithful comics adaptation ever, along with writers Leah Moore and John Reppion and artist Erica Awano!

Now, clocking in at another massive 40 pages of story and art, the fanciful and thrilling adventures of a little girl named Alice are completely told!

The final issue of The Complete Alice in Wonderland is available now.

This issue concludes Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There and includes the “lost” chapter The Wasp in the Wig which has never before been adapted.

You can pick up a copy at your local comic shop or order direct from Dynamite Entertainment.

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SPM #7 contains  articles on steampunk’s relationship with politics, the future of steampunk fashion and the melting pot of 19th century Europe, poems about Alice in Wonderland, fiction about airships and hot air balloons (how very retro!) and instructions on how to raise your own island out of the deathless oceans.

On top of all of that, there are interviews with Sunday Driver and The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, and a good helping of all the other wonders that you have come to expect from SteamPunk Magazine.

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DODGEM LOGIC: THEY SAY THINGS HAPPEN IN THREES…

With only its third issue just about to be released, Alan Moore’s mystifying neo-underground magazine Dodgem Logic has evidently forced a General Election, brought a government to its knees and secured the release of Twin Peaks Season Two on DVD. Those are the kind of results you can’t argue with and which completely justify hiking our cover price to £3.50, even without our generous increase in size to eighty ad-free pages of wall-to-wall solid content in spectacular full colour.

With a beautiful but nightmarish wraparound cover provided by its increasingly unfathomable founder and this issue’s free gift of a tantalising iron-on T-shirt transfer both delineated and designed by the sublime Melinda Gebbie, Dodgem Logic #3 is our most sumptuous and substantial offering yet. We’ve got more bubblegum-card bios in our series of Historic Hipsters, we’ve got rowdy rationalist Robin Ince exploring the futility of trying to reason with mouthy reactionaries and a genius examination of town planning and its various iniquities by urban spaceman Gary Mills. Britain’s foremost self-defacing comedy darling Josie Long provides some excellent advice, but only if you’re her about ten years ago, while hilltop hierophant Steve Moore serves up a comprehensive absinthe-scented guide to the degenerates, dandies and demi-gods collectively known as the Decadents.

Fulfilling Dodgem Logic’s remit of unhelpful crazy talk, Alan Moore offers a straightforward user’s guide on how to practice hellish sorcery in your own living room, and frowning boy-king Steve Aylett’s sobering Johnny Viable concludes with a display of octopi and flirting Chinese warlords that maybe, just maybe, shows us how to love again. Melinda Gebbie takes us on the first leg of a two-part tour through the delinquent dreamtime of Beat-era San Francisco, the immensely civil but post-civilised Margaret Killjoy walks us through her blueprint for a scavenger economy, and self-sufficient-ish Dave Hamilton sows some genetically modified seeds of discontent. The awestruck reader will discover flavoursome yet frugal recipes, advanced guerrilla gardening gambits and a first-time voter’s unimpressed appraisal of the democratic process. There are trackside chats and snaps from the electrified-rail frontline of graffiti, diatribes from doctors, a cacophony of columnists, the esoteric etchings and embellishments of cryptic Kevin O’Neill or the mighty Savage Pencil, and instructions for the manufacture of those Joy Division oven-gloves you’ve dreamed of.

Currently funding much-needed school holiday crèche facilities in the mistreated but majestic district that it hails from, Dodgem Logic once again delivers on the promises it never made you in the first place, a refreshing contrast to what you’ll be getting elsewhere during this election period. We know that if our preternatural publication were a little human boy and not a magazine made out of paper, you’d appoint him to rule wisely over you in preference to all the flimsier and less coherent options on display. Frankly, thanks to you, we’re looking at a landslide moral victory.

Dodgem Logic ~ the incompetent paranoid despot of people’s hearts.