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johnfreeman

Real Name: John Freeman
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Location: Lancaster, Lancashire (England)

Joined: Jan 4th, 2007
Last Visit: May 13th, 2008

I'm Managing Editor of the new comics-to-mobile project ROK Comics, which offers professional creators a revenue share of every strip downloaded to mobile/cell phone.

The site is still in beta - we're aiming to do an initial launch in May - and at the moment we are still fine tuning the actual delivery of strips. However, you can still create strips using the Comic Creator tools on the site (Flash based), play with the free comic strip creator and embed strips you've created on web sites.

Naturally, I think this is a pretty cool project. Several creators have been testing out the service and giving us great feedback.

My work at ROK Media also involves the sourcing of new content across a range of media, along with updating the Monkey News Network - the news read by monkeys (samples on YouTube.

OTHER PROJECTS

In terms of my own comic work I continue to write The Really Heavy Greatcoat, which appears in Comics International magazine and my British comics news web site www.downthetubes.net.

I'm also writing an as yet unpublished humour strip satirising the British civil service which is one of those rare jobs where you get paid to write something but it has not yet been seen in the public domain! Hopefully this year...

MY BACKGROUND

I have been an editor at Marvel Comics UK and Titan Magazines, where I was Managing Editor for five years, and have worked in publishing for over 20 years, with strips published by Marvel, Egmont, Lucky Bag, CJL (Italy) and others.

My work ranges from strips from humour strips for licensed titles such as The Real Ghostbusters and Thundercats to adventure material including The Science Service, drawn by Rian Hughes - soon to be re-published as part of a collection from Knockabout which will also include Grant Morrison's Dare - and strips for Judge Dredd: The Megazine and more.

In addition to my British comics news site downthetubes, which also includes a guide to writing comics based on my past experience as a Marvel UK editor, I also have a blog at www.downthetubescomics.blogspot.com, where I post various random weirdness.

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May 13th, 2008 11:54 AM	"Floods" Charity Comic
Apr 3rd, 2008 12:34 PM	Ex Astris heads to Spaceship Away
Feb 14th, 2008 9:54 AM	Kickback, the mobile version
Dec 17th, 2007 8:33 PM	BMX-O-Ball
Oct 31st, 2007 7:06 AM	Mobile Combat launched on ROK Comics
Aug 16th, 2007 12:06 PM	Tribute: Phil Gascoine
Jul 31st, 2007 7:22 AM	ROK Comics Managing Editor John Freeman Interviewed
Jun 29th, 2007 10:45 AM	Rok Comics seeks hot talent and offers $10k prize
May 30th, 2007 2:48 AM	New Characters for ROK Comics Mobile Comics Creator Tool
May 14th, 2007 7:47 AM	Back from Bristol...
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Ex Astris

Science fiction adventure written by me, drawn by Mike Nicoll

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adventure, sf

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Pretty Nasty Arena Team BMX-O-Ball

Flashback to the 1980s, when future sports featured every week in 2000AD... and they were pretty dumb! Creators SMS and Matt Bingham retaliated with this parody, which first appeared in the UK fanzine Scan which I co-edited with Matt.

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future sport, humour, parody

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Dan Barton

A parody of various chisel-jawed space heroes, published in the British fanzine Eagle Flies Again. Andrew Chiu and I are now working on a comics-to-mobile/newspaper strip format version.

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humour, parody

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	[ Posted by gidz on Mar 29th, 2008 6:40 AM ]... Morning John. Thanks for the add mate.
	[ Posted by illustrators_lounge on Jan 24th, 2008 3:01 PM ]... Hi, how are you? Our studio recently put a new site up. www.pencily.com is a great source of inspiration for illustrators, animators and designers, so I hope you find it as useful as we do! All the best, Kyri Kyprianou Illustrator's Lounge
	[ Posted by PORTAVERITAS on Aug 31st, 2007 7:09 PM ]... John I read the comments you drop on The Unwanted and you are right about the bunch of headshots the problem is that my main concern was not my work and my art on those pages my concern was the Script itself that is so delicious that I thought on giving respect to the writer in fact got to my blog in some hours and you will see some action packed pages from the same project...thanks John I am so happy to hear from friends!! JESUS ANTONIO
	[ Posted by PORTAVERITAS on Aug 1st, 2007 3:43 PM ]... Hey John thank you so much for adding the gallery! Wow!! Have a great time and great to hear from you!!! JESUS ANTONIO
	[ Posted by jova on Jun 12th, 2007 3:35 PM ]... Thanks for the add, John.
	[ Posted by PaulBurke on Mar 15th, 2007 6:46 AM ]... Glad you like the animation John! I'm sure we'll cross paths again soon through Night Warrior.
	[ Posted by InternationalComicShowsUK on Feb 26th, 2007 7:12 AM ]... Good to speak to you John, hope you can make it in October, all the best, Shane
	[ Posted by truestories on Feb 6th, 2007 4:22 AM ]... Thanks for the add John. If you need any short strips I've got plenty :)
	[ Posted by Martin_Hamster on Jan 30th, 2007 12:18 PM ]... Hey loving the site! How's it going?
	[ Posted by ScarComicsPress on Jan 16th, 2007 8:55 PM ]... Hey John, Belated thanks for the add. Hopefully see you at a forthcoming con. all the best, Shane www.scarcomics.com
	[ Posted by brokenvoice on Jan 9th, 2007 10:04 AM ]... Thanks for the add, John. I'm afraid my comics are all on the long side (certainly too long to be called "strips"!) but I hope you're still enjoying "Shades" anyway"! Thanks again - DAJB.
	[ Posted by johnfreeman on Jan 9th, 2007 8:45 AM ]... My quest for comic samples continues - thanks to everyone who has asked to be added as a friend, I'll be trawling through their web links in due course
	[ Posted by moore_reppion on Jan 5th, 2007 1:13 PM ]... Hello John, nice to see you here mate. Cheers for adding us and all that. ;)
	[ Posted by bat_blog on Jan 5th, 2007 11:55 AM ]... THANX FOR THE ADD! If you're a BATMAN FAN then I want to invite you to check out the BAT-BLOG webpage! There's a ton of Batman-Related articles featuring Vintage Bat-Toys, Batman Wallpapers, Batman Videos, etc.. http://tomztoyz.blogspot.com

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