Friday 27 September 2013

Subscription Copies and STRIP Magazine Issue 3: A Statement

Here is an update on STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine Issue 2 subscription copies and the release of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine Issue 3.

As readers will have already guessed, we are trying to address a number of administrative difficulties, not helped by the receipt of incorrect information as regards the dispatch of subscription copies from our UK printer.

We hope you will therefore understand that we would rather issue a statement when there has been movement on this front, rather than making one, for things to go wrong - again.

However, while we are still concerned, after many set backs, that subscription copies may again be delayed we are now hopeful they will be dispatched very soon. As soon as they are, we will inform all subscribers who have chosen to be on our mailing list.

We have also of course, (again, obviously), revised the release date of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine Issue 3. While the issue has been prepared for some time it has also been affected by the same issues impacting on the rest of this project.

However, we do at last appear to be reaching some resolution of these difficulties and, while like you we remain cautious and therefore do not wish to commit to definite announcements or release dates, we are optimistic that we might finally be "through the tunnel" very shortly and will have good news for you and all our readers.

Our publisher Ivo Milicevic is planning to be at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival next month, where we hope readers will have the chance to ask him about STRIP and our other publishing plans.

Thursday 1 August 2013

STRIP #2 - WH Smiths Stock List


Here's a full list of WH Smiths stocking STRIP: The Adevnture Comics Magazine Issue 2.

A number of independent newsagents are also stocking the title but we don't have a list of these.

Remember, you can order any magazine from a local newsagent - you'll need to know the publisher, although they shiould be able to source this. Check the ISSN (in the barcode of the previous issue) which might also help.

STRIP is disributed into UK Newsagents by Warners and Diamind Distributors into comic shops. It is also available as an iPad app and via Scribd.

ENGLAND

LONDON - BALHAM
LONDON - BEXLEYHEATH
LONDON - BRENT CROSS
LONDON - EALING BROADWAY
LONDON - EAST HAM
LONDON - ELEPHANT & CASTLE
LONDON - ELTHAM
LONDON - ENFIELD
LONDON - HAMMERSMITH
LONDON - HAYWARDS HEATH
LONDON - HOLBORN CIRCUS
LONDON - WOOD GREEN
LONDON - OXFORD STREET PLAZA
LONDON - PUTNEY
LONDON - RICHMOND
LONDON - STRATFORD EAST
LONDON - SURREY QUAYS
LONDON - WHITE CITY
LONDON - WIMBLEDON
LONDON - WOOLWICH

ACCRINGTON
ALTRINCHAM
ARNOLD
ASHFORD
ASHTON UNDER LYNE
AYLESBURY

BANBURY
BARNSTAPLE
BASINGSTOKE
BATH - UNION STREET
BEACONSFIELD
BECKTON
BEDFORD
BEESTON
BERWICK - ON - TWEED
BICESTER
BIRKENHEAD
BIRMINGHAM HIGH STREET
BIRMINGHAM - FORT RETAIL PARK
BIRMINGHAM - UNION ST
BIRSTALL LEEDS
BLACKBURN
BLACKPOOL
BLETCHLEY
BOGNOR REGIS
BOLTON
BOOTLE
BOREHAMWOOD
BOSTON
BOURNEMOUTH
BOURNEMOUTH - CASTLE POINT
BRACKNELL
BRADFORD KIRKGATE
BRAEHEAD
BRECON
BRIDGEND
BRIDGWATER
BRIGHTON
BRISTOL GALLERIES
BROMLEY
BROUGHTON PARK
BURGESS HILL
BURTON ON TRENT
BURY
BURY ST EDMUNDS

CAMBERLEY
CAMBRIDGE
CAMERON TOLL
CANTERBURY
CHATHAM
CHELMSFORD
CHELTENHAM HIGH ST
CHESTER
CHESTERFIELD
CHICHESTER
CHIPPENHAM
CHIPPING NORTON
CHORLEY
CHRISTCHURCH
COLCHESTER
COVENTRY
CRAWLEY
CREWE
CROYDON

DARLINGTON
DERBY
DIDCOT
DONCASTER
DOVER
DUNSTABLE

EASTBOURNE
EPSOM
EXETER
EXMOUTH

FALMOUTH
FAREHAM
FARNBOROUGH
FARNHAM
FOLKESTONE
FOSSE PARK

GATESHEAD METRO
GILLINGHAM
GLOUCESTER
GODALMING
GOSFORTH
GRANTHAM
GREENFORD
GRIMSBY
GUILDFORD

HALESOWEN
HALIFAX
HANLEY
HARLOW BROAD WALK
HARROGATE
HARROW
HASTINGS
HAVANT
HAVERFORDWEST
HELENSBURGH
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
HENLEY ON THAMES
HEREFORD
HERTFORD
HIGH WYCOMBE
HINCKLEY
HOUNSLOW
HUDDERSFIELD
HULL PROSPECT CENTRE
HUNTINGDON

ILFORD
IPSWICH

KEIGHLEY
KETTERING
KIDDERMINSTER
KINGS LYNN
KINGSTON UPON THAMES

LANCASTER
LEAMINGTON SPA
LEATHERHEAD
LEEDS
LEICESTER GALLOWTREE
LEWISHAM
LICHFIELD
LINCOLN
LIVERPOOL
LIVINGSTON

LONG EATON
LOUGHBOROUGH
LUTON

MAIDENHEAD
MAIDSTONE
MANCHESTER ARNDALE
MANSFIELD FOUR SEASONS
MARGATE
MEADOWHALL
MERRY HILL
MIDDLESBROUGH
MIDDLETON
MILTON KEYNES

NEWBURY
NEWCASTLE - NORTHUMBERLAND ST
NEWCASTLE - UNDER LYME
NEWPORT IOW
NEWTON ABBOT
NEWTOWN
NORTHALLERTON
NORTHAMPTON
NORWICH - GENTLEMAN'S WALK
NORWICH - ST STEPHEN'S
NOTTINGHAM VICTORIA
NUNEATON

ORPINGTON
OXFORD

PENZANCE
PETERBOROUGH
PLYMOUTH
PONTEFRACT
POOLE
PORTSMOUTH
PRESTON

READING
REDDITCH
ROCHDALE
ROMFORD
RUGBY
RUGELEY

SALISBURY
SCARBOROUGH
SHREWSBURY DARWIN
SLOUGH
SOLIHULL
SOUTH HAMPSTEAD
SOUTH SHIELDS
SOUTHAMPTON
SOUTHEND
SOUTHPORT
ST ANNES
ST HELENS
STAFFORD
STAINES
STEVENAGE
STOCKPORT
STOCKTON ON TEES
STOURBRIDGE
STRETFORD
SUNDERLAND
SUTTON
SUTTON COLDFIELD
SWINDON

TAMWORTH VENTURA PARK
TAUNTON
TEESSIDE RETAIL PARK
TELFORD
TEWKESBURY
TONBRIDGE
TORQUAY UNION
TRAFFORD PARK
TRURO
TUNBRIDGE WELLS

UXBRIDGE

WAKEFIELD
WALLASEY
WALSALL
WALTON ON THAMES
WANDSWORTH
WARRINGTON
WATFORD HARLEQUIN
WESTFIELD STRATFORD
WESTON SUPER MARE
WEYMOUTH ST MARY
WICKFORD
WIGAN
WINCHESTER
WISBECH
WITNEY
WOKING
WOLVERHAMPTON
WORCESTER
WORTHING - SOUTH ST
WREXHAM

YEOVIL
YORK
YORK - MONKS CROSS

SCOTLAND
ABERDEEN ST NICHOLAS
ABERDEEN UNION ST
AIRDRIE
ARBROATH
AYR
GLASGOW - ARGYLE ST
GLASGOW - SAUCHIEHALL ST
EAST KILBRIDE
ELGIN
FALKIRK
GLENROTHES
GREENOCK
HAMILTON
GYLE
INVERNESS
KILMARNOCK
KIRKCALDY
OBAN
PERTH
PAISLEY
STIRLING
THANET - WESTWOOD CROSS
THURROCK

WALES
ABERGAVENNY
ABERYSTWYTH
BANGOR
CARDIFF
CARMARTHEN
CWMBRAN
DUNDEE
DUNFERMLINE
LLANDUDNO
NEWPORT GWENT
SWANSEA

Monday 29 July 2013

Print edition of STRIP Issue 2 on way at last

We'd like to put it down to sabotage by Enemy Apes and dimensional rifts, but the delay to getting the print edition of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine Issue 2 into newsagents has been down to far more mundane (but probably more complex) reasons.

But, at last, our distributors have confirmed receipt of the Magazine from our UK printers and they are aiming for it to be on sale from Wednesday 31st July.

Our printers are also in the process of dispatching subscription copies.

(No, we can't quite believe it, either).

Once stock has also reached our UK book warehouse we'll be dispatching copies to Diamond for comic store delivery.

We're very sorry for the delay to the Magazine, and we're going to have to apologize right away for what will now be the early September release date of Issue 3.

Because of costs of distribution and a crinkle in the inner workings of one of our major UK distribution points that would mean releasing Issue 3 in August would cost as much as it would to promote three issues from September onwards, we have decided to delay the release of Issue 3 until the beginning of September.

IN ISSUE 2...

Wrapped in a Crucible-inspired cover by Benard Kolle (colour by Sebastian Cheng), the second stunning issue of Britain’s newest action adventure anthology includes strips from John McCrea, Stephen Downey, John Freeman, Smuzz and more.

• BLACK OPS EXTREME (written by Richmond Clements, art by Stephen Downey) The anti-terrorist team run into trouble in the American Bayou – with survivalists and an angry alligator!

• WARPAINT (by Phil Hester and John McCrea) Re-told from the very beginning - Mia learns more about an ancient war between gods!

• CRUCIBLE (by John Freeman and Smuzz) Trouble on the streets when our adventurers set out to recover a mysterious artifact sought by the Temple of Orlyth!

• OPERATION INFERNO (by Richmond Clements and Nick Dyer) Steampunk spy Ryuu heads to Paris as the British Empire faces a deadly new peril from a dangerous rogue scientist!

• DENIZENS (by Miljenko Horvatic and Maxim Simic) Modern civilisation has been wiped out and the world is a greener, deadlier place...

Plus: KING COBRA SECRETS REVEALED – a special guide to the new incarnation of King Cobra, a hero who first appeared in DC Thomson’s Hotspur! KING COBRA MINI POSTER by Wamberto Nicomedes; and an interview with author Benjamin Read, writer of the highly acclaimed new graphic novel fairy tale, Porcelain!

• The digital version of STRIP is on sale now for iPad and is also available as a PDF download on Scribd.

COMING SOON...

King Cobra resumes in Issue 3, drawn by Doctor Who Adventures artist John Ross, while further down the line we have an all-new Cobra stories in the works from Wamberto Nicomedes (who drew the Issue 1 opener)!

All your favourites will continue and we have plans for new strips well into 2014 from artists including Bernard Kolle, Marc Olivent and many more. (And yes, those are plans on the basis of getting the title firmly back onto a monthly schedule...)

STRIP IN THE LAKES!

We're pleased to announce that Print Media will have a presence at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Ed Brubaker, Kurt Busiek, David Lloyd, Bryan Talbot, Sean Phillips and many more top comic creators from both sides of the Atlantic (18th-20th October, see www.comicartfestival.com for details).

Ivo Milicevic
THANK YOU!

"Looking from the outside in, we appreciate that after the way STRIP has been knocked sideways, uphill and down dale due to its overseas administration, you must be thinking we're gluttons for punishment by now," says our publisher Ivo Milicevic. "But when you've put as much time and effort into a publication, a project I really believe in, you don't let go easily. I hope you, our readers, won't either.

"Thank you for your comments on Facebook, Twitter (good and bad) about STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine. We do read them all. We've taken a lot of them on the chin, too.

"We're now hoping the project plan is firmly grounded in reality for it to continue and we appreciate your support and creative involvement."

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Friday 28 June 2013

STRIP #2 - Print edition release date pushed back

We're sorry for the ongoing and frustrating delays to the release of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine Issue 2.

We were hoping to have the title on sale in UK newsagents from Thursday 20th June 2013 but behind the scenes issues means the release date has been pushed back and at this point, although the magazine has been printed, we are unable to confirm a print publication date at this time.

The delayed publication is the result of a major change to the way STRIP is brought to readers. After innumerable distribution delays that have plagued the title since launch, because of printing in Bosnia, Print Media publisher Ivo Milicevic decided to print and distribute the title in the UK.

Subscription copies are also being handled from the UK.

Publisher Ivo Milicevic commented: "We would like to apologize to our readers, who have been kept waiting for Issue 2 for far longer than was expected by anyone involved. I am making every effort to resolve the situation and hope to bring you good news next week."

We'll published revised release dates for Issue 3 onwards in due course.

The digital version of STRIP is on sale now for iPad and is also available as a PDF download on Scribd.

Wrapped in a Crucible-inspired cover by Benard Kolle (colour by Sebastian Cheng), the second stunning issue of Britain’s newest action adventure anthology includes strips from John McCrea, Stephen Downey, John Freeman, Smuzz and more.

BLACK OPS EXTREME (written by Richmond Clements, art by Stephen Downey) The anti-terrorist team run into trouble in the American Bayou – with survivalists and an angry alligator!

WARPAINT (by Phil Hester and John McCrea) Re-told from the very beginning - Mia learns more about an ancient war between gods!

CRUCIBLE (by John Freeman and Smuzz) Trouble on the streets when our adventurers set out to recover a mysterious artifact sought by the Temple of Orlyth!

OPERATION INFERNO (by Richmond Clements and Nick Dyer) Steampunk spy Ryuu heads to Paris as the British Empire faces a deadly new peril from a dangerous rogue scientist!

DENIZENS (by Miljenko Horvatic and Maxim Simic) Modern civilisation has been wiped out and the world is a greener, deadlier place...

Plus: KING COBRA SECRETS REVEALED – a special guide to the new incarnation of King Cobra, a hero who first appeared in DC Thomson’s Hotspur! KING COBRA MINI POSTER by Wamberto Nicomedes; and an interview with author Benjamin Read, writer of the highly acclaimed new graphic novel fairy tale, Porcelain!

Buy the digital edition of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine from the iTunes store (iPad only) 

Buy STRIP Issue 2 Volume 2 via Scribd

Wednesday 12 June 2013

STRIP Magazine Issue 2 - Revised Release Date confirmed


Much later than expected or planned, we can now confirm STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine Issue 2 should now be on sale in newsagents from Thursday 20th June 2013.

The delayed publication is the result of a major change to the way STRIP is brought to readers. After innumerable distribution delays that have plagued the title since launch, because of printing in Bosnia, Print Media publisher Ivo Milicevic decided to print and distribute the title in the UK.

Subscription copies are also being handled from the UK.

"The changeover and behind the scenes administration involved in this has taken longer to resolve than expected," he says, "but the change should mean the Magazine will no longer suffer delivery delays and import issues associated with past releases.

Digital Cover of #2
"We would like to apologize to our readers who have been kept waiting for Issue 2 for far longer than was expected by anyone involved."

We'll published revised release dates for Issue 3 onwards in due course.

The digital version of STRIP is on sale now for iPad and is also available as a PDF download on Scribd.

Wrapped in a Crucible-inspired cover by Benard Kolle (colour by Sebastian Cheng), the second stunning issue of Britain’s newest action adventure anthology includes strips from John McCrea, Stephen Downey, John Freeman, Smuzz and more.

BLACK OPS EXTREME (written by Richmond Clements, art by Stephen Downey) The anti-terrorist team run into trouble in the American Bayou – with survivalists and an angry alligator!

WARPAINT (by Phil Hester and John McCrea) Re-told from the very beginning - Mia learns more about an ancient war between gods!

CRUCIBLE (by John Freeman and Smuzz) Trouble on the streets when our adventurers set out to recover a mysterious artifact sought by the Temple of Orlyth!

OPERATION INFERNO (by Richmond Clements and Nick Dyer) Steampunk spy Ryuu heads to Paris as the British Empire faces a deadly new peril from a dangerous rogue scientist!

DENIZENS (by Miljenko Horvatic and Maxim Simic) Modern civilisation has been wiped out and the world is a greener, deadlier place...

Plus: KING COBRA SECRETS REVEALED – a special guide to the new incarnation of King Cobra, a hero who first appeared in DC Thomson’s Hotspur! KING COBRA MINI POSTER by Wamberto Nicomedes; and an interview with author Benjamin Read, writer of the highly acclaimed new graphic novel fairy tale, Porcelain!

Buy the digital edition of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine from the iTunes store (iPad only) 

Buy STRIP Issue 2 Volume 2 via Scribd
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