Aside from viewing stage and screen works that feature the cast and crew of Sherlock, we occasionally like to touch on other interpretations of the characters. Following our review of Sherlock Holmes: The Death and Life last year, we’ve finally been able to see the companion piece to that play – Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act.

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Consulting Detectives Wanted…

In celebration of the upcoming release of Sherlock: The Casebook, the ultimate and official guide to the BBC series we’ve created our own casebook book complete with 6 cases for you to solve.

We’ll be releasing a new case for you to crack every day over the next 6 days starting on Sunday 21st October. You will have until Wednesday 31st October to solve all 6 cases in order to then be entered into a draw to win one of 6 copies of Sherlock: The Casebook signed by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman (on bookplate) kindly provided to us by our friends at BBC Books. Each time you solve a case you’ll also be presented with a new page from the casebook giving you a preview of the books case based pages.

I’m a consulting detective, let’s go!

The first official tie in book to BBC Sherlock arrives with a huge weight of expectation from loyal fans. Does it deliver?  Thankfully, the answer is a resounding yes.

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Sherlock wins three gongs at the Crime Thriller Awards!

TV Dagger: Sherlock - Series 2, Best Actor Dagger: Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock and Supporting Actor Dagger: Martin Freeman for Sherlock

We’re always looking for new and different ways to experience the stories and characters that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created that aren’t mutually exclusive to the BBC interpretation of the characters. One medium that has always fascinated us is that of videogames, perhaps the most advanced form of narrative engagement that currently exists. So we’re pleased that Holmes continues to make an appearance in interactive form thanks to Frogwares and Focus Homes Interactive, in this, the sixth title in their ongoing Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.

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Via Empire Online, Martin Freeman has been cast in The World’s End, the upcoming film directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The film forms the third part of the loosely described ‘Three Flavours Trilogy’, alongside Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Martin appeared in small roles in both earlier films. 

Martin joins Pegg, Frost, Eddie Marsan (Lestrade in the Warner Bros Holmes films) and Paddy Considine as five childhood friends who reunite, 20 years after taking on the mother of all pub crawls, to attempt it again. Only this time, it coincides with an event that may just be the apocalypse - can the quintet make it to The World’s End pub before the world ends?

Filming is expected to begin within the next month, and the film will release in the UK on August 14 2013.

Read more on the casting news on Empire’s website.

Sherlock 2013 Calendar back cover revealed

The back cover of the Sherlock 2013 calendar has just been revealed on Twitter. It features the main images of all twelve monthly interior spreads.

You can preorder the calendar, due for release in the UK on October 1 2012, here on Amazon UK. Regional Amazon sites, including Amazon US, France and Germany will also be carrying the calendar.

UPDATE: Danilo Calendars have contacted us to say that despite appearances from this back cover image, the calendar WILL showcase ALL characters from the series - there is imagery accompanying the calendar grid each month that is not shown here.

schweizercomics:

So I’ve been making these paper figures for myself for a while (they’re lining the walls of my studio), and I thought I’d make them available to everyone else.  For free. Every Monday.  Print the figures out yourself on your own printer, or you can take them to your local print shop (that’s what I do) for the best quality.

I figured I’d start with a set of figures from the BBC show SHERLOCK, given that if it weren’t for that marvelous show I probably wouldn’t be on tumblr in the first place.

I don’t usually do backgrounds for these, but this set comes with a Baker Street diorama, because come on, Baker Street.

Anyway, click here to download the print file.  It’s a little shy of 27MB, which isn’t HUGE, but it’s probably better suited to a laptop or a desktop than a phone.  If you want to get OTHER paper figure sets, just go to the paper figure page at CroganAdventures.com and pick out the set(s) you want (more of these will pop up each Monday, so check back each week or follow to see what’s new).

I want as many folks as possible who might enjoy these to see ‘em.  So I’m doing a

Since this is the first of what’ll be lots and lots of these sets, I’m gonna make this contest a BIG one.  THREE winners!

• First Prize: A professionally printed set of the Sherlock figures, a set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures, and AN ORIGINAL PAPER FIGURE OF YOUR CHOICE THAT I WILL DRAW JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT IT.  Maybe you’ll want a portrait of yourself in a London constable outfit so that you can hang out in Baker Street with the others.  Maybe you want red pants John.  Maybe you want the hound.  Maybe you want something entirely unrelated to Sherlock, like the janitor from Scrubs or Totoro.  So long as I consider it within the bounds of good taste (I do make all ages comics, after all), it’s your call.  You’ll get the digital file, a professionally printed copy, AND the original art.  Usually I charge eighty bucks for one of these, so that’s a real steal!

• Second Prize: A professionally printed set of the Sherlock figures, a set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures

• Third Prize: A set of my Arthur Conan Doyle stories Sherlock Holmes figures

And, because it’s important to share, whomever the winners reblogged from will ALSO receive the same prize as their follower winner!  (winners who reblog from themselves only get one prize, and there’s no additional prize if you reblog directly from me)

• likes aren’t eligible, ONLY reblogs.

• You can reblog as often as you like, but Tumblr only shows your most recent reblog, so you’ll only show up once.  Sorry.  Tumblr’s doing, not mine.

• You don’t have to follow me to win, but I’ll be doing contests like this fairly regularly and posting new figures along with occasional contest updates, so it might be an easy way to keep up.

• I’m lousy with numbers, so no spreadsheets or anything like that for me, because if I tried it I’d end up leaving people off.  I’m going to use a random number generator (random.org) to pick a number.  If that number happens to be a reblog, it wins!  If it’s a like, I pick another random number, and repeat ‘til there’s a winner.  I’ll do third place first, then second, then first.

• The winners will be chosen at 4am Eastern Time early on Saturday, September 29^th.  I’ll be helping to run the SCAD-Atlanta 24-hour comics event, so there will be plenty of witnesses on hand and we’ll make a big to-do about it.  Obviously, no reblogs after 4am Eastern on September 29^th will be eligible.  

• If this reaches 5K notes, I’ll add another prize.  Something fun.

As always, art collectors can find the originals on my original art page.

Sherlock Series 2 now available on Netflix USA

Just confirmed to us on twitter by multiple followers, Sherlock Series 2 is FINALLY available for viewing on Netflix in the United States. Since we’re region locked to the UK we can’t provide functional direct links, but to find it log into your account and search for the series as normal. And enjoy!

More images of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, taken from the new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, debuting online on Wednesday September 19 2012 at 15:00BST / 10:00EDT / 07:00PT