I heard word of this at the 2000AD Cartoon Museum exhibition last week. Now it seems to be rocketing ahead.

The rumoured revival of the comics/music magazine Deadline as Missed Deadline is going to begin with a UK music and arts festival this summer. With, as I understand it, a possible world class A-List music act exclusive.

Dates and venue are currently being negotiated, but I understand many of the acts have already been confirmed with a long list to be released over the next few weeks.

A Facebook event has it running from July 28th to 29th in Sussex. No other details are given.

The festival will launch Deadline as a limited edition print issue #1 (and online), with subsequent print copies available by subscription and from good comics and music retailers, starting with the Cartoon Museum in London and then rolling out across the country.

The Cartoon Museum will also exclusively stock the Missed Deadline merchandise, which will currently include T-shirts, prints, badges and patches amongst other things.

The magazine currently exists online only with a very active Facebook Page and Twitter feed as well as a blog. But there is more information about their other plans – artists being recruited and they will also make a June appearance at ICE Comic Con in Brighton.

Deadline was just the best. Created by the late, great Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon, it gave musos and comickos a heady mix of Tank Girl, Blur, Cheeky Wee Budgie Boy, Shed Seven, Hugo Tate, Mock Turtles, Love And Rockets, Cud, Milk & Cheese, Pulp, Hate, Ride, Wired World, Curve, Carter USM, Johnny Nemo, The Senseless Things, Timulo and more, it was the true birthing pool of Britpop and beyond. Gorillaz wouldn't even have existed without it.

If they can recapture a fraction of what was great about Deadline, I'm in. I wonder what Missed Deadline will bring us?