Beano publishers DC Thomson have given their EPIC! magazine a spruce up, introducing new strips by VIZ’s Alex Collier, Steve Bright and Lew Stringer – and reviving an old Dandy strip by Jamie Smart. Aimed at 7-10s, the 48-page magazine… Read More ›
Month: November 2016
Exclusive: Rebellion returns John Wagner’s One-Eyed Jack to duty in first Fleetway archive collection
As Judge Dredd prepares to celebrate his 40th birthday, downthetubes can exclusively reveal his publishers Rebellion are preparing to fire his ultra-violent origins from the 1970s and back into readers’ hands for the first time. The root of Britain’s biggest… Read More ›
Feel the Power! New Doctor Who Magazine debuts, Steve Dillon remembered
The next issue of Doctor Who Magazine (Issue 505) is published in the UK tomorrow (Thursday 17th November). Alongside a cover feature paying tribute to the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton (accompanied with rare photographs), there’s an affectionate tribute to artist… Read More ›
“Rourke of the Radlands” returns after years in the wilderness
The SF fantasy character “Rourke of the Radlands” co-created by myself, John Freeman, and Wonder Woman artist Liam Sharp, first published in the largely creator-owned Marvel UK title STRIP, is about to get a new lease of life in the digital anthology… Read More ›
Lakes international Comic Art Festival announces 2016 online art auction plans
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced plans for an online fund-raising art auction, which will begin on 23rd November 2016. Full details of the 2016 on-line auction have yet to be announced, but included will be original artwork… Read More ›
Sneak Peek – Improper Books “Porcelain: Ivory Tower” by Benjamin Read and Chris Wildgoose
Ace British independent publisher Improper Books released a free preview of Benjamin Read and Chris Wildgoose‘ upcoming Porcelain: Ivory Tower at Thought Bubble earlier this month, and supporting comic shops across the UK are giving them out too. They’ve kindly… Read More ›
Valerian: Official Trailer Debuts: A Cinebook Checklist to the Graphic Novel Series
A checklist of Valerian and Laureline albums
Psycho Gran is back, putting the old skool into vigilante justice!
Titan Comics have just released the second issue of David Leach‘s hilarious comic, Psycho Gran, on digital platforms. (For some reason, they don’t yet want to get physical with her – I can’t think why!) Psycho Gran #2 features the… Read More ›
New Spaceship Away features Dave Gibbons interview, highlights new audio adventures alongside new strips
The latest issues of the Dan Dare-inspired magazine Spaceship Away – Issue 40 – has just been released, the glossy A4 magazine featuring not one but two all-new “classic” Dan Dare comic strips from Tim Booth. Along with the final… Read More ›
In Review: The Marionette Unit
Created by Azhur Saleem and James Boyle, illustrated by Warwick Johnson-Cadwell Out: Now The Book: How far would you go in search of a missing loved one? Could you infiltrate a hellish Victorian workhouse where steam-powered engines control your body? If so, then enter… Read More ›
Something For the Weekend – Judge Dredd and a deadly Mummy in This Week’s New Comics in the UK (w/c 7th October 2016)
Here’s this week’s round up of new comics in British newsagents and comic shops skewed, as ever to highlighting British creators and publishers. After positive feedback to the plugs we included for some great indie titles last week ahead of… Read More ›
Royal Wedding Gate Crashers and a Talking Horse? Yep, Doctor Who Adventures is back!
Trust Doctor Who Adventures to have a talking horse as the Doctor’s current companion… it’s surely the wackiest thing since Frobisher the Penguin arrived in sister title Doctor Who Magazine! But what else is lurking between the covers of the… Read More ›
It’s Hammer Time for Titan Comics as “The Mummy” debuts, and it’s a scream!
Today sees the launch of The Mummy, the first of several Hammer Films-inspired comic series from Titan Comics, written by the legendary Peter Milligan and drawn by Ronilson Freire, coloured by Ming Sen and lettered by Simon Bowland. The line will see the publication of brand-new… Read More ›
The Really Heavy Greatcoat Year in Review 2016 Part One
Nick Miller, co-creator of The Really Heavy Greatcoat cartoon with me, which we wrote on a regular basis for some years, delivers the first part of this year’s “Year in Review” early, in response to the US election results… Nick… Read More ›
Oxford’s TORCH to host talk by Roger Sabin on the Origins of Comics Criticism
TORCH, Oxford’s Research Centre in the Humanities third seminar of the term will take place tomorrow, Thursday 10th November 2016, at 5.15pm and will feature a talk from Roger Sabin, Professor of Popular Culture at Central Saint Martins in London, on “The… Read More ›
Comic Creators early Twitter reaction to the 2016 US Election Result
So, Donald Trump will be the next US President. I think A-Force and Hawkeye comic writer Kelly Thompson pretty much nailed the mood of many comic creators on my Twitter feed this morning with a retweet of a cartoon by David Rowe,… Read More ›
Wartime Beano Bonanza, rare Captain America reprint, Mickey Mouse Weekly #1 and more in latest Compal comics auction
There’s plenty for the dedicated British comics collector to savour in the latest ComPal comic book auction, with bidding via the-saleroom.com running until 27th November 2016. While there aren’t many art items on offer this time around, there are some… Read More ›
Planet Jimbot’s Wolf Country returns
Sandwiched between writer Jim Alexander’s “Calhab Justice” (featuring in the Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection Issue 47, out now) and Savant (an alien goes walkabout around the Universe accumulating the memories of the dead with art by Will Pickering, debuting… Read More ›
Dave Gibbons signing this weekend for new “Brighton’s Graphic War” from QueenSpark Books
QueenSpark Books will be hosting an exclusive book signing event this coming weekend at Brighton’s Dave’s Comics with Comics Laureate Dave Gibbons to help launch their new graphic novel, Brighton’s Graphic War – and there will be a special auction the night before, for the book cover art, a… Read More ›
Matthew Dooley’s Milkman tale wins him £1000 Graphic Short Story Prize
Matthew Dooley, whose previous works include the self-published comic Meanderings, is the 2016 winner of the Cape Observer Comica Graphic Short Story Prize. His four-page story, “Colin Turnbull: A Tall Story“, which you can read here, wins £1,000 cash and… Read More ›