As an addition to the Batman trailer, here is the American poster for the 1960’s re-release of the 1943 Batman and Robin serial, taken from Tony Nourmand and Graham Marsh’s book Science Fiction Poster Art published by Aurum. Nourmand and… Read More ›
British Comics – Books
Tales of Wit and Wonder
Eureka Productions has released a revised second edition of its long-out-of-print Graphic Classics: Mark Twain, the eighth volume in the Graphics Classics series of comics adaptations of great literature whose contributors include many British creators. With a dramatic cover painting… Read More ›
A Deserter’s Tale
Battle‘s acclaimed Charley’s War continues at Titan Books with the timely release of a fourth collection of the World War One tale. Written by Pat Mills, drawn by the legendary Joe Colquhoun, Blue’s Story continues the critically-acclaimed thrilling, horrifying and… Read More ›
‘Boring’ writer becomes bestseller
Actor, director and cult guru, Kevin Smith now has another accolade to add to his name, as astonishing sales of his new book My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (out now from Titan Books) have made… Read More ›
Complete Peanuts
I came across another comics gem in one of our two local Waterstones this weekend, just on sale in the UK — Charles Schultz Peanuts are being collected chronologically in some classy but reasonably priced hardback editions. These really nice… Read More ›
The Hammer Story book launch
The launch of the new edition of Titan Books’ The Hammer Story is being celebrated with a special one-day event at the Cine Lumiere in Queensberry Place, London SW7, this coming Saturday, 27th October. The event will include cinema screenings… Read More ›
Big Ben Animated series in development
Former Comics International and Warrior editor Dez Skinn has been in touch with downthetubes to update us on his upcoming projects — the first of which is an animated show based on one of the characters from Warrior – Big… Read More ›
In Review : The War Libraries
To give it its full title The Fleetway Picture Library Index Volume 1: The War Libraries makes this reference book sound very grand, perhaps a little foreboding and even rather dry. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. Compiled… Read More ›
Sweeney Todd from the Titan Squad
Titan Books has acquired the worldwide publishing rights for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the new Tim Burton movie slated for UK release on 25 January 2008. The film, which stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter… Read More ›
Making the most of classic War Comics
Carroll and Graf (the same publishing house of critically acclaimed The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga) releases The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics this month and the news has been picked up by several sites, including Releases de… Read More ›