The most junior of the third batch of DFC Library titles is Super Animal Adventure Squad written and illustrated by James Turner. Agent K (a cat), Agent Irwin (a pelican), Agent Rex (an iguana), Agent Beesley (a rather posh bee)… Read More ›
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In Review: Blake And Mortimer – The Gondwana Shrine
The Gondwana Shrine is the fourth of the new adventures of Blake And Mortimer by writer Yves Sente and artist André Juillard, originally published in French in 2008 and based on the original characters created by E.P. Jacobs. Following on… Read More ›
Demoncon2 finalises line up with plenty of web comic creators
(With thanks to The Grinning Man, Maidstone): The line up for Demoncon2, taking place in Maidstone in November, is now pretty much finalised and includes comic creators such as Garen Ewing and Dan Boultwood on the guest list, along with… Read More ›
In Review: Baggage
The DFC Library returns with the first of its third tranche of titles, and the first one that wasn’t in the weekly DFC – Baggage by writer Robin Etherington and artist Lorenzo Etherington. Randall is the lackadaisical, and somewhat disaster-prone,… Read More ›
In Review: Thorgal – The Sun Sword
Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Grzegorz Rosinski return to their sword and sorcery adventurer in the tenth Thorgal book to be published in English by Cinebook, The Sun Sword. Having saved a young girl from a bear, a girl… Read More ›
Commandos race into danger
The latest issues of Commando are on sale in all ggod newsagents now, with this batch including a pair of books written by Eric Hebden and another by his son Alan – a first for the war comic perhaps. Commando… Read More ›
Commando Raids Estonia
Commando may be best known for its one-off stories but it has run quite a few series over the years with recurring characters and situations. Perhaps the best known, mainly due to the sheer number of issues they have been… Read More ›
Latest Issue Of Eagle Times Now Available (Volume 24, Number Three)
Leslie Ashwell Wood was Eagle’s premier cutaway artist providing over 600 different painted cutaways for the weekly comic between 1950 and 1969. While some of these paintings have been reused in the recent Eagle reprint books published by Orion to… Read More ›
Steve Moore’s Somnium novel out in November
Comic creator Steve Moore — creator of such wonderful characters as Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer and Axel Pressbutton — has an intriguing new novel on the way from Somnium Press, with Strange Attractor Press. A prominent inclusion in Iain Sinclair’s 2006… Read More ›
Striker site down – but no early bath for the strip, says creator
Football comics seem to be getting it in the neck this month – after the demise of the print edition of Comic Football (due to return online later this year), fans have alerted us to say that the official… Read More ›
Multiverse muses on DC makeover, Com.X and Valiant reboot
The latest issue of British comic news magazine Multiverse is on sale now in all good UK comic shops – and back issues are now also available digitally from graphic.ly. Edited by Mike Conroy, Issue 4 sports a DC Comics… Read More ›
Starblazer Covered
Regular downthetubes readers will recall we published some features about DC Thomson’s much-missed SF digest comic Starblazer on downthetubes some time ago, including a checklist of the title. The section orginally kicked off with a feature by Jeremy Briggs called… Read More ›
Hoodie Horror from Smith and Bagwell!
The Ravenglade Estate is ‘broken Britain’ as its worse. Plagued by ASBO-wielding gangs, boarded-up shops stinking with human despair, scattered with piles of rubbish from a month-long binmen strike – this is the Daily Mail’s worst nightmare. But there are… Read More ›
Guest Post: Al Ewing Tells you why we should be reading 2000AD
Last month, comics writer Al Ewing (who’s writing a series of increasingly regular reviews and musings for the Travelling Man website) gave the thumbs up to 2000AD, urging readers past and present to give it a try. With Al’s permission,… Read More ›
London Super Comic Con ramps up impressive guest list
The London Super Comic Convention, announced for February next year (25-26th), is ramping up an impressive guest list, with the likes of US creators George Perez, Howard Chaykin, Bernie Wrightson, Mike Carey, Tony Moore, Bob Layton and more all confirmed… Read More ›
In Review: Darwin’s Diaries – The Eye Of The Celts
From the writer of the science fiction series Orbital, Sylvain Runberg, comes the start of a new series from Cinebook, Darwin’s Diaries. With art from Eduardo Ocana and colours from Tariq Bellaoui, the first diary entry is The Eye Of… Read More ›
Signup Books Century 21: Menace from Space line-up revealed
Some great strips lined up for the next Century 21 collection
Tharg the Mighty meets Dragons’ Den!
2000AD has just announced its first official convention portfolio session in years – culminating in a Dragons’ Den-style show off! 2000AD has teamed up with the annual Thought Bubble convention , which takes place in Leeds in November, to create… Read More ›
Commando Classics out this week – by Special Request of loyal readers
Four new Commandos go on sale tomorrow (Thursday) – a quartet chosen by readers as their best-remembered stories. “There were more than these ‘By Special Request’ suggested (far more!),” editor Calum Laird tells us, “but these came up again and… Read More ›
In Review: Yakari And The White Fleece
Cinebook publish a wide range of Franco-Belgian bandes dessinees adventure albums that they have translated into English, from the adult themed XIII and Largo Winch to the more “all ages” Clifton and Yoko Tsuno. One of their most junior series… Read More ›