ComicScene – a dedicated magazine to comics and comic culture – relaunches tomorrow, Saturday 22nd December – and will be on sale in selected WHSmith, McColls and all good comic shops across the UK. Available from 1000 locations in the… Read More ›
Magazines
New “Eagle Times” tracks down New Eagle’s “Data File” artist, Lionel Jeans
The new Eagle Times– Winter 2018 Vol. 31, Number 4 -is now available and is packed with some entertaining material on both the original and 1980s Eagle comics – including two great items on the “Data Files” cutaways that ran in the… Read More ›
This is Enid Blyton one-shot magazine on sale now from DC Thomson
This almost ducked under our radar, but on sale now in all good newsagents and supermarkets is a one-shot magazine celebrating author Enid Blyton, published by DC Thomson. The adventures of The Famous Five and the mysteries of The Secret… Read More ›
Ron Embleton Illustrators Special out soon
Following up on our news of an exhibition of the art of TV Century 21 Ron Embleton at Messum’s Gallery in London next year, more details of the Book Palace Illustrators Special focusing on the artist have now been released…. Read More ›
Happy Birthday, Thomas & Friends – 30 Years Young!
The UK’s biggest specialist children’s publisher, Egmont Publishing, is celebrating the 30th birthday of Thomas & Friends magazine with licensing partner Mattel. The title is based on the popular railway stories by Reverend Wilbert Awdry (who I met as a youngster… Read More ›
Back Issue magazine celebrates landmark Superman: The Movie 40th anniversary
You’ll believe a magazine can fly with Back Issue #109, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Superman: The Movie starring Christopher Reeve, available now from all good comic shops, published by TwoMorrows and featuring a cover by Garry Frank. Explore the Superman movies’… Read More ›
Kickaround magazine offers Roy of the Rovers “Scouted” subscription incentive
It’s a big week for Roy of the Rovers fans as any decent newsagent will have two magazines that you’ll want to pick up… First up is Match of the Day magazine (Issue 529 – cover dated 30th October –… Read More ›
How FANSCENE plans to continue celebrating British comics fandom – and comic creators – in 2019
FANSCENE 2 is a free 212 page PDF fanzine, out now, celebrating over fifty years of Comics Fandom in Ireland and the UK, with its focus this issue on Comic Conventions, from the very first held in Birmingham and organised… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: The Cosplay Journal Volume Two
With the success of the first volume, The Cosplay Journal team are back with their second edition, bringing even more of the amazing life of cosplay into focus. The Cosplay Journal , published by Markosia and edited by Holly Rose Swinyard,… Read More ›
Redan celebrates as Fun To Learn Favourites magazine turns 20
Children’s magazine specialist Redan Publishing Ltd is celebrating as its Fun To Learn Favourites magazine turns 20. The magazine has enjoyed a successful 20 years in the competitive pre-school magazine market, the Shrewsbury-based publisher offering its thousands of readers top… Read More ›
Next week’s TOXIC magazine to be another Gaming Special
The next issue of Egmont’s TOXIC, on sale next week, will be a Gaming Special, presumably following up on the success of the recent issue that included a bonus Fortnite premium. Published every three weeks, the title includes some comic strip… Read More ›
Coming Soon: PanelxPanel #16 – Giant Days
PanelxPanel #16 – Giant Days is on sale later month, covering US publisher Boom’s Giant Days series, by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar and Jim Campbell. PanelxPanel is a digital magazine celebrating the medium of comics, edited by Strip… Read More ›
New “TV Years” magazine celebrates the 1980s with look back at Doctor Who, Spitting Image and more
TV YEARS, a brand-new magazine about old telly is on sale now in all good newsagents – and includes articles by a host of great writers, including Doctor Who Magazine contributors Graham Kibble-White and Andrew Pixley. Published by Bauer Media,… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Can you help get ComicScene UK into WHSmith and other newsagents?
The new ComicScene UK magazine has launched a crowdfunder to get the magazine into over 600 shops across the UK on a monthly basis. They need to raise £5000 plus for the upfront cost to do this. Declaration of interest… Read More ›
ComicScene UK distribution expands, now available through all British comic shops
While the team behind the new ComicScene UK magazine may have only planned that the title be subscription only when they launched it, everything has changed – rapidly. After releasing a brilliant promotional #0 earlier this year, the magazine caught… Read More ›
Space Kingley artist Ron Jobson’s Airfix art documented in latest Constant Scale magazine
What’s in the latest issue of Constant Scale? Find out here
Comics history magazine Nemo returns, to be published by Fantagraphics
NEMO, the illuminating magazine about comics history, is coming back, once again edited by Rick Marschall and published by Fantagraphics Books Inc., and in an expanded, oversized book format. Founded by founded by Rick Marschall and published from 1983-1990, Nemo the… Read More ›
Look Alive, London! Here’s some rare dinosaur invasion art by Don Lawrence
Regular readers of downthetubes will recall we previously covered the short-lived replacement to Look and Learn, Look Alive, highlighting an early appearance of the Alan Grant penned story “The Chronicles of Genghis Grimtoad”, drawn for the title by Angus McBride,… Read More ›
Frank Bellamy featured in latest “Hot Lead” magazine
Justin Marriott publishes a series of terrific fanzines through Amazon’s Createspace service which are primarily dedicated to vintage paperbacks, but often cross over into comics material. The latest example of this is Hot Lead, which although mainly focused on vintage… Read More ›
RetroFan magazine set to celebrate the Crazy Cool Culture You Grew Up With!
TwoMorrows Publishing debuts RetroFan #1, a new full-colour magazine celebrating the Crazy Cool Culture You Grew Up With next week. Do you remember when Saturday morning television was your domain, and yours alone? When tattoos came from bubble gum packs,… Read More ›