We salute Ken H. Harrison, a Beano and Dandy artist who has brought us much cheer for decades
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In Review: The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire Volume Three
Peter Duncan reviews the latest volume in the epic story of the Trigan Empire’s rise and fall…
Who Remembers MAD Magazine’s “Doctor Ooh”? (And some MAD UK history, and a mad idea, too)
Set your nostalgia scanners to 1975! It’s time for MAD UK’s “Doctor Ooh”…
New York-based Society Of Illustrators opens incredible selling exhibition of comic art
Check out this amazing “selling exhibition” of comic art
Award-winning “Lockdown – The Doctor Who Fans’ Survival Guide” documentary out next month
A unique, inspiring award-winning documentary is on its way from Reeltime Pictures
“Sir Terry Pratchett’s The Abominable Snow Baby” – Channel 4 Christmas Special casting announced
Terry Christmas! Casting news for Channel 4’s animated festive special
WebFind: Old Underground Comix – and the official Vaughn Bodé web site
This morning’s hopefully entertaining web rabbit hole, brought to my attention by Pete Doree, creator of “Stan & Jack”
Competition Time – Marvel Top Trumps Must be Won!
We have some packs of Marvel Top Trumps to give away here at downthetubes!
In Search of The Spirit of Will Eisner
A special report on “The Spirit of Will Eisner” exhibition on at the Musée Thomas Henry in Cherbourg right now
Comic-Con@Home 2021 virtual line-up includes Blade Runner and Doctor Who panels from Titan Comics
Titan Comics is running a number of great virtual panels during Comic-Con@Home this weekend, including Blade Runner and Doctor Who events
Marvel Comics – and Marvel UK – celebrated in British summer exhibition
Celebrate the enduring legends of Marvel comics at a new summer-long exhibition
Comics Salopia’s Shrewsbury Comics Trail launches this weekend
A simply brilliant project combining comics with a town trail opens in Shrewsbury this weekend
Beano Brain releases Million Pound Kids 2021 Consumer Spending Report, WHSmith still in Top Ten high street retailers for children
Kids vital to driving high street retail – including WHSmith!
Commando comic commemorates 80 years of the SAS, official 2022 calendar revealed!
This latest set of Commando marks a rare debut by a writer-artist…
In Review: Loki
Tim Robins review is not spoiler free! Don’t end up cursing if you ignore this warning! Plus – all you ever need to know about the Thanoscopter!
Five faces of Modesty Blaise! Newspaper strip art a highlight lot of this week’s Catawiki International Original Comic Art auction
On offer – art by five great comic artists, one Modesty Blaise!
New Doctor Who “Celebration – The USA Tour” collection offered by artist Andrew Skilleter
A new limited edition of Doctor Who-related art is available now from Who Dares Publishing
“Invaders from Time” debuts in latest Spaceship Away
Space hero Nick Hazard storms the cover of the latest edition of this glossy Dan Dare-inspired SF comic magazine
Philip Harbottle’s comic adaptation of John Russell Fearn’s novel “Across the Ages” published for the first time
60 years after it was first drawn, an adaptation of a classic SF novel is finally in print
Major Mœbius retrospective opens in Naples
Good news, even if you can’t get to the exhibition, the amazing-looking catalogue is available to international Moebius fans