ComicScene magazine returning in 2027?

By John Freeman on 16 March 2026

Tony Foster, publisher of ComicScene, has announced plans to revive the print magazine next year, and we’ll get a sneak peek as part of the release of the ComicScene Yearbook 2027.

ComicScene magazine was distributed in newsagents and comic shops across the UK and overseas, but ended with the Covid pandemic. Now Tiny and his team are are preparing to bring it back.

Sign up for the ComicScene Yearbook 2027 Kickstarter here, which will include a preview of the new format monthly ComicScene Magazine, due out in April 2027.

• If you’d like a taster of ComicScene magazine, here’s a free digital copy of their best ever selling issue, published in May 2019

– You can read all 62 ComicScene publications in digital if you take a paid subscription to their Substack newsletter, which features many more comic articles. It’s just £20 a year (£1.66 a month). Check it out here

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.