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• SelfMadeHero issues #DrawYourBookshop Challenge

  By John Freeman on November 13, 2020

  

  Publisher SelfMadeHero has come up with a great idea to promote local bookshops

• Daleks in your garden? With Percy Thrower? Shurely shome mishtake…

  By John Freeman on November 13, 2020

  

  An unusual blending of SF and gardening is on sale

• More store closures ahead for comics and magazine retailer WH Smith

  By John Freeman on November 13, 2020

  

  Nestling in the small print of WH Smith‘s latest Preliminary Results Announcement is confirmation that the beleaguered British high street news and magazine vendor is set to close 25 high street stores, affecting nearly 200 jobs – and there may be… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Comic Artist and 3D Sculptor Neil “Blackbird” Sims

  By John Freeman on November 13, 2020

  

  Neil “Blackbird” Sims work – art and 3D – has stunned plenty…

• 200 Drawings: Art by Quentin Blake offered in charity fundraiser by House of Illustration

  By John Freeman on November 12, 2020

  

  Great news for fans of Quentin Blake’s work

• Doctor Who spin-off Daleks! launches today on YouTube

  By John Freeman on November 12, 2020

  

  Daleks!, the animated Doctor Who spin-off launches today, 12th November 2020, on the official Doctor Who YouTube Channel. Five 10 minute episodes of Daleks! will stream, a new episode debuting weekly every Thursday, featuring the voices of Nicholas Briggs (the… Read More ›

• Meet The77 Creators: Comic Artist Phil Elliott

  By downthetubes Guests on November 12, 2020

  

  Morgan Spiceman catches up with an independent comics press veteran

• Unofficial Beano-style Doctor Who strip in the works for new not-for-profit time-spanning annual

  By John Freeman on November 12, 2020

  

  Bonkers Seventh Doctor strip on its way from Beano team members

• Commando Comics delivers mad Mosquito Pilots and terror in the Coventry Blitz!

  By John Freeman on November 11, 2020

  

  Commando Comics are back in action this week

• A Sporting Life Snapshot: Tom Webster’s cartoons still delight, almost a century on since first published

  By John Freeman on November 11, 2020

  

  100 years on Tom Webster’s sporting cartoons still delight

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Misadventures of Spring-Heeled Jack

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2020

  

  Sparke-ing with silliness. Tom Sparke, that is…

• Marie Duval, Maverick Victorian Cartoonist, reassessed and rediscovered

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2020

  

  Marie Duval is back in the spotlight in this new academic work

• Commando Comics teases more 60th anniversary announcements at this weekend’s Thought Bubble Digital Comic Con

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2020

  

  A cryptic tease from Britain’s war comic!

• Latest Comics Unlimited magazine available now

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2020

  

  The third issue of the recently-launched comics magazine is available now

• Meet The77 Creators: Anna Everts

  By downthetubes Guests on November 9, 2020

  

  With The77 Issue Three now on general release, here’s another in our series of “Meet the Creator” interviews conducted by Morgan Spiceman with the writers and artists involved in British comics anthology. This time out, he chats with writer Anna… Read More ›

• Society of Authors launches Comics Creator Network

  By John Freeman on November 8, 2020

  

  Great news for comic creators across the UK

• Steve Bright’s Remembrance Sunday Cartoon continues to inspire

  By John Freeman on November 8, 2020

  

  Top British cartoonist Steve Bright first drew this powerful Remembrance illustration for a Sunday newspaper back in 2014

• EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who Magazine presents THE DALEKS

  By John Freeman on November 7, 2020 • ( 19 )

  

  It’s here at last!

• Latest Spaceship Away is an early festive treat

  By John Freeman on November 7, 2020

  

  Classic comic action continues in this glossy comic zine

• Meet The77 Creators: Writer and Director Dave Bedford

  By downthetubes Guests on November 7, 2020

  

  Morgan Spiceman Has a one-on-one chat with one of the writers and directors on The77 anthology

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