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• Don’t miss out on this limited edition Airfix calendar!

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  The Airfix Collectors’ Club has produced their Airfix Vintage Calendar for 2020 featuring 13 Airfix box top paintings by Eagle and Swift artist Roy Cross

• Reality TV takes a grisly turn in Markosia’s “Stay Alive”

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Coming soon from Markosia is Stay Alive, a new graphic novel created and written by James Harberson and Mackie Wildwood, pencilled, inked and coloured by Stephen Baskerville

• Limited edition Wally Wood exhibition catalogue now available to order from Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Three of the major exhibitions at this year’s Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême in France are accompanied by a substantial, deluxe, limited-edition hardcover catalogues, including the Wallace “Wally” Wood exhibition

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Penned Guin – Vision by Alan Henderson

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Just launched on Kickstarter is a campaign for a print edition of the wonderfully silly, critically-acclaimed comic strip The Penned Guin by Alan Henderson, an all new collection titled Vision, comprising of the daily cartoons that appeared on-line throughout 2019…. Read More ›

• Brian Bolland’s iconic “Amazing Heroes” Judge Dredd cover included in ComicLink auction next month

  By John Freeman on January 12, 2020

  

  Published in 1984, Fantagrahics Amazing Heroes magazine (#52), ran a Judge Dredd cover by Brian Bolland which on publication promoted a “European Invasion” of US comics – and the art itself is up for auction next month at ComicLink

• New Essential Judge Dredd graphic novel line launches in September

  By John Freeman on January 11, 2020

  

  The ultimate introduction to the ultimate lawman – Essential Judge Dredd – launches this September

• ComicScene Announces upcoming Comic Creators Directory

  By John Freeman on January 11, 2020

  

  How would you like to be in the new ComicScene Comic Creators Directory in 2020? It’s free for creators to do so from UK, Ireland, Europe, the United States, Australia and Canada

• In Review: Doctor Who – Spyfall, Part Two

  By downthetubes Guests on January 10, 2020

  

  Reviewed by Paul Mount In part two of Spyfall, a terrifying plan to destroy humanity is about to reach fruition. Can the Doctor and her friends escape multiple traps and defeat a deadly alliance? Now and again a Doctor Who… Read More ›

• Latest Doctor Who Magazine “Deluxe Edition offers “Past Masters” comics treat!

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2020

  

  The Deluxe Edition of the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out now in WHSmith stores in a card-backed envelope, has a fantastic “bonus item” for comic strip fans in the form of a 32-page “Past Masters” collection, reprinting strips… Read More ›

• Latest issues of FANSCENE now available as print editions

  By John Freeman on January 10, 2020

  

  FANSCENE #3 and 4, published by David Hathaway-Price, also curator of the brilliant Classic UK Comics Zines web site, are now available as Special Edition Print versions.

• World Illustration Awards 2020 opens doors to comics and graphic novel entries

  By John Freeman on January 9, 2020

  

  The World Illustration Awards is open for entries until 18th February 2020 and this year has added an “Alternative Publishing” category, enabling entries from comic creators. Presented by The Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with US-based Directory of Illustration,… Read More ›

• Born This Day: Blondie Creator Murat Bernard “Chic” Young

  By John Freeman on January 9, 2020

  

  American cartoonist Murat Bernard “Chic” Young, the creator of the comic strip Blondie was born today, 9th January 1901. Other strips by Chic include his first regular work, the short-lived The Affairs of Jane in the 1920s, about a struggling film actress who… Read More ›

• Netflix trails Locke & Key, show debuts next month

  By John Freeman on January 9, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Netflix have released a trailer for their upcoming series Locke & Key, based on the critically acclaimed comic from US publisher IDW Publishing, created by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez

• New Year, New Licensing Agent for Dragon Ball in the UK and Eire

  By John Freeman on January 8, 2020

  

  Toei Animation Europe, the EMEA media company in charge of the distribution and exploitation of Toei Animation’s Japanese animated series in Europe, has appointed Reemsborko Ltd as the UK and Eire licensing agent for the whole Dragon Ball franchise (Dragon… Read More ›

• In Review: War Cars

  By John Freeman on January 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  What’s that? You don’t remember “War Cars”, the toy sensation of the early 1980s, which Mallet Comics licensed for a short lived return to the publishing world? Written by “Ian Furman” and drawn by “Carlo Ferringo”, the good news is that a digital collection of this fast-paced action SF title is now available, painstakingly restored from the original comics by Bryan Coyle…

• Top-selling thriller writer James Swallow pens new Commando comic, out this week

  By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

  

  Japanese soldiers versus crocodiles in the mangrove swamps of Ramree Island? Foreign Legion duels to the death? Terror on an isolated sea fort, and a coward in the cockpit? It’s all happening in the latest issues of DC Thomson Media’s… Read More ›

• Snapshots in Time: British comics editors on a night out in the 1950s

  By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

  

  Dan Dare writer and author David Motton has unearthed a wonderful snapshot from his early days while working on British comics that he has kindly shared with downthetubes. “Very recently, my son Gregory (vide ‘Dan Dare All Treens Must Die’,… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival launches GoFundMe appeal to expand youth-focussed comics programming

  By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, the only festival of its kind in the UK, is a not for profit arts festival, aiming to raise awareness of the transformational power of comics – and has just launched a GoFundMe specifically… Read More ›

• First Look at Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora’s Once & Future #6 From BOOM! Studios

  By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

  

  BOOM! Studios has revealed a first look at Once & Future #6, the latest issue in the critically acclaimed series from New York Times bestselling writer Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Star Wars), Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan… Read More ›

• Scottish Police release CCTV of missing comic creator Gordon McLean

  By John Freeman on January 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Police officers in Greenock, Scotland, have released CCTV footage of comic creator Gordon McLean, who was reported missing on Thursday 26th December, 2019. As we previously reported, Gordon was seen at around 8.30am on Wednesday, 18th December, in Prospecthill Street,… Read More ›

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