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• Beano and Dandy Metal Plate Rarities included in latest Lockdales “Fine Sale” Auction

  By John Freeman on 16 November 2020

  

  Some very rare humour comic printing plates are coming up for auction

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Sentinel #5 – Kazana The Slayer

  By John Freeman on 16 November 2020

  

  Sword and sorcery returns to indie comics title Sentinel

• Bryan Talbot announces Grandville: L’Intégrale

  By John Freeman on 16 November 2020

  

  Great news for badger fans!

• Russell Mark Olson’s Gateway City returns, as web comic and quarterly “newspaper”

  By John Freeman on 15 November 2020

  

  A superb SF noir comic is heading back into the limelight

• Beano Studios looks to reimagine DC Thomson comic character archive for TV, reportedly leading with teenage Dennis the Menace live action series

  By John Freeman on 15 November 2020

  

  Could more DC Thomson Media-owned characters be heading to the small screen?

• Buy a NICE comic, support your Local Comic Shop doing it!

  By John Freeman on 14 November 2020

  

  A great idea to support Local Comic Shops…

• In Review: Zarjaz Issue 38

  By John Freeman on 14 November 2020

  

  Another 2000AD-inspired gem from Futurequake Press

• SelfMadeHero issues #DrawYourBookshop Challenge

  By John Freeman on 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 12 November 2020

  

  Great news for fans of Quentin Blake’s work

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

  By John Freeman on 12 November 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 12 November 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 12 November 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 11 November 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 11 November 2020

  

  100 years on Tom Webster’s sporting cartoons still delight

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Misadventures of Spring-Heeled Jack

  By John Freeman on 10 November 2020

  

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

• Marie Duval, Maverick Victorian Cartoonist, reassessed and rediscovered

  By John Freeman on 10 November 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 10 November 2020

  

  A cryptic tease from Britain’s war comic!

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