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• Bag of Holding Fundraiser under way to support games publisher Battlefield Press after arson attack

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2019

  

  Bundle of Holding, a company that presents time-limited collections of tabletop roleplaying games, or books by RPG designers, as DRM-free ebooks, is running an offer to help support award-winning games publisher Jonathan Thompson, the owner of Battlefield Press after an… Read More ›

• New FANSCENE honours Stan Lee and Mike Noble

  By John Freeman on September 29, 2019

  

  A mere matter of weeks after the publication of the last issue, artist David Hathaway-Price, keeper of the amazing online Classic UK Comics Zines Archive, has released a new issue of his brilliant FANSCENE, a free PDF format title dedicated to all things comic zine

• ComicScene announces plans for “Corker!” all ages comic supplement

  By John Freeman on September 29, 2019

  

  ComicScene is to launch launch Corker! in November –  an ‘all ages’ comic – as a pull out supplement in the magazine and the team behind the magazine  looking to the ‘Legion of Comic Fans’ to support and spread the word…. Read More ›

• Adlard, McGarrys, Rockman and more wow with Lakes Festival Windows Trail comic art in Kendal

  By John Freeman on September 29, 2019

  

  The seventh year of the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival brings with it the annual “Windows Trail”, now bringing Kendal alive with comics in the run up to the annual weekend of comic creator-led fun, over 11th – 13th October

• Spider-Man set to span two cinematic universes, Marvel film dates update

  By John Freeman on September 28, 2019

  

  Good news for Spider-Man fans. Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Walt Disney Studios have jointly announced that Marvel Studios and its President Kevin Feige will produce the third film in the Spider-Man Homecoming starring Tom Holland. The film is scheduled… Read More ›

• When British Comics were… European!

  By downthetubes Guests on September 28, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  Bambos Georgiou takes a look at just some of the European comic strips that once featured in Fleetway’s British weekly comics

• Actress and Comic Creator Jessica Martin to star in new one woman play

  By John Freeman on September 28, 2019

  

  Doctor Who writer Stephen Wyatt has written a one woman play specially for actress and comics creator Jessica Martin. Directed by Samuel Clemens, You Thought I Was Dead, Didn’t You? is inspired by the lost female film stars of British… Read More ›

• Tricks of the Trade: Writing a Comics-inspired Novel, by Steve MacManus

  By John Freeman on September 28, 2019

  

  Former Tharg, comics editor and writer Steve MacManus shares his experience of writing his first novel, The Sheerglam Conspiracy, a story set inside the world of 1970s British comics. 40,000 words long, it took 14 long months to write –… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Writing That First Issue of a New Comic, by Monty Nero

  By downthetubes Guests on September 27, 2019

  

  The first ever issue of the new Frenemies title by Monty Nero and Yishan Li has gone out digitally – to backers only – so it seemed like a good time to ask co-creator and X-Men writer Monty Nero to… Read More ›

• Toys and Licensing – troubled times ahead as Brand Licensing Europe nears?

  By John Freeman on September 27, 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  The UK licensing industry is the second largest in the world, and the biggest in the Europe, with a value of $14.58bn (£11.84bn) in 2018, according to figures from the global licensing industry body, Licensing International, a growth of 3.9… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2019: Comics Promoter Árni Beck Gunnarsson

  By John Freeman on September 27, 2019

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Árni Beck Gunnarsson, a comics creator whose… Read More ›

• Scorch Comics delivers a great “Comic Zone” to Wyntercon VI this weekend

  By John Freeman on September 27, 2019

  

  If you’re in the Eastbourne area this weekend and looking for something comic-related to do then look no further than Wyntercon VI, which features a great Comic Zone line up, put together by local comic shop Scorch Comics. Over the… Read More ›

• Vojtěch Mašek arrives in Kendal in new Comics Cultural Exchange

  By John Freeman on September 26, 2019

  

  The Czech Literary Centre, a section of the Moravian Library, and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival have released details of their Comics Cultural Exchange taking place this autumn. Czech comic book writer and artist Vojtěch Mašek has now arrived… Read More ›

• Vectis announces its first dedicated Lego Auction Sale

  By John Freeman on September 26, 2019

  

  Vectis Auctions will be holding its first dedicated Lego Auction Sale in October, expected to be the largest of its kind in the UK. The majority of the sale is the lifetime collection of Stockton based Lego builder and exhibitor… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2019: Film Maker, Illustrator and Graphic Designer Lars Jakobsen

  By John Freeman on September 26, 2019

  

  Every year, in the countdown to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, we bring you a series of interviews with guests at the event. This “Festival Focus” for 2019 is with Lars Jakobsen, director and founder of the… Read More ›

• Rare Frank Frazetta, Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas art heads to Heritage Auctions

  By John Freeman on September 26, 2019

  

  An oil painting by iconic American science fiction and fantasy artist Frank Frazetta could bring as much as $400,000, and artwork from the collection of Glynn and Suzanne Crain and the Investment Rarities Incorporated collection should continue their waves of… Read More ›

• Dark Horse announces Blacksad: The Complete Stories for 2020 release

  By John Freeman on September 26, 2019

  

  US publisher Dark Horse Comics has announced a complete collection of Spanish creators Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido’s award-winning and internationally acclaimed Blacksad series in Blacksad: The Complete Stories – well, to date, anyway…

• Steve MacManus parodies 1970s British comics in “The Sheerglam Conspiracy”

  By John Freeman on September 25, 2019

  

  Former Tharg Steve MacManus is back on our reading list here in the downthetubes dungeon, this time with his first novel, The Sheerglam Conspiracy, a thoroughly scurrilous jab at the British comics industry in the 1970s. London, 1973. For 40… Read More ›

• In Review: Invasion 1984

  By John Freeman on September 25, 2019

  

  Luke Williams takes a look at Invasion 1984, plucked from the pages of Battle, released earlier this year… By John Wagner, Alan Grant (writing as Rick Clark) and Eric Bradbury Publisher: Treasury of British Comics / Rebellion Out: Now As… Read More ›

• WebFind: “Return to Cloudbase” by Supermarionation Recreations – and a new puppet show project

  By John Freeman on September 25, 2019

  

  Back in August 2017, the team at Supermarionation Recreations learned that nothing significant was being done to mark the 50th anniversary of the original Captain Scarlet TV series. Agreeing this was a missed opportunity, as fans of the show they felt… Read More ›

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