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• Limited edition Krampus figure joins Hellboy: The Board Game offering from Mantic Games

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2019

  

  Nottingham-based Mantic Games has announced it will be releasing a special, limited edition Hellboy: The Board Game miniature, inspired by the fiendish Krampus. Following the success of the fantastic Christmas-themed Ho! Ho! Hellboy last year, Mantic is working with Dark… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: Cartoon Animation: Satire and Subversion, plus Bob Godfrey exhibition announced

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2019

  

  A Call For Papers has just launched for “Cartoon Animation: Satire and Subversion“, an academic conference taking place on Monday 17th February 2020 at the Animation Research Centre, at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey. Speakers will include… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Genre and Inspiration – Arts Foundation comics prize finalists, Garth Ennis interviewed

  By John Freeman on October 31, 2019

  

  In a pair of recordings looking at how comic creators are inspired by genre and inspiration, guest presenter and comics laureate Hannah Berry talks to Arts Foundation comics prize finalists Esther McManus, Danny Noble, Jess Taylor and Zara Slattery in… Read More ›

• Spectrum is Indestructible gets publication date at last

  By John Freeman on October 31, 2019

  

  Regular downthetubes readers will recall we’ve previously plugged Fred McNamara‘s Spectrum is Indestructible book – an unofficial guide to all things Captain Scarlet – and it now has a December 2019 release date. Publication faced one final hurdle, dependent on… Read More ›

• Still Capturing Imaginations: The Legend of Troy

  By John Freeman on October 31, 2019

  

  The legend of Troy has endured for more than 3,000 years, and continues to inspire artists and writer today. The story of a great city, plunged into a 10-year war over the abduction of the most beautiful woman in the… Read More ›

• Daggers Drawn! Illustrators Magazine Commando Special available for pre-order now

  By John Freeman on October 31, 2019

  

  This new illustrators Special is for all those schoolboys that have refused steadfastly to grow up and master the art of reading serious works of literature. Do you recall Commando Comics, with those amazing covers and equally amazing interior art and stories?

• Stand by for action: “Photomarionation” is go in Aces Weekly!

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2019

  

  Now appearing in Issue 42 of Aces Weekly, Lightning 5 Is a brand-new comic strip created by Martin Cater with a difference… the difference being that the whole thing has been done as a photo-collage, aimed at re-creating the visual… Read More ›

• Guarded delight at news of animated Doctor Who story, “Fury from the Deep”

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  By Tim Robins Fans of Classic Doctor Who will be excited to hear that the Season Five story Fury from the Deep will return as a wholly animated adventure in 2020. The story sees The Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Victoria (Deborah Watling)… Read More ›

• “A-Force”, a new action squad, debuts in Commando

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2019

  

  Brand new issues of DC Thomson’s war comic Commando (Issues 5275 – 5278) are on sale in all good newsagents tomorrow, Thursday 31st October – and from various digital platforms.

• Exclusive Cover Reveal: Dan Dare – The Audio Adventures Volume Three Cover Art by Brian Williamson

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2019

  

  B7 Media have announced plans to crowdfund a third volume of its critically-acclaimed Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures, coinciding with Eagle comic hero Dan Dare’s 70th anniversary in 2020 – and we can exclusively reveal the cover art for the… Read More ›

• The Oxford Trollomicus – Our Competition Winners!

  By John Freeman on October 30, 2019

  

  The winners of our recent competition to win copies of the smashing illustrated book, The Oxford Trollomicus, created by Spike Greenwood, were “The Rockwool Troll” by Joakim Järnström (all the way from Finland!) and “Jee Bee Lee, Troll Op-Orator of Troutbeck Bridge” by… Read More ›

• Edinburgh’s Scottish Gallery hosts “Mythos” exhibition by Paul Reid

  By John Freeman on October 29, 2019

  

  Edinburgh’s Scottish Gallery hosts “Myhos“, an exhibition by the masterful Paul Reid this November, opening on Wednesday. Paul Reid is a artist who uses his skill to create a world which is both beautiful and uncompromising in its vision. He’s… Read More ›

• Beano readers name PM Boris Johnson “ghastliest figure of 21st Century”

  By John Freeman on October 28, 2019

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been named “ghastliest figure of 21st Century” by two thirds of British parents and children in a Beano poll – and earns his place in 2019’s top Halloween costumes for kids alongside The Joker… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: “Skid Solo” artist John Vernon

  By John Freeman on October 27, 2019

  

  As it’s a Formula 1 weekend, downthetubes contributor Richard Sheaf is marking the event on his Boys Adventure Comics Blog with a look back at an earlier era of motor-racing with this oddity – “The Champions” – a tie-in comic with Matchbox toys sponsorship of motor racing legend, John Surtees and Team Surtees, in the early 1970s, featuring art by “Skid Solo” artist John Vernon

• Death’s Head Omnibus – Contents Confirmed, Yes?

  By John Freeman on October 26, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Marvel’s January 2020 solicitations include the much-anticipated Death’s Head Omnibus TPB among them – a delightfully chunky, 416-page collection of (almost) all the early Death’s Head greatest ‘hits’, scheduled for release on 3rd March, which we trailed earlier this year.

• In Review – Terminator: Dark Fate

  By Tim Robins on October 25, 2019

  

  Starring: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalie Reyes Directed by Tim Miller Review by Tim Robins Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future…. The Terminator… Read More ›

• Legendary artist Catherine Jeffrey Jones honoured at Lucca Comics and Games Convention

  By John Freeman on October 25, 2019

  

  If you’re heading to the Lucca Comics and Games Convention in Italy next week (30th October – 3rd November), then you might want to catch the screening of the documentary Better Things: The Life and Choices of Jeffrey Catherine Jones,… Read More ›

• Zombies stalk Commando – as British war comic goes Horror for Halloween

  By John Freeman on October 24, 2019

  

  Releasing in time for Halloween, Commando is bringing a new menace to its pages – a Nazi zombie horde! The fear is very real in Commando 5277, “Commandos vs Zombies“… a spine-tingling story which features a team of commandos facing… Read More ›

• New “Beano Booktopia” book subscription service launched

  By John Freeman on October 24, 2019

  

  Beano has today launched Beano Booktopia – a new book subscription service for kids offering newly published books across a wide range of authors and genres. The tailor-made programme will include fiction and non-fiction books specifically chosen by Beano experts based… Read More ›

• Italian auction house Urania offers art by Frank Hampson, Milo Manara and many more

  By John Freeman on October 24, 2019

  

  The clock is ticking down to the latest auction by the Italian Urania Auction House, which features some stunning selected works of major international artists from the end of the 19th century to the present day.

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