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• Could your Palitoy items in the attic be worth a fortune?

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2019

  

  From Star Wars AT-AT’s to Action Man, Pippa to plastic bags anything associated with iconic British company Palitoy could be worth serious money to collectors – but do you have cash in your attic? You could find out next week,… Read More ›

• Who will win the first Arts Foundation Futures Awards in Comics?

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Comic creators Danny Noble, Esther McManus, Jess Taylor and Zara Slattery – selected from a long list of nominated comics artists as finalists for the first Arts Foundation Futures Awards in Comics – will find out who will be the recipient of… Read More ›

• Phil Comics releases “Beano and The Dandy – Classic Comic Covers 1937-1988” book

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2019

  

  Out today from eBay comics auction house Phil Comics is a smashing-looking new book Beano and The Dandy – Classic Comic Covers 1937-1988. Following the popularity of the company’s first book in 2013, which reprinted the classic Christmas covers of… Read More ›

• Myne adds Wallace & Gromit “30 Cracking Years” to RFID blocker security card design offer

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2019

  

  Myne Cards – a company specialising in credit card-sized devices to place into wallets and purses, which give protection over all contactless cards – has just added a special 30th Anniversary “30 Cracking Years” Wallace & Gromit card to its… Read More ›

• Check out Christopher Hazeldine’s “Golf Girl” comic at Thought Bubble

  By John Freeman on November 1, 2019

  

  Comic creator Christopher Hazeldine’s latest project, Golf Girl, is one of a number of new comics that will be in the spotlight at this year’s Thought Bubble – and it looks great fun

• 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.

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