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• Happy Birthday, Thomas & Friends – 30 Years Young!

  By John Freeman on December 6, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  The UK’s biggest specialist children’s publisher, Egmont Publishing, is celebrating the 30th birthday of Thomas & Friends magazine with licensing partner Mattel. The title is based on the popular railway stories by Reverend Wilbert Awdry (who I met as a youngster… Read More ›

• Avery Hill Publishing reveal four new graphic novels for 2019

  By John Freeman on December 6, 2018

  

  Avery Hill Publishing have announced details of four new publications for 2019 – new projects from Claire Scully and George Wylesol, and debut authors Shanti Rai and Scott Jason Smith

• Roy of the Rovers gets his own app

  By John Freeman on December 6, 2018

  

  Good news for those of you who can’t get enough of Rebellion’s Roy of the Rovers reboot – there’s an app out now, too!

• Charity Auction offers 30 comic artworks by Bisley, Jock, McCrea and many more

  By John Freeman on December 5, 2018

  

  The latest People First Merseyside Charity Auction, which ends Saturday 8th December, is offering 30 unique pieces of original comic art from some of the top names in comics to raise money for people with learning difficulties

• The Future’s Here: 2000AD Prog 2110 is on sale now

  By John Freeman on December 5, 2018

  

  With a smashing cove from Chris Weston, the final regular issue of 2000AD – Prog 2110 – for 2018 is on sale now, and several of the current stories reach a momentous conclusion. It all kicks off, however, with Rory McConville… Read More ›

• Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson centenary exhibition opens in Ewell, Surrey

  By John Freeman on December 5, 2018

  

  One hundred years after his birth, another exhibition commemorating Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson‘s work has just opened at Bourne Hall Museum in Ewell, Surrey. The museum just a hop and a skip from Bayford Lodge, Epsom, where he lived… Read More ›

• Tharg goes fully multimedia, announcing global film studio – in Oxfordshire

  By John Freeman on December 5, 2018

  

  British company Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine, the creators of numerous successful computer games including Sniper Elite and more, has acquired a new facility in Oxfordshire to convert into global film studios

• Bill Sienkiewicz unpublished Big Numbers #6 cover up for auction

  By John Freeman on December 4, 2018

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz‘s unpublished cover for the sixth issue of the Alan Moore-scripted series Big Numbers is going under the hammer over at Heritage Auctions this weekend. The story behind the creation of the ill-fated 12-issue series Big Numbers from Mad Love… Read More ›

• New Hunt Emerson exhibtion opens in Birmingham

  By John Freeman on December 4, 2018

  

  Just opened at the Primitivo Bar in Birmingham is a fantastic exhibition of art by this year’s Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art winner Hunt Emerson, which runs until February 2019. It includes a splendid Calculus Cat silkscreen print,… Read More ›

• Striker comic battles for second round of crowdfunding

  By John Freeman on December 4, 2018

  

  We’re almost at the end of the first 12 weekly Striker comics – and the team behind the project are back on Kickstarter to raise funds for issues 13 to 24. This time around, they’re chasing a target of £45,000… Read More ›

• Unbound’s graphic novels Commissioning Editor Lizzie Kaye latest Festival Podcast guest

  By John Freeman on December 4, 2018

  

  The latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast co-hosted by Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates features an exclusive interview with crowdfunding publisher Unbound‘s comics and graphic novels Commissioning Editor, Lizzie Kaye. Unbound launched one of their latest graphic novels, Reel Love by Owen Michael Johnson, at this… Read More ›

• Jumping Jets! Beano’s Dennis swops his iconic jumper in a good cause this week

  By John Freeman on December 4, 2018

  

  Ahead of the much-anticipated Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 14th December, the Beano‘s Dennis has changed his iconic striped jumper in support of the charitable event. This week’s issue of the Beano comic encourages fans to don… Read More ›

• Joy Division Graphic Novel  Arrives, Launch Party in Manchester

  By John Freeman on December 3, 2018

  

  A special launch party for Brian Gorman’s stunning graphic novel, New Dawn Fades – A Graphic Novel About Joy Division and Manchester will be held in the city on Tuesday 4th December 2018

• In Review: Dave – Death of the Cosmic Oddity

  By Colin Noble on December 3, 2018

  

  By Richard Pester Out: Now The Book: Everyone has a story to tell, this is the continuing story of ‘Dave’. Like all of us, he tries to make sense of his life, memories of a turbulent past bring both tragedy and… Read More ›

• Rare Al Williamson interview resurfaces thanks to Classic UK Comic Zines archive site

  By John Freeman on December 3, 2018

  

  An influential 1960s Irish fan publication offering a fascinating interview with artist Al Williamson has just been added to the brilliant Classic UK Comic Zines archive site run by David Hathaway-Price

• A Comics Mystery: How did a street in Norwich become a location for Alberto Breccia’s “Mort Cinder”?

  By John Freeman on December 2, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Inspired to buy Alberto Breccia’s Mort Cinder through the downthetubes articles by artist Ron Tiner and the urgings of artist David Roach, one of our readers came across an interesting little oddity in the art. Mort Cinder, in case you… Read More ›

• Mike Noble In Focus: “Wide World” (1962)

  By John Freeman on December 2, 2018

  

  Following the passing of one of Britain’s best-loved and most influential comic artists, Mike Noble, who died last moth, Norman Boyd turned his attention to some of his lesser known, earlier work for the long-running adventure magazine Wide World… I… Read More ›

• Comic Book Masters: Cover Artist Giorgio De Gaspari

  By John Freeman on November 30, 2018

  

  Italian artist Giorgio De Gaspari may be an artist unfamiliar to many downthetubes readers, but throughout the 1960s his cover art thrilled many a young comic reader of British digest titles such as Thriller Picture Library and War Picture Library…. Read More ›

• Commando’s commemoration of the Great War Armistice concludes with the final two Weekes’ War stories

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 29, 2018

  

  Commando has been running World War One stories for the duration of November in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which stopped the fighting. The highlight of this has been the sequence of five connected stories under the… Read More ›

• Jeff Hawke Space Gen Cards: comics inspired education!

  By John Freeman on November 29, 2018

  

  Back in 1956, Junior Express Weekly, a weekly comic from the Daily Express, produced a batch of Jeff Hawke-inspired cards with a scientific background. The settings are those in which comic strip hero Jeff Hawke works, all with reference to… Read More ›

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