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• British Comic Sales Figures, Winners and Losers (January – June 2018): Beano on the rise, Peppa Pig continues to party to high sales

  By John Freeman on August 20, 2018

  

  Report by John Freeman and Jeremy Briggs The latest sales figures for some comics and children’s magazines available on the UK news stand for the first half of 2018 have been published by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). There are winners… Read More ›

• Screenwriter Richard Dinnick faces the Doctor Who Panel to Panel mind probe

  By John Freeman on August 20, 2018

  

  Episode 102 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is live – and has a decidedly Thirteenth Doctor flavour. Writer Richard Dinnick joins host Jeremy Bement on the Doctor Who comics podcast to chat about the upcoming Thirteenth Doctor Volume 0… Read More ›

• Welcome return for the Commando comic calendar, featuring art by Ian Kennedy

  By Richard Sheaf on August 20, 2018

  

  Great news for all Commando comic fans. DC Thomson have brought back the Commando calendar, on sale now – and it features art by Ian Kennedy throughout. Since 1961, Commando has electrified its readers as the longest running British war comic ever!… Read More ›

• Soaring Penguin Press brings in new director, announces new Canadian office

  By John Freeman on August 19, 2018

  

  Soaring Penguin Press, publisher of the anthology Meanwhile and a range of graphic novels that includes Emma Vieceli and Malin Ryder’s BREAKS, has a new director. The independent publisher has made an offer to Eisner-nominated writer and editor Tim Pilcher to join… Read More ›

• Comic Book Postal Auctions latest offering launched, includes original Beano, Dandy art

  By John Freeman on August 18, 2018

  

  Comic Book Postal Auctions has just launched their August / September auction – and there are some great British comics offerings, including original art from the Beano, and The Dandy – and rare copies of early appearances of Dick Boss,… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: TechnoFreak by Sunday Lunch Comics

  By John Freeman on August 17, 2018

  

  TechnoFreak is a great-looking adult-leaning scifi noir project running on Kickstarter from British creators John Charles and Barry May, with art by Tom Newell lettered by Nikki Foxrobot, which has already met its target – so back it now if you… Read More ›

• Fancy The Beano Annual From Your Year? Personalised facsimiles now available

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2018

  

  Signature Gifts are now offering Beano readers personalised, facsimile reprints of every Beano annual from the very first one, published in 1940 – right up to 2013. The Beano Annual From Your Year is a fantastic nostalgic gift, with each… Read More ›

• The 2018 Scream and Misty Special – Cover Artist Spotlight!

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2018

  

  Rebellion are offering pre-orders of this year’s  Scream & Misty Special, no doubt acutely aware that newsagents didn’t carry enough stock of last year’s edition, which included first sight of the heroes now starring in the much more widely-distributed superhero special, The… Read More ›

• Roy of the Rovers – new book covers revealed, pre-order launch offer bargain on offer

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2018

  

  Rebellion have revealed the covers to the new Roy of the Rovers books: Tom Palmer’s Scouted, on sale in October, and Rob Williams’ Kick-Off, out in November. The first book to hit the shelves is Scouted by Tom Palmer, an… Read More ›

• Topps 80th anniversary cards prove almost as collectible as the originals

  By John Freeman on August 16, 2018

  

  If you remember the fun collecting bubble gum cards from younger days, then you may already know card company Topps is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2018, and to commemorate the occasion, they’re issuing weekly exclusives on their website –… Read More ›

• Sequart Releases Book on Star Wars Expanded Universe

  By John Freeman on August 15, 2018

  

  Sequart has announced the publication of A More Civilized Age: Exploring the Star Wars Expanded Universe, edited by Rich Handley and Joseph F. Berenato. Almost as soon as there were Star Wars films, there were Star Wars novels. Alan Dean Foster got the ball rolling,… Read More ›

• I Kill Giants and Deadpool writer Joe Kelly talks to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast

  By John Freeman on August 15, 2018

  

  One of the creators of Ben 10 and the writer of the magnificent I Kill Giants, Joe Kelly is the guest on the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast. Joe, who returns to the Lakes International… Read More ›

• Big robots and super villains in this week’s 2000AD, a new Megazine – and The Vigilant, too! It’s a busy week from Rebellion

  By John Freeman on August 15, 2018

  

  The latest issue of 2000AD is on sale now (alongside the latest Judge Dredd Megazine and The Vigliant) in all good newsagents and comics shops (and digitally), with a dramatic cover from Kei Zama coloured by Kelly Fitzpatrick, highlighting some… Read More ›

• In Review: Illustrators Special 2 – War Is Hell

  By Colin Noble on August 15, 2018

  

  For those of you that are aware of the Book Palace, you will hopefully also be aware of their in-house imprint which publishes Illustrators, a beautiful produced quarterly magazine dedicated to enhancing our knowledge of all things dealing with comics. … Read More ›

• Creating Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet – Corsair comic: some unseen designs and behind the scenes reveals

  By John Freeman on August 14, 2018

  

  Go behind the scenes on Titan’s Lost Fleet comic

• First ever Doctor Who Weekly strips head to audio adaptations by Big Finish

  By John Freeman on August 14, 2018

  

  Two new audio adventures based on two much-loved Doctor Who Weekly comic strips – “The Iron Legion” and “The Star Beast” – stories originally written by Pat Mills and John Wagner and drawn by Dave Gibbons – are being released… Read More ›

• In Review: The Vigilant – Maelstrom

  By John Freeman on August 14, 2018

  

  Editor: Keith Richardson Publisher: Rebellion Out: Wednesday 15th August (UK and Digital) – available from newsagents and comic shops The Vigilant: Maelstrom Written by Simon Furman Art: Simon Coleby Letters: Simon Bowland When the evil forces of Von Hoffman and… Read More ›

• Remembering the Daily Mirror strip “Romeo Brown”, the work of Alfred Mazure, Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway

  By John Freeman on August 14, 2018

  

  A quick guide to a British newspaper gem, published by the Daily Mirror between 1954 and 1962

• Lovern Kindzierski and John Bolton’s new graphic novel “Shame – Hope” really deserves your attention

  By John Freeman on August 13, 2018

  

  A downthetubes reader dropped us a line to ask what John Bolton had been up to comics-wise recently, which gives us the chance to plug the Renegade Arts fantasy project Shame by the artist, working with writer Lovern Kindzierski. John recently did a signing… Read More ›

• Rare Ron Turner collected comics cache discovered, offered for sale

  By Richard Sheaf on August 13, 2018

  

  John Lawrence, publisher of terrific retro stripzine, Space Ace, has been in touch to say that he’s recently unearthed a small cache of the Ron Turner comics he produced in the 1980s, published by Harrier Comics. If you’re unfamiliar with… Read More ›

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