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• Who will be cast as Minnie the Minx in new live-action show?

  By John Freeman on July 26, 2018

  

  Who will be cast as Minnie The Minx? That’s the question many Beano fans are asking, some wondering if this week’s anniversary celebrations will be accompanied by more news about the announced live-action TV show from Lime Pictures, in partnership… Read More ›

• Coming Soon: The Masters in Comics Podcast launches with Dave Gibbons as first guest

  By John Freeman on July 26, 2018

  

  A new monthly comics podcast – Masters in Comics – launches in two weeks time, a new project offering insight into creating comics from the University of Dundee’s Phillip Vaughan. Masters in Comics will offer a chat with some of… Read More ›

• In Review: 2000AD Prog 2091 (plus, a plug for the new Brink and Lawless books out now from Rebellion)

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2018

  

  Mark Harrison might have delivered a dramatic cover and a stunning episode of “Grey Area” for this week’s 2000AD (Prog 2091), but it seems it’s Dan Abnett who’s taken over Rebellion’s output this week more than anyone else, with collections… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Talking Cryowulf, a gender-flipped take on Beowulf, with comic creator Sam Roads

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2018

  

  downthetubes had a virtual chat with Cardiff-based writer, entrepreneur, musician and game designer Sam Roads about his latest comics project, the terrific-looking Cryowulf, now seeking support on Kickstarter – a gender-flipped retelling of Beowulf, set on a long-abandoned space-station. Sam trained as… Read More ›

• Dan Dare – The Audio Adventures rocket to BBC Radio 4 Extra

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2018

  

  Dan Dare is returning to BBC radio, with broadcasts of the first three audio adventures from B7 Media on BBC Radio 4 Extra next month. The first three episodes (Volume One) of the Dan Dare – The Audio Adventures starring… Read More ›

• Space Kingley artist Ron Jobson’s Airfix art documented in latest Constant Scale magazine

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2018

  

  What’s in the latest issue of Constant Scale? Find out here

• In Review: The Power Pack of Ken Reid (in a word – brilliant!)

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2018

  

  Earlier this year, after years of waiting, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to collect all of humour cartoonist Ken Reid‘s Odhams comic strips of the 1960s – featured in Wham!, Smash!, and Pow! – into a pair handsome official hardback books. Those collections have now been printed,… Read More ›

• Pedantic Stan, The Comic Fan, returns in new collection from Lew Stringer, in time for London Film and Comic Con

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2018

  

  Back in the days of the British comics fandom of the 1980s, when our community was very different and far less diverse than it thankfully is today, Lew Stringer and I created Pedantic Stan, The Comics Fan – and Lew… Read More ›

• New Spaceship Away plunges back to 1950s for plenty of action and adventure

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2018

  

  The summer issue of Spaceship Away – Part 45 is available now, wrapped in cover art by the late Ron Jobson, utilising art from the 1950s space adventure “Space Kingley” stories. (Art that, it has to be said, may have… Read More ›

• Are you ready for Zena the Zombie? New all ages horror fun for all the family, from Telos Publishing

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  In the dark of night in a creepy old house … There are sounds that could not come from a mouse. Zena’s friend Zelda is missing her parts And Zena must find them before the fun starts … From the… Read More ›

• Billy Bunter art by “Magnet” artist C.H. Chapman offered on eBay

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  Five smashing pen and ink drawings of “The Fat Owl of the Remove” himself, Billy Bunter, are up on eBay, art created by C.H. Chapman, one of the character’s original artists for The Magnet. The seller of this delightful set… Read More ›

• In Review: Crucible of the Vampire Graphic Novel

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  The new graphic novel by Iain Ross-McNamee adapted from the feature film Limited signed 1st edition includes double-sided A3 poster by Charlie Adlard and fold out map 120 A4 PAGES | Colour | Mature | £10.99   The Book: Isabelle,… Read More ›

• Don’t delete this newsflash! Graeme Neil Reid has some great Cybermen art on offer in his latest art raffle

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  This month one lucky person will win an original acrylic painting of a Vogan War Cyberman in Graeme Neil Reid’s monthly Art Raffle. But now all his Patreon supporters win with an exclusive high resolution download of the raffle art…. Read More ›

• “Doctor Who – The Live Escape Game” on its way from Escape Hunt

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  BBC Studios has signed a five year licensing agreement with Escape Hunt to create a run of Doctor Who themed escape rooms in the UK. In an Escape Hunt you’re offered 60 minutes of pure, unadulterated excitement, during which you and your… Read More ›

• In search of Nazi gold – adventure in Switzerland in new Commando comics, on sale this week

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  Brand new Commando (Issues 5143 – 5146) are on sale from DC Thomson this Thursday in all good newsagents. Form an uneasy alliance with the Afrika Korps to rescue your squad from armed horsemen in North Africa, strike a truce with… Read More ›

• Vice Press celebrates 50 years of The Prisoner with new art from Paul Mann

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  Celebrating 50 years since it first aired in the United States, Vice Press has worked with legendary poster artist Paul Mann on an officially licensed, limited edition print for the 1960s television classic The Prisoner, which will be released later this week…. Read More ›

• “A secret shoot? Will this work?” New show secrets revealed in latest Doctor Who Magazine

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018

  

  In the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine showrunner Chris Chibnall reveals the meticulous preparations that went into announcing Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor. (Despite all the secret plotting, the plan nearly came off the tracks when their cover was… Read More ›

• In Review: Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures

  By downthetubes Guests on July 24, 2018

  

  Edited by Mike Ashley Publisher: British Library Science Fiction Classics April 2018, ISBN 978-0-7123-5275-8, 352pp Review by Andrew Darlington The Book: Featuring twelve stories by a roster of classic SF authors including Arthur C. Clarke, H.G. Wells and John Wyndham. Before… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday to the Beano at 80: Why It’s Still Much Loved

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  In the run up to the 80th anniversary of the Beano‘s debut in July 1938, I asked comic creators and fans of DC Thomson’s much-loved weekly humour comic (now produced by Beano Studios) who their favourite characters or strips were,… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: ES*EF, a new SF anthology from some great British comic creators

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2018

  

  Just launched on Kickstarter is a campaign to fund a comics anthology, ES*EF, a collection of short SF and futuristic stories all drawn by Phil Elliott, written by Darryl Cunningham (Psychiatric Tales, Graphic Science) and Aces Weekly contributor, film historian and TASCHEN… Read More ›

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