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• WebFind: Look and Learn, Treasure illustrations galore from Holloway Fine Art

  By John Freeman on December 30, 2018

  

  Quite by chance, I came across the eBay page Holloway Fine Art, which is offering hundreds of artworks from classic annuals, books magazines such as Look and Learn and Treasure, including 1980s Famous Five illustrations by Leslie Branton. Also on… Read More ›

• Dundee lecturer Chris Murray investigates “The British Superhero” (and a Marvelman book you should read, too)

  By John Freeman on December 29, 2018

  

  We’re not entirely sure how The British Superhero by the University of Dundee’s Chris Murray slipped under our radar when the University of Mississippi Press published it back in 2017, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t plug it now,… Read More ›

• Journey Planet helps revive ground-breaking 1960s comic zine Heroes Unlimited for one last outing

  By John Freeman on December 29, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  Forty-nine years in the waiting and the making, Journey Planet recently published Heroes Unlimited #8, an incredible zine of fantastic proportions and wonderful content that bookends the publication that helped kickstart British comics fandom in the 1960s. In December 1966,… Read More ›

• In Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

  By Tim Robins on December 29, 2018

  

  Review by Tim Robins  The Film: Bitten by a radioactive spider in the subway, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales suddenly develops mysterious powers that transform him into the one and only Spider-Man. When he meets Peter Parker, he soon realizes that… Read More ›

• Do comics still inspire future scientists and engineers?

  By John Freeman on December 28, 2018

  

  Here’s a curiosity from the days of the original Eagle, comic, released around 1959 – an Eagle Presents British European Airways supplement given away with the title, which prompted me to wonder if the comics of today still inspire readers… Read More ›

• It’s Ice Cold in the new Commando Comics, on sale now!

  By John Freeman on December 27, 2018

  

  Brand new Commando – Issues 5187 – 5190 – are on sale now in all good newsagents from DC Thomson, featuring icy escapes in the Russian wilderness, furious fights alongside the Red Devils, night-vision missions in the Iraqi desert – and… Read More ›

• Titan Magazines British DC Comics titles cease publication

  By John Freeman on December 26, 2018 • ( 6 )

  

  Titan Magazines has announced that it will no longer be publishing its licensed DC Comics range in the UK. All titles on sale now in newsagents are the final issues. The company sent a brief email to subscribers of its… Read More ›

• Season’s Greetings!

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

  

  Wishing all our readers a very Merry Christmas! John Freeman

• Crowdfunding Campaign promotion tips from “Killtopia” creator Dave Cook

  By John Freeman on December 24, 2018

  

  Dave Cook – the writer of cyberpunk graphic novel Killtopia – recently offered some great creating comics tips on planning the promotion of your crowdfunding campaign on his Twitter, which he has kindly given us permission to repost on downthetubes…. Read More ›

• Portsmouth comic Con to host first ever Tripwire Awards

  By John Freeman on December 22, 2018

  

  For over twenty-five years, Tripwire has been championing US and UK comics first in print and, since 2015, on the web. For the second Portsmouth Comic Con, taking place 4th-5th May 2019, Tripwire will be launching The Tripwire Awards, an… Read More ›

• 2000AD Villains Takeover Special – Full Intel Released!

  By John Freeman on December 21, 2018

  

  In time for Free Comic Book Day in May 2019, the bad guys take over the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with a nefarious new special full of criminal capers and villainous ventures – the 2000 AD Villains Takeover Special! As we… Read More ›

• ComicScene comes to newsagents across the UK tomorrow!

  By John Freeman on December 21, 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  ComicScene – a dedicated magazine to comics and comic culture – relaunches tomorrow, Saturday 22nd December – and will be on sale in selected WHSmith, McColls and all good comic shops across the UK. Available from 1000 locations in the… Read More ›

• New “Eagle Times” tracks down New Eagle’s “Data File” artist, Lionel Jeans

  By John Freeman on December 21, 2018

  

  The new Eagle Times– Winter 2018 Vol. 31, Number 4 -is now available and is packed with some entertaining material on both the original and 1980s Eagle comics – including two great items on the “Data Files” cutaways that ran in the… Read More ›

• Free Comic Book Day 2019 Full List of Comic Books Announced, plus a 2000AD 99p Special!

  By John Freeman on December 21, 2018

  

  Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) 2019 features an amazing selection of comic book titles for the industry’s most anticipated annual event which happens Saturday 4th May 2019 at participating comic book shops worldwide. British publishers Rebellion and Titan Comics have… Read More ›

• Rebellion dips its toe into the “Funny Pages” with Free Comic Book Day humour title

  By John Freeman on December 20, 2018

  

  Rebellion has tapped into its funny bone for a new, all-ages Free Comic Book Day title, which marks its eighth year as a Silver Sponsor of Free Comic Book Day. Taking full of advantage of the huge number of humour… Read More ›

• Meet Hotdog and Mustard, Marc Jackson’s latest mad creations

  By John Freeman on December 20, 2018

  

  Hotdog and Mustard is the latest crazy comic caper from cartoonist Marc Jackson, the brains behind digital comic Goof! Hotdog is a big dog, Mustard is a small dog. When Mustard opens a parcel addressed to his owner Dave, what’s… Read More ›

• Transformers return in March – new comic from IDW announced

  By John Freeman on December 20, 2018

  

  US comics publisher IDW Publishing has announced that a brand-new Transformers series will debut in March 2019 that will explore the very moment when a glorious, peaceful Cybertron begins its downward spiral into chaos. Available twice monthly, IDW’s Transformers comic will be written by Brian Ruckley,… Read More ›

• This is Enid Blyton one-shot magazine on sale now from DC Thomson

  By John Freeman on December 20, 2018

  

  This almost ducked under our radar, but on sale now in all good newsagents and supermarkets is a one-shot magazine celebrating author Enid Blyton, published by DC Thomson. The adventures of The Famous Five and the mysteries of The Secret… Read More ›

• Strasbourg shooting victim honoured by comics community he loved with “Prix Bartek”

  By John Freeman on December 19, 2018

  

  Lionel Wurms, president of Alsace Bande Dessinée, and founder of the Strasbulles European Comics Festival, has announced a Call for Entries for the Prix Bartek Prize and Exhibition, in response to the murder of 36-year-old journalist and musician Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski,… Read More ›

• Laydeez do Comics announces Rosalind B. Penfold Prize for older comic creators

  By John Freeman on December 19, 2018

  

  Rosalind B. Penfold was aged 59 when her first graphic novel, Dragonslippers: this is what an abusive relationship looks like, was published by Penguin (Canada) in 2004. It was subsequently translated into nine languages, becoming an important resource worldwide –… Read More ›

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