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

  By John Freeman on 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 16 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 ›

• Massive comic creator line up for next week’s Manchester Comic and Reading Festival

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2018

  

  There’s a great line up of guest at Manchester Comic and Reading Festival taking place next Saturday (18th August 2018) at Manchester Central Library. A free event organised by the same team that brought us the brilliant Oldham Comic Con,… Read More ›

• Overstreet Price Guide to Star Wars Collectibles out later this year

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2018

  

  Gemstone Publishing released their 48th edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide last month – a reference book full of updated US comic book prices, current market reports, new additions to the Overstreet Hall of Fame and a selection… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD (40th Anniversary Reprint)

  By John Freeman on 11 August 2018

  

  A crowdfunder to celebrate a classic SF-inspired series of books has succeeded in attracting backing for a reprint of the fondly-remembered Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD Terran Trade Authority handbook by Stewart Cowley, to be published by Battlefield Press next… Read More ›

• A few thoughts on “The Human Beings” Issue 6 from Stuart McCune

  By Antony Esmond on 10 August 2018

  

  Created by Stuart McCune 40 pages – Full Colour Published by Millicent Barnes Publishing The Quote… “As if in a trance Maria watched the woman. For it seemed to her then that she was watching the dead still centre of… Read More ›

• British Comics Swapmeet and Mini-Mart invades Lochore in September

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2018

  

  Coming soon to Lochore, Scotland is the third British Comics Swapmeet and Mini-Mart – and the organisers have just released this terrific promotional poster, the work of artist Richard Anthony Pester. The third swapmeet is scheduled to happen on 29th… Read More ›

• New documentary celebrates the ground-breaking SF art of Chesley Bonestell

  By John Freeman on 10 August 2018

  

  Long before satellites would journey to planets and deep-space telescopes would photograph distant galaxies, there was an artist whose prescient vistas dazzled the eyes and the imagination of all who beheld them. His name was Chesley Bonestell. How could he… Read More ›

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