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• Game Mania returns to Blackpool in May (with some added comics goodness)

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2017

  

  This year’s Game Mania takes place at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens on 6th and 7th May 2017. A Gaming Event full of Retro Games, Virtual Reality, Kids Zone, Pinball, Arcades, Developers. Tournaments and Challenges – with prizes to be won, including… Read More ›

• Killer Commandos Stalk Your Newsagent This Week – and there’s flying saucers on the loose, too!

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

    DC Thomson’s Commando Issues 5011 – 5014, on sale now in all good newsagents and various digital platforms, deliver a hotpot of unique wartime adventures, ranging from World War Two Home Front detectives to grizzled Yankees in the Vietnamese… Read More ›

• Mystery art has Frank Hampson fans a-flutter – but the actual artist remains a mystery

  By John Freeman on April 20, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Browsing the Book Palace website last night, downthetubes contributor Richard Sheaf came across this painting, attributed to Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson. “… This is gorgeous painting, probably used for a magazine illustration or advertisement in the late 1950s,” notes… Read More ›

• Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comic collections launched by IDW

  By John Freeman on April 19, 2017

  

  Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the first Star Wars film this May, IDW Publishing and the multi award-winning imprint, Library of American Comics have just released Volume One of Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comic which contains 575 sequential strips from its premiere… Read More ›

• Comic creators, a bar – and a Music Festival in Liverpool? Sounds like a great combination!

  By John Freeman on April 19, 2017

  

  Ace Liverpool-based comic creators Tom Ward (writer and creator of MERRICK: The Sensational Elephant Man, co-creator of Doc Dino) and Chris Welsh (creator of Wart and the horror anthology The Grime) are running a little tester comic event out of a bar at… Read More ›

• Dredd in Rip-Roaring Action in latest 2000AD (Prog 2027)

  By John Freeman on April 19, 2017

  

  Featuring a cracking cover by Matt Ferguson, 2000AD Prog 2027 is on sale now in all good comic shops and UK newsagents – and via various digital platforms. John McCrea‘s art on “Judge Dredd” is adrenaline-soaked brilliance and makes it… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview: “Old Farts” by Sorina Vazelina

  By Antony Esmond on April 19, 2017

  

  Written and Illustrated by Sorina Vazelina Full Colour – Published by Centrala Books Something is crawling in to my brain, something colourful and crazy. This is an anthology of work by Sorina Vazelina and published by Centrala books in the… Read More ›

• Crowdfunding Spotlight – British Jack Kirby Documentary Project Launches

  By John Freeman on April 19, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  2017 marks the centennial of US comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby‘s birth – and British comics archivist Glenn Fleming has just launched a Kickstarter to back the release of a documentary about this key creator, based on interviews he… Read More ›

• Collectormania seeks to boost comic creator presence for June’s event at NEC

  By John Freeman on April 19, 2017

  

  Major British event organisers Showmasters are offering comic book creators and other artists, illustrators and self published writers the opportunity to share their talents in front of the thousands attending the event at the Birmingham NEC at the next Collectormania. Showmasters… Read More ›

• Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series episodes launch this week

  By John Freeman on April 18, 2017

  

  Award-winning developer and publisher of digital entertainment, Telltale Games, along with Marvel Entertainment, has announced that the first of five Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series episodes is now available on PlayStation4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, Windows… Read More ›

• Gareth Brookes brilliant “A Thousand Coloured Castles” gets Gosh launch on Thursday

  By John Freeman on April 18, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Top British comics creator Gareth Brookes is hosting a launch party for his new graphic novel A Thousand Coloured Castles, published by Myriad Editions, at Gosh! Comics in London later this week – and everyone’s invited. This book is, simply, genius. Disturbing… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: The Comic Industry and the Downside of Working from the Belly of the Whale

  By John Freeman on April 18, 2017

  

  Our thanks to comics writer, inker, letterer, editor and publisher Ian Sharman today for kindly giving us permission to post his thoughts on working in the comics industry, addressing why creators seem loathe to challenge some of its working practices… So, let’s… Read More ›

• Coming Soon: Dazzle Ships and the Art of Confusion 

  By John Freeman on April 18, 2017

  

  If you’re a fan of Commando comics, then you may want to check out Dazzle Ships: World War One and the Art of Confusion, out later this year. Yes, it’s nonfiction – but there is a comics connection. Written by… Read More ›

• Frank Bellamy “Heros the Spartan” Art Goes Under the Hammer

  By John Freeman on April 18, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  A spread of “Heros the Spartan” art by Frank Bellamy published in Eagle in 1963 is currently being offered on the US auction site Heritage Auctions. The spread from the weekly comic appeared in Volume 14 (Issue 22, issue cover… Read More ›

• Borderliners is a Real Treat for fans of The Prisoner and Phillip K. Dick

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2017

  

  Manchester-based writer/artist Brian Gorman‘s second graphic novel, Borderliners: True Realities, was published by Invisible Six Ltd a few months ago. I’m ashamed to confess he handed me a copy last October, but it’s taken me this long to escape The… Read More ›

• Philip Pullman’s The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship collection docks in June

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2017

  

  Philip Pullman‘s The Adventures of John Blake: Mystery of the Ghost Ship offers high-octane action and a deep twisting mystery combine in a visual feast of a time-travel tale of adventure on the high seas, due for release in June… Read More ›

• Achtung! Commando – a short-lived homage to Britain’s longest-running war comic recalled 

  By John Freeman on April 17, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Despite its longevity, DC Thomson’s last serving pocket library title, Commando, has never gained the kind of fan documentation that other British comics have. Achtung! Commando was a short-lived attempt to change that, published at the turn of the century… Read More ›

• “Blunderbirds” and Frank Bellamy’s “The Shepherd King” highlighted in new Eagle Times

  By John Freeman on April 16, 2017

  

  The latest edition of Eagle Times the magazine of the Eagle Society – Volume 30 No. 1 – is now available. This Issue features articles about Alan Stranks (who created PC49 and scripted several Dan Dare stories), Space Fiction Films in… Read More ›

• Gerry Anderson “UFO” convention in June

  By John Freeman on April 16, 2017

  

  There hasn’t even a UFO Convention inspired by the Gerry Anderson TV series in the UK nearly 30 years… Until now. While many of the show’s principals are, sadly, no longer with us (including its creator Gerry Anderson), there is… Read More ›

• In Review: Colossie Issue One (Vault Comics)

  By Antony Esmond on April 15, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Colossi Issue One Script by Ricardo Mo Art by Alberto Muriel Colours by Stelladia Letters by HdE Full Colour – Published by Vault Comics – $3.99 The Book: When Trans Atmos Shuttle 34 disappears into a wormhole, its pilot and… Read More ›

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