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• The Gang’s All Here (well, almost): 2000AD’s 40th birthday – full line-up and schedule announced

  By John Freeman on 18 January 2017

  

  The full guest list and schedule for next month’s 2000AD 40 Years of Thrill-Power Festival has been announced – featuring a huge range of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’s contributors. While not every creator involved in creating the 2000AD legend will be… Read More ›

• Declassified: James Bond – Hammerhead #4 (Sneak Peek)

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2017

  

  In the latest Issue of James Bond: Hammerhead from Dynamite Entertainment, Bond finds himself at the mercy of Malfakhar, a Yemeni smuggler and black marketeer. But both men are mere pawns in a far greater game, with the fate of… Read More ›

• downthetubes Discoveries: Turkish comics culture, thanks to comic hero Tarkan

  By John Freeman on 16 January 2017

  

  Almost every downthetubes visitor is a comic reader, but up until I came across an item on the Facebook Mighty World of British Comics group, to my shame, I had no idea comics reading once as popular in Turkey as I already… Read More ›

• Groovy, Baby! Doctor Who Magazine Goes Retro with free Dalek-infested classic comic giveaway

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2017

  

  Doctor Who Magazine Issue 508, out now from all good UK newsagents, has a grab bag of treats on offer for fans of 1970s Doctor Who – and great comics. Not only does it include a terrific free gift – a re-presentation… Read More ›

• In Review: Map of Days by Robert Hunter

  By Antony Esmond on 14 January 2017

  

  By Robert Frank Hunter Published by NoBrow Press Hardback – 56 Full Colour Story Pages – RRP £12.99 The Story: Richard can’t stop thinking about the clock. He lies in bed each night, listening to its tick-tocking to the pendulum’s… Read More ›

• US politicians up to unsavoury antics? Are these rumours the work of British ex-secret agents – or comic book writers?

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2017

  

  For those of you possibly reeling at the sometimes bizarre twists and turns of the current US political scene, perhaps wondering what is real and what is true, we can’t not mention the upcoming release from Dynamite Entertainment of the… Read More ›

• The Dandy’s Korky the Cat hits, er… the catwalk! Thanks to top fashion designer Stella McCartney

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2017

  

  The Dandy comic may sadly be long gone but Beano Studios has teamed up with fashion designer Stella McCartney to bring some of its characters back into the public eye for her autumn 2017 collection. Korky the Cat, Dinah Mo and… Read More ›

• The original “Something Wicked” creeps into the digital world, features early work by Al Ewing and more

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2017

  

  Back in in 2007 (or maybe earlier, my zombie brain isn’t quite working properly today), British independent comics publisher FutureQuake Press launchd Something Wicked, a horror anthology that included work from the likes of Cullen Bunn, Al Ewing, PJ Holden, Michael Carroll,… Read More ›

• In Review: Doctor Who Adventures Issue 21 (Doctor Who meets Doctor Strangeglove?)

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2017

  

  The Comic: Doctor Who Adventures is a fun-filled, action-packed magazine for girls and boys aged 6 – 13 who love Doctor Who. Aimed at a slightly younger audience than Doctor Who Magazine, it offers a crazy plunge into the wacky world… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend: Titan Comics Rolls Out Five New Titles, including new era for Doctor Who titles

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2017

  

  It’s a busy week for Titan Comics with five, fantastic new launches​: Walter Hill‘s new Hard Case Crime series (and the inspiration behind the upcoming neo-noir movie starring Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver), The Assignment #1; Khaal​ #1 – Titan’s new… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Catch Up!

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2017

  

  Here’s a round up of the recent Awesome Comics Podcasts from Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and our very own Tony Esmond (we’d write that in bigger letters, but the web doesn’t let you). The gang were really busy getting on… Read More ›

• New Commandos out this week, readers survey launched

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Here’s the intel on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando (Issues 4983 – 4986), on sale from Thursday 12th January 2017 in all good newsagents in the UK and via various digital platforms – plus news of a readers survey… Read More ›

• Driven To Abstraction: A Chat with comic creator Gareth A. Hopkins

  By Antony Esmond on 11 January 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Gareth A. Hopkins bucks the trend. His comics are both complex and unorthodox. They are also at times hauntingly charismatic. Like watching a comic flow directly from Rorschach’s mask on to a page of a comic, but about a thousand times… Read More ›

• Taschen returns to documenting Manga with “100 Manga Artists”

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2017

  

  Since the original TASCHEN edition of Manga Design, Japan’s comic phenomenon has produced yet more captivating characters and a whole host of hot new talents. The revised and updated edition edited by Julius Wiedemann – 100 Manga Artists, out later this month… Read More ›

• Celebrating David Bowie: Moonage Exhibition opens this week at London’s Orbital Comics

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2017

  

  January marks what would have been David Bowie’s 70th birthday, and the first anniversary of his untimely death to cancer. Celebrating the career of one of popular art’s most vital innovators, chameleons and talents, Moonage Daydreams – an exhibition at London’s… Read More ›

• Art Model Collective and 2000AD team up up for unique “Muties & Perps” life drawing event in London

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2017

  

  Budding artists should prepare to head into the dystopian futurescape of Mega-City One, the home of Judge Dredd, with the first part of 2000AD’s 40th anniversary celebrations. Muties & Perps is a unique life drawing session taking place at London’s… Read More ›

• Creating Comics: Drawing and Life Lessons from Master Cartoonists in the works from IDW

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2017

  

  Whether you’re an amateur or pro artist or like comics history or insights into artists you might like Drawing and Life Lessons from Master Cartoonists, set for release from IDW Publushing in July The very first book of its kind,… Read More ›

• 2000AD celebrates 40th Anniversary with a great line-up of new comic collections – schedule revealed!

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2017

  

  From boy wizards to future cops, from Martians trashing England to missions through post-apocalyptic landscapes – the 40th anniversary year of 2000AD, Britain’s biggest comic will be packed with incredible new collections, including a revised, expanded edition of Thrill-Power Overload, the… Read More ›

• In Praise Of… Reginald Heade, pulp fiction cover – and comics – artist

  By downthetubes Guests on 10 January 2017

  

  Available now from Telos Publishing is The Art of Reginald Heade, written by Stephen James Walker, a book about an artist renowned amongst vintage paperback fans and collectors as the pre-eminent British pulp fiction cover artist of the 1940s and 1950s – considered by some as… Read More ›

• In Review: Not My Shame by T.O. Walker

  By Antony Esmond on 10 January 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Written by T.O. Walker Published by Singing Dragon The Book: With subtlety and sensitivity, Not My Shame is a powerful graphic novel that draws the reader into the experience of trauma and dissociation caused by sexual violence. It reveals the… Read More ›

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