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• Taschen Teases “75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking”

  By John Freeman on 6 April 2017

  

  Specialist publisher TASCHEN has just trailed the a new edition of  the award-winning 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking by Paul Levitz – a gorgeous-looking book crammed with art and covers spanning the US comic publisher’s output across the decades that… Read More ›

• Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures Volume Two Out Now, and the Mekon is back!

  By John Freeman on 6 April 2017

  

  Dan Dare: The Audio Adventures Volume Two, produced by B7 Media, is out now from Big Finish, featuring cover art by Doctor Who comics artist Brian Williamson. The second volume of the critically celebrated audio reinvention of the classic British SF… Read More ›

• Marvel’s Squirrel Girl set to star in New Warriors TV series, launching in 2018

  By John Freeman on 6 April 2017

  

  Freeform has announced a straight-to-series order for Marvel’s New Warriors, the second superhero-inspired project from the Disney-owned US cable network, Marvel Television and ABC Signature. The comedic live-action adaptation of the Marvel comic will be the company’s first comedy TV series, the… Read More ›

• Tony Esmond’s Comic Shop Survival Guide – Part Four: How To Buy A Comic (It isn’t always that easy!) – The Actual Buying Bit

  By Antony Esmond on 5 April 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  There isn’t a week that goes by that one of the downthetubes team reads a post or receives a news item about declining comic sales, some articles blaming comics piracy, others the cost of comics, the end of physical print…. Read More ›

• Netflix Releases Second “Marvel’s The Defenders” Trailer

  By John Freeman on 5 April 2017

  

  Netflix has released a teaser for the upcoming hero team-up Marvel’s The Defenders, which will bring together Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil and Iron Fist, as they face their biggest threat yet. The streaming subscription service released their first trailer… Read More ›

• Titan Comics Announces their 2017 Doctor Who Comics Day, Rachael Stott on art for crossover comic

  By John Freeman on 5 April 2017

  

  With Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor vworping back onto our screens here in the UK on Saturday 15th April (and to BBC AMERICA in the US and Space in Canada on the same day), fans get a chance to continue their… Read More ›

• Thunder comic appeal from 2000AD

  By John Freeman on 4 April 2017

  

  2000AD publisher Rebellion – which now owns a large number of comic brands and characters previously published by Fleetway – has appealed for help to find physical copies of the short-lived boys adventure comic Thunder. In online appeals, Rebellion say… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Collecting Souls and Brighton Rock

  By John Freeman on 4 April 2017

  

  Panel Borders, the monthly show about comics and graphic novels is back this week, celebrating the output of three artists associated with the City of Brighton and Hove. Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelists Hannah Berry, Joe Decie (whose graphic novel,… Read More ›

• Ghost Ships and Wartime Castaways – new Commando comics on sale on Thursday

  By John Freeman on 4 April 2017

  

  Here’s the intel from DC Thomson on the latest issues of Commando (Issues 5007 – 5010) on sale in all good newsagents from Thursday 6th April 2017 and also available through various digital platforms. All four stories are set in… Read More ›

• Papercutz Publishes Metaphrog’s The Little Mermaid

  By Jeremy Briggs on 4 April 2017

  

  Metaphrog’s latest hardback adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, The Little Mermaid, is being released by American publisher Papercutz today. A follow up to 2015’s The Red Shoes And Other Tales, The Little Mermaid is written by John Chalmers… Read More ›

• My So-Called Secret Identity Launch Event Announced 

  By John Freeman on 4 April 2017

  

  The launch of Volume 2 of My So-Called Secret Identity (aka MSCSI), with writer Will Brooker and artist Jennie Gyllblad, will take place in London at the end of the month. MSCSI, created by Suze Shore, Will Brooker and Sarah Zaidan, launched online… Read More ›

• Tony Esmond’s Comic Shop Survival Guide – Part Three: Choosing Your Comic

  By Antony Esmond on 3 April 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  There isn’t a week that goes by that one of the downthetubes team reads a post or receives a news item about declining comic sales, some articles blaming comics piracy, others the cost of comics, the end of physical print…. Read More ›

• Beano Studios ramps up TV and film team with new hire from Australia’s ABC network

  By John Freeman on 3 April 2017

  

  Could the long-trumpeted Bananaman movie have moved a step closer? Beano Studios announced the hiring of Chris Rose as their director of development and production last week, coming to the company from his role as Commissioning Editor at the Australian… Read More ›

• WebFinds: The Space Museum 

  By John Freeman on 2 April 2017

  

  When an account titled @spacemuseum63 starts following you on Twitter, you need to double check they aren’t Dalek agents. I’m glad I did, because it led me to The Space Museum web site –  dedicated to cataloging Doctor Who collectibles… Read More ›

• Commando Comic Update – sabotaged by its publisher

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2017

  

  (Now updated with issue information): Rather belatedly, here’s the information on the issues of DC Thomson’s Commando (5003 – 5006), still on sale in all good newsagents for a few more days. DC Thomson changed the way they provide information… Read More ›

• New girls magazines launched, DC Thomson’s “Sweet” includes strip by Laura Howell

  By John Freeman on 1 April 2017

  

  DC Thomson and Panini UK have both launched new girls titles this week – Sweet and Disney’s Eleanor of Avalor, the latter based on the animated series screened on the Disney Channel. DC Thomson say their title, Sweet, which includes… Read More ›

• In Review: Garbage Night by Jen Lee

  By Antony Esmond on 1 April 2017

  

  Created by Jen Lee Full colour, £12.99 Published by NoBrow The Story: In a barren and ransacked backyard, a dog called Simon lives with his two best friends: a raccoon and a deer. They spend their days looting a desolate… Read More ›

• Britain’s annual comics-promoting Small Press Day 2017 Announced for Saturday 8th July

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2017

  

  Small Press Day, celebrating comics and self-publishing at shops and events across the UK and Ireland, is back. The fantastic Broken Frontier web site – ever at the forefront of promoting independently published small press comics and encouraging their creators… Read More ›

• Happy 30th Birthday, Combat Colin!

  By John Freeman on 29 March 2017

  

  Huge congratulations to longtime British comics creator Lew Stringer this morning, whose much-loved clumsy combat hero Combat Colin celebrates 30 years of publication. The first Combat Colin strip appeared in print in Marvel UK’s Action Force Issue 5, published on… Read More ›

• VIZ among Big Issue editor’s favourite reads

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2017

  

  Best-selling humour comic magazine VIZ is one of Big Issue editor Paul McNamee‘s favourite reads, he reveals in an opinion piece for InPublishing magazine. He’s also a fan of Private Eye, Q – and the Church Times advertiser section. Celebrating… Read More ›

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