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• Lancaster Comics Day 2017: Full Line Up Announced (it will be more than a Roy of the Rovers moment!)

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2017

  

  This year’s Lancaster Comics Day will be bringing some “Roy of the Rovers” moments to Lancaster in June, when special comic guests artist David Sque and writer and editor Barrie Tomlinson recall their time working on Britain’s best-loved and most… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Adventures offers a Mutants Meets Harry Potter Mash-Up

  By John Freeman on 4 March 2017

  

  The latest issue of Doctor Who Adventures (Issue 22) is on sale now, with strip writer Andrew Cartmel delivering a story poking affectionate fun at Marvel’s mutants, Harry Potter and, possibly, Bunty’s “The Four Marys” for good measure. A talking… Read More ›

• 5000 Not Out: DC Thomson’s Commando comic celebrates a landmark issue next week

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  DC Thomson’s Commando comic celebrates its 5000th issue next week with an all-new story from writer Ferg Handley with strip art from long-standing artist on the title, Carlos Pino and – who else? – a cover from Ian Kennedy, whose memorable… Read More ›

• Comic Strip Revolution exhibition opens soon in Belgium

  By John Freeman on 3 March 2017

  

  A “Comic Strip Revolution” exhibition at La Boverie, Liege, Belgium will present art from two game-changing French bande dessinée magazines, Métal Hurlant and (A SUIVRE) from 17th March to 11th June 2017. Showing more than 300 original drawings from French, Belgian,… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival celebrates Will Eisner with competition, comic and exclusive exhibition

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2017

  

  Recognising the work of ground-breaking American comic creator Will Eisner, creator of “The Spirit”, the  Lakes International Comic Art Festival is pleased to announce not one but three celebratory projects to mark his incredible contribution to the development of the comics form – a competition… Read More ›

• Faceache, Ken Reid’s best-loved comic character and Leopard of Lime Street returns in new Rebellion collections

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine, have announced full details of their first new collections featuring all-time classics of British comics from the 1970s and ‘80s. And what a terrific selection from their recently-expanded cache of characters it… Read More ›

• Vaughn Bode’s Cobalt 60 returns in New Augmented Reality Graphic Novel by his son

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2017

  

  Heavy Metal and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles artist Mark Bodé is to launch a new graphic novel, based on one of his father Vaughn Bodé’s earliest works – the ground-breaking Cobalt 60. In the late 1960s, Vaughn Bodé was one of… Read More ›

• Britain’s second city set to go comics crazy in June as Birmingham Comics Festival returns for third year 

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2017

  

  The Birmingham Comics Festival will be celebrating its third consecutive year of activity across the second city this June, with a weekend-long convention the culmination of a month of planned events. A city-wide series of comics-related events, large and small,… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor #10

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2017

  

  DOCTOR WHO: NINTH DOCTOR #10 Writer: Cavan Scott Artist: Adriana Melo Publisher: Titan Comics FC – 32pp – $3.99 – On sale: 1st March 2017 in all good comic shops and various digital platforms The Ninth Doctor, Rose, and Jack… Read More ›

• Nick Abadzis talks Doctor Who for latest Panel to Panel podcast

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2017

  

  Episode 72 of of Jeremy Bement‘s Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is up and features an interview with writer-artist Nick Abadzis. Nick, whose many credits also include Laika and Cora’s Breakfast, has been writing the adventures of the Tenth Doctor since… Read More ›

• Hidden Nazis, Deadly Secrets Uncovered – in the new Commando comics

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2017

  

  Here’s the latest intel on the new DC Thomson Commando releases (Issues 4995 – 4998), on sale now in all good newsagents and available on various digital platforms… Commando 4995 – The Village Story: Ferg Handley Art: Vicente Alcazar Cover:… Read More ›

• Beyond 2000AD Celebration Signings Continue This Weekend across the UK

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2017

  

  2000AD continues to celebrate its 40th anniversary this weekend with a number of special signings by some of its top talents this weekend in Birmingham, Edinburgh and Manchester – and these are just the first of many through the year. All… Read More ›

• Photo Review: The BEYOND 2000AD Exhibition at London’s Orbital Comics

  By Richard Sheaf on 23 February 2017

  

    London’s Orbital Comics – the UK’s one and only Eisner Award-winning comic shop – is currently hosting what sounds like it could be an extremely dull and pretentious look at 2000AD. “Beyond 2000AD – The Broader Cultural Impact of… Read More ›

• Comics’ Sweeping Graphic Novel Prince Valiant Turns 80

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2017

  

  While we’ve been celebrating the 40th anniversary of British comic 2000AD a lot in recent days, another comic – well, comic strip – marked its 80th anniversary earlier this month and we couldn’t let it pass by given the lasting impact… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD (your “Official” birthday, that is)

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2017

  

  Happy Birthday 2000AD! Or, rather, Happy Birthday, Judge Dredd…

• Drawing The Line: 100 Comic Artists unite to Change the World

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2017

  

  More than 100 comics artists and illustrators from around the world have launched Draw the Line – a lively, visual guide to positive political action that anyone can take. A reaction to dramatic social, environmental and political changes in the United… Read More ›

• Jack Fallows stunning “Cryptogram” available to pre-order

  By John Freeman on 19 February 2017

  

  Comic creator Jack Fallows, whose work we’ve praised before here on downthetubes, has announced you can now pre-order what I can only describe as amazing-looking Cryptogram 0.1 Spring 2017 (March) | The Woods.  “Cryptogram Puzzle Post is a monthly bundle of… Read More ›

• Morecambe Gets a Comic-Con for Easter

  By John Freeman on 19 February 2017

  

  Morecambe, Lanacashire will play host to a Comic Con this Easter, although at present the announced guest list – which includes Sixth Doctor Who Colin Baker, who has written a comic strip – leans more toward TV and film guests… Read More ›

• Utopia/Valhalla, rare comics fanzine featuring early work by teenage Alan Moore offered for £2700

  By John Freeman on 18 February 2017

  

  Over on eBay, there’s an auction running for a comics fanzine published in 1970 – Utopia/Valhalla Issue One – with a starting bid of over £2700. Before anyone starts scrabbling in their attics for fading issues of Comic Media News,… Read More ›

• Origins of “Doctor Who” revealed in new Sydney Newman memoirs

  By John Freeman on 17 February 2017

  

  Exactly where did the idea of Doctor Who come from and how much of the show was the idea of Canadian film and TV producer Sydney Newman? That’s just one of the subjects tackled in The Man Who Thought Outside… Read More ›

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