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• Doctor Who Magazine Covers: Readers Top 50 Revealed

  By John Freeman on May 18, 2016

  

  In the run-up to publication of the landmark Doctor Who Magazine Issue 500 (which is out next week and is a real bumper issue), the current editorial team are asking you to vote for your favourite DWM covers. With a… Read More ›

• First it was TV, then books – now, the Meerkats Take Over Comics!

  By John Freeman on May 17, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Not content with making some episodes of Coronation Street more interesting than the soap itself, and appearances in a Batman Versus Superman-inspired ad campaign here in the UK, the CompareTheMarket Meerkats now have their own superhero (or should that be… Read More ›

• Rare Eagle, Beano and Commando comics on offer in latest ComPalComics auction

  By John Freeman on May 17, 2016

  

  ComPalComics, the British comics auction house, has just launched its May/June catalogue, and there are some great items in it, including early, rare issues of DC Thomson’s Commando – including Issue One – Dan Dare comic art (and a ray gun!)… Read More ›

• “Black Dog – The Dreams of Paul Nash”, A Reader’s Experience

  By Antony Esmond on May 17, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Created by Dave McKean Publisher: Lakes International Comic Art Festival and Hourglass (the Artist’s Book, limited edition of 300 – a graphic novel edition will be published by Dark Horse in October Let me start this item by saying that this is neither a ‘Preview’ nor a… Read More ›

• New Tabletop Game Armoured Syndicate Gets Its Own Comic

  By John Freeman on May 17, 2016

  

  Games company Megaton has just released the first page of a 10-page comic via Facebook to promote their forthcoming tabletop game, Armoured Syndicate, which will then run on the company web site (www.armouredsyndicate.com) Armoured Syndicate, created by Ben Jarvis, is… Read More ›

• New Cartoon Network Figures on their way from Titan Merchandise

  By John Freeman on May 16, 2016

  

  Titan Merchandise has revealed to fans a first look at its new minifigures from its Cartoon Network TITANS: The Cartoon Network Collection, which includes Johnny Bravo, Rigby, Finn, Deedee, Dexter and Samurai Jack and more. 12 characters are included in… Read More ›

• Orbital Comics Hosts “Comics in the Kitchen” Exhibition in June

  By John Freeman on May 16, 2016

  

  Comics. Food. Artists. Recipes. For Orbital Comics next thematic exhibition, the brilliant London comic store has gathered a bunch of food-loving cartoonists and illustrators and asked them what they really enjoy cooking these days. Their answers will be up on the… Read More ›

• In Review: Glorious Wrestling Alliance by Josh Hicks

  By Antony Esmond on May 16, 2016

  

  Created by Josh Hicks ‘GLORIOUS WRESTLING ALLIANCE follows the behind-the-scenes goings on at a wrestling promotion in the build up to the biggest show of the year. Dramas, neuroses and existential crises play out among a cast of literally tens… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Darwyn Cooke

  By John Freeman on May 15, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  I was very sad to learn yesterday of the sudden passing of the extraordinary Canadian comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator Darwyn Cooke, whose death to cancer was announced by his family this weekend. He was just 53. This short statement,… Read More ›

• Planet Jimbot’s ‘Wolf Country’ Trade Released

  By Colin Noble on May 14, 2016

  

  Written by Jim Alexander Art by Will Pickering Cover art by Luke Cooper Published by Planet Jimbot For anyone that has not read any part of Planet Jimbot’s Wolf Country, this is a good chance start, by grabbing the entirety… Read More ›

• Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Ten

  By Roger Perry on May 13, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a Creative Visionary… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive biography of the man which continues here on downthetubes, is only due to him having… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend: Penny Dreadful Monsters, Oh My! (New Comics w/c 9/5/16)

  By John Freeman on May 12, 2016

  

  Alongside promoting this week’s 2000AD – and do check out Prog 1980, because there’s some great revelations, and it’s worth the cover price alone for the stunning art from Neil Googe on “Survival Geeks”, written by Gordon Rennie and Emma… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview and Review: How to Survive in the North by Luke Healy

  By Antony Esmond on May 12, 2016

  

  Created by Luke Healy Published by NoBrow Press Full Colour Hardback. 197 pages. £15.99/$22.95 “Weaving together the true life historical expeditions of Ada Blackjack and Robert Bartlett with a contemporary fictional story. How to Survive in the North is a… Read More ›

• Lancaster Comics Day Challenges Comic Creators to Create Local Heroes

  By downthetubes Guests on May 12, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Are there aliens in your dustbin? Is a gorilla living in your ginnel? As part of Lancaster Comics Day on Sunday 5th June 2016 at Lancaster Library, organisers are again looking for comic strips that tell stories of life as it might… Read More ›

• Shweta Taneja and Jason Quinn Talk Indian Comics at London’s Cartoon Museum

  By John Freeman on May 12, 2016

  

    Shweta Taneja will be talking to Jason Quinn on the new wave in Indian comics and graphic novels, the industry, the readership surrounding it and her experience at the heart of it all, at London’s Cartoon Museum on Friday 27th May 2016. Shweta Taneja is… Read More ›

• Woodrow Phoenix at London Cartoon Museum Tonight

  By John Freeman on May 12, 2016

  

  Woodrow Phoenix will be dropping in at London’s Cartoon Museum tonight (Thursday 12th May 2016) to talk about his giant graphic novel, She Lives, Dr Monica Walker will be giving spotlight talks on highlights from the Museum’s collection and co-curator Dr Paul Williams will be discussing… Read More ›

• Britain’s New Statesman magazine looking for a new cartoonist

  By John Freeman on May 12, 2016

  

  Britain’s New Statesman – a political and cultural magazine founded in 1913 – has issued an an open call for submissions for the NS back page cartoon. Here’s the full details from their site: The back page of the New Statesman has a… Read More ›

• Pictures from an Exhibition: The 2002 Bristol Dan Dare show

  By John Freeman on May 11, 2016

  

  Back in 2002, Bristol’s Museum and Art Gallery played host to a Dan Dare exhibition, the same year that saw the launch of the short-lived animated series.  One visitor, John Leslie Sinclair, has kindly shared some of his pictures of… Read More ›

• 1950s Dan Dare Treen Mask Up For Auction – And It Could Be Rarer Than Auctioneers Think

  By Jeremy Briggs on May 11, 2016

  

  On Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th May 2016, auctioneers and valuers Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood will be auctioning a full head alien mask at their auction house in Exeter. Listed as item 1200 in the the auction catalogue (PDF link, correcting for incorrect… Read More ›

• Andrew Cartmel’s Vinyl Detective Released

  By John Freeman on May 11, 2016

  

  Just released by Titan Books is former Doctor Who script editor and Rivers of London comic co-writer Andrew Cartmel’s new novel The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Wax. Titan have clearly got a lot of faith in this new title… Read More ›

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