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• Irish Men in Malta: Big Bastard by Danny McColgan and Neil O’Driscoll

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2015

  

  One great thing about conventions is that its an opportunity to meet the people behind the comics you’ve read and enjoyed – but for me, it’s also about finding new comics to enjoy. At this year’s Malta Comic Con, this… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend: US Comics (and more) on Sale 16th December 2015

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2015

  

  I’m still playing catch up and racing to meet some pre-Christmas deadlines, so no detailed list of new comics again this week. Sorry! Luckily for you, Mark Braithwaite at Lancaster’s First Age Comics has still posted his list of new titles, so his list… Read More ›

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

  By Roger Perry on December 18, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  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 (Part One here), is only due to… Read More ›

• What, No New Ghostbusters Comic? (Yet, anyway…)

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2015

  

  There’s a new Ghostbusters arriving in cinemas in July 2016 and the licensing campaign is picking up “extraordinary momentum”, according to the company handling branding deals, with no less than 23 partners on board – but, as yet, it doesn’t look like… Read More ›

• Have Yourself Some Convict Commandos For Christmas!

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2015

  

  Here’s the lowdown on the latest issues of Commando, Issues 4871-4874 on sale now – the penultimate release for 2015, with four more issues out on 31st December. It’s been a year of change for the title, with editor Calum Laird… Read More ›

• Titan Comics releases Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS in the UK

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Clearly not content with just having its anthology Doctor Who Comic on sale in UK newsagents, Titan Comics has just released a 76-page Who special, Tales From the TARDIS, a US format title that leads with the company’s Doctor Who: The… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: The Art of Ron Smith, Part One

  By Colin Noble on December 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  As a comic fan of long standing, one of my real pleasures is identifying and applauding some of the artists that I feel never got the appreciation that they so richly deserved. But I have found that even with the… Read More ›

• Artist Ian Kennedy Talks About His Return To 2000AD

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 16, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  To put it quite simply, Ian Kennedy is the most experienced British comic strip artist working today. Beginning his career as a staff artist at DC Thomson in Dundee in 1949, he went self-employed in 1954 for the simple expediency… Read More ›

• Amazing Comics Podcast Episode 25: Tally Burtram and Bajo Mano

  By John Freeman on December 16, 2015

  

  This week Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond are joined by the creator of the procedural cop drama comic Bajo Mano Tally Burtram to talk about the series and how it came to be. She also tells the ACP crew about… Read More ›

• Marc Jackson’s “Ka-Punch!” Comes to Comic Heroes

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2015

  

  Anarchic comic creator Marc Jackson‘s new comic strip ‘KA-PUNCH!’ is to launch in the January issue of Comic Heroes magazine. The first appearance runs to two full pages and the following issues will feature single pages strips. “The story will… Read More ›

• Last Chance For Some Daemonic Comic Horror Before Christmas!

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2015

  

  Know a British comics fan? Still looking for that elusive present to sate the needs of such a strange beast? Well, good news. There’s still  time to buy the excellent collected The House of Daemon in time for Christmas, published… Read More ›

• Smash Pages Q&A: Peter Milligan on ‘The New Romancer’

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2015

  

    Last week saw the release of the first issue for Peter Milligan’s latest Vertigo project, The New Romancer. Fired from a cushy job in Silicon Valley, Lexy becomes a coder for New Romancer, an Internet-dating app that’s seen better… Read More ›

• “Bovril Brigade” Revived for brand’s 130th Anniversary: Pat Mills Pens Celebratory Comics

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2015

  

  2000AD creator and writer of the 1980s Eagle Dan Dare stories, Pat Mills to re-launch the Bovril Brigade in a limited edition print comic celebrating Britain’s greatest tales of adventure and human endurance – which you can also read online. The… Read More ›

• Paragon Annual Boldly Goes with Spoofs and Paradox!

  By John Freeman on December 14, 2015

  

  Like the sales starting in December, wearing a Christmas jumper ironically or putting glitter in your hipster beard, the Paragon annual edited by Davey Candlish has become a recent tradition. Paragon is an old-school boys-own action/adventure comic reminiscent of 2000AD, Eagle, Warlord, Battle and other… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Comic Artist and Editor Luis Bermejo Rojo

  By John Freeman on December 14, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  A tribute to the Spanish master, whose credits included “Johnny Future” and “Lord of the Rings”

• New Eagle Times magazine offers “PC 49” artist John Worsley focus and more

  By John Freeman on December 14, 2015

  

  The latest Eagle Times is out now, the twenty eighth Christmas issue of the magazine published by the Eagle Society, an organisation dedicated to the bestselling boys adventure comic of the 1950s and 60s best known for its “Dan Dare” strip. The… Read More ›

• In Review – Porcelain: Bone China

  By Antony Esmond on December 13, 2015

  

  Written by Benjamin Read Art by Christian Wildgoose Colours by Andre Many Lettered by Jim Campbell Published by Improper Books Full Colour. Softback. £14.99 or $22.99 “Set within a world that’s a magical echo of our own, Bone China is… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: Panel to Panel Podcast Interviews Cavan Scott

  By John Freeman on December 13, 2015

  

    Episode 43 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is out, and in the section “The Pandorica Opens”, Jeremy Bement reviews the Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor Year Two #2, covers recent news and chats with writer Cavan Scott about… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend: US Comics (and more) on Sale 9th December 2015

  By John Freeman on December 12, 2015

  

  A week away followed by re-stocking of fridges/ freezers etc after power cuts and work catch up means I’m unable to bring you my normal more detailed breakdown of comics on sale in comic shops this week, but despite Lancaster’s… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat Review of the Year 2015

  By John Freeman on December 12, 2015

  

  The Really Heavy Greatcoat by myself and Lancaster-based artist Nick Miller was published fairly regularly for about 20 years in alternative Lancaster print titles such as On The Beat and Off the Beat and online on virtual-lancaster.net. The strip’s last regular appearance in print was in the… Read More ›

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