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• In Review: Spaceship Away Issue 39 – highlights Ian Kennedy, offers new Dan Dare adventures

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2016

  

  The latest issue of Spaceship Away, the magazine devoted to Dan Dare, Eagle and its many creators is out now, offering a great line up of strips and features behind a cover by the late Frank Bellamy. Tim Booth continues… Read More ›

• Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Uncensored sells out in just 24 hours

  By John Freeman on 14 July 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  The uncensored edition of the legendary Judge Dredd epic, The Cursed Earth, has sold out in the UK – less than a day after going on sale. Unprecedented demand for The Cursed Earth Uncensored has resulted in distributors being cleared… Read More ›

• Film director Ben Wheatley’s success down to 2000AD, he says

  By John Freeman on 14 July 2016

  

  He’s one of the most prominent independent directors of his generation, with a string of critically-acclaimed movies under his belt, but Ben Wheatley still pegs his success to reading 2000AD as a child. The director of Sightseers, Kill List, A… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Titan Comics New “Hard Case Crime” Imprint

  By John Freeman on 14 July 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Titan Comics is bringing titles from the hardboiled crime novel publisher Hard Case Crime to comics in the form of a new imprint edited by Tom Williams, which will include a slate of noir series from all-star creators. Award-inning imprint Hard… Read More ›

• In Review: Comics Unstripped – An Exhibition of Original Comic Art

  By Colin Noble on 13 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  If you happen to find yourself in Kettering over the next two months, I can thoroughly recommend spending a little time to find the Alfred East Art Gallery (part of Kettering Museum), which is hosting the free Comics Unstripped exhibition until… Read More ›

• Kettering hosts new comic exhibition featuring work by Frank Bellamy, Bill Sienkiewicz and Barry Windsor Smith

  By John Freeman on 13 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Kettering, Northamptonshire is currently the location of a free ‘Comics Unstripped!’ exhibition, examining the history of comics and graphic novels and featuring works by artist Frank Bellamy, who lived in the town and includes some examples from his work for the… Read More ›

• Gosh store offers Dark Judges Brian Bolland Print as Cursed Earth Uncensored debuts

  By John Freeman on 12 July 2016

  

  London’s Gosh comic store is offering 2000AD fans an exclusive print of Brian Bolland’s cover for the classic  Prog 225.  The print will be released at the shop’s Cursed Earth Uncensored signing with Brian Bolland and Mick McMahon on Saturday… Read More ›

• Leeds Library partners with Thought Bubble for Young People’s Comic Award, Submissions Invited

  By John Freeman on 11 July 2016

  

  Leeds Library and Information Service and Thought Bubble (returning 1st – 6th November 2016) is inviting submissions for the Young People’s Comic Award, the only category of the British Comic Awards that will be presented this year as the others are on… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 54: Shane Chebsey and Shrewsbury Comic Arts Festival

  By John Freeman on 11 July 2016

  

  Comic conventions are an integral part of being a small press creator, and this week marks the first time the Awesome Comics Podcast team talk to one of the hard working folk behind the events. Shane Chebsey, the man behind the… Read More ›

• SelfMadeHero’s Autumn 2016 Revealed: Motherless Oven follow up by Rob Davis out in November

  By John Freeman on 11 July 2016

  

  A graphic history of Tetris, Rob Davis‘ eagerly-awaited follow up to his utterly brilliant The Motherless Oven and a superb-looking biography of Salvador Dalí by Edmond Baudoin are just some of the treats in store from SelfMadeHero this autumn. September… Read More ›

• In Review: I Drank Holy Water: A Visual Diary by Zen Bucko

  By John Freeman on 11 July 2016

  

  By Zen Bucko Experimental comics can be a gamble, one that in my opinion more often than not does not pay off. Combine that with the often also overplayed hand of the autobiographical comic and you are betting something of… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival Tickets On Sale Now

  By John Freeman on 11 July 2016

  

  Tickets for the main events at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival are on sale now – and a special “Clash of the Toon Titans“, pitting Tintin against Asterix, will launch this year’s weekend-long celebrations in October. Guests at this year’s Festival (14th – 16th October… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Interventions

  By Jeremy Briggs on 11 July 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Kenya, Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) and Rodolphe’s (Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette) ongoing series of spies, extinct beasts and strange flying lights that is set in the post war British colony reaches its fourth book, Interventions, translated from the French and published by… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Summer 2016 Issue Out Now

  By John Freeman on 9 July 2016

  

  The latest issue of the Eagle Society’s Eagle Times is available now, featuring:  The Adventures of Tintin: King Ottokar’s Sceptre – a comparison of three editions of Herge’s picture strip story: the 1947 book by Casterman of Paris, its first publication… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Comic Creator Alan Joseph Mitchell

  By John Freeman on 8 July 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  The sudden passing of the inspiring comics creator Alan Mitchell, perhaps best known for co-writing “Third World War” with Pat Mills for Crisis, aged just 55, came as a tremendous shock to both family and friends. Although we met only a couple of… Read More ›

• Safari Festival Returns in August

  By John Freeman on 8 July 2016

  

  Safari Festival returns to London next month (27th August). The brainchild of Breakdown Press, the event is a celebration of the new wave of alternative and art comics from the UK and beyond. The festival is an opportunity for a curated… Read More ›

• Celebrating the British Small Press: 60 Great Small Comic Press (Part One)

  By downthetubes Guests on 8 July 2016

  

  When Marvel UK shrunk its original strip output in the mid-1990s, not being a 2000AD reader, comics creator Andy Luke had nowhere to go. He came to find that the small press, often photocopied works, were a core part of… Read More ›

• Comic Creators Metaphrog win Scottish Culture Award

  By John Freeman on 8 July 2016

  

  Congratulations this morning to Metaphrog – the Franco-Scottish duo of John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs – who tell us they are “Completely stunned” after winning The Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2016 for Best Visual Artist. Metaphrog – who had… Read More ›

• Authors Rally for Tommy Donbavand with Obverse Books project

  By John Freeman on 8 July 2016

  

  As we’ve previously reported on downthetubes, Scream Street creator, Beano writer, Doctor Who author and all round lovely guy, Tommy Donbavand, has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently recovering from a series of painful and unpleasant treatments as he… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend: New Comics On Sale (w/c 4th July 2016): Cybermen and Small Press Day!

  By John Freeman on 7 July 2016

  

  Alongside the latest issue of 2000AD – and if you’re a fan of Gerry Anderson’s UFO, you’ll love the opening episode of the new “Scarlet Traces” story – be sure to be ready to pick up the superb collection of… Read More ›

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