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• Robots on the march — Vectis tinplate toys auction announced, includes Flash Gordon rarity

  By John Freeman on February 15, 2016

  

  Next month, on Tuesday 15th March, Vectis Auctions will present an ‘Out of this World’ collection of robots, space vehicles, flying saucers and rockets — almost 1000 pieces of tinplate, metal and plastic pieces from European, Japanese, Asian and American manufacturers, including a… Read More ›

• Striker dropped from The Sun’s print edition, goes online only

  By John Freeman on February 15, 2016 • ( 109 )

  

  The Sun has unexpectedly dropped the print version of its popular football comic, Striker, moving the strip online – much to the disappointment of its many fans – and the surprise of its creator, Pete Nash. “I was told on… Read More ›

• Tonight on Gotham on Channel 5: By Fire

  By John Freeman on February 15, 2016

  

  In “By Fire”, tonight’s episode of Gotham airing on Channel 5 in the UK, while Penguin and Galavan battle for control of the Gotham underworld, another new villain is the focus of the police. Here’s some teaser pics… Gotham stars  Ben McKenzie as James Gordon, David… Read More ›

• Three Weeks To The Inaugural Dunfermline Comic Con

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 13, 2016

  

  The comic convention calendar has become very busy over the last few years with new events springing up all over the place and one of the newest is the Dunfermline Comic Con which is being held on Saturday 5 March… Read More ›

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

  By Roger Perry on February 13, 2016

  

  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 utilised the ideas… Read More ›

• Comics @ Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival 2016

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 13, 2016

  

  This year’s Glasgow Book Festival, Aye Write, will be taking place in the City’s Mitchell Library from 10 to 20 March. Claiming to be the third largest literary festival in the UK, presumably after the Edinburgh International Book Festival and… Read More ›

• San Diego Comic Con 2016: Open Online Badge Registration announced for Saturday 20th February

  By downthetubes Guests on February 13, 2016

  

  Report by Leonard Sultana of An Englishman in San Diego So it is, and so it shall be – Comic-Con International have announced that San Diego Comic-Con badges will go on sale to the general public next Saturday, 20th February at… Read More ›

• Laura Howell on the comic guest line up for MCM Midlands Comic Con

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2016

  

  MCM Midlands Comic Con is back in Telford tomorrow, Saturday 13th February, with, as you’d expect, some comic creators on board for the day, including Beano contributor Laura Howell. Laura is a Birmingham-based comic artist, writer and occasional educator who turned pro in 2006 after eight years working… Read More ›

• SEQUENTIAL offers new, expanded digital edition of Posy Simmonds’ “True Love” in time for Valentine’s Day

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2016

  

  There’s a special Valentine’s Day treat for fans of Posy Simmonds this weekend with the news that the previously-announced digital edition of her story True Love is being released on SEQUENTIAL, the iPad app for digital graphic novels. Announced last year, this is… Read More ›

• Betty Boop returns to the small screen, new fine art prints by Naja Conrad-Hansen released

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2016

  

    Betty Boop – whose early comic adventures were re-published last year by Titan Comics – is coming back to the small screen, some 30 years after her last show. A new 26-episode series aimed at “tweens and teens” recounting the adventures… Read More ›

• Joe Kelly Announced as first US guest for Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2016

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Just as Marvel’s latest blockbuster superhero movie Deadpool hits UK cinemas, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announce its first major US guest for the 2016 is Joe Kelly, who will be making an exclusive UK appearance at the Festival weekend… Read More ›

• New Tales from the TARDIS rounds off “Pyramids of Mars” sequel story

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2016

  

  The latest issue of Titan Comics second UK Doctor Who title, Tales from the TARDIS, is on sale now, and sees the finale to “The Spiral Staircase” a comic sequel to the classic TV story Pyramids of Mars. Re-presenting Doctor… Read More ›

• New Comics On Sale This Week in the UK – On the King’s Road, with Judge Dredd and Doctor Who in tow

  By John Freeman on February 11, 2016

  

  Right. I’ve just been down to Lancaster’s First Age Comics to have a look at the new comics, only to be told that while Titan’s Johnny Red is selling well there, more people would have bought  if “they had only… Read More ›

• British Comic Sales Figures: Winners and Losers (July – December 2015)

  By John Freeman on February 11, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Updated 16th February to add comment from Generation Media The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) sales figures for titles registered with the organisation have just been published this week and while many comics or young children’s magazines have taken a hit for the reporting… Read More ›

• Pat Mills to talk Charley’s War at Birmingham Creative Networks event, strip to get “reloaded” treatment

  By John Freeman on February 11, 2016

  

  Pat Mills is to give a talk for Birmingham’s Creative Networks next week (Thursday 25th February). Pat is a UK comic legend – described by some as the ‘Godfather of British comics’, he was an integral part of the UK comics… Read More ›

• Knockabout announces Alan Moore’s novel “Jerusalem” for September 2016

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2016

  

  Knockabout has announced Alan Moore’s second novel, Jerusalem, will now be published in September 2016. Described as a fantastical exploration of his hometown of Northampton which runs to more than a million words in draft form, publisher Tony Bennett described… Read More ›

• Saga’s Lying Cat talking toy launched

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2016

  

  Fans of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan best selling Saga comic book attending the US Emerald City Comicon will probably fighting for this talking plush variant of the title’s “Lying Cat”. The release should go some way to assuaging… Read More ›

• Unpopular Tales to launch adult Red Riding Hood title at London Super Comic Con

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2016

  

  The first new adult fairy tale from Spanish publisher Unpopular Tales will be launched at London Super Comic Con. The publisher successfully raised over $2500 in a crowdfunding campaign last year to produce and release a new series of comics for… Read More ›

• New Commando tale offers “Operation Torch”-inspired World War Two story

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Here’s the lowdown on the latest issues of Commando (Issues 4887-4890), on sale this coming Thursday. These new issues are announced just as publisher DC Thomson also advertises for a new editor for the title, who “will play a pivotal role… Read More ›

• DC Thomson launches Twirlywoos magazine

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2016

  

  DC Thomson, publishers of The Beano and Thunderbirds Are Go, has just launched Twirlywoos magazine, the magazine behind the hit CBeebies show that follows Great BigHoo, Toodloo, Chickedy and Chick seeking adventure wherever they go. Twirlywoos magazine is a 28-page… Read More ›

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