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

  By Roger Perry on 4 February 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 utilised the ideas… Read More ›

• Cosplay Is NOT Consent – By Colin Noble

  By Colin Noble on 4 February 2016

  

  With the conventions of 2016 fast approaching, I’m looking forward to meeting a lot of artists, writers, editors, inkers and publishers. But another part of the convention experience has become meeting some of the cosplayers out there, who deserves kudos… Read More ›

• In Review: Vanguard Book One

  By John Freeman on 3 February 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Vanguard is created, written and illustrated by Dan Butcher Book one cover pencils/inks by Chris Imber, Colours by Dan Butcher Follow the strip online on VanguardComic.com The Book:  Vanguard: In the near future, a small team of genetically engineered metahumans… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Heroes Godsend #1 from Titan Comics

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2016

  

  Here’s a fab first sneaky peak inside the covers of Heroes: Godsend #1, written by Heroes Reborn scriptwriter Joey Falco and with art from Roy Allan Martinez (Immortal Iron Fist), the first issue in a five-art arc on sale next… Read More ›

• New British Graphic Novels Out This Week: Tales from Berk

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2016

  

  Titan Comics is enjoying quiet success with its Dragons: Riders of Berk series, most the work of top comics writer Simon Furman, who you’ll know from his incredible work on Transformers down the years, as well as being the co-creator… Read More ›

• British Comics Out This Week: Johnny Red #4

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The latest issue of Titan Comics Johnny Red mini series is out tomorrow in all good comic shops. Here’s a look at some of the pages, which come wrapped this issue on a stunning lead cover from Kev Walker… Johnny… Read More ›

• Leap into February with the new Doctor Who Adventures

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2016

  

  February is here – but there’s a perfect way to beat those end of winter blues (especially as February is one day longer with it being a Leap Year)… the latest issue of the greatest comic book the galaxy has… Read More ›

• UK’s Spring Fair to showcase new Deadpool costumes — and a Batman ukulele!

  By John Freeman on 2 February 2016

  

  Marvel wall lights, Deadpool costumes, a new Captain America-inspired lifestyle collection and Beano-inspired games are just some of the comic-inspired items that will be on display at the upcoming Spring Fair at the NEC Birmingham this coming weekend. Blackburn-based JWP… Read More ›

• Wagner And Grant’s “Rok Of The Reds” Kicks Off In March

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2016

  

  First announced in February last year, BHP Comics will launch the Alan Grant and John Wagner-penned mini series Rok of the Reds in March, featuring stunning art by Dan Cornwell, coloured by Abigail Bulmer and lettered by Jim Campbell. Rok of… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Rivers of London – Night Witch #1 (And Body Work Exclusive Edition News!)

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2016

  

  We’re delighted to share with you the first fully coloured look at the forthcoming Rivers of London: Night Witch #1 written by Ben Aaronovitch (Remembrance of the Daleks, Rivers of London novels) and Andrew Cartmel (Written in Dead Wax) with art by Lee Sullivan (Doctor Who, Judge Dredd) and Luis Guerrero (Doctor Who, The Troop)… Read More ›

• Kevin Gunstone’s “Future Primitive” Gets New Print Edition from Markosia

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2016

  

  Markosia Enterprises has announced the February print publication of the award-nominated digital series Future Primitive, with a special limited edition hardback set to debut at this year’s London Super Comic Con. We plugged Future Primitive on its initial “digital first” release back in 2014,… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 31: John Cullen

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2016

  

  Daily strip genius behind NHOJ, John Cullen, joins Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond on the latest Awesome Comics Podcast to talk about the exhilarating and terrifying adventure of creating daily comics, his plans for future collections and his now infamous… Read More ›

• Alec Worley and Pye Parr’s “Realm of The Damned” heads to Judge Dredd Megazine

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2016

  

  A stunning-looking Black Metal-infused gothic horror series “Realm of the Damned“, written by Alec Worley and drawn by Simon “Pye” Parr, will debut in Judge Dredd Meagzine Issue 369, on sale from 17th February. The Megazine has established an impressive… Read More ›

• Dan Dare Audio Adventures Writers Announced, Episode Details Revealed

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Inspired by the original Eagle comic strips the writers for B7 Media’s dramatic new audio version of Dan Dare have been announced – but there’s no casting news just yet. “Space is back! After years languishing in the backwaters, suddenly the romance… Read More ›

• Tonight on Gotham on Channel 5: Strike Force

  By John Freeman on 1 February 2016

  

  In “Strike Force”, tonight’s episode of Gotham airing on Channel 5 in the UK, a Captain Nathaniel Barnes (Michael Chiklis) takes over the GCPD, and seems just as determined to clean up the city as Jim Gordon. But as the new guy begins to ask questions,… Read More ›

• New Comics On Sale This Week (Wednesday 27th January) – Doctor Who and Mean Girls, Too!

  By John Freeman on 29 January 2016

  

  Welcome to this week’s British creator and publisher-skewed new comics list… and it’s another week of smashing Doctor Who releases and 2000AD continuing to fire on all cylinders, with the latest “Judge Dredd” from Michael Carroll really upping the intrigue. (By… Read More ›

• Did MAD Magazine’s cover boy Alfred E. Neuman hail from… Iowa?

  By John Freeman on 29 January 2016

  

  Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humour magazine MAD, a face that had drifted through US pictography for decades before being claimed by the title’s editor Harvey Kurtzman, and later named by the… Read More ›

• Win the Fourth Doctor’s iconic scarf in the latest Doctor Who Comic

  By John Freeman on 29 January 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The time-travelling thrills continue in on the streets of London in the latest issue of Doctor Who Comic (Issue 2.5), on sale in all good newsagents across the UK. In this month’s bumper issue from Titan Comics, reprinting some of… Read More ›

• Dinosaur Action set to celebrate 100th issue with Top Dino Facts, Dino Blaster and More

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2016

  

  British publisher Signature Publishing’s Dinosaur Action magazine celebrates its milestone 100th issue next month. Launched in 2007 as Dino-Mite, the title became Dinosaur Action in 2013. It was Signature Publishing’s first children’s magazine and has since gone on to sell over 1.2… Read More ›

• Monster Mayhem Galore in “The Night of the Fire-Beast’ from Insane Comics

  By John Freeman on 28 January 2016

  

  Recently launched by US publisher Insane Comics is Night of the Fire-Beast, a meta fictional comic book based upon a lost 1958 B-movie, conceived and drawn by Chris Martinez, written by Jonathan Clode (co-editor of the terrific, Eisner Award-nominated World War One anthology… Read More ›

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