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• Strangehaven returns in new Meanwhile… anthology from Soaring Penguin Press

  By John Freeman on October 16, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    This weekend sees the launch of Meanwhile…, a superb-looking new bi-monthly British comics anthology from Soaring Penguin Press. On sale at this weekend’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival, the new magazine features the long-awaited, eagerly-anticipated return of Gary Spencer… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Artist Lew Stringer

  By John Freeman on October 16, 2014

  

    The Lakes International Comic Art Festival starts tomorrow and I’m delighted that, despite a punishing work schedule, Beano and Doctor Who cartoonist and writer Lew Stringer found time to answer my questions about his work and creating comics. Lew (who I’ve… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Pat Mills’ Great War comics

  By John Freeman on October 16, 2014

  

    Continuing a month of shows about war comics, on today’s Panel Borders radio show Alex Fitch talks to Pat Mills, one of the acclaimed masters of the genre. Alex and Pat discuss the completion of Titan Books’ reprints of… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Metaphrog

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    It’s almost here! The Lakes International Comic Art Festival starts on Friday, and we have just three more interviews with guests to run. Metaphrog are writer and illustrator duo John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs. Their Louis graphic novels have… Read More ›

• In Review – Horror Show Issue 1

  By Antony Esmond on October 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  All stories written by George Lennox “A Late Night in Royston” – Art by Chris Connolly. Letters by Colin Bell “Lost Souls” – Art and lettering by Jason Mathis “Partyman” – Art by Norrie Millar, Colours by James Devlin and… Read More ›

• Arena: The Crunch is NOW!

  By Colin Noble on October 15, 2014

  

      When I heard that Bear Alley Books had obtained a license to reprint a vintage DC Thomson adventure story, I was beside myself with excitement. When I found out that it was from The Crunch, my inner child… Read More ›

• In Review – Nenetl of the Forgotten Spirits Issues One and Two

  By Antony Esmond on October 14, 2014

  

    Written by Vera Greentea Art by Laura Muller Published by Greentea Publishing The Story: Nenetl of the Forgotten Spirits is a spirited horror story about a ghost searching for her family during the festival of the Day of the… Read More ›

• London Super Comic Convention announces first guests for 2015 event

  By John Freeman on October 14, 2014

  

    British comic creators Charlie Adlard and Ian Churchill are among the first guests to be announced for the 2015 London Super Comic Convention, taking place 14th-15th March at the Excel Centre. Joining them will be Turkish comic book artist… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Comic Releases (15th October 2014) – Twelfth Doctor #1 Released

  By John Freeman on October 14, 2014

  

    Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops from today, Wednesday 15th October 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold… Read More ›

• In Review: White Death

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 14, 2014

  

  White Death, written by Robbie Morrison and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, covers the little known Italian/Austro-Hungarian mountain conflict during the First World War during which avalanches were used by both sides as a weapon of war. In October 1916 Italian… Read More ›

• British Comic Award judges announced

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2014

  

    The judges for this year’s third British Comic Awards have just been announced and include comics writer and TV chat show host Jonathan Ross, film director Jonathan Entwistle and  Suzy Varty, a comics creator and tutor known for her work in the… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Beano artist Kev F Sutherland

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2014

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is almost upon us – in fact, it’s next weekend (17th – 19th October 2014). In the run up to the event, which has already taken over the Cumbrian town of Kendal with comics exhibitions, warm… Read More ›

• In Review: Plagued – The Miranda Chronicles 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 13, 2014

  

  Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles Chapter One is the beginning of a new science-fiction comic book series from Scottish creators writer Gary Chudleigh and artist Tanya Roberts. Scotland in the future is a plague-stricken wasteland where witches are real albeit not… Read More ›

• In Review: Butterfly Gate

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 12, 2014

  

  How do you review an ‘unreviewable’ book? Be quick about it? Buy Butterfly Gate – you won’t regret it because it is remarkably good. Of course that is not the way we do reviews on downthetubes. We normally try to… Read More ›

• Captain America writer Jonathan Maberry to make UK comics festival debut in Birmingham in 2015

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2014

  

  The recently-announced 2015 Birmingham Comic Festival, whose line-up already includes the UK debut of top artist Lucio Parrillo, has just announced another exclusive: the first UK comic event appearance of New York Times bestselling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2014: Manga and Games artist and designer Kate Holden

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2014

  

    In the run up to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (17th – 19th October), we’re aiming to run a number of interviews spotlighting at least a few of the huge number of guests and comic creators who will be at the… Read More ›

• In Review: Red Baron – Rain Of Blood

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 11, 2014

  

  Writer Carlos Puerta and artist Pierre Veys continue their slight twist on the life of World War One fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen in the second part of their Red Baron series, Rain Of Blood. Von Richthofen’s heightened ability to know… Read More ›

• IDW Publishing To Bring Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently to Comics

  By John Freeman on October 10, 2014

  

      IDW Publishing has announced that Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently will be appearing in his first-ever comic-book series in 2015, helping to prove the interconnectedness of all things, the precept by which this… Read More ›

• Garth Ennis to pen new Johnny Red story for Titan Comics, Rivers of London artist revealed

  By John Freeman on October 10, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  Titan Comics has announced its 2015 slate at the New York Comic Con Diamond Retailer Presentation, including the eagerly-anticipated, official, canon continuation of the Rivers of London saga written by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, joined by Doctor Who and… Read More ›

• Comic Creators Get Cross, launch appeal to fund new British satire comic

  By John Freeman on October 10, 2014

  

    An impressive group of British comic creators have joined forces to launch a Kickstarter campaign for CROSS, a 64-page anthology of satire, born from a group of people who wish Spitting Image was still around to keep us all… Read More ›

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