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• Commando blasts into 2014, featuring first ever free gifts for title

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2014

  

  DC Thomson has just published the first issues of their fortnightly Commando war comic for 2014 – the first ever to feature free gifts in its long history. “For the first time in its very long history, Commando will giving… Read More ›

• London Anime & Gaming Con “Biggest Yet”

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2014

  

  Pre-Pay Places are selling at record levels for the expanded London Anime & Gaming Con this 8-9th February, and the event's organisers are urging fans to make sure to get your tickets now before the price rises. If you register… Read More ›

• Gaze into the ‘City of Dredd’!

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2014

  

  Coming soon for 2000AD and Judge Dredd fans – the third edition of a 1000-plus page, unofficial Judge Dredd reference manual. On sale from 13th January 2014 as a PDF eBook, City of Dredd is a gazetteer of Mega-City One,… Read More ›

• Latest Infinity magazine spotlights Kendal Comic Art Festival, Greenberg and Moore

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2014

  

  Infinity #5, the free digital magazine of graphic novels and sequential art published by Panel Nine, is out now. This issue contains features on Alan Moore, reviews of Isabel Greenberg’s Encyclopedia of Early Earth, Paul Gravett’s Comics Art, Gareth Brookes’… Read More ›

• Nemo: The Roses of Berlin out in March

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2014

  

  When Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill followed up their League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy with 2013’s spinoff Nemo: Heart of Ice, critics hailed it as a return to form, “a throwback to the high adventure of the initial series,”… Read More ›

• Bojeffries Saga set to clank into bookshops this April

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2014

  

  Knockabout Comics, in partnerhsip with Top Shelf, are to publish the complete The Bojeffries Saga by Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse in April – a collection that will feature an all-new 24-page story. “Think The Munsters written by Alan Bennett… Read More ›

• downthetubes in 2013: Crunching Numbers

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2014

  Happy New Year to you all and the very best to creators popping by, as they start work on their many new projects for 2014. We’re already hearing about some great new titles and strips destined for publication by British… Read More ›

• In Review: Garth Ennis presents… Battle Classics

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2014

  

  Publisher: Titan Books Out: 9th January 2014 The Book: New York Times bestselling writer Garth Ennis, writer of The Boys, Preacher and Battlefields, selects his favourite stories from the seminal 1970s British boys comic Battle. Included here for the very… Read More ›

• Lost in Translation: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2014

  

  Ships are disappearing all over the world and it believed to be caused by a sea monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, author of the book The Mysteries of the Ocean Deep, his companion Conseil and Canadian harpooner Ned Land are hired… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Adventures offers chance to win a full-size Dalek

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2014

  

  Doctor Who Adventures magazine, the biggest-selling UK pre-teen title for young boys and girls who love Doctor Who, is running a competition for readers to win their very own life-size Dalek worth over £3,000, to keep in their home or… Read More ›

• Cats as Humans: “Playing Out” by Jim Medway

  By John Freeman on 3 January 2014

  

  Released last year, Playing Out by Jim Medway is a 48-page story about Connor, Kieran and Jamal mooching around Manchester City Centre – but these youths are cats portrayed as humans. downthetubes contributor Matt Badham has just re-plugged the title,… Read More ›

• Don’t miss the Comicraft New Year’s Day Font Sale!

  By John Freeman on 1 January 2014

  

  Comicraft fonts are created by Comic Book Letterers for Comic Book Lettering. Every New Year, the US company created by British lettering supremo and Elephantmen creator Richard Starkings give their faithful customers – and even casual browsers who stumbled into… Read More ›

• Veteran ilustrator, TV21 artist Jon Davis awarded MBE

  By John Freeman on 31 December 2013

  

  We’re delighted to report that science fiction illustrator Jon Davis – best known to British comics fans for his work on TV Century 21, Lady Penelope and Countdown comics in the 1960s and 70s – has been awarded an MBE… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat Review of the Year 2013

  By John Freeman on 31 December 2013

  

  The Really Heavy Greatcoat by myself and Lancaster-based artist Nick Miller was published fairly regularly for about 20 years, last featuring regularly in print in Comics International (yes – it was that long ago, now!). The strip was published for… Read More ›

• Bristol Comic Expo back in May at new venue

  By John Freeman on 30 December 2013

  

  With Bristol’s Temple Meads Station undergoing a massive £100m re-development over the next four years as the hub of the governments new high speed electric rail link, the 2014 Bristol Comic Expo (BCExpo) has had to seek a new home, since the… Read More ›

• aniManga goes Pop – in Plymouth

  By John Freeman on 30 December 2013

  

  The South West will kick start the 2014 convention season with a special one day celebration of anime, manga and pop culture in February. The Comic Expo team has just announced it is teaming up with Kawaii store Keep it… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: José Ortiz Moya

  By John Freeman on 27 December 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  We’re sorry to report the passing of veteran Spanish artist José Ortiz Moya (best known in the UK as José Ortiz), whose work British comic fans will recall from comics such as Scream, the 1980s Eagle and 2000AD. Reporting his… Read More ›

• Happy Christmas to all Charley’s War fans

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2013

  

• Panel Borders: Designing Comics

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2013

  

  Designing comics: In a coda to a trio of shows about the use of fine art in comics, Alex Fitch looks at graphic design in comics, in a panel discussion with Rian Hughes (2000AD), Karen Rubins (V and A artist… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas from 2000AD!

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2013

  

  Merry Christmas Eve! It’s Pro Day on the 2000AD Advent Calendar – a thread for one and all to post some fextive cheer and fun and the droids have really knocked it out of the park this year, with artworks… Read More ›

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