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• Commando haunts the newsagents once more…

  By John Freeman on November 25, 2011

  Here’s details of the latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic, Commando, on sale in all good newsagents now. It’s another cracking relase of both old and new tales – some featuring men haunted by ghosts, some soldiers haunted by… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: The Danger of Romance

  By John Freeman on November 24, 2011

  Concluding a months of shows about genre in comics, Panel Borders Alex Fitch talks to writer and manga translator Sean Michael Wilson and lecturer and author Ian Rakoff about romance comics this Sunday. Sean is the editor of AX Volume… Read More ›

• In Review: Thought Bubble 2011

  By John Freeman on November 24, 2011

  

  Comics writer Cy Dethan was one of many creators at this year’s Thought Bubble event in Leeds earlier this month and has kindly agreed to let us post his thoughts on the vent on downthetubes, first published on his own… Read More ›

• Beano, Dandy go digital via Apple’s ‘Newsstand’

  By John Freeman on November 24, 2011

  DC Thomson have announced The Dandy and The Beano have just gone digital through Apple’s recently-launched Newsstand service, with The Beano currently in the Top Ten in the service’s charts First published in 1937 and 1938 respectively, the two national… Read More ›

• Raising Amy Signing Event In Edinburgh

  By John Freeman on November 24, 2011

  “She’s armed, she’s dangerous, and she’s a proper Scottish ginger nutcase! Just be thankful she’s not yours!” is how Markosia describe Stref’s child character Amy who is about to appear in her first book Raising Amy: Born To Be Wild!… Read More ›

• Comic Creators And Cake In Edinburgh

  By John Freeman on November 23, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Graphic Scotland is launching the first of a series of events in Edinburgh to bring together comics writers and artists. Comic Creators And Cake will take place in the Pulp Fiction bookshop on the evening of Wednesday 30 November 2011,… Read More ›

• Planet Replicas extends 2000AD merchandise line with new keyrings

  By John Freeman on November 22, 2011

  Can’t find your Lawmaster keys? Keys to your hab have gone missing? Well, these problems are no more! Feel the envy of all of Mega City One with the first of a range of new, high-quality 2000AD keyrings from Planet… Read More ›

• In Review: Memorabilia NEC 2011

  By John Freeman on November 22, 2011

  Comics and sci-fi merchandise aplenty were on sale at the Memorabilia event at the NEC Birmingham over the weekend of 19th and 20th November. An impressive range of guests from sci-fi and other classic programmes and films included Arthur Darvill… Read More ›

• Brands With Influence to rep Egmont comics and characters

  By John Freeman on November 21, 2011

  Brands With Influence, a merchandising and Intellectual Management company, has been appointed to represent Egmont UK’s archive of classic comic and magazine titles that includes Roy of The Rovers, Battle, Misty and Whizzer and Chips. The collection spans the 40… Read More ›

• In Review: Iznogoud Rockets To Stardom

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 21, 2011

  

  Jeremy Briggs checks out the latest English language Iznogoud collection from Cinebook

• In Review: Rose Black – Demon Seed

  By John Freeman on November 19, 2011

  Rose Black: Demon Seed is Rough Cut Comics’ newly released follow-up to their 2004 graphic novel Rose Black which told the story of a vampiric angel sent to earth some 600 years ago to battle evil on its own terms… Read More ›

• Exclusive: Halo Jones stage play at the Lass O’Gowrie

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2011

  

  Manchester’s Lass O’Gowrie pub – already famed for its comics and Doctor Who-related events – is staging Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s The Ballad of Halo Jones as a fringe play in January next year. “It’s an adaptation of the… Read More ›

• Vworp! Vworp Issue 2 on sale now. Just buy it

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2011

  The second issue of the amazing Doctor Who fan magazine Vworp Vworp – a fanzine about the long-running and best-seling Doctor Who Magazine – is on sale now. Quite simply, if you are a fan of Doctor Who and Doctor… Read More ›

• The Phoenix Issue Zero Via Waitrose

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2011

  The first issue of the new Phoenix comic is due to come out on at the start of January 2012 however Waitrose supermarket customers are being given the change to get a sneak preview with a printed copy of the… Read More ›

• Crazy comic-related Christmas presents: the Spider-Man Guitar

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2011

  You know Christmas is on the way when we start getting PR for perhaps the stranger kinds of comics tie-in merchandise at downthetubes. Case in point? New guitars from Nevada Music featuring favourite Marvel Super Heroes including Wolverine, X-Men, Spiderman,… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Mick Anglo 1916 – 2011

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Earlier this week Comic Bits Online broke the news of the passing of Mick Anglo, the British comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher, most famous for his association with the creation of the comic character Marvelman. Anglo died, aged 95… Read More ›

• 2000AD’s Thought Bubble portfolio session: a quick reminder

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2011

  2000AD is heading north to Leeds for the annual Thought Bubble comic book convention, taking place at the Saviles Hall conference venue at Clarence Dock in Leeds. That’s right next to the Royal Armouries museum, on 19th and 20th November,… Read More ›

• In Review: Long John Silver – The Emerald Maze

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 15, 2011

  

  Cinebook have reached the third in writer Xavier Dorison and artist Mathieu Lauffray’s Long John Silver series, The Emerald Maze, set some 20 years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Lady Vivian Hastings’ husband has found the… Read More ›

• In Review: Commando 4443 – Killer In No-Man’s-Land

  By John Freeman on November 11, 2011

  The batch of Commandos that are in the shops now, as well as including the reprint of the original Issue 2 from 50 years ago, also has two brand new stories set during the First World War. On the eleventh… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  Continuing the Panel Borders comic radio show’s month of programming about genre in comics, Alex Fitch talks to creators of small press and mainstream cowboy comics. In the 300th radio show that Alex Fitch has made for Resonance FM, he… Read More ›

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