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		Fox Challenged on WatchmenAbove: the latest promotional video for Watchmen featuring more on the Minute Men’s role in the movies story and includes brief interviews with Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons who worked on the graphic novel with comic’s writer Alan Moore. By… Read More › 
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		Ex Astris on Clickwheel  The Ex Astris strips first featured on ROK Comics are now appearing on Rebellion’s iPod and iPhone service Clickwheel. Ex Astris is a multi-strand CGI-created strip written by John Freeman and drawn by Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll). The strip… Read More › 
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		Tube Surfing: 8 January 2009• Things to buy this month – Marvel Heroes #3 from Panini UK, which allegedly features an Iron Man story by Al Ewing and Kev Walker, and Judge Dredd Megazine #280, on sale now in UK newsagents, which has the… Read More › 
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		Frost, Pegg for TinTin?After what seems like months of no news on the project since it was first announced back in May last year, reports are appearing online suggesting Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have reportedly signed up to play the Thompson Twins… Read More › 
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		In Review: Aya of Yop City• Written by Marguerite Abouet • Art by Clement Oubrerie • UK Publisher: Jonathan Cape • Released: 15 January 2009 For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time – work is… Read More › 
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		Countdown To Hi-ExThe first British comics convention of the year, Hi-Ex, will be taking place at the Eden Court in Inverness over Valentine’s weekend, 14 and 15 February. Guests this year will include 2000AD artists Mick McMahon and Colin MacNeil, Dan Dare… Read More › 
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		Mike Battle: Stirred, Not Shaken!For years Sgt Mike Battle, the creation of artist-writer Graham Pearce, has been defending America (and sometimes her allies) from harm… but in his latest adventure he has to call in some help in the form of a certain British… Read More › 
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		More Manga in BarrowKate Holden from IndieManga has been in touch to let us know she’s running another Manga workshop in Barrow. “Bookings won’t be open for a week or two yet, but it’s still free of charge and will be at Barrow… Read More › 
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		Dick Turpin Heads for UK Comic ShopsUK indie publisher TimeBomb Comics has gotten off to a great start in 2009 with their Dick Turpin comic listed in this month’s UK Section of Diamond Previews, making it available to order from all UK and European comic shops…. Read More › 
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		Poopsheet Wants Your Comics!The Poopsheet Foundation, a US-based organisation whose primary focus is mini-comics and their history, from their underground/new wave “birth” in the 1970s to the current scene of today, is actively seeking comics collections both for use in their web site’s… Read More › 
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		Tube Surfing: 5 January 2009• Empire Online, illustrating the news with a tasty image of Judge Dredd by Dylan Teague, report Danny Boyle’s DNA films has snatched up the rights to return the famous Judge to our screens in a story that remains so… Read More › 
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		Wallace & Gromit Game PeekIt seems to be a day for Wallace & Gromit news – no surprise, perhaps, given the ratings success for the pair over the festive season. Telltale Games have just released the first in-game screenshots from their upcoming new series,… Read More › 
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		Shades of Yesteryear! Looking Back at British Comic Fanzines  Over on social community Facebook, former 1980s fanzine editor Russell Willis, who now lives in Japan, has posted a huge number of covers to some fondly-remembered British fanzines of the period, including this example of SCAN, edited by me,… Read More › 
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		Cracking Contraptions!(with thanks to Katie Bleathman): London’s Science Museum has announced a new Wallace & Gromit-themed exhibition, which will run from Friday 27 March until Saturday 31 October 2009. From Techno-trousers, the Telly-scope and the Shopper 13, Wallace is famous for… Read More › 
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		The Really Heavy Greatcoat Review of 2008  Art and script by Nick Miller. We haven’t been doing many Greatcoats lately, maybe there will be more opportunities in 2009… • More Really Heavy Greatcoats on the main downthetubes website • Check out Nick Miller’s fab work over on… Read More › 
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		Who’s Who?It has been going on in earnest since October when David Tennant announced that he would be standing down as the Tenth Doctor after the four Doctor Who specials in 2009 and speculation went into overdrive as to who would… Read More › 
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		Gromit Reads The BeagleWallace and Gromit had a triumphal Christmas with the new story A Matter Of Loaf And Death topping the TV ratings while their film, Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, made it to number eight. Of course all the publicity surrounding the… Read More › 
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		Run With Dennis in 2009So Christmas is over and the New Year celebrations are a vague memory, even if they only were last night. Your 2009 Dennis The Menace calendar is set to January, the Beano and Dennis annuals are both read and you… Read More › 
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		Merry ChristmasThe final Christmas cover and a cover that just screams Seventies at you. Since the cover date was 25 December 1977 Look and Learn Plus Speed and Power went all out with this gem from artist Ron Embleton. Having presumably… Read More › 
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		Merry Christmas: 1 Day To GoAfter the less than peaceful image of yesterday our Christmas covers look to their feminine side. Ian Kennedy is the artist once again but from DC Thomson’s long running “For Girls” title Bunty and a far cry it is from… Read More › 
Featured Categories
Comic Creator Interviews ›
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									Crowdfunding Spotlight : An Interview with Rachael Smith, creator of Nap Comix
									October 24, 2025
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									Creating Comics: Half the Picture presents Grant Morrison MBE
									October 14, 2025
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									Comics Laureate Bobby Joseph on the BBC
									October 6, 2025
Creating Comics ›
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									A Halloween Treat! Markosia celebrates 20 Years of publishing  with launch of year-long Digital Comic Giveaway
									October 31, 2025
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									In Memoriam: Artist and Writer Ron Tiner
									October 30, 2025
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									Italy’s Morellini Editore launches “Shades of Green” project with reprint of Ten Years to Save the World anthology
									October 29, 2025
Events ›
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									Time to book a Christmas treat? My Neighbor Totoro awaits
									October 25, 2025
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									Looking Back at Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2025
									October 23, 2025
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									Commando and British Comics celebrated at Colchester Swap Meet, and an investigation into “comics ballast”!
									October 23, 2025
2000AD ›
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									Banging bumper fun from 2000AD!
									October 28, 2025
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									Death Awaits You – the Judge Death Mega-Special 2025 that is!
									October 21, 2025
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									Happy Anniversary, Punks! Judge Dredd Megazine hits 35
									October 14, 2025
Doctor Who ›
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									Daleks Do Good? “When The Stars Screamed” charity anthology out now
									October 31, 2025
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									BBC confirms future of Doctor Who and a new Christmas Special in 2026
									October 29, 2025
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									New Doctor Who 1:6 Scale Collector Figures from Master Replicas
									October 20, 2025
Exhibitions ›
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									Lyndon White’s “After the Fire” comic offers a  coming of age story set during the Barrow blitz
									October 20, 2025
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									Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang’s illustrated story
									October 20, 2025
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									The Future Was Then exhibition opens at London’s Cartoon Museum
									October 11, 2025
Obituaries ›
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									In Memoriam: Drew Struzan, film poster artist exemplar
									October 15, 2025
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									In Memoriam: American comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher Mort Todd
									August 29, 2025
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									In Memoriam: Comic Artist Dave Taylor
									August 27, 2025
Other Worlds ›
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									New book,  “Schott’s Significa”, features strip by VIZ cartoonist Davey Jones
									October 29, 2025
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									Fantastic Four: First Steps heads to Disney+ next month
									October 27, 2025
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									Bleep and Booster soar into latest Phil-Comics auction
									October 26, 2025