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• Irish Men in Malta: Big Bastard by Danny McColgan and Neil O’Driscoll

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2015

  

  One great thing about conventions is that its an opportunity to meet the people behind the comics you’ve read and enjoyed – but for me, it’s also about finding new comics to enjoy. At this year’s Malta Comic Con, this… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend: US Comics (and more) on Sale 16th December 2015

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2015

  

  I’m still playing catch up and racing to meet some pre-Christmas deadlines, so no detailed list of new comics again this week. Sorry! Luckily for you, Mark Braithwaite at Lancaster’s First Age Comics has still posted his list of new titles, so his list… Read More ›

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

  By Roger Perry on December 18, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  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 (Part One here), is only due to… Read More ›

• What, No New Ghostbusters Comic? (Yet, anyway…)

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2015

  

  There’s a new Ghostbusters arriving in cinemas in July 2016 and the licensing campaign is picking up “extraordinary momentum”, according to the company handling branding deals, with no less than 23 partners on board – but, as yet, it doesn’t look like… Read More ›

• Have Yourself Some Convict Commandos For Christmas!

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2015

  

  Here’s the lowdown on the latest issues of Commando, Issues 4871-4874 on sale now – the penultimate release for 2015, with four more issues out on 31st December. It’s been a year of change for the title, with editor Calum Laird… Read More ›

• Titan Comics releases Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS in the UK

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Clearly not content with just having its anthology Doctor Who Comic on sale in UK newsagents, Titan Comics has just released a 76-page Who special, Tales From the TARDIS, a US format title that leads with the company’s Doctor Who: The… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: The Art of Ron Smith, Part One

  By Colin Noble on December 16, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  As a comic fan of long standing, one of my real pleasures is identifying and applauding some of the artists that I feel never got the appreciation that they so richly deserved. But I have found that even with the… Read More ›

• Artist Ian Kennedy Talks About His Return To 2000AD

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 16, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  To put it quite simply, Ian Kennedy is the most experienced British comic strip artist working today. Beginning his career as a staff artist at DC Thomson in Dundee in 1949, he went self-employed in 1954 for the simple expediency… Read More ›

• Amazing Comics Podcast Episode 25: Tally Burtram and Bajo Mano

  By John Freeman on December 16, 2015

  

  This week Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond are joined by the creator of the procedural cop drama comic Bajo Mano Tally Burtram to talk about the series and how it came to be. She also tells the ACP crew about… Read More ›

• Marc Jackson’s “Ka-Punch!” Comes to Comic Heroes

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2015

  

  Anarchic comic creator Marc Jackson‘s new comic strip ‘KA-PUNCH!’ is to launch in the January issue of Comic Heroes magazine. The first appearance runs to two full pages and the following issues will feature single pages strips. “The story will… Read More ›

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