Here are the covers for Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Year Two #8, written by George Mann, drawn by Mariano Laclaustra, on sale 29th June 2016 from Titan Comics. This issues’s main cover is by American artist Mark Wheatley, who… Read More ›
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Get Down with Daak (Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer that is) for upcoming Doctor Who tale
Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer continues to haunt the Eleventh Doctor in the upcoming Titan Comics release Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor: Year Two #11, on sale 15th June. The character pops up on a smashing cover from ace artist… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #2
Here’s an advance look at the covers of Titan Comics Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #2, on sale 11th May 2016. The brand-new ongoing series is written by Cavan Scott and drawn by Adriana Melo. Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor… Read More ›
Something for the Weekend: New Snowpiercer and Stone Age Nightmares!
Here’s this week’s list of British creator and British publisher-skewed new comics, including new comics on sale in UK newsagents. Top of your list of British creator-related buys this week is surely Mezoltih, the award-winning British graphic novel that Boom! Studios… Read More ›
Striker creator Pete Nash has Cunning Plans for the strip
Striker creator Pete Nash has bounced back from changes at The Sun newspaper which saw the hugely-popular strip transferred out of the print edition to a new (and for some, impossible to find) spot on its online site, presumably in… Read More ›
Commandos Old and New, Packed With Action!
Here’s the lowdown on this week’s Commando releases (Issues 4891 – 4894) from DC Thomson, on sale from Thursday. Not only are we treated to a new ‘Convict Commandos’ this time around but one of the re-issued tales features early… Read More ›
Wartime Beanos, rare Mickey Mouse art and more in latest Compalcomics auction
Rare wartime Beanos dominate many of the lots in the latest Compalcomics auction, which also includes lots of early TV Century 21s, art by Dudley Watkins, early Eagles and more, along with a healthy selection of US comics. The company’s successful team… Read More ›
New Comics On Sale This Week in the UK – Look, Just Go And Buy Surface Tension, OK?
Yes, yes, I know there are a huge number of great comics out there, again, this week, many the work of top British comic creators (including Red Thorn, 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine – and what a great start to “Realm… Read More ›
Planet Jimbot’s “Wolf Country” Heading to TV?
Award nominated and critically acclaimed Wolf Country returns for a fifth explosive issue soon, written by Jim Alexander, with art by Will Pickering, wrapped in a cover by Luke Cooper. Here’s sneak peek. The latest title from indie publisher Planet… Read More ›
Markosia set to launch Dark Mists sequel at London Super Comic Con
London Super Comic Convention 2016 will be a very special show for Markosia where the long-awaited launch of two new books will finally happen, along with a revised and improved version of one of the indie publisher’s most popular books in… Read More ›
Close 2 Immortality to Launch at London Super Comic Con 2016 this weekend
“To be remembered is to be eternal” Close 2 Immortality is a brand new comics collective that will be launching at the upcoming London Super Comic Con over the weekend of the 20th and 21st of February 2015 at The… Read More ›
Striker dropped from The Sun’s print edition, goes online only
The Sun has unexpectedly dropped the print version of its popular football comic, Striker, moving the strip online – much to the disappointment of its many fans – and the surprise of its creator, Pete Nash. “I was told on… Read More ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Seven
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, is only due to him having utilised the ideas… Read More ›
SEQUENTIAL offers new, expanded digital edition of Posy Simmonds’ “True Love” in time for Valentine’s Day
There’s a special Valentine’s Day treat for fans of Posy Simmonds this weekend with the news that the previously-announced digital edition of her story True Love is being released on SEQUENTIAL, the iPad app for digital graphic novels. Announced last year, this is… Read More ›
Joe Kelly Announced as first US guest for Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2016
Just as Marvel’s latest blockbuster superhero movie Deadpool hits UK cinemas, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announce its first major US guest for the 2016 is Joe Kelly, who will be making an exclusive UK appearance at the Festival weekend… Read More ›
New Tales from the TARDIS rounds off “Pyramids of Mars” sequel story
The latest issue of Titan Comics second UK Doctor Who title, Tales from the TARDIS, is on sale now, and sees the finale to “The Spiral Staircase” a comic sequel to the classic TV story Pyramids of Mars. Re-presenting Doctor… Read More ›
New Comics On Sale This Week in the UK – On the King’s Road, with Judge Dredd and Doctor Who in tow
Right. I’ve just been down to Lancaster’s First Age Comics to have a look at the new comics, only to be told that while Titan’s Johnny Red is selling well there, more people would have bought if “they had only… Read More ›
British Comic Sales Figures: Winners and Losers (July – December 2015)
Updated 16th February to add comment from Generation Media The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) sales figures for titles registered with the organisation have just been published this week and while many comics or young children’s magazines have taken a hit for the reporting… Read More ›
Pat Mills to talk Charley’s War at Birmingham Creative Networks event, strip to get “reloaded” treatment
Pat Mills is to give a talk for Birmingham’s Creative Networks next week (Thursday 25th February). Pat is a UK comic legend – described by some as the ‘Godfather of British comics’, he was an integral part of the UK comics… Read More ›
New Commando tale offers “Operation Torch”-inspired World War Two story
Here’s the lowdown on the latest issues of Commando (Issues 4887-4890), on sale this coming Thursday. These new issues are announced just as publisher DC Thomson also advertises for a new editor for the title, who “will play a pivotal role… Read More ›