Here’s the intel on the new Commando war comics, on sale now in all good British newsagents… I recently had a chance to sit down with Commando editor Calum Laird as part of my working day and discuss the future… Read More ›
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Leaping Leopards! It’s the new Commandos
Here’s the latest intel from Commando HQ on the latest issues on sale now in all good newsagents and online… Commando No 4527 – The Leopard CommanderStory: Alan Hebden Art: Keith Page Cover: Keith Page It sounded almost cute and… Read More ›
Gas-Bag Gunmen and Ghosts haunt new Commandos
The latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando – on sale now – comprise both the regular reprint titles and two ‘By Special Request’ stories – issues readers specifically wanted to see again. Here’s the intel… Commando No 4523: Gas-Bag GunmenStory:… Read More ›
Commandos by Air, Land and Sea!
Every field of combat is covered in the latest batch of Commandos, on sale now in good newsagents (don’t bother with the bad ones). Here’s the rundown… Commando No 4519: High Speed RescueStory: Mac MacDonald Art: Rezzonico Cover: Janek Matysiak… Read More ›
Deadly Commandos hit the newsagents
Here’s the latest information on DC Thomson’s Commando title, with these four Commando stories now on sale in good newsagents and via iTunes for iPad and iPhone… Commando 4515 – The Deadly GamesStory: Alan Hebden Art: Keith Page Cover: Keith… Read More ›
Photos from the Opening of the Aberdeen Commando Exhibition
It’s not often a comics event is opened with a bagpiper, even in Scotland, so driving into the car park of the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen on a slightly overcast summer’s morning to the skirl of the pipes set… Read More ›
Commando: Spot The Difference
Twenty-five years ago Commando published an issue entitled “Roll Of Honour” featuring a cover by artist Ian Kennedy. To celebrate the 65th anniversary of D-Day in 2009, Carlton Books released the then latest of their Commando reprint books entitled D-Day:… Read More ›
Treating Comics Seriously: Six Questions For Curator Jesper Ericsson
Jesper Ericsson is the curator of the Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen which celebrates the 200 year history of the Gordon Highlanders infantry regiment from its creation in 1794 to its amalgamation with the Queen’s Own Highlanders in 1994. The… Read More ›
Steadfast! Commando Art Exhibition in Aberdeen
For the third time in less than twelve months the Commando archive has been opened to allow artwork to be used in a public exhibition. After the Draw Your Weapons exhibition in London’s National Army Museum and the Battlelines exhibition… Read More ›
Commando Steadfastly Soldiers On
For the third time in less than twelve months the Commando archive has been opened to allow artwork to be used in a public exhibition. After the Draw Your Weapons exhibition in London’s National Army Museum (with downthetubes being the… Read More ›
Soviet Spitfires and Desert Dangers in new Commandos
Four more Commandos are now on sale, with new stories from Alan Hebden and Mac Macdonald, the latter’s ‘Soviet Spitfire’ sure to interest fans of Battle‘s classic ‘Johnny Red’ strip. Here’s the gen… Commando No 4503: Operation UltraStory: Alan Hebden… Read More ›
In Review: Commando 4500 – Lightning Strike
2011 was an important year for Commando with the 50th anniversary of the title, two separate exhibitions of artwork at the University of Dundee and London’s National Army Museum, winning the Eagle Award for Best British Black and White Comic,… Read More ›
Commando reaches landmark 4500 issue
Here we are again with another four Commandos – and it’s something of a landmark release this time around, with the title reaching Issue 4500 – surely something of a record for any comic (as, perhaps, is the number of… Read More ›
Convict Commandos return to, er – Commando!
Here’s the lowdown on the latest Commandos, on sale now in all good comic shops. Alan Hebden’s Convict Commandos make a return for the first of two adventures – the second is out in a fortnight – while a Soviet… Read More ›
Commando Comic Art – The Show Goes On!
The exhibition of Commando cover art at the National Army Museum in London may have just finished, but fear not if you missed it. The Commando team have just informed us they’re working with another museum to put on a… Read More ›
All change for look and feel of Commando comic
With news on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic Commando comes news of another change to its format
Falklands War commemorated in new Commando comics
The latest Commando comics from DC Thomson – on sale now in all good newsagents – include the first of two books with a Falklands theme to mark 30 years since the Task Force sailed to liberate the islands in… Read More ›
Latest Commandos Have A Chilly Theme
Just to prove Commando is read around the world here are four members of the British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 reading Commando in Antarctica. They are (left to right) Lt Col Pete Davis, Surg Lt Simon Hornby RN, Major Justin… Read More ›
Heroes aplenty in new Commandos
Here’s details on the latest Commandos, on sale now in all good UK newsagents… Commando No 4479: Every Man A Hero! Story: Mac MacDonald Art: Keith Page Cover: Keith Page Zander Zarris was half-British and half-Greek. As he’d never known his… Read More ›
Commando re-branded into "Collections" – but new stories continue
The latest batch of Commando releases sees some changes to the title’s format with it now coming four distinct guises – reflected on the covers – and a change to the focus of the stories inside. The digest comic stories… Read More ›