DC Thomson is celebrating 65 years of the Beano‘s Minnie the Minx with a new 68 page special, Minnie – 65 Years of Minxing. The bookazine format title, which will be released in October, covers everything, from the story of… Read More ›
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Fancy The Beano Annual From Your Year? Personalised facsimiles now available
Signature Gifts are now offering Beano readers personalised, facsimile reprints of every Beano annual from the very first one, published in 1940 – right up to 2013. The Beano Annual From Your Year is a fantastic nostalgic gift, with each… Read More ›
National Library of Scotland celebrates Beano’s 80th anniversary with special one day event in Glasgow
Join the National Library at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow at a special event to wish a very happy 80th birthday to the iconic Scottish comic, The Beano. 80 years ago, the launch of The Beano revolutionised British comics. It was an… Read More ›
“Two Doors Down” star Elaine Constance Smith celebrates “The Dandy” for BBC Radio Scotland
(Updated 19th July to add Beano links): As the Beano prepares to celebrate 80 years of comic fun, Two Doors Down star Elaine Constance Smith has been remembering its naughty older sibling The Dandy, created by DC Thomson in 1937, for… Read More ›
Comic Connections? The Hotspur Press, Manchester… no, sadly not
I’m sure many people have seen the derelict Hotspur Press building on Gloucester Street from the train as they travel through Manchester (or perhaps on their way to the Anthony Burgess Foundation, just around the corner) and wondered if there’s… Read More ›
Outfoxed and Under Attack – action adventure aplenty in new Commando comics!
Brand new Commando (Issues 5139 – 5142) go on sale from DC Thomson in all good newsagents (and various digital platforms) on Thursday 12th July. Bear your Brown Bess musket and Baker rifle with the Sherwood Foresters, ditch the camera… Read More ›
Blitzkrieging Panzers! New Commando comics on sale on Thursday!
Brand new Commando (Issues 5127 – 5130) are on sale in all good newsagents from DC Thomson across the UK on Thursday. Evade Blitzkrieging Panzers in Belgium, lead a squad of Polish criminals straight against bloodthirsty Gestapo soldiers, dodge desert… Read More ›
British Comics Mystery Artists – can you help identify them?
Across decades of British comics creation by major publishers, the names of many creators – both writers and artists – were never revealed to readers of titles that once sold in their millions. Artist and writer David Roach, author of… Read More ›
Convict Commandos back in action!
The latest issues of DC Thomson’s war comic, Commando (Issues 5123 – 5126) are on sale now! Hunt ‘wolf warriors’ with the Convict Commandos, infiltrate a POW camp full of bloodthirsty Nazi fanatics, team up with Italian partisans in the… Read More ›
When Kennedy’s Collide: the Commando work of Cam and Ian Kennedy
When it comes to staying power, it is hard to come up with a better definition than comic artist Ian Kennedy’s career. Ably supported by his family, Ian has delighted generations of comic fans since he went freelance in the 1950s…. Read More ›
Writer Heath Ackley makes Commando debut
Brand new Commando (Issues 5119 – 5122) from DC Thomson are on sale on Thursday (3rd May) in all good UK newsagents and through various digital platforms and sees the debut of another new talent to the veteran title –… Read More ›
DC Thomson releases This is Animal Jam magazine, available in UK and US
DCT Media and WildWorks are celebrating the release of This Is Animal Jam magazine, in a deal brokered by UK agent Rockpool Licensing. Now on sale in the UK, and available through Barnes and Noble in the United States, the… Read More ›
New writers joins the Commando team!
Brand new Commando (Issues 5115 – 5118) from DC Thomson are on sale in all good newsagents this Thursday. Storming Messines Ridge, blasting Bettys in a Buffalo, tunnelling under the trenches with Maori Miners, and defending a Scottish island from an… Read More ›
Dust ups in the desert and archaeological adventures in new Commando comics!
Brand new Commando (Issues 5111-5114) go on sale this Thursday (5th April 2018) from DC Thomson, on sale in all good newsagents and via various digital platforms. There’s brawling in desert dust ups, U-Boats under attack by Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers,… Read More ›
Dundee’s McManus Gallery becomes the McMenace Gallery as Beano celebrates 80th anniversary
Beano Studios and The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum will come together this summer for a bespoke exhibition dedicated to the beloved Beano characters and comic. In Beano’s 80th year, the special collaboration will see The McManus revise their… Read More ›
Commando Collectors gather for second Swapmeet
Colin Noble reports on the second Commando Swapmeet organised by Andy Yates, which took place last weekend. These events focus entirely aimed on British comics and the emphasis is on DC Thomson’s war title, Commando, the longest running picture library… Read More ›
Feuding footballers and a jinxed bomber haunt this week’s new Commando comics!
Brand new Commando (Issues 5107 – 5110) are on sale this Thursday (22nd March 2018). Go toe to toe with our feuding footballers, survive a flight in a jinxed Lancaster bomber, hold off Iraqi patrols in the Kuwait desert, and beat… Read More ›
The Editor’s Cut: Kirsten Murray reveals how the Commando war comic celebrated International Women’s Day
Earlier this month, DC Thomson released two very special issues of their war comic, Commando, which focused on female heroes. Published on International Women’s Day, the stories were commissioned by Heritage Brands Editor Kirsten Murray and marked something of an… Read More ›
DC Thomson confirms Beano annual publisher Parragon Books closure discussion begin this week
Beano and Commando publisher DC Thomson has confirmed its Bath-based company Parragon Books, publisher of the top-selling Beano annual and many popular titles under license, will enter into consultation about the potential closure of the business this week. The company… Read More ›
All-change at Commando as editor moves on, but the action continues
The details of the latest issues of Commando (Issues 5099 – 5102) come with news that the title’s current editor, Kirsten Murray, is moving on from DC Thomson. we wish her every success in her future endeavours, wherever that may… Read More ›