We’re sorry to report the death of American artist Jackson “Butch” Guice, aged 63, who has died after battling illness. Our sympathies to family and friends at this time. Much admired by fellow comic creators, Guice was a creative force… Read More ›
Doctor Strange
Bloomsbury and Marvel Announce Marvel Age of Comics
New Marvel Comics retrospectives launch in November
In Review: Doctor Strange – Under the Knife (Marvel Select Panini Edition)
Mark Waid and Kev Walker continue a fine tradition of intriguing stories about the Sorcerer Supreme, now available as a Marvel Select title from Panini UK in your local WHSmith or supermarket
In Review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (12A, 2022)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is deliriously silly and a lot of fun; don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, enthuses Tim Robins
In Review: Doctor Strange (2016)
Ahead of heading into see Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Tim Robins revisits the 2016 feature film, which was, for him, not Strange enough…
In Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home
Tim Robins spins us a review of the latest blockbusting, box office storming Spider-Man movie
“Doctor Strange” No. 1 Original Art, Promise Collection Power Heritage’s Comics & Comic Art Auction Past $17.8 Million
Event featured 18 lots that brought six figures, including iconic cover for Stan Lee’s Origins of Marvel Comics
Tube Surfing: Digital comics funding, real robots, 2000AD Regened, and an upcoming “Fables” Box Set
A quick fire round up of web craziness, great comics and books out now, and more…
Dave Gibbons Watchmen #1 cover sells for staggering £171,383 in auction
More than 30 collectors made a play for Dave Gibbons Watchmen #1 original cover art at the weekend’s Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art auction in Dallas – before it finally sold for $228,000 (£171,383) – but it was not… Read More ›
Legendary comic creator Steve Ditko, dead at 90
I’ve woken to the sad news of comic creator Steve Ditko’s passing, one of the global comic industry’s most influential, and yet elusive artists. The award-winning co-creator of The Amazing Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and so many more great characters was… Read More ›
British auction house Vectis teases massive Bronze Age comics sale, rare “The Investigator” toy car offered
Coming soon from British auction house Vectis is a massive sale of thousands of predominantly Bronze Age Marvel and DC comics. Bought from newsagents and stored away with the sole purpose of creating a collection, these comics are largely from… Read More ›
First Doctor Strange Trailer debuts, out in October in UK
The first trailer for Marvel’s Doctor Strange, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was released via the US TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC last night, as part of its Marvel Week event. Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One was also much in evidence and the… Read More ›
Colour Me Strange (Or rather, “Color” Doctor Strange)
Marvel has announced the upcoming publication of a Doctor Strange-inspired colouring book – just one of the licensed items that will launch around the the feature film starring Benedict Cumberbatch which will be released later this year. Running to 120… Read More ›
Marvel UK Heroes Lost in Action: Officer Outbody by Glenn Dakin and Ross Dearsley
A Marvel UK character that fell foul of the company’s implosion in the 1990s
Doctor Strange to be shot in the UK?
Numerous web sites are reporting that the upcoming Marvel Studios Doctor Strange film, based on one of US comics longest-running magical characters, could be shot at Pinewood, for release on 8th July 2016. Screen Daily led with the news, picked up elsewhere, that Marvel… Read More ›
Psylocke joins Marvel Heroes game line up, so where’s Captain Britain?
Psylocke – Captain Britain’s sister – is to join the line up of playable characters in the Marvel Heroes game in the near future, prompting many British fans to ask if Captain Britain is far behind. News of Betsy Braddock’s… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Dr Strange and Spider Man, zines in Birmingham , a misunderstood shark and more CLiNT reviews
Right, what’s out there today: There’s an excellent interview with artist Brendan McCarthy over at Mark Kardwell’s Bad Librarianship blog. In it, Brendan gives us the inside track on various projects past and present, as well as discussing his new… Read More ›
Crossovers That Never Happened: The Two Doctors
… The Two Doctors in question being Doctor Who and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. It was TV Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel who proposed a Doctor Who/ Doctor Strange crossover and submitted a plot to me around 1991/92, about the… Read More ›