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Creating Comics: Mickey Mouse Weekly’s Basil Reynolds
Can you help document the life and work of this influential comic creator?
Bermuda cartoon legend Peter Woolcock’s “Douglas the Dachshund” art offered for sale
One of a number of original comic-related artworks on offer this week
Snapshot in Time: 2000AD’s worrying sales figures in 1982, and the astonishing rise of Playhour
Looking back at a bleak time for weekly British comics…
Catawiki International Original Comic Art Auction offers “Modesty Blaise”,”Robot Archie” pages
Some British comic art gems on offer in a current Catawiki auction which closes tonight
Snapshot in Time: Brian Woodford and The Launch of Boys’ World, Part One
A Short Introduction: Before his unexpected passing in 2016, author Roger Perry – a longtime contributor to this site and veteran of the British comics industry – sent downthetubes a number of articles which we planned to run, working back… Read More ›
In Praise Of… Reginald Heade, pulp fiction cover – and comics – artist
Available now from Telos Publishing is The Art of Reginald Heade, written by Stephen James Walker, a book about an artist renowned amongst vintage paperback fans and collectors as the pre-eminent British pulp fiction cover artist of the 1940s and 1950s – considered by some as… Read More ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Two
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 ›