Recently in the spotlight at the ICE convention in Birmingham was a new project involving some stellar talent, The Chimeran – a creative team that includes Ben Oliver and Simon Furman, Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back producer Gary Kurtz, Richard Bazley and Paul Goodenough. Hot on the heels of that, we caught up… Read More ›
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Hachette road testing Transformers: The Definitive Collection part work
Hachette already publish a number of comics-related partworks, but downthetubes contributor Richard Sheaf has come across a new one, which looks like being essential reading to any Transformers fans out there, collecting every comics appearance of the Hasbro creations. The… Read More ›
New Comics Launch at ICE, including “To The Death”, “The Chimeran” from Simon Furman, Geoff Senior – and Gary Kurtz!
The brilliant ICE (the International Expo Convention) takes place in Birmingham this weekend (10th – 11th September), at “The Studio” on Canon Street, and there are a number of new comic launches taking place at the event. These include Simon Furman and Geoff… Read More ›
Transformers and Mad Hatter Chronicles Simon Furman Heads for Oswestry Lit Fest
Ace comic creator and animation writer Simon Furman (Transformers, Kung Fu Panda, Dragons: Riders of Berk) will be at the Oswestry Lit Fest on 19th March, where he’ll be presenting two talks aimed at slightly different age-groups, but really suitable… 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 ›
New British Graphic Novels Out This Week: Tales from Berk
Titan Comics is enjoying quiet success with its Dragons: Riders of Berk series, most the work of top comics writer Simon Furman, who you’ll know from his incredible work on Transformers down the years, as well as being the co-creator… Read More ›
Marvel Fact Files Returns Attention to Marvel UK
The long-running Marvel Fact Files, available through most UK newsagents, turns its attention back on Marvel UK (and more) with Issue 149 later this month, having last given the British versions of the US publisher’s heroes back in Issue 97, released… Read More ›
In Review: Leamington Comic Con 2015
Leamington Comic Convention on the 17th October was an absolute blast. Rumours were that there had been a massive amount of tickets sold and unlike rumours about my hair being made in China, these rumours turned out to be 100… Read More ›
1980s Flashback: Marvel UK’s Secret Wars “Secret Artist” Investigated – and the artists revealed!
With Marvel’s new Secret Wars on sale now in all good comic shops, we thought we’d take the opportunity you back to 1985 – and Marvel UK’s reprint of the original Secret Wars comic, which included an originated two-page comedy strip… Read More ›
Hibernia Comics releases Dracula from the Scream archives!
Continuing their fine work re-presentng some classic British comic stories with collections of series such as The Very Best of Library of Death and The Tower King, Hibernia Comics have just released The Complete Dracula File, a strip first published in the… Read More ›