Stand by for First Class fun and frolics as Britain’s Royal Mail pays homage to the great British comic on ten new stamps launched this week. As we previously reported, The Comics Collection, commemorating Britain’s rich comic book heritage, features… Read More ›
Britain’s Post Office is celebrating what it’s defined as “75 Years of British Comics” with a special issue of stamps featuring the covers of various much-loved comics, including 2000AD and The Beano. Set to be released on 20th March 2012,… Read More ›
(Cross-posted with permission from Bring Back Bunty): The Beano and The Dandy have recently become available as iPad/iPhone apps (see news story) and these have the potential to be a great format for children’s comics — so we just had… Read More ›
DC Thomson have announced The Dandy and The Beano have just gone digital through Apple’s recently-launched Newsstand service, with The Beano currently in the Top Ten in the service’s charts First published in 1937 and 1938 respectively, the two national… Read More ›
Last week, I was contacted by two newspapers, the Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday, to offer my views on the state of the British comic industry. Specifically, comics on sale in UK newsagents. The requests were prompted by… Read More ›
The Dandy’s sales figures have taken a tumble
(Info via Blimey! It’s another Blog about Comics, re-published here with the kind permission of Lew Stringer): Here’s a sneak peek at the cover of this week’s issue of The Dandy, on sale from Wednesday 26th January. Under a new… Read More ›
Who’d have thought Birdsong and New British Comics artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell would get a chance to appear in The Dandy? But he is – albeit as part, we think, of the revamped comic’s experimental line up of strips that are… Read More ›
Here’s the first official artwork from the Etherington Brothers brand new series, YORE!, which will be making its early 2011 debut very, very soon in The Dandy. This is just the latest of several strips the Etheringtons, creators of Malcolm… Read More ›
The Dandy’s new look has had a mixed response
(Updated 27/10/10) The Dandy – the real, comic strip driven Dandy – is back this week with a vengeance, ditching the magazine-style, TOXIC-inspired magazine format of Dandy Xtreme in favour of a weekly title with a £1.50 cover price. As… Read More ›
Take a long hard look at the cover of the current issue of Dandy Xtreme. Stripped of its free gifts (five chewy sweets and a small toy light sabre) there is nothing to suggest that it is a comic, let… Read More ›
Issue 169 DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics is now on sale in all good newsagents — another gem of a 68-page retro monthly, full of comic classics from the publisher of The Beano and The Dandy. Humour strips in… Read More ›
DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics title is a gem of a reprint title, combining a range of cracking humour and adventure strips from comics such as The Beano, The Dandy and other, no longer published titles, into one bumper… Read More ›
The Spring 2010 auction at British comics auction site Compalcomics is now open. The catalogue for the auction – one of four held every year – includes a rare copy of The Beano Issue 5 (expected to sell for between… Read More ›
Willie Ritchie, sitting at DC Thomson editor Morris Heggie’s desk in DCT Meadowside, Dundee with his beloved “Baby Crockett” in October 2009. Photo courtesy Morris Heggie We’re sorry to report the passing of the popular comics artist William Ritchie, who… Read More ›
Comic creator and Beezer fan Simon Mackie has launched a new blog that aims to chart the history of DC Thomson’s best-known large format humour comic. The Beezer was a large format (tabloid newspaper/A3 sized) weekly published by DC Thomson… Read More ›
downthetubes has been having some behind-the-scenes computer woes: we apologize for the lack of posts in recent days. We’re grateful to Jeremy Briggs for his review of Cinebooks’ Rameses’ Revenge. Digital Artist 2009 Masterclass #1 – Dave Gibbons from Intel… Read More ›
There’s still time to bid on items – including a rare copy of the first ever Dandy – from British online auction site Comic Book Auction’s Summer Catalogue. Included in the British section of the catalogue is an extremely rare… Read More ›