The Out – Book2

21/09/21 'The Out', a SF romp by writer Dan Abnett, artist  Mark Harrison, with lettering by Annie Whitehouse, is back on the pages of 2000AD with Book Two- Part One appearing in Prog 2250 this week. more...

Jac Batey and Zines

14/09/2021  Dr Jac Batey is a university lecturer with a background as a freelance illustrator. She created Artists’ Books and Zines under the name Damp Flat Books (est.1999). more...

Judge Dredd Uprising – The Live Experience

05/09/2021  Little Lion Entertainment have been promoting Judge Dredd Uprising  based on Rebellion’s Mega-City world,  more...

Popeye the Sailor Man

28/08/2021 Popeye is a pugnacious, pipe smoking, indestructible sailor with superhuman strength obtained by rubbing his head with the Whiffle Hen. Created by Elzie Crisler Segar. Popeye first appeared in the daily King Features strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. more...

Stephen Hickman R.I.P.

19/08/202 Stephen Hickman 09/04/1949 – 16/07/2021 Stephen Hickman was an American SF and fantasy artist, sculptor and author, with over 350 book and magazine covers to his credit. more...

MAZEWORLD BADDIES

08/08/2021 In turning these flying reptiles from the pen and ink drawing in the comics I realised I more...

Normal service will be resumed

30/07/2021 as soon as possible more...

V for Vendetta; Behind the mask

07/07/2021 An exhibition at the cartoon museum, 63 wells road, Fitzrovia London w1a 3ae, till October 31st. V for Vendetta, a graphic novel written by Alan Moore, and illustrated by David Lloyd first appeared in the short-lived British magazine Warrior in 1982. more...

Some Israeli comics

29/06/2021 From guest contributor Hagai  Palevszky. The comic book is not an such established part the culture in Israel as in the U.S or U.K. more...

Mystery strip identified.

13/06/2021 Thanks to the tenacity, curiosity and contacts of John Freeman  - writer, editor, creative consultant, publisher and compiler of news site ‘downthetubes.net.’  - the puzzle of the Triffid strip has been resolved. more...

60 Years of Marvel Comics Universe

06/06//2021 An exhibition consisting of over 180 original drawings , letters and rare exhibits from illustrators  Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Buscema, Sal Buscema, Don Heck, John Romita Sr. more...

Jean Dubuffet - Brutal Beauty

31/05/2021 An exhibition of the art of French artist Jean Dubuffet at The Barbican Centre, London more...

London Comic Mart

20/05/2021 Following the reduction of Covid restrictions, Showmasters announce the return of its live shows. more...

The Making of Rodin

16/05/2021 Exhibition at the Tate Modern in London from 18 May to 31 October 2021. François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor regarded as being the founder of modern sculpture. more...

R.I.P Bill Titcombe

08/05/2021 RIP Bill Titcombe September 1938 – February 2021.  Cartoonist, illustrator, and painter with a long career in many of Britain’s most successful comic books. more...

Three with a pen.

26/04/2021 An exhibition of illustrations and documents from the work and life of three artists - Lily Renée, Bil Spira, Paul Peter Porges. The Jewish Museum Vienna more...

Netflix Button Man axed

18/04/2021. A week ago I learned that in late 2020 Netflix had dropped their plans for a Button Man movie. more...

R.I.P Joye Hummel

11/04/2021 Joye Hummel (Joye Murchison Kelly) 04/04/ 1924 – 04/05/ 2021 Hummel was the first woman to write scripts for a superhero comic. more...

R.I.P Francisco Hanghenbeck

05/04/20211 Mexican comic book writer and screenwriter Francisco Hanghenbeck aged 56, has died from respiratory complications related to covid19,. more...

Mazeworld heroine (& baddies)

24/03/2021 For this pin-up of Riadne, one of Mazeworld’s heroines, the face of the Indian actor Esha Gupta has been used. more...

Lily Renee Phillips

15/03/2021 Lily Renee Philips was a Jewish, Vienna-born, Holocaust survivor who fled Austria after the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria. She escaped to England on a Kindertransport and reunited with her parents in New York in 1940. There she took her artistic talents to the comic book publisher Fiction House Comics. more...

Sirius news

07/03/2021 A new title has been added to the list at the top right of the site. more...

Mazeworld pics

28/02/2021 As promised. They are set in the Hell Maze that Adam Cadman visits in a latter part of the story; more...

Coming soon

20/02/2021 It has been a while since the last blog. My apologies. Some time back I had an enquiry from a TV company asking about TV and film rights to Mazeworld. more...

factsination

04/02/2021 in this time of division there are voices urging  we listen to other points of view rather than contesting them.With this in mind I read internet histories of vaccination and the anti-vaccination movement that accompanied them. more...