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Meet Dinah Mo, the Dandy's eco-warrior!

Lew Stringer is writing and drawing an all-new version of "Dinah Mo" who'll debut in The Dandy Summer Special next month

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#DC Thomson Media #Dinah Mite #Dinah Mo #downthetubes News #Humour Comics #Lew Stringer #The Dandy Summer Special

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New "Axa" in the works from Dren Productions

Axa, the classic SF adventure comic strip from the 1970s and 1980s created by the late Enrique Badia Romero, is returning...

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#Adventure Comics #Axa #downthetubes News #Dren Productions #Enrique Badia Romero #SF Comics

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Falcon comic team tease second issue, due for release in October

Ed Doyle and Alan Holloway have just teased the cover of the second issue of their tabloid comic, Falcon, out later this year

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#Alan Holloway #Cats in Space #downthetubes News #Ed Doyle #Falcon #Jack Parsons #Sentinel #The Story Of Johnny Rocket #Wolfriders

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Random House Reveals New Line of ‘Wednesday’ Tie-In Books

Penguin Random House has announced a collaboration with Amazon MGM Studios on a new worldwide publishing programme for the global streaming phenomenon Wednesday

Penguin Random House has announced a collaboration with Amazon MGM Studios on a new worldwide publishing programme for the global streaming phenomenon Wednesday, the spin-off series inspired by Charles Addams’ cartoon creation, The Addams Family, airing on Netflix. First releases include a Wednesday-inspired cook book, and a Young Adult novelisation and of the show’s first season. The Emmy…

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#Amazon MGM Studios #Charles Addams #Jenna Ortega #Mari Mancusi #Netflix #Penguin Random House #Tehlor Kay Mejia #The Addams Family #Wednesday

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BOOM! Studios’ announces "Hello Darkness", new ongoing anthology series

US publisher BOOM! Studios has announced a new ongoing anthology series that will include stories by Becky Cloonan, Garth Ennis, Andy Lanning, Trevor Hairsine and many other top comic creators from around the globe

US publisher BOOM! Studios has announced a new ongoing anthology series that will include stories by Becky Cloonan, Garth Ennis, Andy Lanning, Trevor Hairsine and many other top comic creators from around the globe. Hello Darkness, launching in July, is a brand new ongoing anthology series featuring what BOOM! Studios is known for – the best in modern horror, fantasy, and mystery, not to mention…

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#Andy Lanning #Becky Cloonan #Boom Studios #downthetubes News #Garth Ennis #Hello Darkness #Horror Comics #James Tynion IV #Paolo Rivera #Peach Momoko #R.L. Stine #Something is Killing the Children #Trevor Hairsine #Werther Dell&039;Edera

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“Strip it down to essentials and draw the hell out of what’s left” - Zorro by Alex Toth

#Zorro #Creating Comics #alex toth

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July 28, 1941. Launched in October 1934, TERRY AND THE PIRATES eventually emerged as one of the finest newspaper adventure strips of its era, making cartoonist Milton Caniff a celebrity and one of the most-imitated artists in the comics field, along with Alex Raymond. The strip followed the adventures of a white American boy named Terry Lee on the loose in China along with his notional guardian, two-fisted Irish adventurer Pat Ryan. Unlike many comics characters, Terry was not immune to aging; a young boy a the start of the strip, he's a teenager here, and eventually plateaued in his mid-20s. The woman gently deflecting his awkward pass in this strip is Burma, a brassy American nightclub singer with a checkered past — she was wanted by the British for piracy, a hanging offense — and a heart of gold beneath her cynical exterior.

The plots and subject matter of TERRY AND THE PIRATES aren't always palatable today, especially the early continuities, which are full of Exotic Orient hokum and offensive Chinese caricatures, something that diminished but never entirely went away even in later years.

However, Caniff's craft — his visual storytelling, his characterization, his use of light and shadow, his ability to craft complex and entertaining stories full of snappy dialogue and memorable characters — was of the highest caliber. Jack Kirby called Caniff "my art school," and a whole raft of comic book artists who began their careers in the 1940s (including Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, and Alex Toth, to name just a few) started off trying to ape Caniff. He represented the big time: In talent, in success, in acclaim, he was what they all wanted to be.

Caniff left TERRY at the end of 1946 because while he was earning a healthy salary, the syndicate owned the strip, so he wasn't getting a piece of the action on adaptations, merchandising, and tie-ins, which was substantial. On January 13, 1947, he launched a new strip, STEVE CANYON, which was all his; it continued until shortly after his death in 1988. After Caniff departed, the syndicate assigned TERRY AND THE PIRATES to George Wunder, who kept it going until 1973.

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even more Alex Toth in black and white.

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Original Art - Fashionable Couple Spot Illustration (1956) by Alex Toth

From ha.com...

Even as Toth made a name for himself as a comic-book innovator, he persisted at the more conventional commercial-art assignments in the slick-magazine arena. Here is a quintessentially 1950s-style composition, realistic but slightly abstract in design, depicting a tweedy man and a fashion-plate woman. The publishing pedigree is undocumented. Toth's already-distinctive signature appears at lower right.

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Zoinks!! by John Freeman, Friday 26th April 2024. “So Mum wants to know, can she get a QR code on her landline?”

#zoinks #john freeman #venice #qr code

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Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh by Keith Page, Part 4

Our serialisation of Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh, a steampunk-tinged tale by Keith Page, steeped in piracy, smuggling and general skullduggery, continues! Captured by the Royal Navy, Strawjack faces a grim execution...

Our serialisation of Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh, a steampunk-tinged tale by Keith Page, steeped in piracy, smuggling and general skullduggery, continues!  Available here as a full graphic novel from Crucible Comic Press, Keith has kindly agreed to let us run his first “Strawjack” tale in web comic format on downthetubes. Captured by the Royal Navy, Strawjack faces a grim…

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#Adventure Comics #Crucible Comic Press #Keith Page #Stephen Walsh #Strawjack #Web Comic Spotlight

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Rebellion Releases: Judge Dredd on the run in 2000AD, and "Lowborn High" hits book and comic shops

Be transported to the circuit-shattering worlds of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with the latest 2000AD, Prog 2379, on sale in all good newsagents now – and don't miss out on the new Lowborn High collection

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#2000AD #Annie Parkhouse #Brink #Dan Abnett #downthetubes News #Dylan Teague #Giulia Brusco #Gordon Rennie #Indigo Prime #INJ Culbard #Jake Lynch #Jim Campbell #Judge Dredd #Kek-W #Lee Carter #Lowborn High #Mike Carroll #Patrick Goddard #Rob Williams #SF Comics #Simon Bowland

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Zoinks!! by John Freeman, Thursday 25th April 2024. “I don’t understand why rail reform will be so delayed…”

#zoinks #john freeman #british rail

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Christophe Chabouté in the spotlight at Maison de BD

The Maison de BD in Blois, France is currently hosting an exhibition of work by Christophe Chabouté, the creator of the award-winning graphic novel, Alone, The Park Bench, Yellow Cab and more

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#Chabouté #Christophe Chabouté #downthetubes News #Exhibition News #Huberty & Breyne Gallery #Maison de BD

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New book charts the history of groundbreaking French comic magazine, Pilote

Pilote, the weekly magazine that revolutionised Franco-Belgian comics from October 1959 until October 1989, has got its own history book

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#Albert Uderzo #Christian Kastelnik #Clément Lemoine #La Déviation #Pilote #Pilote - La Naissance d’un Journal #Rene Goscinny

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Park Bench by  Christophe Chabouté

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