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The Alison Brown Young Comics Maestro Award 2026 competition is now open and organisers The Cartoon Museum are looking for the next big comic artist

What began as news of a single new Dracula film from Trinity Studios has now become something far bigger, darker, and more ambitious: a planned three-film Dracula saga

Marvel UK is perhaps best known for representing US Marvel Comics material, creating Death’s Head, and as the original publisher of Doctor Who Magazine – but it made forays into unusual reprints, too

In an interview with Gary Russell and Will Brooks of Roundel, alongside artist Adrian Salmon, Matt Badham gets a glimpse behind the curtain at Roundel Books with a particular focus on the new book, "The Time Team Unearthed".

The venerable Italian comic anthologies Skorpio and Lanciostory have reportedly been cancelled, their publisher, Editoriale Aurea, officially suspending all publications in early April 2026

downthetubes readers of a certain age who grew up in Britain’s South West may remember the stranger TV antics of Westward TV’s Gus Honeybun puppet mascot, while celebrating birthdays between their TV shows…

Invada Records will release Stranger Things 5 – Original Score from the Netflix Series next month, featuring music by two-time Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein

The Comic Book Postal Auctions, aka Compal, 2026 May/June catalogue is open for bidding, and there are plenty of treats on offer for collectors, with original artwork and a rare first issue of The Beano attracting plenty of bids – the latter currently at £7000 and counting...

Out this week from is first bumper collection of Squid Bits, by Jess Bradley, That's A Nice Hat, collecting the popular pages from The Phoenix comic. Jess will be promoting the book at a special event in Bovey Tracy, in Devon, next month, as part of Summer Book Fest

A heat wave inspired retreat to the cinema proved good fun for Tim Robins, who enjoyed Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

Sue Grant, partner to the late comic writer Alan Grant, was a freelance graphic designer with over 40 years of experience, and a champion for her local community Moniaive, comics and creativity in general. John McShane pays tribute...

James Bacon looks back at David Thorpe's influential contribution to Captain Britain's mythos, in memory of the acclaimed author and campaigner, who passed in 2024

Cowboys, Commandos, and an inexplicably calm prisoner… what’s his story?

US publisher Magnetic Press have just released the twelfth volume in their welcome The Collected Toppi series, Men of the World.

Thanks to Master Replicas, Doctor Who Battles in Time returns with an all-new Obliterator trading card collection celebrating the incredible history of Doctor Who, through to the Fifteenth Doctor.

It was smashing to see Bryan and Mary Talbot at The Dukes in Lancaster last night, for a screening of Leonora in the Morning Light, which stars Olivia Vinall as troubled surrealist Leonora Carrington