Liking a) Doctor Who and b) cats is obligatory for all downthetubes contributors – and anyone disliking either of these two things is asked to leave pretty quickly, I can tell you. The team was therefore thrilled to see this… Read More ›
Month: August 2008
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Computer Adventure!
With Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park in the news as guest editor of the 70th Birthday Beano, Telltale, Inc., the leader in interactive episodic entertainment, have just released a cinematic teaser trailer and new details about the Wallace &… Read More ›
Narnia by Night
British film fans, families and kids are getting a unique opportunity to relive the magic of The Chronicles of Narnia movies at close quarters at a one-off, Narnia-themed Wow Night on Thursday, 14th August 2008. ‘The Wonderful World of Weta… Read More ›
Exclusive Hand Made Transformers Figures Up-For-Grabs!
Transformers — a robot toy range that has spawned several successful comics across the globe down the years and will see the launch of a new UK comic title from Titan in October — has a massive collector fan base,… Read More ›
Unico Launches Collections Title
After a two-year gestation period, indie British publisher Unico Comics is soon to publish a special annual collecting a number of strips from some of the best amateur comics talent in the UK. Unico Collections was started in 2007 by… Read More ›
New Anti Doping Comic from UNESCO
Just launched on the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences website is a new weekly comic by Mychailo Kazybrid which aims to promote the battle against doping in sport. Published by UNESCO in partnership with EDGE G3 Ltd., The Case of… Read More ›
Comics International Returns to Action!
After a prolonged absence from comic shops, Comics International is finally about to return to the stands — and is offering its readers the opportunity to win a ClanDestine original specially drawn for the competition by British writer/artist Alan Davis,… Read More ›
Crossovers That Never Happened: The Two Doctors
… The Two Doctors in question being Doctor Who and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. It was TV Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel who proposed a Doctor Who/ Doctor Strange crossover and submitted a plot to me around 1991/92, about the… Read More ›
Let’s Do the Timewarp Again…
CAPTION, if you aren’t aware, is a long-running comics festival dedicated to the British independent and small comics press — and also the longest running comics festival in Britain by many years. A week before the 2008 ‘Timewarp’ themed event,… Read More ›
Happy Birthday Beano: The Dandy’s Better!
One last word from the Happy Birthday Beano exhibition in the Lamb Gallery in Dundee. One of the first things you see on entering the exhibition gallery from the stairway is a comments book for the exhibition and it has… Read More ›