Elephantmen, the creation of former Marvel UK Managing Editor Richard Starkings and Chief Tiger of Comicraft and publishing house Active Images, has been optioned as a movie. Comic Book Resources reports that Richard announced that his creator-owned series Elephantmen has… Read More ›
Month: April 2010
Eagle Times Celebrates 60 Years
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 23 Number One) is now available from the Eagle Society and, naturally enough, is an issue dedicated to the impending 60th anniversary of The Eagle on 14th April. The issue includes an examination… Read More ›
General Jumbo in latest Classics from the Comics
The latest issue of DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics went on sale a few days back, but we’re still playing holiday catch up so this is the first opportunity we’ve had to give it a plug. The 68-page retro… Read More ›
UniComics Festival celebrates 2000AD, Eagle
A new Comics Festival at the University of Hertfordshire later this month will be celebrating some of the best of British comics, with a great line up of events that include appearances by the likes of Dave Gibbons, Pat Mills,… Read More ›
Photo Review: Hi-Ex 2010
There was something missing at Hi-Ex this year – snow. After two years of heavy snow either on or just before the convention’s weekend, organisers Richmond Clements and Vicky Stonebridge pushed this year’s date back from mid-February to the end… Read More ›
John’s a Record Breaker!
Congratulations to downthetubes’ head honcho John Freeman on becoming a Guiness Record Breaker! Doctor Who Magazine has been named the Longest Running Magazine Based on a Television Series. John edited 49 issues of DWM from 1988 t0 1992. He was… Read More ›
John Hicklenton: A Tribute by Pat Mills
Pat Mills looks back at the career of the extraordinarily talented John Hicklenton, who sadly passed away on Friday 19th March 2010. Best known for his brutal, visceral work on flagship 2000AD characters like Judge Dredd (in particular “Heavy Metal Dredd”) and Nemesis the Warlock during… Read More ›
Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
While we’re primarily a British comics news site our remit does often cover the work being done by British comic creators beyond our shores – and one title that recently caught our attention, very belatedly, is Garth Ennis’ Battlefields project… Read More ›