I’ll be back posting in the New Year with more interviews from the Sci-Fi Art Now contributors but in the mean time, Oliver Wetter (aka Fantasio) just sent me this cheeky Christmas card you might enjoy! Check out more of… Read More ›
Month: December 2010
Wishing you all the best of the season!
The cover of Rainbow, 15th December 1917. The downthetubes team would like to wish all our readers the very best of the season. If you’re travelling, take care out there and enjoy some down time with family and friends. Normal… Read More ›
Commando evades blizzards, heads for newsagents
Here are the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando to fight their way through the snowdrifts to the newsagents’ shelves. Just in time for Christmas, too. If anyone is having difficulty getting copies in the seasonal weather, Commando editor Calum… Read More ›
Eagle Times Sample Issues Now Available
Eagle Times, Britain’s longest running comics fanzine, is making sample issues available to purchase without the need to join the Eagle Society. While the magazine concentrates on the original 1950s and 1960s Eagle, the current issue includes features on the… Read More ›
Detective Comics #27 flies for £28,200 in British comics auction
Multiple bidding in the room from their live internet feed and three transatlantic telephones led to some impressive results from the Dominic Winter/ Comic Book Auctions on Thursday night, including the headline sale of a copy of Detective Comics #27… Read More ›
Creator-owned strip Numbercruncher launches in Megazine in New Year
A quick Friday plug for Numbercruncher which starts in the New Year in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Created by Si Spurrier and PJ Holden, it’s a creator owned series and we reckon that it deserves support since it is, for… Read More ›
Glasgow’s Hope Street Studios looking for intern
Hope Street Studios in Glasgow are looking for any illustration students interested in a paid internship, who would mainly be doing comic book work but possible storyboarding and design. Top artist and Sci-Fi Art Now contributor Gary Erskine, who is… Read More ›
Glasgow’s Hope Street Studios looking for intern
Hope Street Studios in Glasgow are looking for any illustration students interested in a paid internship, who would mainly be doing comic book work but possible storyboarding and design. Top artist Gary Erskine, who is heading up the hunt, tells… Read More ›
Read Duncan Long’s Masque of the Red Death for free
Duncan Long has released his Christmas gift for his fans – a newly illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death (in PDF format). “A Poe story may seem an odd choice for Christmas,” he notes, “but… Read More ›
Comics in education: SANE Journal launched
The first issue of the academic SANE journal: (which stands for Sequential Art narrative in Education) is out now, with its first issue focusing on “comics in the contact zone.” SANE publishes research- and practioner-based articles covering all intersections of… Read More ›
Bande Dessinee Society seeking new members
Interested in bande dessinee? Then perhaps you should consider membership of the International Bande Dessinée Society and get hold of copies of the journal European Comic Art. The IBDS is a forum for scholarly exchange on all aspects of the… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Derek the Sheep, the Mouse Guard and other Comical Animals
In a packed final show on radio show Panel Borders for 2010, Alex Fitch concludes his look at anthropomorphic comics, with a survey of recent titles for all ages – Gary Northfield’s ‘Derek the Sheep’ who appears in The Beano… Read More ›