Paul Cornell is part of a triplesigning at FP Bristolon Friday 21st October Forbidden Planet London has lined up a month of great signings for October that includes a number of comic creators. Here’s the gen. All the events below… Read More ›
Month: September 2011
Classical Comics goes Chinese!
(with thanks to Clive Bryant and Jon Haward): Classical Comics adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, is to be re-published in China by its Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, along with a number of other titles from the successful range…. Read More ›
Will the new Moshi Monsters online channel give magazine further sales boost?
Moshi Monsters Magazine – produced by Britain’s Skyjack Publishing for the brand’s owners, Mind Candy – will get a further boost to its already-phenomenal sales with the arrival of Moshi TV, a new online channel. Describing the new channel as… Read More ›
Adult comic Poot back on the stands
If you want a magazine that comes out with clockwork regularity but doesn’t have many jokes, buy The Economist. If you want an irregularly-appearing magazine with jokes about flatulence, genitalia, going to the lavatory and other “grown-up” topics, buy Poot! … Read More ›
Web FInds: Someone Old, Some New
Art by Cliff Robinson (with thanks to Matt Badham): Many British comic characters may not be getting the exposure these days – who wouldn’t want to see new adventures of Steel Claw or Adam Eterno? – but thanks to the… Read More ›
In Review: Valerian & Laureline – Empire Of A Thousand Planets
Writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières’ spatio-temporal agents Valerian and Laureline return in the second book of their series to be published by Cinebook, The Empire Of A Thousand Planets. It is the 28th century and the two agents… Read More ›
SICBA Awards Exhibition In Glasgow
The successful first Glasgow Comic Convention, held at the Mackintosh Church Arts And Heritage Centre in Maryhill, Glasgow in June 2011, featured the presentation of the first Scottish Independent Comic Book Awards (SICBA) during its evening party. Winners included the… Read More ›
Rian Hughes brings British science fiction comics to Image
US publisher Image Comics will present Tales from Beyond Science, an outrageously pulpy collection of science fiction short stories in December in one hardcover volume, all drawn by Rian Hughes and written by some of Britain’s finest comic writers, including… Read More ›
STRIP Magazine Issue 1 Sneak Preview Online
Read Strip MagazineIssue 1 – Sneak Preview I’m delighted to let downthetubes readers know that a special sampler of STRIP Magazine Issue 1, Print Media Productions new British comics anthology, on sale from 20th October 2011 in all good UK… Read More ›
Panel Borders: War – The Human Cost
Continuing radio show Panel Borders month about War Comics, they will broadcast a final panel discussion recorded at the ‘Comics and Conflicts’ conference at the Imperial War Museum in August tonight. Alex Fitch chairs a discussion on ‘The personal and… Read More ›