As part of their Northern Ireland Political Collection Lunchtime Lecture series, this week Belfast’s prestigious Linen Hall Library will feature talks on comics and political cartoons. The Linen Hall Library, opposite Belfast’s City Hall, was founded in 1788 and is… Read More ›
Month: November 2011
Millar and McCrea Create A Blue Peter Superhero
The creator of Kick-Ass and Wanted creating a comic strip for the BBC children’s programme Blue Peter? As odd as it sounds writer Mark Millar visited the new Blue Peter studio in Manchester on 1 November along with STRIP Magazine… Read More ›
Dundee Comics Day 2011 – Other Voices
downthetubes has been reviewing the Dundee University comics events run by Dr Chris Murray for many years, long before they were labelled as the Dundee Comics Day, and those reviews were often the only independent record of those events. Indeed… Read More ›
Alan and Steve Moore’s poetry goes online
One of the more obscure of Alan Moore‘s works is Technical Vocabularies, a poetry collection he and Steve Moore produced in 2004 in very limited numbers. Now, Alan and Steve have allowed Padraig O Méaloid to post it online on… Read More ›
Bizarre Omen Bodes Well for Strip Magazine?
It’s a funny old world. This week, Print Media Productions launched their new comic magazine Strip, featuring reprints of the classic 1970s comic story Hookjaw, which features a shark with a hook stuck in its jaw as the main character…. Read More ›
Photo Review: Dundee Comics Day 2011
“The Dundee Comics Day has been the highlight of my comics year so far and I look forward in anticipation to what Chris Murray and his team have in store for next year” was how I ended my review of… Read More ›
Angels – Immediate Launch!
Despite Captain Scarlet being over 40 years old, Spectrum remains green. Spectrum’s Angel aircraft, as featured in Gerry Anderson’s 1967 TV series Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons, remain popular enough to have two new merchandise releases before Christmas. Featuring in… Read More ›
Artist Spotlight: Jésus Blasco
The Illustration Art Gallery is spotlighting the work of the late Jésus Blasco this month, offering a 20 per cent discount on any orders of his original art, which includes pages of perhaps his best-known strip in the UK, The… Read More ›
Cartoonist Steve English wins first ‘Tartan Bucket’ prize
Steve English with his‘Tartan Bucket’ Steve English has just been awarded the first Tartan Bucket Prize (named in honour of famous Scottish comics character Oor Wullie) organised by Dundee University in conjunction with D C Thomson. The aim of the… Read More ›
Army photographer captures off duty moments of serving soldiers
In her forthcoming photographic exhibition, ‘Make Do and Mend’, award-winning Terriotorial Army Sergeant Alison Baskerville has captured images of many off duty moments for soldiers serving overseas in today’s combat zones. Sergeant Baskerville returned this summer from a tour… Read More ›