downthetubes.net is a big site, but we never realised, until recently, just how big – and that’s causing us problems. Apparently, we’ve reached some sort of file number limit that’s making posting news items here an absolute slog.
So, to get around this while we enter the final phase of a behind-the-scenes upgrade, news items will run on this temporary DTT-2025 blog first, and will be imported to downthetubes later.
Apologies for giving our loyal readers a bit of a runaround, but we don’t want to get behind bringing yout the best of the comic news, and I don’t want to lose any more hair than I already have when images fail to upload or a post fails to publish!
John Freeman
Publisher, Crucible Comic Press
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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