Arvon are running a five-day residential Graphic Novel course with Leah Moore (Sherlock Holmes), Kate Charlesworth (Sally Heathcote: Suffragettes) and Isabel Greenberg this June at The Hurst in Shropshire. All three creators are experienced graphic novelists who have a mass knowledge to share with aspiring Graphic Novel… Read More ›
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Through the Looking Glass: Inside the pages of the Oldest Comic in the World
Article first published 15th March 2016 By Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow Here’s a good pub quiz question: what was the world’s first comic? If you’ve no idea, don’t feel too foolish. It wasn’t even recognised by experts until a… Read More ›
Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 37: Bertie Bear creator Andy W. Clift
This week the Awesome Comics Podcast gang are joined by the creator of Bertie Bear, and super nice guy, Andy W.Clift to talk about his comics, his influences, his work as a flatter for Marvel and so much more! Not only… Read More ›
Dirty Rotten Comics team go crazy and launch new publishing house, Throwaway Press
The team behind the brilliant Dirty Rotten Comics anthology, which we’ve raved about several times here on downthetubes, have clearly gone completely mad with power and launched their own publishing house – Throwaway Press. The brand new publishing house is headed up… Read More ›
Britain’s Small Press Day and Comic Shops That Sell Small Press Titles
Interest is growing rapidly in Small Press Day in the UK on 9th July 2016 – the brainchild of a group of comic creators including David Ziggy Greene, the team at Alternative Press and the smashing Andy Oliver over at… Read More ›
A Grand Day Out: A Trip to London’s Cartoon Museum
London’s Cartoon Museum is a great place to visit – and downthetubes reader Izzy World popped along recently to take a look… Located in the heart of Bloomsbury, about five minutes from either Tottenham Court Road or Holborn tube, the… Read More ›
When Saturday Comes: Comic Sporting Heroes of Yesteryear
While attending the inaugural Capital Sci-Fi Con at Meadowbank earlier this year, I got to see James “Safest Hands in Soccer” McCulloch, the author of City of Lost Souls being ambushed by John “Ball of Fire” Ferguson of DiamondSteel Comics… Read More ›
2000AD Script Book to reveal original work of comics giants
Some of the world’s greatest comic writers have cut their teeth at the world famous 2000AD – and now readers will get to see their creative power laid bare with The 2000AD Script Book. Published this October in the UK and North America, The… Read More ›
Cam Kennedy helps launch new comic course at University of Dundee
Legendary Judge Dredd and Star Wars artist Cam Kennedy will help launch a new postgraduate programme for aspiring comics artists, writers and scholars at the University of Dundee later today. The new MLitt/MDes Comics and Graphic Novels course will be… Read More ›
Panel Borders delves into Action – The Story of a Violent Comic
Panel Borders, the only regular monthly look at comic books, graphic novels and sequential art steam* broadcast in the UK over the airwaves, delves into the story behind one of the country’s most controversial comics tonight. Guest presenter Professor Martin… Read More ›