Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday 18th February 2015. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold below, or titles with… Read More ›
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Edinburgh International Book Festival announces comic guests, including George RR Martin
The programme for this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival was announced last week, featuring some 900 participants over two weeks, making it, probably, “the biggest book bash on Planet Earth” according to Forbidden Planet International’s Joe Gordon. There isn’t as… Read More ›
downthetubes Needs You!
Are you interested in writing about British comics? Are you a comics reviewer? Since downthetubes.net changed formats last year, we’ve seen a growing audience for our coverage of British comics. Hand in hand, that we’ve also seen a massive rise in… Read More ›
Art Hero: An interview with Daniel Clifford
I’ve been talking to Daniel Clifford about his work and his collaborations and fascinating sounding workshops, and I’m sharing the resulting interview here and the ace Forbidden International blog. Born in South Shields in 1986, writer and educator Daniel Clifford, who has… Read More ›
Sarah McIntyre’s 20 Top Tips for great Holiday Prezzies!
(Re-posted with the full permission of ace comic creator Sarah McIntyre): I thought I’d compile a list of some of the yummiest things out there this Christmas – stuff I’ve geeked out over this year – in case it inspires… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Bad Planets and Misguided Islands
Starting a month of shows about comic book creators who collaborate together, later today on radio show Panel Borders Alex Fitch talks to to pairs of creators who come from outside the world of comics. In an interview recorded at… Read More ›
Free Comics Family Zone at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival launched
Free events and activity for all the family (even if they’re not all in to comics) will take place in the Comics Family Zone at The Westmorland Shopping Centre and Kendal Library during the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in… Read More ›
Pirates of Pangea Checklist
The third series of Pirates of Pangaea recently drew to a close in The Phoenix – one of the title’s most popular strips – and Neill Cameron reports work is proceeding apace on the next chapter (“and indeed the next… Read More ›
DC Comics vamps up its digital titles, will British publishers follow their lead?
DC Entertainment has just unveiled two new digital innovations today that the company says will take its comics to “the next level of interactivity” – DC2, a new initiative that layers dynamic artwork onto digital comic panels, adding a new level… Read More ›
Rainbow Orchid Prequel In The Phoenix This Friday
Artist and writer Garen Ewing’s latest adventure of Julius Chancer, The Secret of the Samurai, a prequel to his three book Rainbow Orchid saga, is starting a four week run in The Phoenix beginning this weekend. The twenty page adventure… Read More ›