Collections of some of the brilliant strips that featured in the subscription-only comic The DFC are in the pipeline for 2010 release. Due in April, March and May respectively are MeZolith by Adam Brockbank and Ben Haggarty, Good Dog, Bad… Read More ›
The DFC
Matters of Convention: “We like original voices…”
Matthew Badham goes behind the scenes of the Caption (taking place at the East Oxford Community Centre on August 15-16th) with two of several co-organisers, Jay Eales and Selina Lock. This is the third of a series of interviews with… Read More ›
Pullman, Rowling part of books "Influential Elite"
The DFC comic writer and award-winning author Philip Pullman and fantasy author JK Rowling, creator of Harry Potter, have been listed as two of the UK book trade’s elite, in a definitive list published by The Bookseller magazine. Called The… Read More ›
Mirabalis Continues Online
New episodes of Mirabilis, which ran in the dead-but-just-resting The DFC, have just been posted online: www.mirabilis-yearofwonders.com/Episodes.html The creation of Dave Morris and Leo Hartas, Mirabilis was originally intended to appear in episodic form in Random House’s weekly comic, before… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 11 April 2009
• ComX publisher Eddie Deighton has just been interviewed for a new article, published here on comicon, giving a little insight into the company and his thoughts on the industry, offering advice for small publishers and comments on viral marketing…. Read More ›
Frights on the Frontier!
The latest issue of the subscription-only weekly British comic The DFC features Jason Cobley and Andrew Wildman’s Frontier on the cover, as heroes Mitch and Daisy find themselves cornered by werewolves in the weird Wild West. “It’s an absolute privilege… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 18 December 2008
• Latest details on the subscription-only weekly comic The DFC are among the updates to our British Comics On Sale Now list on the main downthetubes site. The page has gotten quite lengthy thanks to all the information some publishers… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 15 December 2008
• Warren Ellis has announced he will be writing a column for Conde Nast’s upcoming Wired UK magazine, edited by David Rowan, which launches next spring. “This attempt involves the services of Ben Hammersley, whose CV is twice as long… Read More ›
Dragons, Duels and Deadly Danger in The DFC!
Mirabilis: Year of Wonders is a new ongoing series that starts in Issue 30 of Random House’s comic subsscription-only weekly comic The DFC on 19th December. Written by Dave Morris and illustrated by Leo Hartas, the series tells of a… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 27 November 2008
• Forbidden Planet International is running a competition to win a thousand pound shopping dash in its Belfast store – a three minutes to dash around grabbing up to a grand’s worth of goodies. It’s only open to residents of… Read More ›