We catch up with the author of the award-winning graphic novel FLAKE
Matthew Dooley
Early Bird Tickets available now for October’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Get your Early Bird Tickets for the Lakes Festival, an event whose line up includes Alison Bechdel, Jaime Hernandez and Posy Simmonds
WebFind: Various Artists – Comics about the Music that inspires us
I’ve just come across Various Artists, a great web site packed with music inspired comics, the brainchild of artist Tim Bird, whose books include Grey Area, Reads and the forthcoming The Great North Wood from Avery Hill Publishing. Rock & Pop started… Read More ›
Observer/ Cape/ Comica Graphic Short Story 2017 Competition Launches
Are you an aspiring graphic novelist? Do you have an original story to tell? Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels and Comica have again got together with the Observer newspaper to offer you the chance to see your work in print and win £1,000…. Read More ›
Matthew Dooley’s Milkman tale wins him £1000 Graphic Short Story Prize
Matthew Dooley, whose previous works include the self-published comic Meanderings, is the 2016 winner of the Cape Observer Comica Graphic Short Story Prize. His four-page story, “Colin Turnbull: A Tall Story“, which you can read here, wins £1,000 cash and… Read More ›
Preview – Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 7
Dirty Rotten Comics issue 7 Edited by Gary Clap and Kirk Campbell Featuring – Matthew Dooley, Alex Potts, Jey Levang, Darren Cullen & Mark Tolson, Kathryn Briggs, Peony Gent, Andrez Bergeb & Chris Wahl, Douglas Noble, Stanley Miller, Bethan Mure,… 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 ›
In Review – Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 6
Edited by Gary Clap and Kirk Campbell Art and Design by Gary Clap These people do not mess about. Back with another big old chunk of awesome comics anthology goodness are the creators from Dirty Rotten Comics in their sixth… Read More ›
Dirty Rotten Comics Launch Event This Friday
The team behind Dirty Rotten Comics are having a launch event for Dirty Rotten Comics Issue 4 on Friday 17th April at the Horse and Stables pub opposite Lambeth North tube station. This bumper Spring 2015 anthology clocks in at just under a staggering hundred pages and features… Read More ›
Free OFF LIFE #11 anthology features new talent, Jack Teagle and much more
OFF LIFE Issue 11 – the latest edition of the free street comic – is available now in all the usual stockists and in digital from via the title’s official web site. Wrapped in a cover by Sébastien Thibault, editor… Read More ›