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• Five Weird Comic Book Crossovers That Worked

  By downthetubes Guests on November 21, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  David Ferguson looks back at some odd crossover comics

• In Memoriam: Comic book inker, Andrew (Drew) Hennessy

  By downthetubes Guests on November 14, 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  His passion for art led to a lifelong dedication to a career in comic inking

• In Review: Heritage Comics Presents Spellbound: Damian Darke and I Don’t Want To Be a Witch!

  By downthetubes Guests on November 7, 2025

  

  DC Thomson’s latest collection reviewed

• Looking Back at Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2025

  By downthetubes Guests on October 23, 2025

  

  Finn Miles assesses this year’s “LICAF”

• Five Dystopian Future Comic Stories You Should Not Miss

  By downthetubes Guests on October 12, 2025

  

  Exploring the future can be a dangerous thing. David Ferguson reports…

• The Future Was Then exhibition opens at London’s Cartoon Museum

  By downthetubes Guests on October 11, 2025

  

  Step into a weird, wonderful future!

• Bayeux tapestry set to return to the UK – in medieval times it was like an immersive art installation

  By downthetubes Guests on August 29, 2025

  

  Is the Bayeux tapestry a work of art?

• Five Jack Kirby DC Comics Characters That Should be on the Big Screen

  By downthetubes Guests on August 25, 2025 • ( 5 )

  

  Time for more Kirby goodness to shine on screen?

• In Pictures and Review: Comics in focus at The National Library of Ireland

  By downthetubes Guests on August 16, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  Irish Comics in the spotlight

• Brought to book: How some classic Fleetway Pocket comic war stories were returned to print

  By downthetubes Guests on August 11, 2025

  

  Go behind the scenes on restoring classic British comics

• In Review: Irish Conflict in Comics in the 20th Century

  By downthetubes Guests on August 7, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  David Ferguson reviews this important new title about Irish comics and more

• Target: 2025

  By downthetubes Guests on July 29, 2025

  

  “Well, here we go again!”

• Celebrating 200 Years of The Glasgow Looking Glass

  By downthetubes Guests on July 3, 2025

  

  Did cosmic coincidence help bring life to the New Glasgow Looking Glass?

• Doctor Who lands at Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

  By downthetubes Guests on July 1, 2025

  

  Don’t miss two special Doctor Who-related exhibitions

• Comics, Creativity and Hastings Comic Con with Colleen Douglas, Dennis Menheere and Lucy Sullivan

  By downthetubes Guests on June 11, 2025

  

  David Baillie meets three more creators heading to Hastings this weekend

• Comics, Creativity and Hastings Comic Con with Russell Mark Olson, Karrie Fransman and Ant Williams

  By downthetubes Guests on June 10, 2025

  

  Three creators talk creating comics and comic cons

• In Review: The Quatermass Experiment: The Making of TV’s First Sci-Fi Classic

  By downthetubes Guests on June 4, 2025

  

  A book 36 years in the making – well worth the wait, says Andrew Pixley

• Celebrating 20 Years of Hibernia Comics

  By downthetubes Guests on May 29, 2025

  

  Publisher David McDonald reflects on 20 years of plundering comic archives!

• Why Comics and Crowdfunding Are a Perfect Match

  By downthetubes Guests on May 15, 2025

  

  Tyler James muses on why comics are outperforming games, tech, publishing, and more

• In Review: David Leach Conquers the Universe #4

  By downthetubes Guests on May 7, 2025

  

  OiNK! expert Philip Boyce reviews the final issue