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• Star Wars stormtroopers storm Inverness!

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 16, 2010

  If you’re out and about in Inverness this coming Saturday (20th March) you best watch your step. Because at around mid-day, the Eastgate centre will see a mini invasion, in the shape of stormtroopers from the Star Wars movies, courtesy… Read More ›

• Hi-Ex Hell Trek!

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 4, 2010

  How far would you go to read comics? Maybe a trip to the local shops? Well, comics fan John Burdis has gone a few steps further than that and organised a marathon bus journey from the South of England to… Read More ›

• In Review: The Bluecoats – The Skyriders

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 14, 2010

  The Bluecoats are two members of the Union cavalry during the American Civil War, the enthusiastic Sergeant Cornelius Chesterfield and the reluctant Corporal Blutch. In The Skyriders, having survived a battle that decimated their cavalry troop and with their commanding… Read More ›

• In Review: IR$ – Silicia, Inc.

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 8, 2010

  Larry B Max works for the American Internal Revenue Service investigating the international money laundering of organised crime and as such uses his knowledge of high finance to fight international crime for the US government. In California, Max is investigating… Read More ›

• Judge Dredd Weekly Issue 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 7, 2010 • ( 3 )

  Here is another British comic cover that we wish was real. After last week’s cover of Starblazer issue 282 created by artist Graeme Neil Reid (the pencils of which are still available to win in the current Scotch Corner competition)… Read More ›

• Hi-Ex Update: Shelton, McIntyre, Heggie confirmed guests

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 1, 2010

  The Scottish HiEx comic convention has just announced several guests for its next event in March 2010. Taking place at Eden Court Inverness (27th and 28th of March), the convention – very much a family event – will feature a… Read More ›

• In Review: Clifton – Jade

  By Jeremy Briggs on January 31, 2010

  

  Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton, former RAF pilot, former British spy, current Scout leader and not a grumpy person, as he would rather grumpily tell you, first appeared in the Begian edition of Tintin magazine in 1959 with the same… Read More ›

• In Review: Pandora’s Box – Sloth

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 26, 2009

  As we all slowly recover from the excesses of Christmas it seems an appropriate time to be looking at Cinebook’s latest offering from their Pandora’s Box series, Sloth. American Olympic sprinter Paris Troy has been the fastest man in the… Read More ›

• Hi Ex Tickets now on sale

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 8, 2009

  Ace Scottish comics event Hi-Ex, which will take place in Inverness over Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th March 2010, are now offering advance weekend and day tickets through the website at discounted prices, via Paypal. Guests at the event (subject… Read More ›

• In Review: Lucky Luke – The Oklahoma Land Rush

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 3, 2009

  Lucky Luke is the cowboy who can shoot faster than his own shadow and, in the French speaking world, is probably third in bande dessinees character popularity behind the behemoths of Tintin and Asterix with over 70 titles published –… Read More ›

• In Review: Spirou And Fantasio – Adventure Down Under

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 27, 2009

  The weekly comic magazine that is now known as Spirou began as Le Journal Du Spirou in April 1938 in the French speaking Belgian region of Wallonia and the character of Spirou has been in it since that first issue…. Read More ›

• In Review: Thought Bubble 2009

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 24, 2009 • ( 1 )

  The weather gods seem to have it in for comics conventions. Hi-Ex is already infamous for its snow while this year, despite the rains that brought misery to Cumbria, Leeds was dry on the morning of Saturday 21 November but… Read More ›

• Hi-Ex Gets Funding Boost

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 16, 2009

  Fab Scottish comics convention Hi-Ex has just secured local council funding for its next gathering in 2010. BBC News reports the Highland Council has offered funding for the outreach programme which would see artists and writers hold workshops in schools… Read More ›

• In Review: Blake And Mortimer – SOS Meteors

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 2, 2009

  Originally published in 1959 as SOS Météores, this was the eighth of the, to date, eighteen Blake and Mortimer albums. However as Cinebook have been jumping around in the original publication order this is actually their sixth Blake and Mortimer… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Anderson events, Dan Dare Toys and a Cartoon Classroom update

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 14, 2009

  • Gerry Anderson official fan club Fanderson have announced they will be staging their first major convention for four years next year. TV21: Adventure in the 21st Century will be based at the Ramada Bristol City – the same venue… Read More ›

• Cinebook Hits 100

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 1, 2009

  British publishers of some top class European graphic albums Cinebook have just been celebrating the publication of their 100th book – and not just any book, since it’s the newest instalment of adventure series Blake and Mortimer, published in English… Read More ›

• In Review: Great British Fantasy Comic Book Heroes

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 10, 2009

  During the Second World War, with imported resources costing ships and lives, paper was one of the many things that came under the ration. In Britain comics were not a wartime priority and publishers had to cancel some titles while… Read More ›

• Gaiman And Rankin On BBC2 On Wednesday

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 24, 2009

  As the Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this week under canvas in the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens, BBC2’s Edinburgh Festival Show will feature a taster of what was one of the best BookFest events of last week. Fantasy author… Read More ›

• In Review: Scarlattine Teatro’s Manolibera

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 20, 2009

  Clare Walters, the original director of The Ballad of Halo Jones stage play, reviews Manolibera, a comics-inpsired show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe… Manolibera is a very charming and ingenious show. A technician is called in to operate a slideshow… Read More ›

• In Review: Papyrus – The Rameses’ Revenge

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 17, 2009

  From the futuristic Aldebaran via the contemporary Lady S to Biggles flying in World War II skies, downthetubes’ reviews of Cinebook graphic novels have been moving backwards through time and the theme continues with the Papyrus book, The Rameses’ Revenge…. Read More ›