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• Comics @ Edinburgh BookFest

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 7, 2009

  With only a week to go before the start of this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival it seems that the comics related events have proved to be exceedingly popular. So popular in fact that the majority of them are already… Read More ›

• Matters of Convention – We are Family: A conversation with Vicky Stonebridge

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 31, 2009

  Continuing our series of interviews with British comic convention organisers, for this fourth instalment, Matthew Badham chatted to Vicky Stonebridge, the co-organiser, alongside Richmond Clements, of Hi-Ex!, a convention held in Inverness, Scotland, regularly reviewed on downthetubes by Jeremy Briggs…. Read More ›

• Moon Landing: T Plus 4 Days – Splashdown

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 24, 2009

  

  Of the 365 feet of Apollo Saturn V that launched on 16th July, only the 11-foot high Command Module, Columbia, returned to Earth where it safely splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean

• Moon Landing: T Plus 3 Days – The Future

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 23, 2009

  

  As the Apollo 11 Command Service Module covered the quarter of a million miles back from the Moon back to the Earth, NASA had big plans for the Moon

• Moon Landing: T Plus 2 Days – The Return Trip Begins

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 22, 2009

  

  It was actually 21st July that Apollo 11’s return to Earth began. Armstrong and Aldrin spent less than three hours walking on the Moon

• Moon Landing: T Plus 1 Day – First Footsteps

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 21, 2009

  

  Americans would have us believe that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969 because they saw it happen in their late evening

• Moon Landing: T Minus 0 Days – The Eagle Has Landed

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 20, 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the Lunar Module, Eagle, and undocked from the Command Service Module, Columbia

• Moon Landing: T Minus 1 Days – What Could Go Wrong

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 19, 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, the crew of Apollo 11 were almost at the Moon with their mission progressing smoothly

• Moon Landing: T Minus 2 Days – The Spacecraft

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 18, 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew were at the half way stage in their journey from Earth orbit to lunar orbit in their Command Service Module, Columbia

• Moon Landing: T Minus 3 Days – Mission Overview

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 17, 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew were on the first day of their journey from Earth orbit to lunar orbit

• Moon Landing: T Minus 4 Days – Launch

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 16, 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew of three blasted off from Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral…

• Moon Landing: T Minus 5 Days – Predicting The Date

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 15, 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  40 years ago today, the three astronauts making up the crew of Apollo 11 were preparing for launch…

• Photo Review: Starblazer Exhibition

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 8, 2009

  

  Opened as part of the Dundee Literary Festival Comics Day on Sunday 28th June 2009, Dundee University’s Lamb Gallery is currently displaying a selection of artwork from DC Thomson’s Starblazer digest in an exhibition curated by Matthew Jarron. Starblazer was… Read More ›

• In Review: Timeframes Dundee

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 1, 2009

  

  Now in its third year, Dundee University’s comics conference has become established as a regular part of the British comics year and both the number and the recognition factor of the comics creators who attend has increased year on year…. Read More ›

• In Review: Biggles – Spitfire Parade

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 26, 2009

  James Bigglesworth, popularly known as Biggles, is one of those fictional characters that has entered the British public consciousness whether or not they have read any of the novels or short stories written by Captain WE Johns. The first Biggles… Read More ›

• In Review: Lady S Volume One – Here’s To Suzie!

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 21, 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  If you are looking at the cover and thinking that Lady S could to be a story along the lines of Modesty Blaise then you are not far off the mark. Like Modesty, Suzan Fitzroy has a complicated, and not… Read More ›

• Comics Events At the Edinburgh Book Festival

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 19, 2009

  It is almost that time of the year again when the chaos of Festival hits Edinburgh. International, Film, Fringe, Television and the Tattoo as well as many other smaller festivals invade the city, but the one of most interest to… Read More ›

• In Review: Aldebaran – The Catastrophe

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 8, 2009 • ( 2 )

  Created by a Brazilian and originally published in French, Aldebaran was never going to be that traditional a story for British bande dessinee publisher Cinebook to translate into English for the first time. Set on the human colony world of… Read More ›

• Time Capsule: The Origin of "Miracleman"

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 4, 2009

  

  Mick Anglo not only created Marvelman, but Miracleman, too…

• Hi-Ex Comics Convention Returns In 2010

  By Jeremy Briggs on April 26, 2009 • ( 1 )

  After the successful second Hi-Ex comics convention held in Inverness on Valentine’s weekend this year, organisers Vicky Stonebridge and Rich Clements have been in touch to let us know that Hi-Ex will return in 2010. After heavy snowfall prevented many… Read More ›