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• Hammer Horror Exhibition at Falkirk Wheel Visitor Centre

  By Jeremy Briggs on 4 November 2007 • ( 1 )

  

  The Falkirk Wheel is a unique rotating boat lift which links the Union Canal, which ends in Edinburgh, with the Forth and Clyde Canal, which ends in Glasgow. It may not be the most obvious place to hold a exhibition… Read More ›

• Graphic Novels by Any Other Name?

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 July 2007

  

  Jeremy Briggs has kindly provided downthetubes with a smashing feature and checklist for DC Thomson’s Red Dagger title, a 64 page compilation title little known among comics fans which featured strips from Hornet, Hotspur, Warlord and others with many issues… Read More ›

• Red Dagger: Issue By Issue

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 July 2007

  

  The following check list for DC Thomson’s Red Dagger has been built up from many different sources, not all of which could be cross referenced for accuracy. If you can add any additional information, or can correct any mistakes, then… Read More ›

• Red Dagger: Graphic Novels by Any Other Name

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 July 2007

  

  Jeremy Briggs probes the mystery of DC Thomson’s little known title Red Dagger, and wonders why the company isn’t publishing something similar today… “Graphic Novel” is a much abused term. While it really should refer to a single one off… Read More ›

• Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!! Seeing New Worlds In Dundee

  By Jeremy Briggs on 28 May 2007

  

  Scotland is currently in the middle of the Six Cities Design Festival and Dundee, the home of Beano and Dandy publishers DC Thomson, has been running comics related events as part of the festival. Jeremy Briggs reports… The Dundee Contemporary Arts… Read More ›

• In Review: See New Worlds

  By Jeremy Briggs on 28 May 2007

  

  See New Worlds, A Journey Through Time To Discover The Future of Dundee was the free 24 page full colour comic which was created for the Six Cities Design Festival. The same size and paper type as the current Beano, 50,000… Read More ›

• In Review: Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot

  By Jeremy Briggs on 30 March 2007

  

  Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot Published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Dark Horse in the US The Book: Sunderland! Thirteen hundred years ago, it was the greatest centre of learning in the whole of Christendom and the… Read More ›

• Cam Kennedy on Kidnapped

  By Jeremy Briggs on 7 March 2007

  

  Over on the Forbidden Planet International blog, Joe Gordon has delivered a full transcript of the recent Kidnapped event at the Scottish Book Trust where artist Cam Kennedy was talking with publisher Ron Grosset about Cam and Alan Grant’s adaptation… Read More ›

• Kidnapping Edinburgh

  By Jeremy Briggs on 7 March 2007

  

  Jeremy Briggs reports on how a new comics adaptation of Robert Louis Stevens classic novel took Scotland’s capital by storm in February 2007… February 2007. In Edinburgh, you just could not get away from Cam Kennedy’s artwork for the new… Read More ›

• Commando goes Space Opera with “Shuttle Down!”

  By Jeremy Briggs on 17 January 2007

  

  For those who would like some new British space opera in the gap between issues of Spaceship Away, one of the early January batch of DC Thomson’s Commando comics is titles “Shuttle Down!” Commando Issue 3971 – one of four Commando titles released this… Read More ›