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• In Review: SAM – After Man

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 8, 2015

  

  SAM – After Man is the first in a four-part post-apocalyptic tale of teenagers versus robots written by Richard Marazano and illustrated by Xiao Shang, and the book that won the Best Teenage Album prize at Angouleme in 2012. It… Read More ›

• Dee-Con in Dundee: Four weeks to go

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 7, 2015

  

  There are only four weeks to go until this year’s Dee-Con event at the Dundee University Student’s Association (DUSA). It is being held on Saturday 4 April and doors open at Noon for the all ages daytime programme of sales… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Encounters

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Kenya – Encounters is the second book in Cinebook’s translation of Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) and Rodolphe’s (Rodolphe Daniel Jacquette) ongoing series of spies, extinct beasts and strange flying lights that is set in post war-Kenya. Tom the native guide… Read More ›

• Jessica Martin’s Picture Palace comes to the Radlett Centre in March

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 27, 2015

  

  An exhibition of actress, singer, and now comic writer and illustrator, Jessica Martin’s artwork will take place in the Radlett Centre in Radlett, North London beginning on Monday 2nd March 2015 and lasting until Tuesday 31st March 2015. Entitled Jessica… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII Mystery – The Mongoose

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 22, 2015

  

  With the original run of XIII now complete for the first time in English, publisher Cinebook move on to the original French spin-off books, XIII Mystery, a series of one-off stories each focussing on individual characters from the XIII universe… Read More ›

• What’s All the Fuss About… Doctor Who?

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 21, 2015

  

  FBS Publishing have announced a new non-fiction book about Doctor Who which has been co- authored by occasional downthetubes contributor Ian Wheeler. Ian has teamed-up with Will Hadcroft to write What’s All the Fuss About…? An Introduction to Doctor Who:… Read More ›

• Dundee University asks “Comics, So What?” in March

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  On Saturday 7th March 2015 from 1pm onwards the University of Dundee is hosting an event celebrating comics and graphic novels entitled “Comics, So What?” It features workshops and talks by comics creators, and invites members of the public of all… Read More ›

• In Review: The Survivors – Episode 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 15, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Cinebook begins the spin-off series from Leo’s Worlds Of Aldebaran books with The Survivors – Episode 1, a tale set during the initial colonisation of Aldebaran IV, 100 years before the main series begins. The reason Earth abandoned the Aldebaran… Read More ›

• In Review: Stephenson’s Robot Issue 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 10, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Accent UK have a new seven issue mini-series in the form of Stephenson’s Robot, an SF-horror-steampunk themed anthology from writers Dave West and Jon Ayres and artists Indio! and Marleen Starksfield Lowe. In the universe of Stephenson’s Robot the creator of the… Read More ›

• In Review: Lady S – Portuguese Medley

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 7, 2015

  

  Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Philippe Aymond’s Lady S has moved from being Suzan in America to being Shania in France and is about to head south from there in the latest of her books to be translated into… Read More ›

• In Review: Vivacity by Jessica Martin

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 2, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  A follow-up 2013’s It Girl, Vivacity moves Jessica Martin’s non-fiction Hollywood Heroines theme from the silent black and white era into the glamour of the early colour epics with the life story of Oscar, BAFTA and Tony winning British actress,… Read More ›

• In Review: Thorgal – The Cage

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 1, 2015

  

  Writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Gzegorz Rosinski’s ongoing tales of the Viking adventurer Thorgal continue in The Cage, the fifteenth Thorgal book that Cinebook have published covering twenty-one of the original French albums. Recent books have covered Thorgal’s loss… Read More ›

• Après Charlie: Was Heath Robinson Really On The Nazi Death List?

  By Jeremy Briggs on January 18, 2015

  

  The day after the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, chairman of the British Cartoonists’ Association Martin Rowson wrote in the Daily Mirror of the need for satire and how political cartoonists had been targeted through the years. Part of his… Read More ›

• Easter Comic Cons in Scotland

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 14, 2014

  

  Tired of hearing about Christmas yet? Let’s jump forward to Easter then as Easter 2015 sees two conventions returning to Scotland, Dee-Con in Dundee and the Edinburgh Comic Con. Dee-Con has been running under various different names at the Dundee University… Read More ›

• In Review: Buck Danny – No-Fly Zone

  By Jeremy Briggs on December 7, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  Cinebook brings us the fourth in their translated adventures of US military pilot Colonel Buck Danny in Francis Bergese’s No-Fly Zone, originally published in France in 1998 as Zone Interdite, the 47th French Buck Danny album. Buck Danny, with his… Read More ›

• Jessica Martin’s “Vivacity” Debuts At Thought Bubble

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 13, 2014

  

  This time last year actress, impressionist and singer Jessica Martin took her debut comic It Girl to Thought Bubble in Leeds. This was a biographical vignette of the silent movie star Clara Bow, star of the 1927 film It who… Read More ›

• Hamster Punk – Pets, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll at Thought Bubble

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 13, 2014

  

  Star Wars: Clone Wars and How To Train Your Dragon artist Tanya Roberts will be at Thought Bubble in Leeds promoting her brand new comic Hamster Punk. This came out of a meeting between Tanya and writer Anthony Jones at… Read More ›

• In Review: Leap Issue 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 13, 2014

  

  Uproar Comic’s collectively created science fiction comic Leap returns after Issue Zero for the first part of the main story. The sleeper ship Vanguard was sent out from Earth eighty years ago as the first in a fleet of 13… Read More ›

• The Old West comes to Thought Bubble with “Tales Of WesterNoir”

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 12, 2014

  

  One of our favourite small press series here on downthetubes over the last couple of years has been writer Dave West and artist Gary Crutchley’s WesterNoir. The series tells the tale Josiah Black who hunts supernatural creatures in the Old… Read More ›

• In Review: Yoko Tsuno – The Forge Of Vulcan

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 12, 2014

  

  Roger Leloup’s Yoko Tsuno returns in the ninth of her books to be translated into English by Cinebook, The Forge Of Vulcan, which is a sequel to the very first Yoko story The Curious Trio. In The Curious Trio Yoko… Read More ›