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• In Review: To End All Wars

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 11, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  There have already been quite a few Great War comics and graphic novels published this year in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the start of the conflict and no doubt there will be many more to come as… Read More ›

• In Review: Jampires by Sarah McIntyre and David O’Connell

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 10, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  We rarely review children’s books on this blog They are not really what it’s all about, But why should we let groups like MumsNet then hog All the work these creators put out? Jampires is about little creatures who suck… Read More ›

• Uproar At Thought Bubble!

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 10, 2014

  

  Londonderry’s Uproar Comics will be at Thought Bubble this weekend coming with their award-winning Zombies Hi series and their new science fiction series Leap. Created out of the 2D Collective, a group of creators who got together through Derry’s now… Read More ›

• Photo Review: Dundee Comics Day 2014

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 2, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The event that became the Dundee Comics Day (DCD) began at the University of Dundee in 2007 with the two day academic conference entitled ‘Biff! Bam!! Crikey!!!’ in 2007. Run by Dr Chris Murray (below) of the university’s Department of… Read More ›

• Creators @ Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2014: Part 2

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 25, 2014

  

  This is the continuation of our round-up of some of the creators who were appearing at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal over the weekend of 17-19 October 2014. The first part is here and this final part… Read More ›

• Creators @ Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2014: Part 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 23, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  ‘Welcoming’ is a good description of the second Lakes International Comic Art Festival held over the weekend of 17-19 October 2014 in Kendal in the Lake District. After the inaugural festival last year had proven popular, this year everything seemed… Read More ›

• In Review: White Death

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 14, 2014

  

  White Death, written by Robbie Morrison and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, covers the little known Italian/Austro-Hungarian mountain conflict during the First World War during which avalanches were used by both sides as a weapon of war. In October 1916 Italian… Read More ›

• In Review: Plagued – The Miranda Chronicles 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 13, 2014

  

  Plagued: The Miranda Chronicles Chapter One is the beginning of a new science-fiction comic book series from Scottish creators writer Gary Chudleigh and artist Tanya Roberts. Scotland in the future is a plague-stricken wasteland where witches are real albeit not… Read More ›

• In Review: Butterfly Gate

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 12, 2014

  

  How do you review an ‘unreviewable’ book? Be quick about it? Buy Butterfly Gate – you won’t regret it because it is remarkably good. Of course that is not the way we do reviews on downthetubes. We normally try to… Read More ›

• In Review: Red Baron – Rain Of Blood

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 11, 2014

  

  Writer Carlos Puerta and artist Pierre Veys continue their slight twist on the life of World War One fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen in the second part of their Red Baron series, Rain Of Blood. Von Richthofen’s heightened ability to know… Read More ›

• In Review: Wisher – Nigel

  By Jeremy Briggs on October 10, 2014

  

  As Cinebook complete or catch up with the French publication of many of their ongoing series they have been introducing new titles to their line-up. The latest of these new titles is Wisher which begins its ongoing story with Nigel… Read More ›

• In Review: Corpse Talk Season 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 24, 2014

  

  By Adam Murphy Publisher: David Fickling Books Out: Now The Book: The dead are rising! Up out of the mouldering pages of history comes the chat show that digs the dirt on some of history’s most famous, infamous and downright incredible… Read More ›

• Creators @ MCM Scotland Comic Con 2014

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 13, 2014

  

   In 2013 the MCM organisation severely underestimated the level of interest in their MCM Scotland Comic Con and the queues to get in on its single day reached near legendary status, as well as the BBC News. This year things… Read More ›

• Subversive Comics Kickstarts Bearlands Issue 6

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 2, 2014

  

  A short while back we reviewed the first three issues of Subversive Comics’ great Bearlands comic. Written by Jeremy Biggs and illustrated by Bakki, Bearlands takes the now seemingly ubiquitous zombie apocalypse tale and gives it a new twist –… Read More ›

• In Review: The Scorpion – In The Name Of The Son

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 22, 2014

  

  The Scorpion returns with In The Name Of The Son,  the fourth part of the latest ongoing story of the swashbuckling 18th century rogue who is trying to discover who his father was and his battles with the less-than-holy Pope Trebaldi which… Read More ›

• The Bible Goes Commando At The British Library

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 20, 2014

  

  The British Library’s comics exhibition Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy In The UK, enthusiastically billed by the library as “the UK’s largest ever exhibition of mainstream and underground comics” has just completed its time in the library’s PACCAR Gallery. However… Read More ›

• Saucy Goings On At The Edinburgh International Book Festival

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 18, 2014

  

  The Edinburgh International Book Festival is currently in full swing and while the 40+ events of last year’s Stripped 2013 festival-within-a-festival have been scaled back to the more typical BookFest number of a dozen or so, with creators including Bryan… Read More ›

• In Review: Kenya – Apparitions

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 15, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Kenya – Apparitions is the first in a new series created by Leo and Rodolphe and translated into English by Cinebook. Colonial Kenya in 1947 is a place for big game safaris and American pulp novelist John Remington is on… Read More ›

• In Review: Antares – Episode 5

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 13, 2014

  

    Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga with Antares Episode 5, the continuation of the third series of his incredibly alien tales of 22nd century interplanetary settlers and the beasts and… Read More ›

• In Review: Red Baron – The Machine Gunners’ Ball

  By Jeremy Briggs on August 11, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Cinebook present a new series, Red Baron, set during the First World War and “loosely inspired” by the life of German fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, written by Pierre Veys and illustrated by Carlos Puerta. This isn’t the Luftwaffe against the… Read More ›