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• In Review: Buck Danny – No-Fly Zone

  By Jeremy Briggs on 7 December 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 13 November 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 12 November 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 12 November 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 ›

• In Review: To End All Wars

  By Jeremy Briggs on 11 November 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 10 November 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 10 November 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 2 November 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 25 October 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 23 October 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 14 October 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 13 October 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 12 October 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 11 October 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 10 October 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 24 September 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 13 September 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 2 September 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 ›