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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan - his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War" and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of "Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies" for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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Future to launch Comic Heroes magazine in March
Bolstered by the sales success of an SFX comics special last year, UK publishers Future have announced a March launch for Comic Heroes, a premium-priced quarterly magazine title that promises to take an in-depth look at the latest superhero movies,… Read More ›
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Crikey! regroups after Borders collapse
The editor of British comics magazine Crikey! has revealed the recent collapse of Borders UK has proved a bit of a catastrophe for the magazine, as the loss of that chain and its affiliates took away about 70% of its… Read More ›
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Tube Surfing: Marvel, Disney, Stan Lee and possible iTablet launch
• Marvel Entertainment stockholders approved the company’s merger with Disney at a special meeting held last Thursday (31st December). Under the agreement, valued at an estimated $4.3 billion, Marvel becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. Whether this will ultimately have… Read More ›
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Don’t Get Lost webcomic blog launched
Andrew Luke has launched his strip blog, Don’t Get Lost, which he describes as a 300-page tale of abuse and survival through the self and friendship. The tale begins as a man flees from potential violence at the hand of… Read More ›
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Félicitations – Anthea Bell OBE
Our belated congratulations to Anthea Bell for receiving her Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for “services to Literature and Literary Translations.” Anthea is best known to us for the English language… Read More ›
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DC Thomson bids farewell to Bill Graham
DC Thomson editor Bill Graham – whose credits include Starblazer, Warlord and Spike and had a long and varied career with the Dundee-based company – has just retired. Previously interviewed by Jeremy Briggs for the site, what we haven’t published… Read More ›
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Comic Book Alliance launches logo competition
The Comic Book Alliance – a UK-based not-for-profit organisation – has just launched a competition for creators to come up with a logo, which runs until the end of January 2010. The competition, intended to find an iconic logo for… Read More ›
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Dan Dare Figures: Sneek Peek
Award-winning toy figure maker Day2Day Trading has just sent us these impressive shots of their new Dan Dare prototype figure, due for release next year (2010). The Dare figure is just the start of a full Dan Dare range from… Read More ›
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Seek and Strike out for the new Commandos…
The latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando went on sale a day early this week as we bid goodbye to 2009. There’s also some advance news for the next round of issues on sale in January 2010. “We’ll be starting… Read More ›
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Merry Christmas
Well hopefully Santa arrived at your house last night and didn’t look too much like this. New Eagle’s most popular character was of course Dan Dare but its most popular new character was Doomlord.The alien Doomlord Vek from the planet… Read More ›