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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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2009 Harvey Award Nominees Announced
The 2009 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced with the release of the final ballot, presented by the Executive Committees of the Harvey Awards and the Baltimore Comic-Con, with British creators Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely among the honoured nomimees…. Read More ›
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Tube Surfing, 30 June 2008: Baxendale, Bernice Summerfield and Graveyards!
• (via FPI): Leo Baxendale features in The Times today, recalling the early 1950s and his first approaches to DC Thomson, them taking on Little Plum, Minnie the Minx then the immortal Bash Street Kids. More details and links over… Read More ›
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More Who Comics Mythos Leaps to Audio Adventures
Stockbridge – an English village created for the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip – will feature in a new trilogy of audio adventures from Big Finish. To date, Stockbridge has featured in the strips The Tides of Time, The Stockbridge… Read More ›
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Hard Lessons in Self Publishing
How many people publishing their own comics have posed themselves the question “If only I knew when I started my web comic what I know now”? Well, Andrew John Standish, creator of the web comic Psychodialetical, certainly has. But if… Read More ›
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Summer Edition 2009 in Dublin This Weekend
(via poopsheet and BugPowder); Summer Edition 2009, the first event of its kind in Dublin, is a free, day long fair where over 30 exhibitors from across the spectrum of artist’s books, comics and zines will get together to showcase… Read More ›
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Adventure Comes To… Kirkcaldy
In these downbeat times, it’s rare to have something to celebrate – especially the opening of a new comic shop. But that’s exactly what’s just happened north of the border. Kingdom of Adventure, which opened complete with a visit from… Read More ›
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Razorjack Special Editions Released
Limited edition book publisher Foruli Publications has just published two very special box sets of John Higgins’ graphic novel Razorjack, recently released in paperback by revived publisher Com.X. In Razorjack, a trio of college kids inadvertently create an unstable nexus… Read More ›
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Tripwire Annual 2009 UK Only
Bad news for the publishers of ace comics and cult magazine Tripwire, whose 2009 Annual has been hit by distribution that mean the issue is not being carried by Diamond US. “We got hit by the benchmark,” says editor-in-chief Joel… Read More ›
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Furman Turns Japanese!
After years of writing Transformers stories for the UK and US, writer Simon Furman has finally broken into one of the most notoriously difficult comic markets: Japan. This is no small achievement: very few Westerners have broken into the world… Read More ›
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Cameron’s A-Z of Awesomeness
(via FPI Blog); Neill Cameron is hard at work on his latest project: The A-Z of Awesomeness. Well into its stride (he’s just delivered “Nina and the Neurons Neutralising the Ninky-Nonk with Nitrogen”, it was originally inspired by Garen Ewing’s… Read More ›