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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War" and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as 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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Dave Gibbons Comics Workshop In Dundee
The fifth annual Dundee Comics Day will be taking place at the University of Dundee on Sunday 28th October 2012 and, as previous reported, will be dedicated to talks by writer Grant Morrison and his artistic collaborators Cameron Stewart (Batman),… Read More ›
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Aces Weekly digital comic gets underway
It’s here! Aces Weekly, the new digital comics anthology from David Lloyd and team
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Lou Scannon Issue 4 comes knocking at your door
Lou Scannon and his ragtag band of mercenaries have responded to a distress call from a trashed government research station. Now our anti-heroes find themselves trapped on the station with the very beast that destroyed it and killed its crew!… Read More ›
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British Zombie-guests galore at F.A.C.T.S. 2012
While the Mayan civilization has proclaimed 2012 to be the end of the world, F.A.C.T.S. – a Belgian convention organized once a year by Con-Fuse bvba, an organisation promoting Science Fiction, Comics, Fantasy and Japanese animation – found it appropriate… Read More ›
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Eagle Times Looks Back on the Life and Work of Charles Chilton (Volume 25, Number Three)
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 25, Number Three) is now available. Autumn 2012 Contents ‘Charles Chilton – the Modest Showman – and Journey into Space‘. Inspired by Chilton’s recent autobiography, Charlie’s Auntie, Alan Vince looks back at his own interest… Read More ›
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Grandville ‘Bête Noire’ Trailer released
Bryan Talbot has just released this sneak peek at his new Grandville book, Bête Noire (due for release 6th December in the UK from Jonathan Cape), on YouTube. The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire Baron… Read More ›
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Madefire extends its digital comics app to iPhone and iPad
Digital comics publishing house Madefire – co-created by British comic creator Liam Sharp – has announced a major update to its revolutionary comics app, bringing it to iPhone and iPod touch for the first time. The Madefire app, which delivers… Read More ›
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Try animating – the Aardman way
Ever watched Wallace and Gromit or Morph (remember him?) and wanted to try animating for yourself? Well, creating a stop motion animation has never been easier (according to Aardman) now that you can get Aardman’s Animate It! software on your… Read More ›
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DRAFT – In Review: Cancertown: Blasphemous Tumours
Publisher: MarkosiaWriter: Cy DethanArt: Graeme HowardOut: 1st November 2012 The Book: Vince Morley is a dangerously sick man. Within the monstrous alternate world of Cancertown, a creature of horrific violence and limitless rage has burst from the nightmare landscape. The… Read More ›
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CD Comics latest title set to scare!
The latest CDComics release – EYAM: The Plague Village UFO Mystery – is now on sale, with a title that conjures images of Gerry Anderson’s UFO and Hammer Horror, all rolled into one. In September 1665 the village of Eyam,… Read More ›
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New ‘Graphic Justice’ resource launched in UK
Judge Dredd by Rob Davis Anyone interested in the crossover between justice and graphic fiction might be interested in the new Graphic Justice project, instigated by Thomas Giddens at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham. “Comics, cartoons, graphic novels, and other… Read More ›
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10 Questions: Author Paul Scoones
On sale now from publishers Telos Publishing is The Comic Strip Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 — 1979. Written by New Zealand author Paul Scoones, the book documents the early history of… Read More ›
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Latest Beano aims to rock you!
The latest Beano (No.3654) is on sale now, with the usual mix of strips and features and offering the chance to win an iPad. Dennis and Gnasher are trumpeting in a very different way than usual! Ed and his Numskulls… Read More ›
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Dredd Creators At Judgement Day in Dundee
The Dundee Contemporary Arts cinema is holding a special screening of Dredd 3D on Friday 28 September 2012. The screening will be preceded by a QandA session with 2000AD writers Alan Grant and Al Ewing, and artists Colin MacNeil and Cam Kennedy…. Read More ›
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Panel Borders on Aces Weekly and 2000AD
Panel Borders: Aces Weekly Continuing our month of shows about anthologies, Alex Fitch talks to the creator and co-editor – David Lloyd – of a new weekly digital comics anthology, Aces Weekly. Alex also talks to three of the other… Read More ›
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Meet Picture Book Creator Oliver Jeffers
World famous picture book creator Oliver Jeffers will be travelling to the UK this Autumn to promote his beautiful new release This Moose Belongs to Me. During his brief trip he will visit London, Dublin, Bath and Oxford for events… Read More ›
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Grant Morrison Takes Over Dundee Comics Day
The Dundee Comics Day, organised by Dr Chris Murray at Dundee University, is now in its fifth year as part of the Dundee Literary Festival – although the current DCD name only came into effect in 2010 and there was… Read More ›
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Remember, Remember the 30th September
PROGENITOR By Phil Hester & John McCrea © 2012 John McCrea & Phil Hester David Lloyd (V for Vendetta, Kickback) empowered the world with his iconoclastic Guy Fawkes mask in V for Vendetta. Today, comic conspirator Lloyd is changing the… Read More ›