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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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New Dandy and Beano out today
The Dandy’s new look has had a mixed response
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Last Call for Pickled Award entries
There’s just six days to go before The Pickled Award deadline (Monday 8th November). Art illustration agency Pickled Ink launched the new award back in September in a bid to find an artist to draw a new graphic novel by… Read More ›
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TOXIC goes alien mad
Egmont’s TOXIC Magazine has gone totally alien crazy for its latest issue, leading with coverage of hit Cartoon Network show Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, alongside its usual mix of puzzles, prizes and comics. The title hasn’t dropped its free gifts,… Read More ›
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Modern Toss creators meet fans and sign copies of their new book at Fopp in Covent Garden
Fans of the cult cartoon booklets and TV show, Modern Toss will get the chance to meet the creators in person when they visit the Fopp store on Earlham Street in London’s Covent Garden on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 to… Read More ›
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UK Artist Matt JOnes launches toy range
Tea making, toy producing, resin casting, sketch book doodling artist Matt JOnes (AKA Lunartik – he likes to be called Matt JOnes with a large JO) has been designing Vinyl Toys for about seven years, making custom pieces for all… Read More ›
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Titan Star Wars Galaxy Comic in Review
Amidst all the excitement surrounding the re-launch of The Dandy, another new comic has slipped almost unnoticed onto the shelves of British newsagents. Star Wars Galaxy is a new 4-weekly title from Titan, published in the same format as their… Read More ›
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Eagle Awards 2010: The Winners
The winners of the Eagle Awards have been announced at a gala presentation held at London ’s ExCeL on Friday, October 29 2010. Superhero titles again dominated most of the favourite titles and 2000AD topping the boll for favourite British… Read More ›
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Wasted #6 heading for stores… mind your heads!
The latest issue of adult comic Wasted (#6) has gone to press, with a cover by Cam Kennedy featuring Jon Haward and Alan Grant‘s Buddha.(Jon by the way, was recently interviewed here on the title’s blog). The new issue features,… Read More ›
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Catching up with Gibson Quarter
Gibson Quarter is best known for his illustration work on War on Drugs strips with writer Alan Grant, for the adult comics magazine Wasted which will soon see a sixth issue on sale. He’s also drawn stories for numerous other… Read More ›
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Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Gibson Quarter
Gibson Quarter is best known for his illustration work on War on Drugs strips with writer Alan Grant, in the adult comics magazine Wasted. He’s also drawn stories for numerous other European magazines and comics including Northern Lightz, FutureQuake, Something… Read More ›
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Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Armand Cabrera
Marooned by Armand Cabrera, featured in Sci-Fi Art Now. To view a walk through of how this art was created go to: http://www.myebook.com Armand Cabrera has been a professional artist now for 30 years. He did some book covers in… Read More ›
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The new Dandy: Who Did What, then?
Following up on yesterday’s post about the new Dandy, editor Craig Graham has kindly taken time out of his busy schedule to give fans a run down of the creative team behind the brilliant revamp revealed in Issue 3508, which… Read More ›
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Sci-Fi Bytes: Artist News…
Here’s a quick round up of the work some SciFi Art Now artists have been engaged in recently… • Nelson Evergreen is one of seven artists who has work featured in Dreams Are The Genus, a new collaborative project edited… Read More ›
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Dandy relaunches – and returns to comics format
(Updated 27/10/10) The Dandy – the real, comic strip driven Dandy – is back this week with a vengeance, ditching the magazine-style, TOXIC-inspired magazine format of Dandy Xtreme in favour of a weekly title with a £1.50 cover price. As… Read More ›
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Commandos storm into the the High Street
Four new Commandos hit the decks of all good newsagents this week featuring art by John Ridgway, Vila, Macabich and Carlos Pino… Commando No 4335: Bad Blood Story: C G Walker Art: Vila Cover: Gordon LivingstoneFirst Published: 1993 as No… Read More ›
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Comical Hallowe’en Horror walks the streets of Lancaster!
Lancaster’s First Age Comics is making its annual Hallowe’en celebrations something of an event, offering prizes to anyone who turns up in costume to buy their favourite comics this weekend. We doubt few will sport this fabulous mask created by… Read More ›
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Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Vicky Stonebridge
Vicky Stonebridge at work Scottish Highlands-based Vicky Stonebridge describes herself as “an artist, firefighter, youth worker, convention organiser, and other things! “I think living in remote rural North West Scotland has caused this chaos,” she says. “It’s always been necessary… Read More ›
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Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Berislav Krzic
Kids at primary school were often amazed by the drawings and paintings of Slovenian artist Berislav Krzic as he grew up and he often received awards for his artwork. After his animation, cartooning and strip phases, he became obsessed with… Read More ›
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John Hicklenton’s ‘100 Months’ Goes on Sale
100 Months, the final work of the late, great 2000AD artist John Hicklenton is now available from publisher Cutting Edge Press. Pat Mills describes it as “magnificent” and hints that despite John’s passing earlier this year there is more work… Read More ›