Avoiding the World Cup Day Four

By John Freeman on June 12, 2006

World Cup 1, Avoiding It, 1

It should have been easy to avoid the World Cup yesterday; but I actually found myself filling in the scores on the free Broadcast-provided wallchart. It was just like being an 11-year-old kid all over again.

Still, managed to avoid most of today’s footie weirdness because a) we had to rescue a frog from our cat (where is she getting them from?) b) Star Trek copy writing needed doing c) a cartoon needed lettering – a new Greatcoat for Comics International d) housework and e) i finally managed to catch the finale of Smallville after Sky Plus mangled the recording earlier in the week.

How are you going to get out of this one, Clark Kent?

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John Freeman

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.