A new collection of Striker stories has just been published online via MyEbook.com. “Dead Man Walking”, set in Haiti, was a fan favourite, but creator Pete Nash warns that it should not to be read by the politically correct! Pages… Read More ›
British Comics – Newspaper Strips
Striker Heads Into the Net
Long-running soccer strip Striker recently came to an end in The Sun – catching many fans by surprize, even though creator Pete Nash had been saying for some time he planned to end the saga. But, after 24 years of… Read More ›
Em joins The Sun
(with thanks to David Baillie for the tip): The cartoon strip Em, the creation of Swedish cartoonist Maria Smedstad, joins The Sun on Tuesday. “Yes, it’s true,” says Marie. “Em will be packing her little messily drawn bags and move… Read More ›
Let’s Talk About Jane
Titan Books will be releasing The Misadventures of Jane, an eagerly-awaited collection of the classic strip and other material featuring the World War 2 pin up heroine, later this month. Charting the cartoon (mis)adventures of Britain’s first and best-loved World… Read More ›
Frears to direct Tamara Drewe
Stephen Frears director of films such as The Grifters, Roddy Doyle’s The Van and The Queen is set to take the director’s chair for the big screen adaptation of Posy Simmonds Guardian comic strip Tamara Drewe. Variety reports Frears has… Read More ›
Crikey! Goes Colour
The latest issues of British comics magazine Crikey! is on sale this week – and has made the leap to full colour throughout. Running to 84 pages the first issue of the now bi–monthly Crikey!, with a Dennis the Menace… Read More ›
Titan Books Announce Bond Omnibus
Titan Books has put together an omnibus collection of some of James Bond newspapers strips they originally released in shorter albums. On sale next month, The James Bond Omnibus Vol.1 collects the first time eleven of the Bond strips first… Read More ›
"Sober Dog" Comes To An End
Top comics creator Nick Abadzis‘ strip The Trial of the Sober Dog, which started its run back in June last year (see news story), finished its run in the British daily newspaper The Times yesterday. If you missed it, the… Read More ›
New Garth on MyEBook
The first new adventure of longtime Daily Mirror hero Garth, which has already been published on the British newspaper’s web site, have now been collected and are available in an online format from British e-publisher myebook.com. As noted in an… Read More ›
Andy Capp, Jane and More Now Available Online
Newspaper strips from a range of British daily newspaper strips are now available to view online as part of the newly launched UK Press Online web site, a vast subscription-based PDF archive. The archive features PDF versions of the Daily… Read More ›
Mine’s A Paul Temple!
Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple made his first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938 and went on to appear in novels, film, television and a daily newspaper strip. Now, there’s even a cocktail named after him – and an… Read More ›
Peanuts for Free
(with thanks to Norman Boyd): Web site Drawn! reports United Features’ website has gone free to view, including 50 years of Peanuts. Taking a nod from the webcomics world and in response to the declining sales of newspapers the syndicate… Read More ›
British Cartoon Library Gets Face Lift
(with thanks to Matthew Badham): The British Cartoon Archive based at the University of Kent is about to get a major facelift that includes, at last, the digitisation of the archive of the late, great Express cartoonist Carl Giles. Ronald… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 21 October 2008
• Titan is to release a collection of Jane strips from the Daily Mirror later this week and over on Bear Alley Steve Holland has cast his expert eye over the various stories which made up the strip’s run. The… Read More ›
British Comic Heroes: The Return of Garth
In August 2008, after a long gestation period, adventure hero Garth returned to British newspaper The Mirror – albeit, for now, only on the publication’s web site. Here, artist Huw-J talks to John Freeman about the new strip and his… Read More ›
The Return of Garth
Earlier this month, after a long gestation period, adventure hero Garth returned to British newspaper The Mirror – albeit, for now, only on the publication’s web site. Now, in an exclusive interview for downthetubes, artist Huw-J of Hayena Studios talks… Read More ›
Garth Returns!
Sneaked onto the Daily Mirror web site with very little publicity is something pretty momentous for British comics fans — the return of the adventure strip Garth! Artist Huw-J called us earlier last week to tell us of its long-awaited… Read More ›
BBC Issue a Comics Challenge
(with thanks to Robin Ashwell): The BBC online News Magazine has just published an article on newspaper comic strips — and is challenging readers to send in their own four panel creations. The article, published to publicise self-taught artist (and… Read More ›
Tube Surfing : 7 June 2008
Gerry Anderson fanzine Andersonic, which is currently on issue 5, now has a related website. The site details the current and back issues and will eventually have a shop to allow the issues to be purchased direct. Issue 6 of… Read More ›
Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos 4.3
The latest issue of Jeff hawke’s Cosmos is now out. The magazine (exclusive Sydney Jordan painted cover artwork shown left) has bulked up for this issue, pushing the page count up to 80 A4 pages and going perfect bound. The… Read More ›