It has been a while since we did a Commando Webbing and there is rather a lot to get through… Two weeks ago DC Thomson’s Dundee Courier ran an interview with Commando cover artist Ian Kennedy on his long career… Read More ›
British Comics
British comics-related news, interviews and features
Motton’s Memories: An Interview with one of Dan Dare’s early writers
Thanks to a chance discovery on the Internet, downthetubes is pleased to be able to present a rare interview with comics writer David Motton, whose career spanned three decades of British comics publishing, but is probably best known for his… Read More ›
Print Media to publish Dave Morris and Leo Hartas Mirabilis project
Print Media Productions has announced it will be publishing hardcover editions of Mirabilis: Year of Wonders — a huge graphic novel project by Dave Morris and Leo Hartas, also available on iPad and soon to debut on digital platforms Graphic.ly… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: British Artists – Interviews and Unpublished Art
There has been a small flurry of British artists getting interviewed recently. Alex Ronald, who has worked as an artdroid for 2000AD in the past and is now getting a lot of attention for the Vampire Vixens Of The Wehrmacht… Read More ›
2000AD Mongrol Figure on sale next week
(Updated 24/2/11): The first of a series of seven A.B.C Warriors action figures, Mongrol, goes on sale next Monday and should be available from your local classy toy retailer. Produced by 3A Toys, Mongrol is just one figure in a… Read More ›
MCM Expo Reveals X-Men First Class Panel
X-Men: First Class writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz are to appear on a panel at the next MCM Expo London Comic Con at ExCel London on 27-29 May, show organisers have announced. A prequel to the popular superhero franchise… Read More ›
Garth returns to the Mirror
(Updated, 23/2/11): National newspaper The Mirror has announced it will be reprinting some of the best of Garth stories featuring the time-travelling British hero who featured on its pages for over 50 years, and whose creators included Frank Bellamy and… Read More ›
Andrew Wildman charts a new Horizon, seeking crowdfunding for comics project
After many months of preparation and deliberation, comic creator Andrew Wildman‘s official fundraising and pre-order campaign for his Horizon project has begun, using the crowdfunding web site indiegogo.com. The project focuses on the story of Ali, a 15 year old… Read More ›
Broken Voice Comics ‘Shades’ jumps from digital to print edition
Comics creator David Berner has been publishing pages from his graphic novel Shades for some time as a webcomic, both at his own Broken Voice Comics website and at a number of other hosting sites. Last year, the artists, who include… Read More ›
A Decade Of Irish Comics Events
Having recently featured posts both on Comics In Northern Ireland and Scottish Comics Events, Belfast Comics organiser Paddy Brown has been in touch to effectively combine the two by pointing us in the direction of the Irish Comics Wiki. This… Read More ›
Commando comic goes digital for 50th anniversary
Commando – now available on iPad and iPhone Along with the latest issues of Commando – which includes a reprint of an issue from 1970 drawn by now top 2000AD artist Cam Kennedy – comes news from DC Thomson that… Read More ›
Comica Conversation: Lorenzo Mattotti and Dave McKean
On Saturday March 12th, mesmerising Italian maestro Lorenzo Mattotti makes a rare visit to London to discuss his career in comics and beyond, including his latest graphic novel Stigmata, translated by Fantagraphics, and his collaborations, from his animated terrors in… Read More ›
Leeds Alternative Comics Fair back in March
The second Leeds Alternative Comics Fair takes place on the 19th March 2011, 12 noon-6pm, at A Nation of Shopkeepers bar (behind Leeds City Art Gallery). Steve Tillotson (banal pig comics) and Hugh “Shug” Raine (REET! Comics) are again to… Read More ›
Markosia to publish Henry Fint art book
(via ECBT2000AD and Cy Dethan): Markosia will be publishing Broadcast, The TV Doodles of Henry Flint later this year. The book will contain about 100 pieces of all new artwork from Henry, best known for his work on 2000AD, Vertigo… Read More ›
Comics In Northern Ireland
With the good news of the return of 2D, Northern Ireland’s Comics Festival, for its fifth year in the Verbal Arts Centre in Londonderry at the beginning of June, perhaps it is an appropriate time to take a look at… Read More ›
Classic British Comics Abroad: Dan Dare and more, in Yugoslavia
A quick look at popular British comic characters abroad
2D 2011: Brush Strokes In Stroke City
2D, held at the Verbal Arts Centre in Londonderry, is the UK’s most westerly comics convention and for the last four years it has been the largest comics event in Northern Ireland if not the whole island of Ireland. This… Read More ›
SciFi Art Now Creator Interview: Graeme Neil Reid
About two years ago, Graeme Neil Reid went full time as an illustrator after having produced work part time and in conjunction with his job in the marketing and advertising industries for over 15 years. “These days I spend every… Read More ›
Classic British Superheroes reprinted
Black Tower Adventure Volume 1 Following up on our recent story about classic British comics reprinted (now an expanded standalone page here) The Black Tower Gold Collection – the brainchild of Terry Hooper, who edits the ComicBitsOnline web site – … Read More ›
Adam Eterno art on sale on eBay
Three pages of Adam Eterno art by Solano Lopez are currently on sale on eBay. All three pieces are from the Peter Hansen IPC Archive Collection, who bought IPC’s entire archive of art some years back, and are all from… Read More ›