The new issue of Spaceship Away, the science fiction comics magazine inspired by and featuring the original Dan Dare, includes some stunning exclusives sure to appeal to fans of the original version of the Eagle space hero created by Frank… Read More ›
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Commando Webbing: Ian Kennedy
Earlier this year, to celebrate 40 years of artist Ian Kennedy working on the title, Commando reprinted four of the stories that he had illustrated for them. Despite being their top cover artist, having painted around one quarter of all… Read More ›
In Review: IR$ – The Corrupter
The Corrupter is the second and final part of the IR$ story begun in Silica, Inc. which was reviewed on downthetubes when it was published earlier in the year. That first book left the reader wondering about a red haired… Read More ›
Commando – New Issue Gen
Straight from the Commando C.O. comes all the gen on the four latest issues of Commando available from 17 June: 4303 : STEER FOR ACTION From the first day of war in 1939, the soldiers, sailors and airmen of the… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Dez Skinn, Fanzines Galore and Simone Lia
Right, what’s happening out there… Lew Stringer’s ace comics blog informs us that Dez Skinn has a new website. Dez was, of course, the man behind such titles as Warrior, Comics International and Doctor Who Weekly (still with us as… Read More ›
New Eagle Annuals Website
We are pleased to report that Eagle has inspired a new fan website set up by Ian and Sharon Hartas. While most Eagle sites are devoted to Dan Dare this one is specifically for the Eagle annuals both from the… Read More ›
In Review: Largo Winch – See Venice… And Die
Largo Winch is the Eagle Award nominated series that follows the life, loves and tribulations of one of the richest men in the world. Written by Lady S, Thorgal and XIII’s Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by Philippe Francq, the… Read More ›
Roy of the Rovers back in time for World Cup
(Via Lew Stringer and others): Egmont is joining in with the World Cup mania gripping the UK with the release of a 52-page full colour comic, All About Roy of the Rovers, which joins Titan Books fab new Roy collection… Read More ›
Competition: Win a Rude Britannia Book!
Marking the launch of the Rude Britannia Exhibition at the Tate, downthetubes has THREE copies of the tie-in book – Rude Britannia: British Comic Art by Martin Myrone, Tim Batchelor and Cedar Lewisohn – to give away! Comic art –… Read More ›
Sneek Peek: Fat Fathers versus Judge Dredd!
The Mighty Tharg has allowed comics artist Jon Haward to show a page from the upcoming Judge Dredd: Fat Fathers story, written by John Wagner, which will feature soon in 2000AD. Drawn by Jon about 12 months ago – talk… Read More ›
Culture Show Discusses Comics Tonight
Just a quick ‘heads-up’ to advise you to tune into tonight’s The Culture Show on BB2 (at 7.00pm, repeated at 12.20am Friday morning). The programme will be exploring “the past, present and post-election future of British comic art” which is… Read More ›
In Review: Scheme Comix #1
The Comic: SF-inspired comics anthology featuring the work of Kev Harper, Number Six, David Walker, T. Bye, Sharon Irvine and Drip Tray. The aim of publishing Scheme is to showcase the best unknown artists working out of the city of… Read More ›
VE Day Marked in Latest Commandos
The latest issues of DC Thomoson’s Commando, on sale now, features another cover from Janek Matysiak using his new direct-to-screen way of working. (You can see the first he did in this way here). The releases also feature the work… Read More ›
In Review: Crikey! pays tribute to John Hicklenton, O’Donnell
The latest issue of Crikey! – which has notched up an imprejavascript:void(0)ssive 15 issues, none too shabby for an independently published comics magazine these days – has changed its planned line up to pay tribute to the passing of creators… Read More ›
Wallace & Gromit find a place in The Sun!
A new newspaper strip featuring Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit, launched last week, is getting good feedback from the characters legion of fans. Replacing the long-running ‘strip-com’ George and Lynne, the new comic is being produced by Titan Comics and… Read More ›
Pat Mills delight at Eagle Award Nomination for Charley’s War
2000AD co-creator Pat Mills has expressed his delight at learning that the latest collection of Charley War, written by Pat and drawn by Joe Colquhoun, has been nominated for an Eagle Award. Nominated in the category for Favourite Reprint Compilation,… Read More ›
In Review: The Bristol Comic Expo 2010
Matthew Badham reports on this year’s Bristol Expo, which attracted some 1000 fans and over 100 comic creators… I promised myself that I was going to do four things at the Bristol Comics Expo this year: make time to watch… Read More ›
In Review: Classics from the Comics Issue 170
The latest issue of DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics sports a new look, complete with revamped cover masthead reflecting it’s ‘retro’ appeal, but the line up of humour and adventure strips inside is the usual engaging mix of material… Read More ›
Striker comic to go free-to-view online in July
The entire 25-year archive of the football strip Striker, first published in The Sun and now featuring in mens magazine Nuts, is to be available online as free to view comics on the Striker website when it relaunches in early… Read More ›
In Review: Thorgal – The Master Of The Mountains
Writer Jean Van Hamme may be more familiar to us for his contemporary thrillers such as Lady S, Largo Winch and XIII with Largo Winch having been turned into a movie and XIII into a mini series, but he has… Read More ›