Ground-breaking British indie publisher Orang Utan Comics Studio have released the first part of their Young Gods Online Graphic Novel onto an unsuspecting world this week, aiming to bring the title to comics fans in new — and free —… Read More ›
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Brautigan Comic part of new Torpedo Quarterly
2009 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of American writer Richard Brautigan, whose best known works include his 1967 novel, Trout Fishing in America, his collection of poetry, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968), and his collection… Read More ›
Could New UK Laws Threaten Comic Collectors?
(with thanks to Leah Moore and John Reppion who mentioned The Bookseller article on this matter their blog). New laws designed to tackle extreme and child pornography could make owning mainstream comics like Batman or Judge Dredd illegal, campaigners claim…. Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 29 January 2009
• Dave Taylor has just posted this stunning teaser for a new Judge Dredd story, a four parter written by Ian Edginton. Look out for more soon on his blog. Dave’s one of several comics artists involved in the fab… Read More ›
Preserving Our Comics Heritage
John Birch works for the National Library of Scotland located in Edinburgh, one of the UK’s five legal deposit libraries, and curated their successful Local Heroes exhibition covering comics and graphic novels last year. In an interview for downthtubes, he… Read More ›
Rainbow Orchid Re-Mastered Update
Garen Ewing has updated fans on progress with his Rainbow Orchid collections, with the first volume of this critically-acclaimed indie strip now scheduled to be published by Egmont UK in August 2009. “ I have been working practically every minute… Read More ›
Maw, Paw an’ PM Broon
While the UK comics community, and the national newspapers, may have made much of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s appearance in the first issue of Marvel’s Captain Britain and MI13, it is unlikely to have raised much interest in Number 10… Read More ›
Blam! Returns to Leicester
After a series of popular and well attended comics events last year (see report), Leicester Libraries have announced another Blam! event, this time with top comics expert Paul Gravett. Titled “More Than Words Can Say: What are comic books doing… Read More ›
Frights on the Frontier!
The latest issue of the subscription-only weekly British comic The DFC features Jason Cobley and Andrew Wildman’s Frontier on the cover, as heroes Mitch and Daisy find themselves cornered by werewolves in the weird Wild West. “It’s an absolute privilege… Read More ›
Elephantmen Back on Track
Image Comics reports that, after a number of hiccups in the scheduling of Active Images Elephantmen in 2008, the creation of former Marvel UK staffer and all round good egg Richard Starkings, the book is back on track for 2009…. Read More ›
Alternative Press Fair Shapes Up Nicely
With just two weeks to go, Jimi Gherkin, Comic creator and organiser of the The Alternative Press Fair 2009 in London on 1st February is shaping up nicely with a terrifi line up of creators scheduled to be part of… Read More ›
Brit indie announces Thief-Taker General
British independent comics line Storm Comics (www.stormcomics.com), the brainchild of writer and artist Michael Crouch, was launched last May with a one-off sci-fi comic, Afterlife. Although interest has been good, judging by feedback from readers, sales have been slow. Not… Read More ›
Bloomsbury publishes Twilight Zone in the UK
Due for release from Bloomsbury next month are the first four graphic novels in a series adapting episodes of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The work of artists from the Savannah College of… Read More ›
Sleeze Brothers Owes Much to Archie Goodwin
Over on his Elephantmen blog, Active Images’ Richard Starkings has posted a fascinating insight into the history of Marvel UK’s early attempts to publish US-style comics, which led to publication of titles such as Dragon’s Claws and the about-to-be-remastered The… Read More ›
Marvel UK Book Author seekes final imagery
Author Rob Kirby, who has been working on a history of Marvel UK since, well, the company folded back in the 1990s if not earlier (all right, I’m probably exaggerating but that’s how it feels!), is on the hunt for… Read More ›
The Sleeze Brothers Return!
The Sleeze Brothers are back! Those anarchic, lunatic and downright shady PIs, the creation of John Carnell and Andy Lanning back in the 1980s, are being given a brush up (and probably, a good spanking) just in time for their… Read More ›
Good News on Comic Sales?
While this report primarily concerns US comics, news that the US comic book industry, boosted by the success of films such as The Dark Knight has helped maintain growth for graphic novel sales is welcome with 2009 looking otherwise gloomy…. Read More ›
Dealing with the Devil
Comic book writer Cy Dethan reports that work is well underway on his latest project, The Case Files of Harlan Falk, the story of a man who, literally, makes deals with devils. Whether you’re involved in a territorial dispute with… Read More ›
One Month To Hi-Ex
With one month to go to the Hi-Ex comics convention in Inverness details of what will be happening over the course of the weekend are being released. One of the most popular events last year was the charity auction with… Read More ›
Wilson Talks Dredd
Artist Colin Wilson looks set for a busy year, with a new, still secret, Star Wars project in the works, along with his new Judge Dredd strip, his first Dredd work for nearly ten years. We previously reported on writer… Read More ›