Above: One of the images from GRAPHIC’s Neil Gaiman competition, which ran on Facebook. (with thanks to Peter Stanbury): Neil Gaiman will appear at Australia’s Sydney Opera House in August, ‘performing’ in what can only be described as a unique… Read More ›
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Time for Paul Rainey’s graphic novel to come to a close…
The eagerly-awaited final episode of Paul Rainey’s acclaimed comic There’s No Time Like The Present is now available, bringing the acclaimed ‘sci-fi soap’ to a close, some six years after it began. “Part 13 is the super-sized,” says Paul, “Well,… Read More ›
In Review: Tripwire Magazine #54
Published by: Joel Meadows The Magazine: The latest Tripwire annual includes interviews with Matt Groening and David X Cohen about plans for their new run of Futurama on Comedy Central, veteran movie poster artist Drew Struzan, the team at visual… Read More ›
Commando Webbing: George Low
Former Commando editor George Low (above right, with former Dandy editor Morris Heggie, left and Commando writer Ferg Handley, middle) was the surprise guest at the Oxfam Comics Event in Edinburgh on Saturday 17 July. There he joined an impressive… Read More ›
Grandville, Manga Shakespeare shortlisted for Children’s Book Awards
Much to the author’s surprize, Bryan Talbot’s cracking steampunk-inspired graphic novel Grandville has been shortlisted for a Sheffield Children’s Book Award in the awards new graphic novel category, one of five titles topping a list of favourite comics based on… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Mazeworld, Mad Science and Harvey Pekar
Does the sporadically torrential rain of the last few days mean that’s all the summer we’re going to get? I hope not. Onto the Tube Surf… • Arthur Ranson sends word that Daniel Clifford, a fan of the artist’s Mazeworld… Read More ›
The Best Of The Victor Due For Release
The Titan Books publications of Best Of Battle along with the individual Battle character books of Johnny Red, Rat Pack and Darkie’s Mob have obviously not gone unnoticed by other publishers and, with a lull in publication of their thick… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Monsters, Heroes, Cycling and Moon Hoaxes
I’m really behind with everything. Anyone else behind with their deadlines and work? Oh, dear, it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong… Anyway, a bit of tube surfing always peps me up. What’s out there today? Ace cartoonist Darryl Cunningham… Read More ›
Sci-Fi Art Now Covers Revealed
ILEX Press have released the covers for their UK and US editions of SciFi Art Now – and they look superb. The UK cover, above, is by the brilliant World Fantasy Award winner and Hugo Award-nominated artist John Picacio. This… Read More ›
Dudley D. Watkins gallery launched as Courier revamps web site
(with thanks to Lew Stringer and the Forbidden Planet International blogs who spotted this first): DC Thomson has just revamped its web site for its Scottish newspaper The Courier – and included a fantastic gallery of comic work by Dudley… Read More ›
First 2000AD Dredd cover to go under the hammer
Judge Dredd hits the big time
In Review: The Scorpion – The Holy Valley
Adventurer, womaniser, swordsman, thief, swindler, arrogantly self assured of his own survival, with blood ties to one of the most important people on the planet, and a woman whom he both hates and desires, and who appears to reciprocate those… Read More ›
Bosnian publisher announces Strip magazine for the UK
Bosnian-based comics publisher PrintMedia has announced plans to move into the UK market with a new comic magazine later in 2010. The title, which is still in development, will include new strips by creators such as PJ Holden (2000AD, Battlefields,… Read More ›
In Review: The Art of Pho
By Julian HanshawPublisher: Jonathan CapeISBN: 9780224089845Out: 1st July 2010 The Book: The noodle soup called pho is the national dish of Vietnam. When Little Blue – having been dropped by a mysterious man with a red car and being told… Read More ›
In Review: Classics from the Comics 171
… and it really is a classic of a comic, with a huge variety of strips from several decades – including some rarely seen examples of picture and text stories from the huge DC Thomson comics archive. The trumpeted ‘superhero’… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Warren Ellis, the Bulletproof Coffin and the Galaxy’s Greatest Covers!
So, what’s happening down those tubes today… The trailer for the movie adaptation of Warren Ellis-scripted graphic novel Red (art by Cully Hamner) is online to view now. Ellis wrote some interesting notes about the adaptation back on his blog… Read More ›
Spaceship Away Turns 21
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 ›
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 ›