British comics-related news, interviews and features
Garry Leach, Rian Hughes, Dez Skinn, Gary Erskine, Emma Vieceli and Simon Furman are just some of the comic creators who will be appearing at this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON event on Saturday 1st May. At last year’s SCI-FI-LONDON (www.sci-fi-london.com) the organisers… Read More ›
Southport College is hosting to a Dan Dare exhibition celebrating 60 years of Eagle
Richard Sheaf continues his celebration of EAGLE at 60
UK indie publisher CD24 has just launched Alameda, a new weekly web comic by Tony Wicks. “John Higgs is no longer a participant in the rat race,” says Tony of the story. “He’s living the life he always wanted, with… Read More ›
Hugo Award-nominated, top British comics creator Paul Cornell – whose credits include Captain Britain and MI13 and Doctor Who – has just been announced as the writer of DC Comics prestigious Superman title, Action Comics. Paul Cornell will join interior… Read More ›
The Plot: Another body has been discovered, but the killer has been careless. DCI Harker makes his move, determined to expose the murderer and take him in. But never mind all that! The Goths are three goals down and only… Read More ›
If you’re looking for the first four new Commandos released for the first half of April, you’d better be quick. The next batch will be out on 22nd April as publishers DC Thomson have had their sale dates brought forward…. Read More ›
A special signing announced
(With thanks to David Westaway): Happy Birthday today to veteran British comics creator Peter O’Donnell on attaining his 90th birthday today (11th April). Born in 1920 in Lewisham, Peter, who began writing professionally at 16, is, of course, most famous… Read More ›
Our congratulations from all here at downthetubes go out to artist Graeme Neil Reid and his wife Catriona on the arrival of their new baby girl, Lucy Anne, born on Thursday 8 April and weighing in at 8lbs 1oz. After… Read More ›
Richard Sheaf celebrates 60 years of the groundbreaking boys comic
The latest issue of DC Thomson’s Classics from the Comics went on sale a few days back, but we’re still playing holiday catch up so this is the first opportunity we’ve had to give it a plug. The 68-page retro… Read More ›
Jeremy Briggs reports from the Highlands…
Pat Mills looks back at the career of the extraordinarily talented John Hicklenton, who sadly passed away on Friday 19th March 2010. Best known for his brutal, visceral work on flagship 2000AD characters like Judge Dredd (in particular “Heavy Metal Dredd”) and Nemesis the Warlock during… Read More ›
Warren Ellis’ and Chris Weston’s wonderfully retro Ministry of Space is available for a limited time from Forbidden Planet International for £5.39 – that’s 40 percent off the usual price. This is the 2009 paperback edition – 96 glorious pages…. Read More ›
New issues of DC Thomson’s war comic digest Commando are now on sale now… got get ’em! Commando 4279: Too Many Heroes Previously No 2590 from 1992 Story: Ian Clark Inside Art: Salmeron Cover: Ian Kennedy With three older brothers… Read More ›
Coming in 2010: a collection of Frank Hampson’s Road of Courage from Titan Books
New thrills for Anderson fans!
She has been cooking for bairns since 1936 (in fact the exact same bairns since 1936) so Mrs Brown should really know a thing or two about cooking with children. With the help of Scottish cookery writer Catherine Brown, no… Read More ›
The latest issue of British comics magazine Crikey! is out now and comes packed with a huge range of articles, including an interview with top comics creator Bryan Talbot and a timely tribute to the origins of Eagle comic, which… Read More ›