Comic creator Oliver East will be at the Beach Hut Gallery at Kents Bank Station, Cumbria on Saturday 8th November 2014 from 11.30am onwards to talk about his railway-inspired drawings that formed his Lakes International Comic Art Festival-supported exhibition “The… Read More ›
After its hugely successful 2014 Festival, which featured a stellar cast of both British and international creators and a number of special exhibitions, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival team have announced the event will return in October 2015. This… Read More ›
With the Thought Bubble Festival proper starting in a few days time, the organisers have just plugged some great, free/drop-in events taking place across Leeds and beyond from 9th – 16th November. For the full festival line-up, visit the… Read More ›
Here’s an interesting and clearly well thought project: Indie Comics Tracker, a service enabling you to not only keep track of your favourite independent comic titles – but discover new ones, too. Indie Comics Tracker allows you to discover… Read More ›
It’s been a busy time for smashing comic artist Dave Taylor, who I first worked with way back in the early 1990s at Marvel UK, on Warheads and Gene Dogs. Not only is he hard at work drawing… Read More ›
Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops from tomorrow, Wednesday 5th November 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold… Read More ›
The London-based Conville & Walsh literary agency has announced the launch of the Word of Mouth Prize, a new literary prize aimed at discovering talented unpublished novelists. Founded by Clare Conville and Patrick Walsh in 2000, the agency is a leading international literary… Read More ›
The Birmingham Comics Festival is determined to put the word fun back into British comic shows and is excited that it has just announced that cartoonist Laura Howell has agreed to become involved, not least with the main event… Read More ›
Just weeks away from the event itself, the Malta Comic Con team have released this impressive trailer to give comic fans a taster of the highly-regarded event, created by Mark A. Tagliaferro and Nitedevil Darkwatch. Now in its sixth… Read More ›
As part of this year’s All Hallow’s Read, a new Hallowe’en tradition started by Neil Gaiman in 2011 of giving away scary books on 31st October, top digital comics distributor SEQUENTIAL is giving away 666 copies of the acclaimed horror… Read More ›
2000AD owners Rebellion put out a call for help over the summer, which we were more than happy to repeat hear on downthetubes. They were looking for anyone out there who might have cuttings or originals of the “Judge… Read More ›
Rebellion, the publishers of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine, have announced collections of the “Dan Dare” stories published in early editions of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. The company says it is planning to release the first of a two-volume series in autumn… Read More ›
(Updated 31st October 2014): Hot on the heels of our news item that The Mirror has teamed up with Me Books to give digital comic readers a free interactive copy of Dennis the Menace comic comes word from Beano editor Craig Graham that the top… Read More ›
Top British newspaper The Mirror has teamed up with DC Thomson and digital comics distributor Me Books to give you a free interactive copy of Dennis the Menace comic. So if your little Menaces are getting a bit bored this half term, try this free interactive… Read More ›
Last year, the British Science Festival in Newcastle backed the creation of 10,000 copies of the wonderful, free Newcastle Science Comic Asteroid Belter, bringing science to life in a terrific comic newspaper, edited by editors Paul Thompson and Lydia Wysocki, whose over seventy… Read More ›
After a month’s delay, the latest Eagle Times is out now from the Eagle Society, with several features focusing on the work of one of Britain’s finest comic artists and illustrators, Frank Bellamy, whose amazing and much-admired work included “Dan Dare”, “Heros… Read More ›
The final days of the crowd funding campaign to fund a new Gerry Anderson project, Firestorm, are drawing in – and downthetubes can exclusively reveal a new comic-themed incentive has been added to the project. Lee Sullivan – perhaps… Read More ›
Marvel has added many of its most popular digital comics to digital distributor Kobo’s content library, in a deal a Kobo spokesperson says encompasses more than 250 fixed-layout illustrated ebooks. Titles such as Captain America: Winter Soldier Volume 1 and Infinity Gauntlet should… Read More ›
Not all comics are corporate global franchises spun off into endless merchandise and movies. Some of the very best comics are cult comics, defined as “honest, heartfelt, homemade” by Ilya, editor of The Mammoth Book of Cult Comics from Running Press Book… Read More ›
Network, the DVD and Blu-Ray label, has released a limited Blu-Ray edition of the wonderful Supermarionation documentary produced by Stephen La Riviere that includes TV21 243, an alternate edition of the top selling comic from the 1960s; one in which Joe… Read More ›