What has the recession meant to you? LifeSupport: Change through art, a project of online guide to life, is challenging comic creators to express their view on the Globalization Crisis. Creators are being encouraged to create a photograph, film or… Read More ›
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Southport College Celebrates Eagle Anniversary
Southport College is hosting to a Dan Dare exhibition celebrating 60 years of Eagle
60th Anniversary of Eagle – Part 2
Richard Sheaf continues his celebration of EAGLE at 60
Meet Gerry Anderson
A special signing announced
60th anniversary of Eagle – Part One
Richard Sheaf celebrates 60 years of the groundbreaking boys comic
Eagle Times Celebrates 60 Years
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 23 Number One) is now available from the Eagle Society and, naturally enough, is an issue dedicated to the impending 60th anniversary of The Eagle on 14th April. The issue includes an examination… Read More ›
John Hicklenton: A Tribute by Pat Mills
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 ›
Plum action in Commando!
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 ›
Titan Books to publish Classic Bible Stories from The Eagle
Coming in 2010: a collection of Frank Hampson’s Road of Courage from Titan Books
Century 21 Collection News – Volume Four on course
New thrills for Anderson fans!
The DFC LIbrary goes on air!
Between May 2008 and March 2009, children’s book publisher David Fickling launched a bold experiment in creating a new kids comic – The DFC – for the British market, which on a weekly basis featured new stories in a variety… Read More ›
More Carol Day newspaper strip stories online
Fans of the classic Carol Day newspaper strip may be interested to hear that the strip’s official web site, www.carol-day. com has recently updated with new stories and art. The new stories are “Money Matters” and “Jimmy Hayes“. Carol Day ran from 1956-1967, and was… Read More ›
Dan Dare Movie in the works?
Dan Dare movie rumours…
thingNY’s Call for Comic Artists
We don’t normally circulate much non-British news, but this US-based music project posted their international appeal for artists on our events page, so we thought we’d repost the information here. A New York-based xxperimental music ensemble, thingNY is looking for… Read More ›
Ron Embleton’s Wulf the Briton
Express Weekly’s “Wulf the Briton” in the spotlight
London International Creative Competition Launched
The London International Creative Competition for 2010 has just been announced and is calling for entries. Described as “a vehicle for facilitating contact between uniquely talented artists and an international audience”, work is juried by a board of internationally esteemed… Read More ›
Spaceship Away Soars Again
The latest issue of Spaceship Away, the science fiction comics magazine inspired by and featuring the original Dan Dare has just gone to the printers and will be on sale in all its usual outlets, and online, soon. This issue,… Read More ›
Michael Rosen heads up new writing competition
Michael Rosen, Children’s Laureate 2007-2009, is heading the panel of judges in a new short story competition for children and young people just launched by children’s charity Jigsaw4u (www.jigsaw4u.org.uk). Entrants have the option of sending in an illustration. Launched in… Read More ›
Pictures from France: Sarah McIntyre in Angoulême
downthetubes may have one of the best Scottish comics correspondents in, er, Scotland, in the form of Jeremy Briggs, but we don’t have a foreign correspondent: and yet, British comic creators regularly attend the biggest annual French Comics Festival, Angoulême… Read More ›
Alex Ronald’s Red Sands Resurrected
Check out Alex Ronald’s first ever comic