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Brett Uren and over twenty other comic creators, including Hal Laren, Cy Dethan and Kieran Squires have been beavering away on an intriguing-looking toy-on-toy crime anthology book the Aylesbury-based creator has conceived and is now seeking crowdfunding – Torsobear: Yarns… Read More ›
Channel 5 has awarded Signature Publishing the license to publish a magazine for the hugely popular and award winning children’s strand, Milkshake! This new and exciting monthly title, whose launch date has yet to be announced, will feature content and… Read More ›
Ian Cullen recently interviewed British comics writer Rob Williams for SciFiPulse.net and has kindly given us permission to re-post the interview here on downthetubes… British comic book writer Rob Williams latest endeavour is the creator-owned series Ordinary, drawn by D’Israeli… Read More ›
Skyjack Publishing, the company behind the hugely successful Moshi Monsters Magazine, launch a new title, 100% Magazine next week. Aimed at pre-teen children, every issue of 100% Magazine will be devoted to a single entertainment brand, TV show, or the… Read More ›
ITV Studios Global Entertainment has announced it is launching the countdown to the 50th anniversary of Thunderbirds at next year’s Glastonbury Festival, where Charles Hazlewood’s All Star Collective will perform a set written by Barry Gray, the man behind much of the… Read More ›
Here’s details on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando, on sale from Thursday 5th June in UK newsagents and for digital devices. There’s another great-looking World War One story from Keith Page, while D-Day – which sees its 70th… Read More ›
Artist Ken Barr, born in Scotland in 1933, is perhaps best known to downthetubes readers for his Commando covers, and has been working continuously for many years in the British graphics art industry. His innovative style and fresh perspective make… Read More ›
A trailblazer event for the biennial Manchester Children’s Book Festival (which takes place at the end of the month) will take place at Manchester Central Library tomorrow (Thursday 5th June), when novelist Curtis Jobling, creator of the globally successful Wereworld series, will be launching the… Read More ›
The sizzling Temple APA Issue Sixteen is now available to download as a totally free PDF file, containing contributions from the likes of British comic creators Dave Hailwood, Simon Mackie, Tony Suleri, Paul Eldridge, Malcolm Kirk and Ben Peter Johnson, (who also provides the… Read More ›
DC Thomson has announced to new Beano-related licensing deals in the past week, one for musical instruments and the other with restaurant chain Brewers Fayre, which will include the release of a limited edition Beano comic on Father’s Day. The… Read More ›
Digital Story Engine recently released their ace documentary “Graphic Novel Man” focusing on the career of award-winning British comic creator Bryan Talbot (you can read our review here) and gave us six copies of the DVD and six HD Digital downloads to give away. All… Read More ›
Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic ships on 4th June 2014, courtesy First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the UK titles in bold below: 2000AD Summer Sci-Fi… Read More ›
Ace British comic creator Hunt Emerson and publisher Knockabout have just launched a Kickstarter Campaign to try and launch a souped-up reprint of his wonderful 1980s Calculus Cat comic book. Calculus Cat hates TV. His world is black and white, weird,… Read More ›
The Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland is offering two full-time Home/EU PhD scholarships with a start date of 1st October 2014. Together with full payment of fees, each scholarship will include a… Read More ›
Starting a month of shows looking at the work of female comic creators on Britain’s comic radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to German scratch board artist Line Hoven and Belgian cartoonist Judith Vanistendael about their family drama graphic… Read More ›
Artwork by the late Joe Colquhoun from the seminal World War One comic story Charley’s War, which featured in weekly comic Battle, will be on show at Durlston Country Park near Swanage next month. Created by arrangement with Joe’s family, the event… Read More ›
The fifth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference will take places between Friday 19th – 20th July 2014 at the Conference Centre in the British Library in London. Now in its fifth year, this conference brings together comic and graphic novel… Read More ›
Not content with an already-announced guest list that includes top comic creators Scott McCloud, Gail Simone, Jock and Becky Cloonan, plus a Doctor Who-inspired group that features publisher Dez Skinn and top creators Nick Abadzis, Mike Collins and Robbie Morrison,… Read More ›
Recently released from from the 2000AD Thrill-vaults in a 304-page pulse-pounding collection, are everyone’s favourite war droids: the Atomic, Bacterial, Chemical-proof A.B.C. Warriors. Beautifully bound in a stunning hardback edition, for the first time, all of the full-colour splash pages and… Read More ›
Swooping in from DreamWorks Animation’s smash-hit TV series Dragons: Riders of Berk, Titan Comics has just released the first volume of a series of all-new original adventures of Hiccup and Toothless. Dragons: Riders of Berk Volume One is a thrilling all-ages publication… Read More ›