By Antony MooreFormat: NovelPublished: Already Available in Hardback. Paperback Released by Vintage Books on 5 June 2008 The Plot: Another school reunion looms for Harvey Briscow, and once again he agonises over whether to attend; as the owner of a… Read More ›
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Gene Colan gravely ill
American writer Clifford Meth has put out an urgent plea to help raise money for the family of one of America’s greatest comic artists Gene Colan, who is gravely ill. The funds are needed to cover medical expenses, as they… Read More ›
Comic Expo Reports Round Up
David Hailwood will be reporting on the Bristol Comic Expo specifically for downthetubes in due course, but in the meantime, here’s some links to just some of the reports on other comic sites: • Comic Book Resources has an article… Read More ›
Eagle Award Wnners Announced
The winners of the 2008 Eagle Awards have been announced, and with the results comes news that this year was a record-breaking one, with well over 12,000 voters participating. Continuing to expand their worldwide penetration, organisers say the 2008 awards… Read More ›
Cameron’s Crash Course Launches
The BBC has just published an 88-page full-colour online interactive comic called Crash Course drawn by top British comics artist Neill Cameron. Neill told downthetubes he spent “a good chunk of last year working on the comic for the BBC”… Read More ›
2008 Eagle Annual – Cutaways
(With thanks to Will Grenham): Last September, Orion published the rather confusingly titled Eagle Annual: The Best of the 1950s Comic, which reprinted pages from the first decade of the weekly Eagle comic. It was a nice nostalgic book, but… Read More ›
Slaine Slayed?
Last year, we reported how anti road campaigners in Eire had borrowed Pat Mills 2000AD character Slaine to promote protest over the building of the M3, much to Pat’s delight at the time. Sadly, it seems not even barbarian warriors… Read More ›
Brains Works Best When Hydrated!
(with thanks to Jeremy Briggs): Hot on the heels of the Specsavers Thunderbirds-inspired ad for their Reaction glasses comes a new commercial from mineral water company Drench using a dancing Brains to promote their product. Brains dances his way through… Read More ›
BBC’s Comedy Map Of Britain – Newcastle
The BBC2 programme The Comedy Map of Britain turned its attention to the North East of England for the third programme of the second series. Having previously been to the impressive century old headquarters of D C Thomson in Dundee… Read More ›
Red Cross Charity Comic Launched
Available now from lulu.com is a downloadable book, Flood, created to raise funds for the Red Cross. Initiated by Adam R. Grose, publisher of Clown Press, and with the help of John Freeman, a wide selection of writers and artists… Read More ›
Comic Art Now Goes On Sale
On sale now in a good book shop near you — or, very possibly, on stalls at this weekend’s Comic Expo in Bristol — is the much anticipated Comic Art Now from industry veteran Dez Skinn, a 200-page “comic art… Read More ›
New Moon Queen Adventure on ROK Comics
Everyone loves superhero the Moon Queen – but she’s blissfully unaware of it! Her best friend is the Bee – the only one who doesn’t seem to want something from her. MQ’s real name is Agnes Bale, she can fly… Read More ›
Remembering Heroes
There was a time not that long ago when British boy’s comics celebrated the heroism of British and Commonwealth servicemen. As London celebrates the current British forces with the City Salute, Jeremy Briggs takes a look back at how British… Read More ›
In Review: The Wolfmen
Review by David Hailwood Another fine offering from Accent UK, publishers of Robots, The Wolfmen successfully merges the crime and horror genre. This time, we get a stand alone comic written by Dave West and drawn by Andy Bloor set… Read More ›
Flying Officer John Cruickshank VC – The Victor
There was a time not that long ago when British boy’s comics celebrated the heroism of British and Commonwealth servicemen. As London celebrates the current British forces with the City Salute, Jeremy Briggs takes a look back at how… Read More ›
Road Death Comics…
Rumble strips were invented to alert us to hazards. In fog or snow, or even worse, on the verge of sleep, when you…just…. can’t… keep… your… eyes..op-drrrrrrrrrr drrrrrrrrrrrr drrrrrrrrrrrrr! The noise, the jolt, the vibration of those grooves wakes and… Read More ›
Never Been Exhibtion Online
(with thanks to Matthew Badham): Never Been, the giant comic strip that exhibited on the walls of Projekts MCR skateboard park in Manchester earlier this year is now online at www.stuartkolakovic.co.uk/neverbeen.htm The exhibition , both real and virtual, is the… Read More ›
Temple of Comics!
On the weekend of Free Comics Day, downthetubes is pleased to report Issue #0 of The Temple Comic APA’s Digital Showcase is now available to download as a free PDF at templeapa.ning.com, featuring a motley collection of strips from some… Read More ›
DFC Teaser Online
Some pages from the new weekly subscription-only British The DFC comic are now available to view on line at: www.thedfc.co.uk/teaser_issue.htmlDFC‘s content includines a strip by author Philip Pullman, The Adventures of John Blake, illustrated by John Aggs, one of the… Read More ›
Robin Hood Joins Accent UK
Accent UK are very pleased to announce that by special arrangement with Geoff West of The Book Palace, they’ll have a supply of the newly released Frank Bellamy’s Robin Hood the Complete Adventures book at both the International Comic Expo… Read More ›