Issue 13 of ace Dan Dare magazine Spaceship Away — a stunning A4 sized full colour glossy magazine published three times a year — is due for release at the end of October, but a teaser image of the cover… Read More ›
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Story of 2000AD on Radio 4
With BBC4 taken over by comics this month on TV, BBC Radio 4 is getting in on the act, too. The radio station will be broadcasting Futureshock! The Story of 2000AD this Saturday (22 September) at 10.30am, narrated by Phil… Read More ›
In Review : The War Libraries
To give it its full title The Fleetway Picture Library Index Volume 1: The War Libraries makes this reference book sound very grand, perhaps a little foreboding and even rather dry. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. Compiled… Read More ›
Creator Interview: The Mysterious Mr George Low…
This month sees a major change at DC Thomson with the retirement of long-serving but, perhaps, little-known editor of Commando George Low, who joined the company from school in 1963 and has worked on the digest title ever since. downthetubes caught up… Read More ›
Bryan Talbot – Guardian today
The Guardian newspaper listings magazine, ‘The Guide’, features a Bryan Talbot cover and three pages of interior art as he introduces a history of British comics (part of the build-up to Comics Britannia on BBC4 on Monday night at 9pm).
The Bumper book of Look and Learn
The Bumper Book of Look and Learn is now out! Sub-titled the best of the classic children’s magazine this lavishly produced volume (produced by Century Books) is available in the shops for £18.99. Featuring an array of pages from just… Read More ›
Comics Britania
There’s been some interesting repsonses to the upcoming BBC4 series Comics Britannia on various comics boards. As usual, anything like this is bound to be dissected and judged before it has even aired but in general, response seems positive, which… Read More ›
Sweeney Todd from the Titan Squad
Titan Books has acquired the worldwide publishing rights for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the new Tim Burton movie slated for UK release on 25 January 2008. The film, which stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter… Read More ›
Comics Britannia Series Info
The BBC have released full transmission details for Comics Britannia (or, How we grew up with comics and how comics grew up with us…), a series of four documentaries on comics which will screen on BBC4, to be broadcast as… Read More ›
Making the most of classic War Comics
Carroll and Graf (the same publishing house of critically acclaimed The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga) releases The Mammoth Book of Best War Comics this month and the news has been picked up by several sites, including Releases de… Read More ›
Wallace and Gromit web site revamped
Cynopsis reports that Aardman Animations has tapped the ROO Group, an online video solutions company, to re-launch its Wallace and Gromit website (www.wallaceandgromit.com) with increased video functionality. Wallace and Gromit content, including a series of short films and clips from… Read More ›
Keith Robson’s History Of Comics
It has been open since the end of June and will end on Sunday 2nd September, but if you are near Hartlepool in the next couple of weeks then it is worth paying a visit to the Museum Of Hartlepool… Read More ›
Cubicle 7 licences DC Thomson’s Starblazer for ‘space roleplaying adventures’
Head into space with Starblazer (not literally…)
Kids Comics Competition announced
The Birmingham International Comics Show (BICS) in partnership with Peters the Booksellers and TBK Magazine recently launched the National Comic Art Competition. Kids across the UK and beyond have been invited to tell a two page comic story about how… Read More ›
Comics Artist Phil Gascoine: Tributes Pour In
Tributes to one of Britain’s unsung comic heroes, Phil Gascoine, who has died after a short illness, have poured into downtheubes after an online appeal. You can read them alongside a 2006 interview with Phil here, while over on Bear… Read More ›
Reboot Competition
Here’s some news of a great competition (its deadline 26 August) for comic artists courtesy of Josh Roberts, who runs the terrific comics web site comicspace – if you want to track down your favourite comic creators, try here! Vancouver-based… Read More ›
Celebrity Chef
First we had Fanny Craddock, next Delia Smith, then Nigella Lawson, and now we have Maw Broon! Courtesy of those nice people at Waverley Books, Maw Broon’s Cookbook is due to be released on an unsuspecting world in October, just… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Phil Gascoine
I’m very sorry to report that artist Phil Gascoine has died after a short illness. For those of you who knew him the news comes as a terrible shock. He was once chairman of the Society of Strip Illustrators and always… Read More ›
Bear Alley Is (The) One
It hardly needs a plug from me here since if you are interested in the history of British comics you have probably already read it but, for those few of you who may not yet have succumbed to its charms,… Read More ›
Doctor Who Magazine Original Comic Art for sale
I’m selling four outstanding illustrations on ebay by top artist Gary Erskine (Knights of Pendragon etc) used to illustrate the short story “Pathfinders” published in Doctor Who Magazine #173 by Michael E.P. Stevens. The illustrations are on two boards measuring… Read More ›