It’s a significant birthday for our publisher…
Crucible Comic Press
Happy Birthday, Mr Freeman – Other Voices
Others wish our publisher a Happy Birthday
downthetubes joins Comic Blog Elite
We’re pleased to report that the hard work of the downthetubes team has been rewarded with acceptance by Comic Blog Elite (comicblogelite.com), an “aggregator” site that delivers a league chart of some of the best comics blogs — of varying… Read More ›
downthetubes upgraded!
The main downthetubes site featuring comic creator interviews, a guide to writing comics, comics links, a comics events guide, the Really Heavy Greatcoat archive and more has just switched to a new server and the transfer may take a few… Read More ›
Artist Jon Haward Interviewed
The Classical Comics project to make literature contemporary and relevant through comics is ambitious, but has received high praise educators and actors, including Royal Shakespeare Company fellow and Star Trek icon Patrick Stewart.On the launch of the second Classical Comics… Read More ›
Floods Charity Comic Planned
(Updated 21/10/07): UK indie publisher Adam Grose, who runs Clown Press, is working on a charity comic in aid of the Red Cross, to raise money for flood victims the world over. Although initially prompted by floods in the UK… Read More ›
Small Pressers Appeal
Comics columnist and downthetubes contributor Matthew Badham will be speaking at a comics and animation conference, The Aesthetics of Trash at Manchester University at the end of August and is appealing for information from small press publishers. “I’m going to… Read More ›
I’m being interviewed!
I’ve been interviewd for an upcoming ‘Nightgig’ podcast about the comics to mobile project I help run at Rok Comics. The interview covers the company’s $10,000 Humour Comic competition which runs until end August 2007 — and the opportunities ROK… Read More ›
John Freeman interviewed on Nightgig
Heads up everybody! After wrestling with Skype (actually not that hard once I realised my headphones had a volume control) I can confirm that I will be being interviewed for the comics podcast site Nightgig. I don’t think the interview… Read More ›
New discussion board for downthetubes
I’ve just added a new element to downthetubes which I’m hoping offers a lot more flexibility to discussion and shared information: http://downthetubesforum.ning.com In addition to a forum, this service allows me to include several blog RSS feeds on its home… Read More ›