Wicked Comics has announced the internationally renowned British creator Ian “Marineman” Churchill as the first guest for this year’s Malta Comic Con, which will be held on Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December at St. James Cavalier (all floors), Valletta, Malta. The convention’s… Read More ›
Award-winning Charles “Charlie” Adlard is a British comic book artist and penciller, one of over 80 comic guest at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, is best known for his work on the long-running, best-selling Image Comics series… Read More ›
Do you remember when there were no mobile phones, no apps, no texting, no e-mails and no twitter? When your only contact with other angst ridden teenage girls like you was through the pages of Jackie Magazine, which every Thursday… Read More ›
The Big Draw – the biggest drawing festival in the world – is back in October in 15 countries, with 200,000 people again expected to take part. Hundreds of new and enjoyable drawing activities will hopefully help connect people of… Read More ›
2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Book Festival which begins today in the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens. The festival runs for two and a half weeks and is the largest literature festival in the world. In… Read More ›
Comic creator Dan Boultwood will be launching Issue #1 of Titan Comics It Came! at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Thursday 15th August. Fans of cult film will love this hilarious B-movie romp, a knowing throwback to the heyday… Read More ›
Britain is buzzing with comics festivals and conventions up and down the land and throughout the year. Across the spectrum of scale and longevity, Oxford’s determinedly human-scale small press weekend Caption is the longest one still running, while the MCM… Read More ›
Cornwall’s first comic book convention – the 22 Panels Comic Art Show – will be running from 26-27 October 2013 in the coastal town of Falmouth. Celebrating comics as art in a weekend convention hosted by the town’s independent arts… Read More ›
The Dublin International Comics Expo (DICE) 2013 takes place 28th-29th September and has lined up an impressive list of both US and homegrown talent. Run by the award-winning comic shop Big Bang, the two-day event in Dundrum, Dublin will offer a… Read More ›
A last minute plug – creator-publisher Mike Medaglia is launching his anthology of spiritual comics, Wu Wei, tonight at Gosh!, 1 Berwick Street, Soho, London W1F 0DR from 7.00pm. Glyn Dillon of The Nao of Brown fame has designed the… Read More ›
Peter Hogan will be signing copies of Resident Alien and other title he’s written at Orbital Comics, London on Saturday 17th August. A stalwart of the British comics scene, Hogan is probably best known for his work on Neil Gaiman’s… Read More ›
The Wordsworth Trust, in Grasmere, Cumbria, will be hosting the Hunt Emerson: Original works from The Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein exhibition between 4th October to 3rd November. The exhibition links with other exhibitions and comic events surrounding the first Lakes… Read More ›
Way back in 1988 (yes – that long ago…) my first professional job in the wacky world of comics (thanks to Richard Starkings who suggested me and Sheila Cranna, who took him up on the idea) was designer on Doctor… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has over 70 guests lined up for its first out in October. As the event is on our doorstep (downthetubes is based in Lancaster), we thought we’d try and spotlight as many as we… Read More ›
We love left field stuff here at downthetubes, and (apart from comics themselves) you probably can’t get more left field than the news that Kendal’s knitters and crochet enthusiasts are so enthused by the upcoming Lakes International Comic Art Festival,… Read More ›
Some of the best-known comic artists in the UK will be displaying work in showcase exhibitions at this year’s inaugural Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October. As well as a huge selection of events, workshops, a special family zone… Read More ›
We met up with Julie Tait, the organiser of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, earlier this week, and among other things (like telling us about supporters of the Festival creating knitted comic charcaters to promote it, an amazing tie-in… Read More ›
Following Ralph Steadman’s lead, the cream of Britain’s cartoonists and illustrators will be in Herne Bay on Saturday 3rd August to celebrate the Marcel Duchamp Centenary Festival. Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor and writer whose work is associated… Read More ›
If you haven’t already booked your tickets for Auto Assembly 2013 then time is running out fast. You now only have one week to pre-register for Europe’s Largest Transformers Convention online and then after that point you will only be… Read More ›
The countdown to this year’s Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds in November has begun! From 17th – 24th November, in association with Leeds International Film Festival, and Allied London, the largest celebration of comics and animation in the UK will… Read More ›