“Widely recognised as being a valuable means of encouraging people to read more extensively, graphic novels have become a sought-after feature of our programme.” Reading such a statement on page 8 of the 2009 Annual Report of the Edinburgh International… Read More ›
Events
Hi-Ex 2011: Fourth Fling In The Highlands
After the run of Scottish comics events that we have been reporting on over the last few days, it seems appropriate to mention the biggest Scottish comics event of them all, the Highland Expo – Hi-Ex. In 2007 when Richmond… Read More ›
Frank Quitely @ West Port Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival may be the largest literary festival in the UK but Edinburgh also has one of the smallest. The West Port Book Festival was set up by the many second hand books shops that crowd together… Read More ›
Comics @ Edinburgh International Book Festival
It is the biggest literary festival in the United Kingdom and over the last few years the Edinburgh International Book Festival has taken a very active interest in comics and graphic novels. This year’s BookFest begins in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square… Read More ›
Dundee Comics Day – 1 Week To Go
There is just 1 week left before the fourth annual Dundee Comics Day, part of the Dundee Literary Festival, which is taking place at Dundee University’s Tower Building on Sunday 27 June. This year’s theme is Creating Comics and the… Read More ›
Oxfam Comic Event Tickets Now Available
Following on from last year’s event, tickets are now available for the snappily entitled Oxfam Bookfest Comic Event in Edinburgh – Issue 2. This discussion based event will take place on Saturday 17 July 2010 in Edinburgh’s MacDonald Road Library… Read More ›
Competition: Win a Rude Britannia Book!
Marking the launch of the Rude Britannia Exhibition at the Tate, downthetubes has THREE copies of the tie-in book – Rude Britannia: British Comic Art by Martin Myrone, Tim Batchelor and Cedar Lewisohn – to give away! Comic art –… Read More ›
Radio Show spotlights Rude Britannia exhibition
Opening today at Tate Britain in London is the new exhibition ‘Rude Britannia’, which traces the history of British comic art from Hogarth to the present day. In an hour-long Clear Spot radio show from the Strip! radio show team,… Read More ›
Etherington Brothers Exhbit in Bristol
The Ink-dot/Howies ESCAPE Exhibition, featuring a series of beautiful new limited edition prints by more than 30 of today’s best illustrators, animators, designers (and one lowly comic book scribbler, Lorenzo Etherington) opens in Bristol later this month. It’s a show… Read More ›
Culture Show Discusses Comics Tonight
Just a quick ‘heads-up’ to advise you to tune into tonight’s The Culture Show on BB2 (at 7.00pm, repeated at 12.20am Friday morning). The programme will be exploring “the past, present and post-election future of British comic art” which is… Read More ›
In Review: London MCM Expo 17
The one thing that really hits you about the MCM Expo at London’s ExCel centre is its sheer size. The two big comics events in the UK are Bristol and BICS. Two weekends ago Bristol had 1000 people at it… Read More ›
Record attendance at London MCM Expo, Comics Village success
MCM Expo, May 2010. Picture: Juliette Crawford Last weekend’s London MCM Expo was the most successful in the show’s history, with more than 41,000 visitors attending over the two days. Already established as the top UK entertainment event, the show… Read More ›
Marvel Super Heroes storm London’s Madame Tussauds
Two of the world’s leading entertainment brands – Madame Tussauds, part of the Merlin Entertainments Group, and Marvel Entertainment – have joined forces to create a unique new visitor experience at the leading London attraction, scheduled to open in early… Read More ›
Zine Symposium this Saturday in London
The London Zine Symposium takes place this weekend at the Rag Factory in East London. An annual event where people interested in zines, small-press, comics and/ or radical culture can get together, buy or sell zines and share ideas with… Read More ›
Folk to watch out for at the Bristol Comic Expo
(with thanks to Bryan Talbot, who can’t be there due to deadlines – but Watch the Grandville trailer!): Here’s a list of just some of the comics creators at the Bristol Comic Expo this weekend to look out for if… Read More ›
Doctor Who Live: Tour Details
Tickets for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who Live – The Monsters Are Coming! are now on sale. The show will be a spectacular audio-visual experience – think their successful stage show version of Walking with Dinosaurs but with Doctor Who… Read More ›
David Bishop launches graphic novels collection in Scotland
(Adapted in part from David Bishop’s Vicious Imagery blog and reposted here with his full permission): Comics writer, editor and TV script writer David Bishop was at the Greenock Public Library, Scotland last night to help promote its new collection… Read More ›
Free Comic Book Day: a report from the (British) front line
Free Comic Book Day – an annual event to promote the comics industry worldwide – gets bigger and better every year, and for First Age Comics, based in the Assembly Rooms on King Street, Lancaster, the latest incarnation was easily… Read More ›
downthetubes John Freeman at Sci-Fi-London
A quick reminder of two panels I’ll be appearing on tomorrow (Saturday 1st May) at Sci-Fi-London… 60 Years of Dan Dare A panel on 60 years of the lantern jawed space pilot. Alex Fitch will be talking to: Garry Leach,… Read More ›
ConceptArt launches Female Form Course
This coming Sunday, ace illustrators web site ConceptArt.Org, who kindly helped promote my original appeal for artists for SciFi Art Now, will begin a new round of live streaming classes with a very beautiful program on the art of the… Read More ›