The official Hammer Films website has today launched a new online shop selling items associated with the vintage British film studio. Items for sale include DVDs, books and T-shirts, along with some new reproduction film posters. But that’s not the… Read More ›
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All New UK Comic for Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Upcoming issues of Titan Magazines Star Wars: The Clone Wars Comic are to include all-new comic strip stories specially created for the title. The new-look 32-page comic, on sale from 12th November, will include a self-contained eight-page mini-story in every… Read More ›
Blade Runner Tops "Greatest SciFi" Poll
Blade Runner has been named the greatest sci-fi movie of all time
Engines of Enchantment at Cartoon Museum
London’s Cartoon Museum is to host an exhibition dedicated to the work of eccentric genius Rowland Emett this summer. Described in TIME Magazine as “a nostalgic-romantic artist-humorist social commentator-engineer,” this exhibition brings together, for the first time in Britain, the… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Comic Cutbacks, San Diego Schedules, Dinsoaurs and Weird Fishes…
• Filming has started on the new series of Doctor Who that will see Matt Smith will take on the eponymous role. Matt is seen here in costume, side by side with Scottish actress Karen Gillan who plays new companion… Read More ›
Dave Gibbons to launch Watchmen 3D Graffiti Art Instillation
To celebrate the UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Watchmen, London’s Southbank will stage an art exhibition with a difference on Tuesday 28th July with the comic’s artist Dave Gibbons and acclaimed graffiti artist Chu. Chu will showcase his artistic… Read More ›
8th Fantastic Film Weekend in Bradford
The National Media Museum in Bradford will be presenting their 8th Fantastic Film Weekend from 12 to 14 June. The Film Weekend has become a hugely popular event for fans of sci-fi and horror movies and this year there’ll be… Read More ›
2D Festival Begins in Derry
If you’re in Northern Ireland this weekend, then head along to the 2D Festival at the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, which is now up and running with guests David Lloyd, Liam Sharp, Glenn Fabry, Mike Collins, Bryan Talbot, David… Read More ›
Manwha 100 Opening Report
Last week David Baillie was our downthetubes roving reporter lucky enough to be invited to a private view of the new Manwha 100 exhibition in London which, if the name hasn’t already given the game away, celebrates the 100th anniversary… Read More ›
Furman Talks Revenge!
There’s still a month to go in the UK before Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens in cinemas here (19th June), but the first part of US publisher IDW’s comic adaptation, written by Transformers supremo Simon Furman, is on sale… Read More ›
London Hosts Centenary Manwha Exhibition
The Korea Creative Content Agency and Korean Cultural Centre UK have announced a celebration of the centenary of Korean comics, known as manhwa, with a host of interrelated special exhibitions, events and film screenings, starting next week. Manhwa: A Language… Read More ›
2nd Leeds Zombie Film Festival Approaches
Sunday 26 April sees the second Leeds Zombie Film Festival. Held at the Cottage Road Cinema in the Headingly region of the city from 12 noon to 12 midnight, full day passes (available from the box office on the day… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 11 April 2009
• ComX publisher Eddie Deighton has just been interviewed for a new article, published here on comicon, giving a little insight into the company and his thoughts on the industry, offering advice for small publishers and comments on viral marketing…. Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 13 March 2009
• Lucasfilm has published a feature on Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore’s connections to Star Wars, documenting the pair’s early Star Wars work. Alan wrote several Star Wars tales for Marvel UK while Dave’s first contribution was as an artist… Read More ›
Watchmen Reviews Round Up
In the absence of getting to the film myself yet — is it really worth putting up with modern cinema goers habits like texting on their mobiles, talking through the film and having the bladder control of fleas to bother?… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 25 February 2008
• Comics artist Doug Noble, whose past works include work for Marvel, Live Static and The Silent Choir and who was recently interviewed by fellow creator Sean Azzopardi, is about to launch a new longform strip called Complex. “Hopefully some… Read More ›
Who Watches the Watchmen? – A Veidt Music Network (VMN) Special – 1983
Perhaps the best Watchmen viral clip yet — an 80’s MTV parody! The film makers have really gone to town in recreating media from the Watchmen Universe. And there’s more… if you haven’t seen the Tales from the Black Freighter… Read More ›
New Watchmen In-Film Clips Released
Three in-film clips from Watchmen featuring Night Owl have just been released on YouTube… “We Can Break Into the Pyramid” featuring Night Owl and Rorsharch: “Rescue…” — and, finally, “Attention Citizens”: a chance to see the Comedian in action… •… Read More ›
Beating Up Baddies, Watchmen Style…
A new Watchmen viral has just been launched, hot on the heels of the Watchmen TV channel, all to promote the upcoming release of the eagerly-anticipated Watchmen movie. This time, it’s a Watchmen arcade game, retro-styled like the classic 1980s… Read More ›
Wilson’s Star Wars Project Revealed
We’ve previously mentioned in passing 2000AD artist Colin Wilson‘s upcoming Star Wars project for US publisher Dark Horse, but now details about Star Wars: Invasion, which launches online in May, have been officially announced.The series, set 25 years after the… Read More ›