The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 23 Number One) is now available from the Eagle Society and, naturally enough, is an issue dedicated to the impending 60th anniversary of The Eagle on 14th April. The issue includes an examination… Read More ›
Magazines
Eagle Times Warms Up Winter (Volume 22 Number 4, Winter 2009)
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22 Number 4, Winter 2009) is now available from the Eagle Society, wrapped in this cheery winter scene that illustrated an article titled ‘He wants to be a Postman’ from the Christmas issue… Read More ›
Eagle Times (Volume 22, Number Three) Delivers Danny Dare
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22, Number Three) features an article by downthetubes contributor Jeremy Briggs on Danny Dare (“Dan Dare’s Number One fan”), who appeared in Wham! in the 1960s. The cover art illustration for the issue is… Read More ›
In Review: Tripwire 2009 Annual… Simply Awesome!
Regular readers of downthetubes will recall that as a result of distributor Diamond’s recently-introduced minimum order levels, this latest edition of ace comics and genre magazine Tripwire is not being distributed in the US. (See news story). While not the… Read More ›
Tripwire Goes to San Diego
Fab Brit genre magazine Tripwire continues its yearly San Diego Comic-Con tradition by premiering its third Tripwire Annual at the world’s best-known genre media convention. A stunning Jeff Carlisle full colour original Nick Fury cover sets the tone for the… Read More ›
Something Completely Different
… this surely has to rank as one of the best titles for a magazine ever. Someone tell Lew Stringer he was been pipped to the post sometime during the Second World War…
Eagle Times Volume 22 Number One
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22, Number One) is available now from the Eagle Society. Spring 2009 contents Operation Saturn – but not as we know it. Details of Frank Hampson’s original 1952 story outline for Dan Dare’s… Read More ›
How to Paint Rorschach
A bit late to the table with this one, but what with trips to London and the ramping up of the first of several new web sites during the day, I’ve been a bit sidetracked – apologies! The April issue… Read More ›
Electric Sheep Springs on Tainted Love
The all new spring issue of Electric Sheep Magzine, featuring illustrations by Oli Smith, Emma Price and Tom Humberstone and a new comic strip by Mark Stafford, focuses on Tainted Love to celebrate the release of the sweet and bloody… Read More ›
Crikey! scores with new Creator Interviews
The ninth issue of British comics magazine Crikey! is on sale now in all good comic shops and via its web site (www.crikeyuk.co.uk), featuring interviews with Enrique Romero on his Axa and Modesty Blaise newspaper strips, V for Vendetta and… Read More ›
In Review: Dangerous Ink
After we plugged the alternative arts magazine Dangerous Ink recently, editor Tom Green very kindly sent downthetubes copies of the most recent issues — and I’m very impressed. Quite aside from the comics-related interviews — which include 1960s Batman actor… Read More ›
Andersonic Issue 7 is Go!
Stand by fir (fanzine) action!
So Long To Scrye
More bad news in the niche magazine market with word via ICv2 that F&W Media has decided to end publication of Scrye magazine with its April 2009 issue (#131). Founded back in 1993, Scrye is the longest running periodical reporting… Read More ›
Dangerous Ink interviews John M. Burns
(with thanks to Jay Eales): Cosmic Publishing, who also publish Comics International, have just released the first issue of the revamped, alternative arts magazine Dangerous Ink, which includes an interview with 2000AD and one time Modesty Blaise artist John M…. Read More ›
Stacking the odds for Indie Magazines Success
Here’s an idea which some enterprising comics publisher, or comics distributor, might consider as a way to drum up interest in their full range of titles. The financial crisis will make 2009 a year of high innovation for independent magazines,… Read More ›
Planetary Stories with a British flavour…
(via writer Erwin K. Roberts): The coming of the new year also brings new issues of the quarterly sister web magazines Planetary Stories and Pulp Spirit, described by their editor as an online homage to the S-F pulp magazines of… Read More ›
Starscape Comic Turns Magazine
For the past seven or so years, Chris Smillie’s Starscape has been a comic then a webcomic, inspired by the idea of the evolution of traditional British comics, such as 2000AD, Mighty World of Marvel, Eagle and the Victor, taking… Read More ›
In Review: The Tripwire Annual 2008
Review by John Freeman Joel Meadows has edited and designed Tripwire since 1992, and, as editor of the magazine and a freelance journalist for newspapers such as The Times, The Indpendent and various other titles, has interviewed almost everyone of… Read More ›
Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine "Market Tested"
Last month, we reported on a new Doctor Who magazine in development from part works publishers GE Fabbri, publishers of the Doctor Who magazine Battles in Time and magazine-video titles such as Ronnie Barker, Charmed and Stargate SG-1. Although GE… Read More ›
Doctor Who Part Work in the Offing
(with thanks to Jeremy Bentham and Tony Clark): Alerted by a posting on the web site of Blackpool’s Who shop, it seems plans are afoot to release a Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine. Part works publishers GE Fabbri, publishers of… Read More ›