I couldn’t help but smile reading the latest episode of this week’s “Judge Dredd” story in 2000AD Prog 2138, because nestling in the story from Kenneth Niemand is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it tip of the hat to one of the bands that… Read More ›
Other Worlds
Non Comics items – TV, Film, Books, and other things that internet wandering alerted us to
Paramount Pictures rejoins “London Resort:” Theme Park project
Paramount Pictures has reignited plans for The London Resort – Britain’s largest ever theme park in Kent, after signing a new deal with the project. The studio was first announced as the project’s main sponsor back in 2014, but after… Read More ›
Comic Madness at Macc-Pow in Macclesfield! – Lakes Festival Podcast reveals all…
This week’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast leads with a report from the fourth Macc-Pow comic con, held in Macclesfield on Saturday 22nd June 2019, organised by regular Festival guest, writer, artist and publisher Marc Jackson. The event attracted… Read More ›
Nick Abadzis faces Doctor Who: Panel to Panel probe
Episode #111 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel, the great Doctor Who comics-focused podcast by Jeremy Bement, is live and offers a great chat with award-winning comics writer and artist Nick Abadzis. Nick Abadzis’ epic run on Titan Comics’ Tenth… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Inspired by Autobiography
In an episode of the comics radio show Panel Borders looking at how personal experience can inform the content of graphic novels, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Ian Williams about his books The Bad Doctor and The Lady Doctor. Plus, guest presenter Philippa Perry discusses The Book of Sarah with its author, artist Sarah Lightman, about the book’s mix of fine art drawings and diary entries.
“Penalty” Football Card Game box art by John Armstrong on eBay
“Penalty“, a football-inspired Pepys card game was invented by Ernesto Scola of Milan, working with a team of twelve specialists who took five years including playing 18,000 trial games to develop the game. It was first published on the continent… Read More ›
John Patrick Reynolds offers new limited edition “Dennis the Menace” print
Screen printer John Patrick Reynolds is offering a new limited edition print of Dennis the Menace, based on an which first appeared in an edition of The Beano annual in the 1960s – and has inspired other similar illustrations of the character since
US technology company Megahoot ramps up comics plans, appoints Lawrence White Chief Creative Officer
Megahoot “MEGA”, a US-based blockchain technology, Cybersecurity and smart technology company, has appointed writer, artist and publisher Lawrence White as its company’s Chief Creative Officer “CCO” who will lead all creative efforts for MEGA’s online and print graphic novels, online gaming platforms, brand collateral for the company’s film, TV and comic book projects
Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure game launches this Autumn
Global video games publisher Outright Games has announced a forthcoming console and PC-gaming experience set in the wondrous, prehistoric, universe of the Ice Age film franchise from Blue Sky Studios, Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure. Based on the blockbuster film… Read More ›
School’s Out Forever, Rebellion’s first in-house movie project, gets greenlit
Rebellion, owners of 2000AD, recently announced its first in-house projects that will use the company’s new studio space near Oxford. Post-apocalyptic thriller School’s Out Forever will be shot there and on location, followed by several projects based on Rebellion’s comic… Read More ›
Does Aces Weekly Volume 40 see the debut of a new heroine – Siriana?
Aces Weekly Volume 40 offers surprise selection box of the light and the dark, the hard and the soft, and the nutty in one digital anthology, with strips by Jok LP, Rodolfo Santullo, David Leach, Roberto Corroto Cuadrado, Anthony Zicari,… Read More ›
London set to go LEGO crazy at London Film & Comic Con, London Brick Festival
Celebrate all things LEGO at the London Brick Festival, returning 22nd September 2019
“Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers” features new SF by Jack Campbell, Becky Chambers and many more
Titan Books are releasing Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers this autumn, a new SF anthology edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt featuring 27 stories – 15 of them original to the book, including one by “Lost Fleet” author Jack Campbell, who I… Read More ›
Japan House to host “Our Road to Recovery: An Anime Studio in Fukushima” event with Asao Yoshinori
London’s Japan House hosts an event on Tuesday 2nd July with producer, director and screenwriter Yoshinori Asao, focusing on novel initiatives to bring fresh life and vitality to Fukushima and the region of Tohoku, which was overcome by tragedy. There… Read More ›
Bromyard’s Time Machine Museum set to close in September
There’s sad news for fans of The Time Machine Museum of Science Fiction based in Bromyard, Herefordshire, which, it’s been announced, will close its doors in September – and all assets will be sold at auction
WebFind: Chet Phillips’ Postcards from Britain – with added monsters!
American illustrator Chet Phillips is the creator of terrific art projects such as Dr Mew, the Monster Zen book, the Steampunk Monkey Colouring Book and the Steampunk Monkey Cigarette Cards – but here at downthetubes I have to say I… Read More ›
Promoting Wham! comic in the 1960s – a rare retailer-targeted poster
Back when British comics had sales in the hundreds of thousands every week, they had a promotional budget to match, extending to retail promotions like this Wham! poster, offered to newsagents in the 1960s by its publisher, Odhams Press
Space: 1999 Power Records cover art offered in auction
Heritage Auctions has some Space: 1999 art credited to Neal Adams and Dick Giordano on offer in its upcoming Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction in Dallas, taking place 1st – 3rd August 2019. Split over two lots, on offer… Read More ›
ComicScene Summer Special Issue 5 out this week
Comic fans can now pre-order the new 80-page ComicScene Summer Special (Issue 5) in print or digital, on sale this Thursday, 20th June, in selected newsagents, or from GetMyComics. The magazine includes six comic strips, expanding that aspect of the… Read More ›
Holiday Specials galore, and more, in latest Phil-Comics eBay auction
There’s a host of British comic goodies on offer in the latest Phil-Comics eBay auction, including a terrific number of Holiday Specials from the 1970s, Beano, Dandy, TV21 comics, annuals – and rarities such as promotional flyers and more