Book List: Celebrating Ephemera Starting a new series of the bimonthly show on books, Alex Fitch talks to three authors whose work celebrates ephemera and pop culture detritus. ‘Graphic Novelist’ Graham Rawle discusses his latest novel The Card, which follows… Read More ›
Other Worlds
Non Comics items – TV, Film, Books, and other things that internet wandering alerted us to
Radio interviews with Jenny Linn-Cole and Jon Turner
Panel Borders: Shallowater, Your days are numbered Concluding a month of shows looking at small press and independent comics, we have a pair of interviews recorded in venues where such titles are stocked. Alex Fitch talks to Jenny-Linn Cole (in… Read More ›
Jesse Negron’s Dravn takes over latest Heavy Metal
British comic creator and Heavy Metal editor Dave Elliott — who’s a busy chap right now, as he’s also currently working closely with Titan Comics on their upcoming launches — is part of the creative team on Dravn, a new… Read More ›
Radio interviews with Al Davison, David Hine, Tom Humberstone and Tony Lee
Panel Borders: From small press to mainstream In a panel discussion recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, the London International festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, guest presenter Matt Badham talks to comic creators David Hine, Al Davison, Tom Humberstone and Tony… Read More ›
Thunderbirds Are Go! – To Egmont…
All change for Gerry Anderson collectors
May the 4th be with you!
Opening on May the 4th (Star Wars Day) and ending on 25th May (the 30th anniversary of Return of the Jedi), Manchester’s award winning Generation Gallery will be hosting an art event with a difference. Generation Gallery will be flying… Read More ›
Photographer Steve Cook announces "Sophie’s World" exhibition, seeks missing negatives
Brilliant photographer Steve Cook, whose design credits include Doctor Who Magazine and 2000AD as well as projects such as Alternity with Shaky Kane and whose 2009 Secret Origins exhibition of many British comic creators remains a superb snapshot of the… Read More ›
Radio interviews with Accent UK and Sloth Comics creators
Panel Borders: Small Press Publishers Starting a month of shows in a new time slot, Panel Borders is looking at small press and self published comics, including the titles produced by two British independent publishing companies in interviews recorded at… Read More ›
Radio interviews with Russell Willis and Charles Kriel about webcomic apps
Panel Borders: Digitising comics Concluding a month of shows looking at web comics, Alex Fitch talks to two experts in web based technologies about their dissemination methods aimed at bringing comics to tablets and other devices. Russell Willis discusses his… Read More ›
Thrill Power, 1957 Style, in the new Eagle Times (Volume 26 Number One)
The new issue of Eagle Times, Volume 26 Number One – the magazine published by the Eagle Society – features an interview article by downthetubes writer Jeremy Briggs entitled “A Thrill Of A Lifetime In 1957“. “The Thrill Of A… Read More ›
Veteran comic artist Ron Smith focus of new podcasts
(With thanks to Graeme Neil Reid): Over on the Everything Comes Back to 2000AD site the team have produced two podcast interviews with artist Ron Smith which are pure gold. Ron talks about his whole career: obviously the podcasts centre… Read More ›
Radio interviews with postmodern webcomic creators, including Paul O’Connell
Panel Borders: Collage and reappropriation Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Panel Borders examines the work of a quartet of creators whose online strips and cartoons reinvent retro images and iconic characters from film and TV to beguiling… Read More ›
Prisoners of Time: An Interview with artist Mike Collins
British comic creators are heavily involved in US publisher IDW’s Doctor Who at 50 celebrations for their ‘Prisoners of Time’ maxi series, which launched in January with a First Doctor story drawn by Simon Fraser and continued with a Second… Read More ›
Dave Gibbons ‘Whaat’ art challenges Lichtenstein’s dubious ‘legacy’
Watchmen artist and co-creator Dave Gibbons was interviewed on a recent BBC TV documentary about the Pop Art painting ‘WHAAM!’ by Roy Lichtenstein, which is currently on show in a major retrospective at Tate Modern, London. Gibbons was probably the… Read More ›
Radio interviews with James Moran and VS Comics creators
Panel Borders: James Moran Vs Comics Continuing a month of shows about webcomics, Alex Fitch talks to screenwriter James Moran (Cockneys vs Zombies, Torchwood) about his new webcomic Day + Night, an urban vampire tale that casts the creatures of… Read More ›
Dennis the Menace, Daleks and Darth in Cover of the Century poll
Dennis the Menace, Daleks and Darth Vader rub shoulders with other memorable magazine covers in a new poll celebrating 100 years of the Professional Publishers Association – Britain’s trade organisation representing more than 200 publishing-related companies. The PPA Cover of… Read More ›
Steampunk Radio with Panel Borders
Panel Borders: Steampunk Geniuses Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a popular online steampunk strip that combines Victoriana, mad scientists, fantasy and strong female characters. Phil and Kaja Foglio discuss the… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Colin Andrew
The following tribute is compiled with grateful thanks to Martin Baines, Gerry Dolan, Martin Griffiths, the Illustration Art Gallery (from where much of the information featured below about Colin’s career was sourced), Steve Holland , the New Camden Journal and… Read More ›
Fishy Fun: Comic Characters sunk to new depths!
Here’s a daft but fun item for comic and fish lovers: Custom Fishbowls. This new, small British operation will take your suggestion for whatever kind of fish bowl or theme of a fishbowl you want and make it – and… Read More ›
ComPal auction offers Dan Dare, Spider and Kelly’s Eye art
The Spring 2013 Comic Book Postal Auction closes next week – and they have some fantastic British comic lots on offer, as usual, including original art from strips such as Dan Dare, The Spider and Kelly’s Eye as well as… Read More ›