… do I need to say more? Response as always is mixed so far from fans but it looks superb…
Other Worlds
Non Comics items – TV, Film, Books, and other things that internet wandering alerted us to
Gaiman’s "Coraline" Strangest Film Ever?:
(with thanks to Chris Taormina): FilminFocus, an editorial site on film culture recently launched by Focus Features, has published an article on the upcoming animated adaptation of the Neil Gaiman novella Coraline, which was adapted into a graphic novel by… Read More ›
Win Tickets To New Wallace And Gromit Film Preview
Leonard Cheshire Disability and Aardman Animations are offering one lucky winner two tickets to preview the new Wallace and Gromit film, A Matter of Loaf and Death, at the Aardman studios in Bristol on 22 December. The competition is part… Read More ›
Erotic Comics, Round Two
Picking up from where the international best-selling Erotic Comics: A Graphic History (Volume 1) left off, Ilex press have just announced Volume 2 will reveal how European, American and Asian artists have explored the possibility of the form in the… Read More ›
Daleks: Invasion Leicester 2008AD
(Report originally filed by Jeremy Briggs): The National Space Centre in Leicester will be opening a new exhibition next Friday, 14 November 2008, running until 11 January 2009 entitled Invasion: The Fact Of Fiction, which will look at the science… Read More ›
Foss First for Compalcomics Auction
Rare triptych cover art by acclaimed science fiction illustrator Christopher Foss for 2000AD is just one item in the Winter 2008 auction of London-based Compalcomics that also includes Dan Dare and Desperate Dan art and a number of first issues… Read More ›
Catch up on the Clone Wars Comic
With the latest issue of Titan Magazines’ Star Wars Comic firmly moving to Clone Wars mode (it’s a giant-sized issue with two cover variants available, coming with a free Star Wars sweatband), Star Wars fans might also be interested in… Read More ›
Mine’s A Paul Temple!
Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple made his first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938 and went on to appear in novels, film, television and a daily newspaper strip. Now, there’s even a cocktail named after him – and an… Read More ›
Jeff Hawke Art for Sale
Offered from downthetubes via ebay is a piece of Jeff Hawke newspaper strip original art, signed by creator and artist Sydney Jordan. The art from the Daily Express strip “Jeff Hawke” is identified as strip H3387 featuring mysterious aliens from… Read More ›
Panel Borders Podcasts this week….
Here some details on the current and upcoming schedule for the comics podcast “Reality Check”
Starblazer Sale and Game News
One downthetubes reader has been in touch to tell us he’s offering a number of Starblazers via eBay, including the first three issues of this collectable SF comic published by DC Thomson. He tells us all of the… Read More ›
Splendid Chaps, All Of Them!
Slipping for this post into first person mode, I had a wonderful time on Saturday at Vworp! Vworp!, a one day event at Manchester’s Lass O’Gowrie pub organised by landlord Gareth Kavangah and his dedicated team, in partnership with the… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 16 October 2008
• Orang Utan Comics have begun to serialize Young Gods on ROK Comics. You can read it on ther web site or via WAP subscription (wap.rocomics.com). • Talking of phones: the iphone, which is beginning to feature more and more… Read More ›
Templesmith joins MCM Expo Line Up
(via Tony Lee): Comics artist and writer Ben Templesmith has joined the massive line up of guests attending the MCM London Expo on 25-26th October in London’s Docklands. Ben, whose credits include 30 Days of Night and Fell, and who… Read More ›
Lee Sullivan Interviewed
Doctor Who and Transformers comics artist (and muscian) Lee Sullivan has just been interviewed by Ian M. Cullen over on scifipulse.net, talking candidly about how he got into the business and his work on comics such as TekWorld and his… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 13 October 2008
COMICS AND ‘ZINES • Radio 4 will be airing four 15-minute programmes on comics and cartoonists with Phill Jupitus, broadcasting on the back of a favourable response to his previous comics programme. The first one with Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau… Read More ›
The Seven Doctors
Various news sources are reporting that BBC Children in Need will be featuring a special Doctor Who episode this year featuring all seven surviving Doctors. Here’s what the Telegraph has to say about it: “The actors are getting together for… Read More ›
Giant-Size Band-Thing!
You know, now I’m even more annoyed that I missed out on the Birmingham International Comic Show last weekend (the result of circumstances beyond my control). If I’d been able to make it for the whole weekend and known they… Read More ›
Doctor Who Stand-Up Returns to Lancaster
Top comedian and actor Toby Hadoke returns to the Dukes, Lancaster this month with his hilarious hit show, Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf. This razor sharp comic odyssey, at The Dukes on Saturday 18 October (and will also be… Read More ›
Doctor Who has Come To Bed Eyes!
Doctor Who star David Tennant and The X Factor judge Cheryl Cole have been judged to have the best ‘come to bed eyes’ among UK celebrities, according to a survey by the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Tennant beat… Read More ›