Grab your sonic screwdriver and set the time-space co-ordinates on your TARDIS for Kendal, 17th October 2014! The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just announced a number of events to celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who in comics, the world’s longest-running science fiction TV-inspired… Read More ›
Television
Jamie Smart’s “Fish Head Steve” heading to your TV screens?
ITV Studios America has entered into an exclusive production deal with Komixx Entertainment Inc., an entertainment rights owner and content production company based in the UK that represent a number of properties, including Jamie Smart‘s “Fish Head Steve” character,… Read More ›
“Filmed in Supermarionation” documentary to get Andercon preview
Network DVD‘s upcoming major new feature film about the work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Filmed in Supermarionation, is to get a sneak preview at the first Andercon convention this weekend. The clips already released suggest it’s going to be… Read More ›
XIII series on Sky2: Episode Images
Sky have kindly sent us some images from the first two recently aired images of XIII, based on the graphic novel series of the same name Jeremy Briggs has enthusiastically reviewed here for some time. Episode 3 airs this week on… Read More ›
More XIII For British Viewers And Readers
The bandes dessinee series XIII written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by William Vance began in the French weekly Spirou in 1984 and ran for nineteen albums between 1984 and 2007. In 2008 XIII was brought to the small screen… Read More ›
“Nemo: The Roses of Berlin” hits Top Three in Graphic Novel Sales for March
Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-inspired title Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, co-published by Knockabout and Top Shelf, proved a sales hit last month in terms of sales in specialist comic shops, reaching the Number Three spot… Read More ›
Doctor Who Adventures polls readers for their favourite Matt Smith story
Doctor Who Adventures magazine wants readers to vote for their ultimate Eleventh Doctor story in the current issue of the magazine for young Doctor Who fans. Actor Matt Smith appeared in 44 exciting stories as the Doctor – but which… Read More ›
Batman at 75: Official Celebrations announced
Marking the milestone 75th anniversary of DC Comics’ Batman, Warner Bros. Entertainment and DC Entertainment have revealed plans for a year-long celebration befitting one of the world’s most popular comic heroes. We imagine Titan Magazines, who publish Batman comics under… Read More ›
Doctor Who’s Bernice Summerfield returns in new Big Finish audio tales
Bernice Summerfield – the Seventh Doctor’s companion created by Paul Cornell and designed by Lee Sullivan, who made her debut in the Doctor Who: The New Adventures novels and the Doctor Who Magazine‘s comic strip – will return in… Read More ›
Win a Doctor Who-themed holiday with Doctor Who Adventures
Doctor Who Adventures magazine is offering its readers the chance to win a trip to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff this Easter. The winner gets a family ticket for four people (based on two adults and two children) to… Read More ›
Sylvia Anderson speaks out in new Andersonic
The latest issue of the Gerry Anderson-inspired fanzine Andersonic, featuring a cover image by Martin Bower (the Space: 1999 effects artist whose work used to feature in Starlord comic), is on sale now – and the team have pulled off something of… Read More ›
Titan Comics releases details of its first Doctor Who comics
Titan Comics has announced the first of its three Doctor Who ongoing series will launch in July and gave US web site Comic Book Resources an exclusive first look at the covers (which they plastered with their own branding). Lucklily for us, the BBC’s… Read More ›
Red5 offers Superhero, Doctor Who “Onesies”
Goodness me, how on Earth did we miss these? Not content with Batman-related mugs (“The Dark Mug Rises“), gadget shop Red5 are offering two superhero-inspired “Onesies”. Two Onesies celebrating US publisher DC Comics pantheon of heroes are now on sale… Read More ›
Doctor Who Magazine reaches record sales, and comic celebrates 50 years of continuous production
Panini UK are celebrating after achieving the highest ever ABC figures for Doctor Who Magazine, which features news and features about the BBC’s top SF show, along with all-new comic strip every issue. No doubt boosted by the series 50th anniversary… Read More ›
In Praise of… Gerry Dolan
Back in my days as editor of Doctor Who Magazine, one of the first comic strips I edited for the title was “Stairway to Heaven”, a story that is much noted for being the first published professional work of a… Read More ›
BFI celebrates 30 Years of “Spitting Image”
BFI Southbank will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Spitting Image on 27th February – one of the most innovative and daring television programmes ever conceived. Thirty years ago, Roger Law and Peter Fluck were happily ensconced in a converted Temperance… Read More ›
National Literacy Trust charity auction includes Doctor Who script, Gruffalo art
Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler, League of Gentlemen co-creator and co-star Steve Pemberton, along with celebrities including Joanna Trollope, Barbara Taylor Bradford and Madness have united to support literacy. All have donated items to an auction on behalf of the National… Read More ›
Top 10 downthetubes Posts: 21st – 27th January 2014
Here’s a rundown of the Top Ten posts on downthetubes over the last seven days (not including the Home Page): • “White Dwarf” goes weekly, “Warhammer Visions” launches 1st February Bucking the usual trend of magazines closing or going digital only,… Read More ›
Gerry Anderson’s Gemini Force One secures publishing deal with Gollancz
In an exciting development for fans of shows such as Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet, word breaks this morning that the successful Kickstarter project, Gerry Anderson’s Gemini Force One, is to be published by Gollancz in 2014 and Orion Children’s Books… Read More ›
Titan Comics bags Doctor Who rights
BBC Worldwide and Titan Comics have teamed up to publish all-new Doctor Who comic book adventures in the United States, taking over from US publisher IDW, and have just issued the following press release: In the universe of Doctor Who,… Read More ›