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The Charlotte Corday adventure London Calling, published by Timebomb Comics, has just been added to the ROK Comics digital app for iPad, taking its place alongside Iron Moon, which was previously published in print by Print Media. Written by… Read More ›
The award-winning Bristol Old Vic Young Company will present the world premiere of Stephen Collins‘ best-selling graphic novel The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil in January. “Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know The job of the… Read More ›
Anderson Entertainment are giving Terrahawks fans an early Christmas present with the free release of the Terrahawks Christmas episode – “A Christmas Miracle” – online via YouTube for 30 days from 10 December 2014. The episode has been digitally… Read More ›
Charley’s War co-creator Pat Mills will challenge the current revisionist “spin” of that century old conflict at a University of Liverpool talk later this month. Pat, who is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English, (he was given an honorary professorship by the University back in 2011)… Read More ›
Charley’s War co-creator Pat Mills will challenge the current revisionist “spin” of that century old conflict at a University of Liverpool talk this month. Pat, who is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English, (he was given an honorary professorship by the University… Read More ›
Viacom-owned cable and satellite TV network Nickelodeon has announced an open call for its 2015 global Animated Shorts Program, open worldwide. They’ll be taking pitches between 1st February – 31st March 2015. They’ve also announced an expansion to their Writing Program,… Read More ›
Acclaimed toy dealer Jordan Hembrough is back on the hunt to find the holy grail of toys and collectibles with bigger price tags that earn bigger profits in the third season of Toy Hunter, which will premiere on QUEST… Read More ›
The latest issue of the “Half Decent Football Magazine” When Saturday Comes includes a feature on how artists turn their hands to football featuring Road to Perdition and Doctor Who artist Richard Piers Rayner and Marvel artist Will Sliney. Born in Middlesbrough,… Read More ›
Jim leaves Selina in Alfred’s safekeeping while ADA Harvey Dent (Nicholas D’Agosto) uses her potential testimony to rattle the man Dent believes is responsible for the Waynes’ murders. Meanwhile, Oswald finds Fish’s mole in the Falcone organization in Gotham – ‘Harvey Dent’ – which airs… Read More ›
Last month saw the annual appearance of the Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival in Leeds – the convention element of which is a permanent fixture on the convention calendar for the majority of small pressers in the UK. I was there… Read More ›
After a long year and a half of searching for the right venue and the right dates, BHP Events – part of comics publisher BHP Comics – has finally been able to secure all the elements they want to produce their first event… Read More ›
British artists Barry Kitson and Andrew Wildman are part of a growing guest line up for next year’s Dutch Comic Con, which will be held 28th – 29th of March 2015 at the Jaarbeurs Exhibition Centre, Utrecht. Dutch Comic Con is an… Read More ›
Writer Chris Welsh and artist Ammar Al-Chalabi, the team behind the fun, long-running and much-praised “cosmic horror web comic” WART have just launched a Kickstarter to raise funds to publish a print edition. For those that need reminding, the crowd funding site Kickstarter is… Read More ›
Remember those days of the small press scene when you would turn up at Bristol and it would be the same small press and indie comics for sale year in and out? Well, “No more!” shout the mighty… Read More ›
Potentially Britain’s first ever comic title, a rare offering of the Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass Issues 1-13 in the latest Comic Book Auctions in a bound volume have sold for £2,350 – well over the estimated sale price of of £400-500. “To… Read More ›
Hot on the heels of the good news for Adam Murphy and his Blue Peter Book Award nomination for Corpse Talk comes more good news for the creators whose work has also featured in The Phoenix. Von Doogan and the… Read More ›
Blackpool Comic Con is to take place on 12th September 2015 at the northern seaside town’s world famous Winter Gardens. “Like never before Blackpool will play host to the brightest and best Comic Con that the UK has to offer,” say… Read More ›
Hornets’ Nest: The Stuff of Nightmares, a Doctor Who audio drama written by Paul Magrs starring Tom Baker, Susan Jameson and Richard Franklin is being broadcast on Radio 4Extra starting on 16th December. You could sit down and listen to it… Read More ›
The Scottish Comics Unconference Meet-up – open to any and all with an interest in engaging seriously with the medium – will take place on Saturday 28th February 2015 in Glasgow, Scotland and a call has just gone out for participants. An unconference is… Read More ›
We at downthetubes were lucky enough to be sent a preview copy of the excellent Cogs & Claws published by Markosia, an anthropomorphic space saga of astounding attention to detail and design from Brian ‘Clank’ Bennett and Jimmy Pearson. It’s… Read More ›