The Royal Mail’s Special Stamp programme kicks-off 2014 with an issue that celebrates over 60 years of Classic Children’s TV – and almost every character featured has appeared in one comic or more down the years. 12 of the most… Read More ›
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London Anime & Gaming Con “Biggest Yet”
Pre-Pay Places are selling at record levels for the expanded London Anime & Gaming Con this 8-9th February, and the event's organisers are urging fans to make sure to get your tickets now before the price rises. If you register… Read More ›
Latest Infinity magazine spotlights Kendal Comic Art Festival, Greenberg and Moore
Infinity #5, the free digital magazine of graphic novels and sequential art published by Panel Nine, is out now. This issue contains features on Alan Moore, reviews of Isabel Greenberg’s Encyclopedia of Early Earth, Paul Gravett’s Comics Art, Gareth Brookes’… Read More ›
downthetubes in 2013: Crunching Numbers
Happy New Year to you all and the very best to creators popping by, as they start work on their many new projects for 2014. We’re already hearing about some great new titles and strips destined for publication by British… Read More ›
Doctor Who Adventures offers chance to win a full-size Dalek
Doctor Who Adventures magazine, the biggest-selling UK pre-teen title for young boys and girls who love Doctor Who, is running a competition for readers to win their very own life-size Dalek worth over £3,000, to keep in their home or… Read More ›
Bristol Comic Expo back in May at new venue
With Bristol’s Temple Meads Station undergoing a massive £100m re-development over the next four years as the hub of the governments new high speed electric rail link, the 2014 Bristol Comic Expo (BCExpo) has had to seek a new home, since the… Read More ›
aniManga goes Pop – in Plymouth
The South West will kick start the 2014 convention season with a special one day celebration of anime, manga and pop culture in February. The Comic Expo team has just announced it is teaming up with Kawaii store Keep it… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Designing Comics
Designing comics: In a coda to a trio of shows about the use of fine art in comics, Alex Fitch looks at graphic design in comics, in a panel discussion with Rian Hughes (2000AD), Karen Rubins (V and A artist… Read More ›
Official Star Wars Fact File launches in January in the UK
The Official Star Wars Fact File, a new national partwork for the UK from part work publishers De Agostini, launches on sale 1st January 2014, initially priced at 50p. Aimed at fans of all ages, The Official Star Wars Fact… Read More ›
Looking back on 2013: A Good Year for British Comics?
Here at downthetubes.net we think it’s been a great year that’s included the 100th issue of The Phoenix and has been named one of the top comics of 2013 by TIME Magazine, and we’ve been able to enjoy a growing… Read More ›
‘Caught Unaware’, an exhibition by Doctor Who illustrator Paul Vyse, opens in January
Back in my days as editor of Marvel UK’s Doctor Who Magazine, I commissioned a number of illustrations to accompany a plethora of text stories that formed part of the title, new tales of the Doctor and companions to keep… Read More ›
Psylocke joins Marvel Heroes game line up, so where’s Captain Britain?
Psylocke – Captain Britain’s sister – is to join the line up of playable characters in the Marvel Heroes game in the near future, prompting many British fans to ask if Captain Britain is far behind. News of Betsy Braddock’s… Read More ›
Creating Museum Magic: An Interview with Neill Cameron
Neill Cameron is a cartoonist and (occasional) educationalist whose comic strips have appeared in The DFC and The Phoenix. Recently, he was commissioned to create a gigantic comic strip that could be mounted on the side of the Story Museum… Read More ›
Kick-Ass 2 scene brought to life at London’s Rockwell House
Last weekend, fans of the Kick-Ass franchise celebrated the release of Kick-Ass 2 on Blu-ray and DVD at the Kick-Ass Comic Canv-Ass, re-creating writer and executive producer Mark Millar’s favourite scene from the superhero blockbuster. Comic book buffs and aspiring artists… Read More ›
Kevin O’Neill’s ‘Nemo’ art on sale, online exhibition opens
Brussels’ Gallerie Champaka is currently offering every single page of Nemo, the latest adventure of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen drawn by Kevin O’Neill for sale – and has posted an online exhibition of the work, which runs until 7th… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Word and Image Crossovers
The Department of English at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, has just issues s Call for Papers for its Fifth English Literary Meeting. Word and Image Crossovers, an international and interdisciplinary conference, will take place 29th – 30th… Read More ›
Christmas Cheer from Eagle Times (Volume 26 Number Four)
There’s a glorious Christmas-themed cover from artist Peter Jackson on the cover of the latest Eagle Times (Volume 26, Number Four), available now from the Eagle Society. Winter 2013 Contents An appreciation of the work of artist Peter Jackson, whose… Read More ›
Actress Jessica Martin’s “It Girl” comic a warm up for longer graphic novel
Actress, singer, impressionist and now, comic creator Jessica Martin (whose screen credits include the Doctor Who story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, but is perhaps best known as an impressionist and voice artist on Spitting Image, impersonating the voice… Read More ›
New Dennis the Menace books and other Beano merchandise announced
DC Thomson is celebrating a busy year for The Beano‘s Dennis the Menace and Gnasher property as Penguin joins a raft of licensees with a planned range of children’s books and Golden Bear announces new toys. The new range of… Read More ›
Doctor Who annual art, rare props to go under the hammer at Bonhams
Bonhams next Entertainment Memorabilia auction (taking place on Wednesday 18th December) hosts an enticing line-up that includes some fantastic Doctor Who items such as art from some of the series annuals by Paul Crompton and a number of props from… Read More ›