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Doc Savage cover (January 1939) by Emery ClarkeVia www.pulpartists.com PulpFest 2011 will be celebrating the 100th anniversaries of the births of illustrators Emery Clarke, Robert Harris, and Milton Luros on Friday, 29th July in Columbus, Ohio. Clarke and Harris are… Read More ›
The Summer 2011 edition of Eagle Times is available now and features articles by downthetubes contributors Jeremy Briggs and Richard Sheaf. Here’s the line up: Frank and the Newspaper Cuttings: a look at the use by Frank Hampson, throughout his career, of… Read More ›
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is not just the largest literary festival in the UK but, it claims, in the world and it returns to the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens from 13 to 29 August. Last year, under its… Read More ›
The second edition of Sculpture and Comic Art by Kirstie Gregory is now available on the Comics Forum blog. Entitled ‘Chris Ware: Cabinets, Cardboard and Joseph Cornell’, the piece will be of interest to anyone who’s thinking about submitting a… Read More ›
Concluding radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at medical comics, they have a talk by Dr. Ian Williams recorded at Laydeez do Comics last month about his work in sequential art including curating Graphic Medicine and creating comic… Read More ›
The Oxfam Edinburgh Comic Event returns to the MacDonald Road Library on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk on Saturday 23 July 2011. As in its two previous years this will be a discussion based event with signings by the guests plus a… Read More ›
Hold on to your seats – the MCM Expo Manchester Comic Con is ready for lift off! Next month sees the UK’s perhaps most famous comic con arrive in Manchester, bringing the best in pop culture entertainment to the city… Read More ›
Jeremy Briggs checks out a special anniversary issue of Commando
Legendary British comics editor Dez Skinn is back in Manchester again next weekend (he was there only a couple of weeks ago for the relaunch of Starburst). “There’s an all-day celebration of one of my old titles reaching its 30th… Read More ›
Glasgow as a city has something of a reputation – and some so-called supporters of its two football teams haven’t exactly been helping matters recently. So, based on this, what were we expecting at the inaugural Glasgow Comic Con that… Read More ›
Manchester’s Metropolitan University will host a conference on graphic novels and comics early next month, featuring American artist Melinda Gebbie, Hunt Emerson, French artist Edmond Baudoin and Professor Pierre Fresnault-Deruelle from the Sorbonne University, Paris. A conference involving three comics… Read More ›
(Above: They won! A rather natty promotional image for the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester.) Word from Gareth Kavanagh of the award-winning Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester of various comics-related events that are likely to be of interest to downthetubes… Read More ›
Eiko Meredith, director of the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival , is organizing a Japan Charity Craft Fair on 2 July 2011 at the Visit Caerphilly information centre in aid of The Japan Earthquake Tshunami Children in Emergency Fund. There will… Read More ›
Imagined Cities, a new exhibtion at lononprintstudio, opens this week (17th June) and features the work of a number of great British comic artists including Al Davison and Karrie Fransman. The exhibition will launch with a party on 16th June… Read More ›
In a panel discussion recorded at the 2010 Comics and Medicine conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Paul Gravett talks to Brian Fies, Phillipa Perry and Darryl Cunningham about their work in portraying aspects of medical care and… Read More ›
(Last Updated 9/6/11, added comments from Stewart Hosie MP) Scottish Labour MP Tom Harris has condemned news of Dundee University‘s new ‘Comics Studies Degree‘ announced earlier this week – despite the city’s long history as a comics publisher. Dundee University… Read More ›
British art store Art You Grew Up With is offering some limited edition X-Men prints for sale, to tie in with the launch of X-Men: First Class in UK cinemas. The selection of limited editions on paper and canvas by… Read More ›
IDW’s Doctor Who Classics series, now re-publishing the Seventh Doctor’s adventures from Doctor Who Magazine has a ‘first’ and ‘last’ feel to Issue 5, on sale this month in the US. The collection sees the publication of ‘Culture Shock’, Grant… Read More ›
Advance copies of Print Media Productions hardcover edition of Mirabilis: Year of Wonders – Winter Book 1 are now on sale exclusively from First Age Comics, Lancaster. A huge graphic novel project by Dave Morris and Leo Hartas, Mirabilis is… Read More ›
A top-quality mug lovingly wrapped in classic Judge Dredd artwork from one of the greats of 2000 AD – the latest merchandise from The House of Tharg is perfect for sitting back and sipping your synthi-caff! This limited edition Mega-City… Read More ›