(updated 21/3/11, with thanks to Mark Stafford and David Lloyd) On Friday 8th April (the day before the London Kapow comic convention) London’s Cartoon Museum will be hosting portfolio review sessions with Marvel Comics talent scout CB Cebulski, so anybody… Read More ›
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Royal Weddings celebrated at London’s Cartoon Museum
We don’t always get the goods we bargain for in this sham old world! Arnold Taylor @ Bamforth Cards Ltd. ‘Marriage,’ as Elizabeth Taylor commented, ‘is a great institution’ – and she had more experience than most! As Prince William… Read More ›
Panel Borders chats with Audrey Niffenegger
Continuing podcast and radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at newspaper comics, Alex Fitch talks to Chicago-based Audrey Niffenegger, fin artist and author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, about her graphic novella The Night Bookmobile which was serialised… Read More ›
Tickets for the 2011 Glasgow Comic Con Go On Sale
The organisers of the Glasgow Comic Con are now selling tickets to the event on their new website. The event will take place in the deconsecrated Mackintosh Church in Glasgow’s Queen’s Cross near Partick Thistle’s football ground on Saturday 18… Read More ›
New Issue of Whotopia Celebrates David Tennant Years
A quick mention for the latest issue of Whotopia, the Canadian Doctor Who fan magazine, which is a David Tennant special. Amongst the varied content is ‘The Tennant Legacy’, a look at how the David Tennant episodes have changed the… Read More ›
Sneek Peek: New Dan Dare for Spaceship Away
We’re pleased to report that the next issue of the Dan Dare-inspired comics magazine Spaceship Away is on course to go to press very soon, featuring its regular thrice-yearly mix of comic strip and features. Now edited by Des Shaw,… Read More ›
Do Covers Count when it comes to Awards?
The UK cover for Zoo City –strong on design, light on itsSF content? With the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist just announced, I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of covers the nominated books have. While… Read More ›
Panel Borders: The Art of Karrie Fransman
Continuing podcast Panel Borders month of shows looking at newspaper comics, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Karrie Fransman about her work which has been serialised in The Guardian and The Times. Karrie started her comics career making self published autobiographical… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Dan Dare, Death’s Head and World Book Night outrage
Some quick news items… • (via the Dan Dare Yahoo Group) A bust of Dan Dare is now sitting comfortably on a beautifully made plinth in a prominent position in the library of Southport College (where his creator, Frank Hampson… Read More ›
The Tartan Bucket Prize Competition
The Dundee Comics Day has been running since 2007 and in 2008 became part of the Dundee Literary Festival at Dundee University. The fifth comics day is due to be held in October and the University has announced that this… Read More ›
A Comic Convention Returns to Glasgow
It has been some 15 years since Glasgow hosted a comics convention with the last of the GlasCACs, the Glasgow Comic Art Conventions. Since then, Scotland has had two Oxfam Comics Days in Edinburgh, three Hi-Exs in Inverness, four Dundee Comics Days as… Read More ›
Sneek peek of 2000AD Lawgiver prop at National Space Centre’s BritSciFi event
TV legend Gerry Anderson is to join the crew of Leicester’s National Space Centre on 19th – 20th March for a celebration of British science fiction that also includes an appearance by Blake’s 7‘s Gareth Thomas and a sneek peek… Read More ›
David Pugh’s Slaine, Dan Dare art (and more) on sale for charity
Check out some fantastic original comic art by David Pugh
Cesar to release Judge Dredd costume, ideal for would-be vigilantes
The new Judge Dredd costumefrom Cesar. Solid helmet and Lawgiver not included! Costumed vigilante “The Statesman” may be gaining press coverage battling intoxicated baddies and wannabe burglars on the streets of Birmingham, as reported by papers such as the Daily… Read More ›
Comics Launchpad initiative kicks off to help British comic creators
Orgnaisers who brought us the British International Comic Show have announced Launch Pad, a one-day conference aimed at comic professionals, aspiring professionals and those with a serious interest in the business of making comics, promising it will be “an enlightening… Read More ›
Comics @ Edinburgh International Science Festival
Edinburgh’s many festivals often offer comics events but they do tend to happen during the Book Festival or the Film Festival so it is unusual to see something turn up at the Science Festival. This year Paul Collicutt, author and… Read More ›
WebFinds: Chris Weston, Movie Star
Today’s WebFind: ace British artist Chris Weston has re-plugged some ‘motion comics’ created to promote last year’s Book of Eli film directed by the Hughes brothers and starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman. It looks like two comics were published,… Read More ›
View from the Trenches: the Cardiff Comic Expo
Time Bomb Comics publisher Steve Tanner kindly sent us a report on the Cardiff International Comic Expo, which included the launch of titles such as Stuart Tipples 10thology project and Barry Nugent’s Fallen Heroes… Fallen Heroes – one of several… Read More ›
Motton’s Memories: An Interview with one of Dan Dare’s early writers
Thanks to a chance discovery on the Internet, downthetubes is pleased to be able to present a rare interview with comics writer David Motton, whose career spanned three decades of British comics publishing, but is probably best known for his… Read More ›
Print Media to publish Dave Morris and Leo Hartas Mirabilis project
Print Media Productions has announced it will be publishing hardcover editions of Mirabilis: Year of Wonders — a huge graphic novel project by Dave Morris and Leo Hartas, also available on iPad and soon to debut on digital platforms Graphic.ly… Read More ›