I’m selling four outstanding illustrations on ebay by top artist Gary Erskine (Knights of Pendragon etc) used to illustrate the short story “Pathfinders” published in Doctor Who Magazine #173 by Michael E.P. Stevens. The illustrations are on two boards measuring… Read More ›
downthetubes News
British comic and creator news, book news, media news. If it’s news, it’s here.
Voltron Returns?
Shape-shifting robots continue to entice Hollywood with Variety reporting that the Fox-based production entity New Regency has teamed with the Mark Gordon Company (who make Grey’s Anatomy and produced The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen film) to produce a movie adaptation… Read More ›
State Course And Speed
It was with sadness that I hear that Peter Tuddenham has died at the age of 88. He will always be remembered in the British telefantasy community for the voices that he gave to the various computers in Blake’s 7:… Read More ›
New USTV Shows
The US fall line up includes the following new series: • Bionic WomanAction drama, NBCFormer EastEnder Michelle Ryan takes the role of the bionic Jaime Sommers. (ITV2 is screening this show in the UK)Official Site: www.nbc.com/Bionic_Woman • Pushing DaisiesRomantic comedy,… Read More ›
Will Eisner film at Film Festival
The indie film Will Einser: Portrait of a Sequential Artist will screen at the Rhode Island International Film Festival this Wednesday at 2:30pm at the Columbus Theater in Providence. I’m looking forward to seeing this when it reaches the UK… Read More ›
Miracle Workers Are Born In Linlithgow
Was Scotty a Black Bitch? Linlithgow Heritage Trust are certainly convinced that he was, or rather will be in about 215 years time. I would hasten to add that because of the dog on the town’s coat of arms, people… Read More ›
San Diego: More UK Creator and UK News
The 38th annual Comic-Con took this place this weekend in San Diego, California and many British creators were on hand to talk about their new projects to some 120,000 visitors. Here’s a few more items from what sounds a frenetic… Read More ›
Yet more Doctor Who, and the return of Nightraven…
Two items from US comics site Newsarama with a UK flavour
Dark Shadows Returns
Variety (subscription required) reports Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp’s Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King’s GK Films to develop a film based on the 1960s daytime supernatural TV show Dark Shadows. Notching up a staggering 1,225 episodes, Dark Shadows is something… Read More ›
Paisley Who
The rather self-explanatory Adventures In Time And Space – An Exhibition Of Doctor Who Memorabilia is currently on in the Paisley Museum and Art Galleries in the Scottish town of Paisley near Glasgow. Free to enter and running until Sunday… Read More ›
Danger Diabolik on DVD
Kitsch, cult and seriously cool, Danger Diabolik – out on Region 2 DVD from 13 August – is one of those 1960s weird films that remains impossible to pigeonhole. Based on the comic book adventures written by the sister act… Read More ›
RedEye Re-scheduled, Donations Sought
The critically acclaimed Redeye 7 has been hit with a number of delays
Fret for the Day! by Nick Miller
Check out “Fret for the Day” by Nick Miller
David Lloyd at San Diego
David Lloyd just dropped me a line to advise that if any downthetubes visitors are heading for San Diego ComiCon, he’ll be signing there at the DC Comics stand on Friday from 12.30-1.30pm, and Dark Horse stand at 5-6pm. Then… Read More ›
Casting Call for Watchmen
(via Comics2Film): Film web site MovieHole has laid hands on casting calls for the film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal Watchmen, with character outlines as follows offered as a guide to agents seeking to work for the… Read More ›
Bond Back at Pinewood
James Bond will not be returning to the Czech Republic. Variety reports that because of the lack of financial incentives in the country, 007 production company Eon has informed Prague’s Barrandov it will not be using the studios for “Bond… Read More ›
The Return of Captain Babylon!
An obscurity revived!
Prince Caspian at Comic Con
Walt Disney Pictures is joining the throng of film producers at this year’s San Diego Comic Con at the end of this month to offer exclusive footage and panel discussions with the filmmakers of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian… Read More ›
Red Dagger: Issue By Issue
The following check list for DC Thomson’s Red Dagger has been built up from many different sources, not all of which could be cross referenced for accuracy. If you can add any additional information, or can correct any mistakes, then… Read More ›
Red Dagger: Graphic Novels by Any Other Name
Jeremy Briggs probes the mystery of DC Thomson’s little known title Red Dagger, and wonders why the company isn’t publishing something similar today… “Graphic Novel” is a much abused term. While it really should refer to a single one off… Read More ›