The ultimate collection of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic gets its launch this week when subscriptions launch for 2000AD: The Ultimate Collection – bringing you the best stories from forty years of Britain’s biggest comic. Regular downthetubes readers will recall our… Read More ›
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Make Manga at the British Museum
The British Museum in London is running a number of workshops for children this month, including two “Make a Manga Comic” workshops this Saturday, 6th August 2017. Aimed at kids of seven plus, the free Make a Manga Comic workshops on Saturday… Read More ›
Lakes Festival Focus 2017: An interview with award-winning comic creators Metaphrog
The countdown has begun to this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October (13th – 15th). We continue our “Kendal Calling” interviews with METAPHROG, Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, whose incredible work straddles children’s and adults’ comics with a… Read More ›
Lakes Festival Focus 2017: An interview with comic creator Marc Jackson
The countdown has begun to this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October (13th – 15th). We’re delighted to continue our “Kendal Calling” interviews with top indie comic artist Marc Jackson, whose new book, Here comes Cat Stevens! was commissioned… Read More ›
Sequentials, hub for comics-as-scholarship launches
The US-based Trace Innovation Initiative has launched Volume One, Issue One of Sequentials, a hub for comics-as-scholarship. Not to be confused with the digital publisher Panel Nine’s e-magazine of the same name, the site features a number of original comics that… Read More ›
Etherington Brothers get set to storm Oxford’s Story Museum
The hugely-talented Etherington Brothers will be presenting their Lost and Found Comic-Making Show at Oxford’s Story Museum on Saturday 12th August. Robin and Lorenzo, whose credits include Star Wars and The Phoenix comic – will take you on a humorous,… Read More ›
New Striker strip starts in The Sun on Monday, further collections on their way
Hot on the heels of the news of the sell-out success of the latest collected edition of football strip Striker, comes an update on the planned release dates for the next two volumes – and more about the future of… Read More ›
Dare you take up Bryan Talbot’s Grandville Costume Challenge?
To celebrate the special pre-publication launch of Bryan Talbot‘s Grandville Force Majeure at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 13 –15 October, the award-winning artist is inviting the series many fans to turn up at the free “Grandville – The Last… Read More ›
Plan Hatched to celebrate 50 years of British Comic Zines – with an all-new fanzine, of course!
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Phil Clarke and Steve Moore‘s KA-POW #1 – the first British comic fanzine (Although in Ireland Tony Roche got there first of course, with his Merry Marvel Fanzine). Now, a… Read More ›
That Was the Comics Week That Was: Avengers, Thor, a splash of 2000AD artistry and girls comics, too!
It’s been a busy week! Here are some items you may have missed on our site and beyond. Have a great weekend! • Marvel Entertainment debuted a lot of concept art and new posters for upcoming movies over the weekend at San… Read More ›