Hasslein Books has announced the release of Lost in Time and Space: An Unofficial Guide to the Uncharted Journeys of Doctor Who, written by Matthew J Elliott. Doctor Who is a significant part of British pop-culture and a cult favourite worldwide…. Read More ›
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Panel Borders: Graphic Lives
Continuing a month looking at work of female comic book creators on British radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to writers Sarah Laing and Dr. Mary Talbot about their graphic novels which mix biography and autobiography in an extract… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival Promotional Film released
Digital Story Engine, the company behind the terrific “Graphic Novel Man” documentary series about Bryan Talbot, have released a fantastic promotional video for Kendal’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival. The short film includes comments from Charlie Adlard, Bryan Talbot,… Read More ›
Sneek Peek: Great War in Comics Exhibition, featuring “Charley’s War”, “White Death”
Marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Kendal’s Abbot Hall Art Gallery (currently exhibiting an incredible exhibition on British Surrealism) and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival are bringing together for the first time the work… Read More ›
Spinning strange and creepy yarns: Torsobear Kickstarter launched
Brett Uren and over twenty other comic creators, including Hal Laren, Cy Dethan and Kieran Squires have been beavering away on an intriguing-looking toy-on-toy crime anthology book the Aylesbury-based creator has conceived and is now seeking crowdfunding – Torsobear: Yarns… Read More ›
Creating Comics: Writer Rob Williams on ‘Ordinary’ and ‘The Royals’
Ian Cullen recently interviewed British comics writer Rob Williams for SciFiPulse.net and has kindly given us permission to re-post the interview here on downthetubes… British comic book writer Rob Williams latest endeavour is the creator-owned series Ordinary, drawn by D’Israeli… Read More ›
British Museum to host British Film Institute Science Fiction event
The British Film Institute’s science fiction blockbuster project “Days of Fear and Wonder” will blast off from the forecourt of the British Museum in spectacular style in August, with a trilogy of science fiction classics screening over three successive… Read More ›
Thunderbirds Tabletop Game in the works from Modiphius Entertainment
Game publishers Modiphius Entertainment, who recently took over the running of the long-running DragonMeet convention, have just announced a licensing deal with ITV Studios Global Entertainment to develop a co-operative tabletop board game based on the classic 1960s’ television… Read More ›
Manchester Children’s Book Festival announces Neville Johnson Comic Strip Competition
A trailblazer event for the biennial Manchester Children’s Book Festival (which takes place at the end of the month) will take place at Manchester Central Library tomorrow (Thursday 5th June), when novelist Curtis Jobling, creator of the globally successful Wereworld series, will be launching the… Read More ›
Beano-branded guitars and Brewers Fayre “Menacing Meals” on their way
DC Thomson has announced to new Beano-related licensing deals in the past week, one for musical instruments and the other with restaurant chain Brewers Fayre, which will include the release of a limited edition Beano comic on Father’s Day. The… Read More ›