• Comics artist Neil Edwards sent us a sneak peek from an upcoming Iron Man strip for Panin’s new Marvel Heroes. Here’s a panel from the strip, which see Iron Man battling more than one costumed hero. • Hot on… Read More ›
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Tube Surfing: 21 October 2008
• Titan is to release a collection of Jane strips from the Daily Mirror later this week and over on Bear Alley Steve Holland has cast his expert eye over the various stories which made up the strip’s run. The… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 16 October 2008
• Orang Utan Comics have begun to serialize Young Gods on ROK Comics. You can read it on ther web site or via WAP subscription (wap.rocomics.com). • Talking of phones: the iphone, which is beginning to feature more and more… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 13 October 2008
COMICS AND ‘ZINES • Radio 4 will be airing four 15-minute programmes on comics and cartoonists with Phill Jupitus, broadcasting on the back of a favourable response to his previous comics programme. The first one with Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: DC Thomson Style
Ian Kennedy may be the pre-eminent Commando cover artist over the course of the title’s long history but it had been running for nine years by the time he did his first cover. Before that Ken Barr was the standout… Read More ›
Quick Tube Surfing: 30 September 2008
• It seems to be interview central for this round up, but this one’s a goodie: Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been busy following up his epic interview with Alan Moore on the Forbidden Planet International blog by chatting with Todd… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 22 September 2008
• One of downthetubes contributor Matthew Badham’s two articles in the new Judge Dredd Megazine (article entitled The Nu Brit Comics Revolution) pimps Blank Slate, The DFC, ROK Comics, Trains are Mint and Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid. You should be… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Beano Merchandising
The range of Beano merchandising in this its 70th year continues to expand. While many of the items are aimed at the younger fans there are things of interest for the more mature readers of the title. Fine and Dandy… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 10 September 2008
• Catching up with comics news after a (very wet) short break, Bryan Talbot’s re-released The Tale of One Bad Rat has just had a rightfully glowing review in The Times, describing it as “an incontrovertible and blazing masterpiece.” There’s… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 5 September 2008
• There’s an excellent interview with David O’Connell, the writer and artist behind science fiction comic Tozo, over at Garen Ewing’s website. David’s art is very much in the tradition of ligne claire (clear line) artists such as Belgium’s Herge… Read More ›