To celebrate the release of Prog 1700 of 2000AD, fan Jason Garrattley is posting ‘…a week of rare bits and pieces from the archives (well, some old fanzines from the loft) from some of the cornerstone creators of the magazines’… Read More ›
Tube Surfing
Quickfire news posts covering comics, TV, film and more
Tube Surfing: Drinking, Drawing… and other stuff too!
• If you’re in the area this Sunday, you could do worse than pop along to Manchester Comic Collective’s (MCC) monthly Drink ‘n’ Draw. It kicks off at 4pm and is usually lots of fun (although I haven’t made it… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Alan Moore, web/hyper/small press/all types of comics and events aplenty too!
Alan Moore guests on Utter Shambles, a podcast hosted by comedians Robin Ince and Josie Long. Pete Ashton will be talking about the emergence of the British small press comics scene in the early eighties at the Birmingham Zine Festival… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Behind the Scenes, Adults Only and Travelling in Japan
A fairly short tube surf today as I’m in deadline hell… Fans of The Rainbow Orchid by Garen Ewing can get a peek behind the scenes of that comic over at the Forbidden Planet International blog as the cartoonist takes… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Cartoonists, Writers, Conventions (well, one) and the end of 2000 AD Review
• Joe Gordon of the Forbidden Planet International blog makes us aware that cartoonist and illustrator David Baillie has just uploaded a large PDF portfolio online. You should have a look! David, who has been published in 2000AD and the… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Chief Judges, Troll Bridge and 100 Days of Winter
Just spotted this ace ‘brief history’ of the various chief judges of Mega-City one over at the 2000AD Covers Uncovered blog. Well worth a read. Cartoonist Sean Azzopardi sent me his 100 Days of Winter collection. It’s great and reviewer… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Mazeworld, Mad Science and Harvey Pekar
Does the sporadically torrential rain of the last few days mean that’s all the summer we’re going to get? I hope not. Onto the Tube Surf… • Arthur Ranson sends word that Daniel Clifford, a fan of the artist’s Mazeworld… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Monsters, Heroes, Cycling and Moon Hoaxes
I’m really behind with everything. Anyone else behind with their deadlines and work? Oh, dear, it’s all gone a bit Pete Tong… Anyway, a bit of tube surfing always peps me up. What’s out there today? Ace cartoonist Darryl Cunningham… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Warren Ellis, the Bulletproof Coffin and the Galaxy’s Greatest Covers!
So, what’s happening down those tubes today… The trailer for the movie adaptation of Warren Ellis-scripted graphic novel Red (art by Cully Hamner) is online to view now. Ellis wrote some interesting notes about the adaptation back on his blog… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Web-comics special!
Righty-ho, what’s happening (in web-comics terms) out there… Talented cartoonist Tom Humberstone took a break from his Hundred Days project (hundred cartoons in hundred days). He’s back now, so go check out his stuff, which is rather cool… Have you… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Dez Skinn, Fanzines Galore and Simone Lia
Right, what’s happening out there… Lew Stringer’s ace comics blog informs us that Dez Skinn has a new website. Dez was, of course, the man behind such titles as Warrior, Comics International and Doctor Who Weekly (still with us as… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Dan McDaid, Madame Tussauds and Zine Fayre News
Right, let’s see what’s out there… Over at the Forbidden Planet International blog, downthetubes contributor Matt Badham (that’s me) talks to cartoonist Dan McDaid about his work on the comic strip in Doctor Who Magazine and Image Comics’ Jersey Gods…. Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Alternative Press, Bryan Talbot, Comic Sales Figure and more Mackie!
• The Alternative Press Fair is back! Taking place in London on 13th February, this is a free event celebrating all things self-published and DIY: Comics and Zines, Radical Literature, Poetry, Printmaking, Book Arts and even a bit of DIY… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Ro-Jaws, Rebellion, Crikey!, Rankin, Road and Comic Fairs!
Ro-Jaws returns to 2000AD this week, making a comeback in the A.B.C. Warriors strip by Pat Mills and Clint Langley, who also provides the cover for Prog 1667, right.Originally designed by Kevin O’Neill for the Ro-Busters strip in Starlord weekly… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Marvel, Disney, Stan Lee and possible iTablet launch
• Marvel Entertainment stockholders approved the company’s merger with Disney at a special meeting held last Thursday (31st December). Under the agreement, valued at an estimated $4.3 billion, Marvel becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. Whether this will ultimately have… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Wallace and Gromit, Insomnia on PSP, Free Digital Comics and Christmas Covers
• Titan Publishing’s Wallace & Gromit digital comic has taken the iPhone by storm with over half a million downloads of its first free app – and the company is surely hoping to repeat the success with its release on… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Mike Collins Draws New Who, Harker, Alternative Press News…
Some quick, short items today, as I’m immersed in some research for Titan and other things… • A slew of updates from ever busy comics artist Mike Collins, which are mostly Doctor Who related, including an original graphic novel for… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Death’s Head, Poot, Chattyman and a Christmas Competition
• Death’s Head is back! And not some Johnny-Come-Lately Death’s Head II or III, or even the bit-on-the-small-side Version I, the result of an encounter with the good Doctor and his TARDIS. No, Marvel’s new S.W.O.R.D. title features everyone’s favourite… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Marvel Fun, Arthur Ranson, IndieManga and Look and Learn
• Our thanks this week to the fab British Comic Art blog, for spotting Dan Dare, Mekon and Dalek on the cover of Fantastic Four 573; artist Alan Davis is of course a master of dropping in such characters into… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Comics Academia
In the aftermath of Thought Bubble and its associated academic conference on comics, Possibilities and Perspectives, here is round up of what is happening comics-wise in the hallowed halls of academia. We have recently mentioned on downthetubes the Fractured Images,… Read More ›