Interviews with British comic creators – writers, artists, editors and more.
Thanks to a chance discovery on the Internet, downthetubes is pleased to be able to present a rare interview with comics writer David Motton, whose career spanned three decades of British comics publishing, but is probably best known for his… Read More ›
We plugged the latest Panel Borders show earlier today, but presenter and producer Alex Fitch has just let us know that yesterday marked his 5th anniversary of making programmes for Resonance FM in London, so here’s a look back at… Read More ›
About two years ago, Graeme Neil Reid went full time as an illustrator after having produced work part time and in conjunction with his job in the marketing and advertising industries for over 15 years. “These days I spend every… Read More ›
Space Ape by Chris Askham For as long as he can remember, British artist Chris Askham has had an obsessive desire to draw comic strips, beginning at an early age by copying characters out of The Dandy and then progressing… Read More ›
Max Bertolini’s cover for Nathan Never #9 Max Bertolini is a self taught cartoonist, working in the comics business and illustration field. He’s the artist on the Italian comic Nathan Never, a 94 page, black and white comic, which means… Read More ›
Art from the new Rogue Trooper story for Prog 2011 by Staz Johnson. Story by Gerry Finley-Day. © 2010 Rebellion Rogue Trooper is one of science fiction comic 2000AD‘s most iconic characters. A deserter in a future war, he roams… Read More ›
Oliver Wetter, online often referred to as fantasio, is currently working as freelance artist & illustrator from his studio in Konz, Germany. His passion is to tell visual stories inspired by quickfire ideas. Sci-Fi Art Now: What tools do you… Read More ›
Kevin ‘Kev’ Levell was introduced to British weekly science fiction comic 2000AD at the age of 11 or 12 and from that point on he knew he wanted to be a comic artist. “It’s only in the last couple of… Read More ›
Continuing British radio show Panel Borders month-long look at unusual depictions of superheroes, Alex Fitch talks to comic book artist and graphic designer J. H. Williams III about his work from early forays into the superhero genre for DC’s imprint… Read More ›
Bryan Talbot has worked on underground comics, science fiction and superhero stories such as Judge Dredd and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Vertigo titles including Hellblazer, Sandman and Fables and has written and drawn the graphic novels The Adventures… Read More ›
Mars from Deimos by Ron Miller Ron Miller is an illustrator and author specializing in science, astronomy, science fiction and fantasy. In addition to providing artwork for many magazine and book publishers, he’s the author, co-author or editor of some… Read More ›
Gibson Quarter is best known for his illustration work on War on Drugs strips with writer Alan Grant, for the adult comics magazine Wasted which will soon see a sixth issue on sale. He’s also drawn stories for numerous other… Read More ›
Marooned by Armand Cabrera, featured in Sci-Fi Art Now. To view a walk through of how this art was created go to: http://www.myebook.com Armand Cabrera has been a professional artist now for 30 years. He did some book covers in… Read More ›
Continuing radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at horror and dark fantasy comics, in a pair of interviews recorded at this year’s British International Comics Show in Birmingham, Alex Fitch talks to artists Charles Vess and Peter Gross… Read More ›
Artist Nick Brokenshire, who has been illustrating and teaching for a few years now, has been a lifelong comics fan, consuming 2000AD, the 1980s Eagle “and anything from the US that I could get my hands on” He graduated from… Read More ›
Concept Art for the Astro Zoo game by Stephen Baskerville Stephen Baskerville is a videogame concept artist whose recent work included Doctor Who: Evacuation Earth for the Nintendo DS (as well as helping out on the Wii companion game, Doctor… Read More ›
Neil Roberts is a freelance artist and lecturer who’s worked in the videogame industry as a character artist for 12 years before going fully freelance in October 2008. In his time he worked on games such as Colin McRae Rally,… Read More ›
It’s always been Matthew Soffe’s dream to illustrate a strip for British weekly comic 2000AD. In the meantime, he’s trying to make my mark in as many small press titles as possible and has had work published in Dogbreath issues… Read More ›
Paul McCaffrey graduated from Newcastle Polytechnic (as was) with a BA in graphic design. Since then, he’s mainly worked in the area of children’s educational illustration, so he’s done a lot of work you’ll never see for books you’ve never… Read More ›
Bill Storie, also known as Mike Nicoll, has been working in the comics industry for 20 years. He’s perhaps best known for his adult comics work and Ex Astris, which occasionally features in the Dan Dare-inspired comic magazine Spaceship Away…. Read More ›