Time for a quick step back in time to the early 1990s, courtesy of artist Richard Piers Rayner, who found this great piece of art featuring Marvel UK’s Dark Angel giving The Punisher a friendly peck. Richard’s first work for… Read More ›
Features
MancsterCon back in August
The MancsterCon Independent Sequential Art Convention returns to Manchester in August, following a successful three day event last year filled with screenings, talks and workshops, cosplay catwalks and a host of local comic artists. Taking place from 8th –… Read More ›
Writers & Artists Present: Getting Published: Which Route Do I Take?
There’s a conference on self-publishing in London in July that, while focusing on the written word, might be of interest to any comic creator who is releasing their own work direct. Writers & Artists Present: Getting Published: Which Route Do… Read More ›
Doctor Who meets Thunderbirds!
… Well, sort of! This stunning Daleks versus Rock Snakes image by Tony Luke features Doctor Who‘s top enemy and the deadly silicon-based life forms Zero X encountered on Mars in the film Thunderbirds are Go. The art is a private commission, inspired… Read More ›
Art Hero: An interview with Daniel Clifford
I’ve been talking to Daniel Clifford about his work and his collaborations and fascinating sounding workshops, and I’m sharing the resulting interview here and the ace Forbidden International blog. Born in South Shields in 1986, writer and educator Daniel Clifford, who has… Read More ›
Artist Roy Cross Interviewed In RAF Museum Magazine
The second issue of RADAR, the RAF Museum’s quarterly magazine, is now available to read for free on the museum’s website and features an interview with Eagle and Swift artist Roy Cross. This interview ties in with Cross’ work for… Read More ›
Taking the Widdershins route: An interview with web comic creator Kate Ashwin
Regular readers of downthetubes will recall that earlier this week we plugged an upcoming Laydeez do Comics event in Leeds, which prompted me to follow the links to the creator sites, just to check they were correct more than… Read More ›
Behind the Scenes: Creating Sally Heathcote: Suffragette
Out this week from publisher Jonathan Cape is is Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, marvellous historical graphic novel created by Mary and Bryan Talbot and Kate Charlesworth which I enthused about in our early review here. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a… Read More ›
Jinty Comic site launched
Inspired by the UK Girls Comics Index and by the Tammy Project, writer Jenni Scott has launched a dedicated reference site devoted to the girls comic Jinty, published by IPC/Fleetway. It’s good to see this area of British comics getting much deserved exposure… Read More ›
In Review: Sally Heathcote: Suffragette
By Mary Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot Publisher: Jonathan Cape Out: 1st May 2014 The Book: Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a gripping inside story of the campaign for votes for women. A tale of loyalty, love and courage, set against a vividly… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Andy Robertson, SF editor
We’re sorry to report the passing of SF editor and fan Andy Robertson who had been involved with Interzone, serving as Assistant Editor from an early stage and contributing many reviews and interviews. Andy also published a number of stories and edited two anthologies based on… Read More ›
In Review: Spaceship Away Issue 32
The latest issue of the Dan-Dare and Eagle comic-inspired magazine Spaceship Away has just shipped to subscribers and will be available soon from the title’s web site (http://spaceshipaway.org.uk). This issue, wrapped in a cover and back cover by Eagle and… Read More ›
In Review: WesterNoir Book Four
The fourth book in writer Dave West and artist Gary Crutchley’s WesterNoir tales of Old West demon hunter Josiah Black is now available and seemingly turns the table on the main character as its subtitle is Josiah Black: Wanted For… Read More ›
Electric Sheep Magazine’s comic Jubilee
Previously a print periodical from Wallflower Press (Summer 2008 – Winter 2009), Electric Sheep is a cult and world cinema review magazine that has existed before and since as a website, carrying on many of the features of the print… Read More ›
In Review: Alpha – Sanctions
It is quite a while since Cinebook translated one of writer Mythic (Jean-Claude Smit-le-Bénédicte) and artist Youri Jigounov’s albums about CIA agent Alpha but they have returned to the series with Sanctions, originally published in France in 2000. A Russian… Read More ›
Kids Comics – an Oxymoron in Waiting?
Feature by Jonathan Clode Back in August 2013, it was reported that American artist Paul Pope had pitched an idea to DC Comics to bring back Jack Kirby’s Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth, only to be told by DC… Read More ›
Photo Report: Dundee Comics Expo 2014
Since 2007 the University of Dundee has run various annual events that are now tagged as the Dundee Comics Day which consist of talks and workshops by comics creators plus a handful of sales tables. In Easter 2013 they added… Read More ›
Sally Heathcote “Director’s Commentary” reveals creators secrets about new graphic novel
(with thanks to Joe Gordon): Writer Mary Talbot and artist Kate Charlesworth have their guest Director’s Commentary on the making of their upcoming book Sally Heathcote – Suffragette on the Forbidden Planet International blog today. “For those not familiar with… Read More ›
Director’s Commentary: Mary Talbot and Kate Charlesworth on Sally Heathcote, Suffragette
This Director’s Commentary going behind the scenes on the award-winning Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot was originally published on 8th April 2014 on the Forbidden Planet International blog by Joe Gordon, and is re-published… Read More ›
Scotland’s Robert the Bruce celebrated in new comic
A new comic book, King Robert the Bruce and the Wars of Independence, is now available to order directly from the King Robert the Bruce educational web site. The web site, developed by staff and students at Fife College, celebrates Dunfermline’s historic… Read More ›