Orbital is Cinebook’s longest running science fiction series after the Worlds of Aldebaran books and which, like the Largo Winch books, tells each story over two books. The second pair of Orbital books, Nomads and Ravages, originally published in 2009… Read More ›
Who is XIII? Book 1 – Mr Alan Smith?Book 2 – Captain Steve Rowland?Book 3 – Prisoner Steve Rowland?Book 4 – Corporal Ross Tanner?Book 5 – Agent Jason Fly?Book 6 – Writer John Fleming? The seventh book in the XIII… Read More ›
David Baillie reports on the opening of the new Doctor Who show… (no, not the TV show, that’s not back until the end of August. Do keep up…) – at the Cartoon Museum in London… I’ve been in love with… Read More ›
(with thanks to Andy Luke): The date has been confirmed for the second Comics Barcamp in the English speaking world – essentially an “unconference”, a creative business brainstorming seminar, run along communal lines. To take place at Blick Studios in… Read More ›
(Last updated 11/8/11): We’re sorry to report that Martin Skidmore, a longtime stalwart of British comics, has died after a long and difficult battle with cancer, aged 52. He died peacefully, surrounded by good friends in hospital in London, bouyed… Read More ›
The Team Girl Collective, who now consist of upwards of twenty female writers and artists, have been making a name for themselves recently, not just with their small press Team Girl Comic which is now on its third issue, but… Read More ›
Roger Leloup’s adventurous electrical engineer returns in the latest Yoko Tsuno offering from Cinebook, The Morning Of The World. The previous Yoko book reviewed here on downthetubes was The Dragon Of Hong Kong which had Godzilla overtones however with The… Read More ›
Jeremy Briggs checks out a special anniversary issue of Commando
Following earlier discussions with the late Gene Colan, writer Clifford Meth has established a Gene Colan Scholarship at the Joe Kubert School. The much respected comic artist, passed away aged 84 on 23rd June. His work at Marvel, reprinted in… Read More ›
Megazine 311 – Cover by Brendan McCarthy The latest Judge Dredd Megazine (on sale now) contains an interview Matt Badham conducted with ace comics writer Arthur Wyatt. As is often the case with these things, there were unused quotes, so… Read More ›
Cinebook began publishing English translations of Franco-Belgian bandes dessinee graphic novels in 2005 and, with well over 100 titles now available, have succeeded in bringing many characters familiar to European audiences to the English speaking world either for the first… Read More ›
Following up on our interview with this week’s 2000AD Terror Tales writer David Baillie yesterday, we’re delighted to bring you an exclusive quick interview with the legendary artist on the story – Jesús Redondo Román. Jesus returns to the Galaxy’s… Read More ›
Writer/artist David Baillie has been a stalwart of the British small press scene for some time, self-publishing his comics to sell online and at conventions. More recently, though, he’s moved into professional comics writing. This week, his new Terror… Read More ›
Fans of Dan Dare and 1950s space comics might want to check out this fun web strip by Mark Toner – Gail Scott, Space Pilot. Featuring a group of Scottish friends exploring space, the current adventure – “Who is Mr… Read More ›
The Worlds of Aldebaran series, written illustrated and coloured by Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira), continues on from the original Aldebaran arc with the five album sequence of Betelgeuse published over four books by Cinebook. With the narrator character of… Read More ›
Aldebaran: The Catastrophe published by Cinebook was one of the very first reviews that I did on downthetubes some two years ago. It published the first two French albums of the Aldebaran segment of The Worlds Of Aldebaran series in… Read More ›
by Matthew Badham – cross-posted here and on the Forbidden Planet blog with full permission. Read the original version here West, by Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable, is one of my favourite indie comics. It’s the story of Jerusalem West,… Read More ›
The Grand Vizier of Baghdad, who’s one desire in life is “to be Caliph instead of the Caliph”, returns in Iznogoud The Infamous, his seventh book published by Cinebook. Written by Asterix’s Rene Goscinny and illustrated by Jean Tabary, this… Read More ›
Following directly on story-wise from the previous book, Cinebook have released the second part of their latest Blake and Mortimer title, The Sarcophagi Of The Sixth Continent. Created by writer Yves Sente and artist Andre Juillard and originally published in… Read More ›
Edgar P Jacobs’ MI5 chief Captain Francis Blake and Professor Philip Mortimer return in the first part of a two part adventure, The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent. Originally published in French in 2003 as Les Sarcophages du Sixième Continent,… Read More ›