Tom Humberstone is a cartoonist and editor. As the man behind such comics as Art School Scum, My Fellow Americans and the Eagle Award-winning How To Date A Girl In 10 Days, he’s had critical plaudits aplenty. In this interview,… Read More ›
Features
In Review: Alpha – The List
Cinebook publish a number of spy or spy-like series including IR$, Lady S and Largo Winch, but the only CIA agent on (or rather in) their books is Alpha. The List was originally published by Le Lombard in 1999 as… Read More ›
In Review: Scared To Death – Malevolence and Mandrake
Horror comics for children have had an awkward time of it in the past so full marks to Cinebook being brave enough to translate the Belgian series Mort De Trouille into English for the first time. Written by Virginie Vanholme… Read More ›
In Review: Yoko Tsuno – The Dragon Of Hong Kong
Roger Leloup’s tales of the adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female Japanese electronics engineer, began in Spirou magazine in 1970 and while set in the modern day they can veer between full on science-fiction and more realistic straight adventure. The… Read More ›
In Review: Valerian and Laureline – The City of Shifting Waters
The biggest science fiction comic strip in the French language world is not, as you might think, Barbarella but rather a series called Valerian and Laureline. Running for over 40 years it has reached a total of more than 20… Read More ›
More Ways to Explode: An interview with Boo Cook
Boo Cook has been working in comics for just about a decade, drawing strips such as A.B.C. Warriors, Judge Dredd, Asylum, Damnation Station and Judge Anderson for 2000AD. He’s also worked in US comics as one of the many artists… Read More ›
A Tribute to Neil Emery, who helped bring back Charley’s War
Here at downthetubes we were sorry to learn this week of the death of Charley’s War fan site runner Neil Emery, who his partner tells us passed suddenly and unexpectedly, cause unknown, at the far too early age of 39… Read More ›
In Review: The Scorpion – The Holy Valley
Adventurer, womaniser, swordsman, thief, swindler, arrogantly self assured of his own survival, with blood ties to one of the most important people on the planet, and a woman whom he both hates and desires, and who appears to reciprocate those… Read More ›
Tripwire returns with Futurama, Straczynski, Cornell and Michael Moorcock goodness
Ace media magazine Tripwire is back with another info-packed issue! The Eagle Award-nominated British-American magazine about comics and genre culture returns this July bringing even more of the quality features you’d expect from their previous issues. Beneath an exclusive Futurama… Read More ›
Flights Of Fancy: Sci-Fi Air Show
What do ILM special effects men do in their time off? For Bill George, who has an impressive CV that includes original and new Star Wars movies as well as Indiana Jones, Star Trek, Harry Potter and Twilight films, his… Read More ›
In Review: IR$ – The Corrupter
The Corrupter is the second and final part of the IR$ story begun in Silica, Inc. which was reviewed on downthetubes when it was published earlier in the year. That first book left the reader wondering about a red haired… Read More ›
In Review: Largo Winch – See Venice… And Die
Largo Winch is the Eagle Award nominated series that follows the life, loves and tribulations of one of the richest men in the world. Written by Lady S, Thorgal and XIII’s Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by Philippe Francq, the… Read More ›
Radio Show spotlights Rude Britannia exhibition
Opening today at Tate Britain in London is the new exhibition ‘Rude Britannia’, which traces the history of British comic art from Hogarth to the present day. In an hour-long Clear Spot radio show from the Strip! radio show team,… Read More ›
In Review: London MCM Expo 17
The one thing that really hits you about the MCM Expo at London’s ExCel centre is its sheer size. The two big comics events in the UK are Bristol and BICS. Two weekends ago Bristol had 1000 people at it… Read More ›
Tony Lee taks Zombies — and Jane Austen!
British comics creator Tony Lee is a busy man: popping up at the Bristol Comic Expo last weekend, writing a number of projects, with more in the pipeline. This week, he found time to talk to Mike Braff at the… Read More ›
In Review: Thorgal – The Master Of The Mountains
Writer Jean Van Hamme may be more familiar to us for his contemporary thrillers such as Lady S, Largo Winch and XIII with Largo Winch having been turned into a movie and XIII into a mini series, but he has… Read More ›
In Review: Psychiatric Tales by Darryl Cunningham
By: Darryl Cunningham Publisher: Blank Slate The Book: Psychiatric Tales delves inside the mysteries of mental disorders – presenting explanations and recollections using the cartoonist’s own experiences as both a psychiatric and care nurse and as someone who himself has… Read More ›
Ross Talks Turf with Geek Syndicate
Top British comics and media podcast service Geek Syndicate has secured something of a well-deserved exclusive – a 45 minute interview with Jonathan Ross about about the success of his new comic, Turf, working with Tommy Lee Edwards, the future… Read More ›
In Review: Pandora’s Box – Gluttony
The third of the Pandora’s Box series of individual but themed stories based on the seven deadly sins, it was inevitable that Gluttony would concentrate on food. The book takes the BSE and vCJD scares of recent years and sets… Read More ›
In Review: The Bellybuttons – It’s Ugly Out There
There are times when a book can take you completely by surprise and turn out to be completely different to what you were expecting. The Bellybuttons book It’s Ugly Out There with its teen girl talk, high school setting, caricatured… Read More ›