by Steve Holland Publisher: Bear Alley Books Out: Now The Book: The latest comic index from Bear Alley Books covers the history and content of Countdown and TV Action, the Gerry Anderson-themed comic from Polystyle launched in the early 1970s…. Read More ›
Features
In Review: Kenya – Apparitions
Kenya – Apparitions is the first in a new series created by Leo and Rodolphe and translated into English by Cinebook. Colonial Kenya in 1947 is a place for big game safaris and American pulp novelist John Remington is on… Read More ›
Cup of O – ICE Birmingham
The other weekend saw the first ICE Birmingham event – filling the long-vacant gap of a solid Birmingham comics show. It’s certainly been the first time since 2011 that I’ve sold my sequential wares in the city. ICE was a single-day event… Read More ›
In Review: Antares – Episode 5
Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga with Antares Episode 5, the continuation of the third series of his incredibly alien tales of 22nd century interplanetary settlers and the beasts and… Read More ›
Rollerskating Bears? Oh my!
Glasgow-based cartoonist MJ Wallace, a regular submitter to Team Girl Comic, has a collection of her light-heared and funny comic Rollerskates and Breakfast Dates on sale now. Rollerskates and Breakfast Dates comprises some wonderful autobiographical… Read More ›
In Review: Red Baron – The Machine Gunners’ Ball
Cinebook present a new series, Red Baron, set during the First World War and “loosely inspired” by the life of German fighter ace Manfred Von Richthofen, written by Pierre Veys and illustrated by Carlos Puerta. This isn’t the Luftwaffe against the… Read More ›
Creating Comics is No Disaster for Alex Potts
South London-based Avery Hill Publishing will be releasing A Quiet Disaster by Alex Potts later this month and we’re delighted to be able to publish this short interview with him on downthetubes. Alex Potts – Animation Showreel from Alex Potts… Read More ›
Jamie Smart’s Whubble Gets A Sponsor
There’s good news for fans of Jamie Smart‘s web office-woe-oriented comic, Whubble, this week with news that he’s secured US company WorkCompass as a sponsor for the strip. Pity poor Pete Whubble, the reluctant hero of Jamie’s strip, which he… Read More ›
In Review: Thrones & Bones – Frostborn
By Lou Anders Cover by Justin Gerard Published by Crown Books (Random House Children’s Books) Out: 15th August 2014 The Book: Fantasy fans of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprenticeseries will embrace this first novel in an adventure-filled, Viking-inspired… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Sequential Birthday Competition, Doctor Who and Lenny the Lettuce!
A quick round up of short news items we think you’ll be interested in. Don’t forget I also plug a lot of British comic happenings as they come in on Twitter as well as here… • In case you’ve been… Read More ›