A Short Introduction: Before his unexpected passing in 2016, author Roger Perry – a longtime contributor to this site and veteran of the British comics industry – sent downthetubes a number of articles which we planned to run, working back… Read More ›
An international bestseller with over one million copies sold, the French series Once Upon a Time in France, collected here in one omnibus edition, has won the BDGest’Art Best Scenario Award, BDGest’Arts Album of the Year, and Angouleme International Comics Festival Best Series Award, among many others… and I’m not surprised, because it’s a truly astonishing piece of work, on many levels
Tim Robins enjoyed the first episode of “The Mandalorian”, but concludes that it is no “Space: 1999”…
by Luke Healy Published by Nobrow Two thousand, six hundred and sixty miles: that’s the length of the Pacific Crest Trail. Running right across America’s great west coast, it runs through some truly remarkable landscapes as it takes hikers from… Read More ›
If you’re a reader of The Big Issue, then you’ll know the latest edition, available from street vendors now, features a comic strip telling the moving story of one of them, adapted by the team who brought us the brilliant, award-winning but harrowing graphic novel of two migrants deadly journey from Africa to Europe, ILLEGAL. I caught up with co-writer Andrew Donkin to ask him about this special project – and he teased me with some great news about another graphic novel he’s working on that I was delighted to hear about…
Author and artist David Roach is trying to identify the artists of a number of DC Thomson strips – and his renewed quest, highlighted on downthetubes, is already paying off thanks to social media, and an Argentinian artist’s connections with… Read More ›
DC Thomson’s Heritage Comics department has been teasing some kind of release relating to the 1970s girls comic Spellbound on social media for a few weeks now, as previously reported – and has now released details of a digital collection of material, out in time for Halloween.
Review by Tim Robins Director: Mike Flanagan Staring: Ewan McGregor (Danny Torrance), Rebecca Ferguson (Rose the Hat), Alexandra Essoe (Wendy Torrance), Kyliegh Curran (Abra), Zahn McClarnon (Crow Daddy), Bruce Greenwood (Dr. John Dalton) and more Struggling with alcoholism, Dan Torrance… Read More ›
Now open for business, veteran comic artist and illustrator Ian Kennedy – perhaps best known for his work on DC Thomson war comic Commando, but whose credits also encompass Dan Dare, other war comics strips and much more – has… Read More ›
With the first issue published back in 2014, it has taken writer Matt Gibbs and artist Sara Dunkerton five years to get to the fifth and final issue of their mousey Indiana Jones tale, MULP: Sceptre of the Sun, but… Read More ›
The latest Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast sees the team catch up with writer Garth Ennis, delivering a recording of an on-stage interview recorded at the 2019 Festival. Garth Ennis’s career has spanned 30 years and he has created… Read More ›
Richard Sheaf reports on the UK launch of Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter, and gives the new adventure a thumbs up for its take on some of the saga’s younger characters, including newcomer Adrenalin…
In a pair of recordings looking at how comic creators are inspired by genre and inspiration, guest presenter and comics laureate Hannah Berry talks to Arts Foundation comics prize finalists Esther McManus, Danny Noble, Jess Taylor and Zara Slattery in… Read More ›
As it’s a Formula 1 weekend, downthetubes contributor Richard Sheaf is marking the event on his Boys Adventure Comics Blog with a look back at an earlier era of motor-racing with this oddity – “The Champions” – a tie-in comic with Matchbox toys sponsorship of motor racing legend, John Surtees and Team Surtees, in the early 1970s, featuring art by “Skid Solo” artist John Vernon
Starring: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalie Reyes Directed by Tim Miller Review by Tim Robins Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future…. The Terminator… Read More ›
By: David Ouimet Publisher: Canongate “I am different. I am the note that’s not in tune. I go mousy. I go grey.” Oh, where to begin with this stunningly beautiful, deeply emotional little book? When a book arrives with glowing… Read More ›
Luke Williams thrills to the wartime air adventure Out of the Blue from Garth Ennis and Keith Burns, available in a two-volume series from US publisher Aftershock Comics…
Introduced by David A. Roach Writers: Various Art: Jordi Badia Romero Publisher: Treasury of British Comics/Rebellion Price £19.99/ 128 Pages Out: Now Reviewed by: Peter Duncan The Book: Celebrating the incredible art of Jordi Badía Romero from supernatural girls comic… Read More ›
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2019 has been and gone, flying past in a speed of light, but their brilliant Podcast team, led by Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates, have loads to report – and gathered some smashing comic… Read More ›
The character of Judge Dredd was designed to be satirical, depicting the ultimate draconian cop. Supplied, CC BY-ND Justin Matthews, Auckland University of Technology According to a recent study, the sixth leading cause of death for young men in the… Read More ›