Dan Boultwood comes to Forbidden Planet

By John Freeman on 6 August 2013

Comic creator Dan Boultwood will be launching Issue #1 of Titan Comics It Came! at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Thursday 15th August.

Fans of cult film will love this hilarious B-movie romp, a knowing throwback to the heyday of low-budget SF cinema! In It Came!, Dan Boultwood has unearthed a lost classic from the forgotten Pinetree Studios.

An enormous alien robot lays waste to the English countryside, annihilating bunting, villages, and diagonally-sliced sandwiches alike! Only the pipe-chomping space scientist Dr. Boy Bret and his assistant Doris Night stand a chance of stopping it from marching all the way to London!

Dan Boultwood is a cartoonist and comics artist, working on titles like Danger Academy, Hope Falls and the Baker Street Irregulars. It Came! is also all his own writing and his very first British B movie pastiche.

• Dan Boultwood Signing IT CAME!, 6-7.00pm Thursday 15th August Forbidden Planet London Megastore, 179 Shaftsbury Avenue, WC2H 8JR. More info here on the Forbidden Planet web site

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.