FTL Publications have announced that they have been licenced by Granada Ventures to produced two novels a year based on the original TV version of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s Thunderbirds. Due to the terms of the licence these books will technically only be available in Canada and the USA.
The first of these is entitled Countdown To Action! and is due to be published in June 2008. An author has yet to be announced but the cover art is by long time Anderson artist Steve Kyte.
- More details are available at the FTL Blog.
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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.
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