(Last updated 11/8/11): We’re sorry to report that Martin Skidmore, a longtime stalwart of British comics, has died after a long and difficult battle with cancer, aged 52. He died peacefully, surrounded by good friends in hospital in London, bouyed… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Neil Emery Many of the pages on downthetubes about Charley’s War were first published on Tripod, on a site devoted solely to the strip created by Neil Emery, who sadly passed suddenly and unexpectedly, cause unknown, at the far too early age… Read More ›
Comics artist Mario Capaldi, one of the unsung stalwarts of British comics, and Marvel UK’s junior titles for many years, has died. Mario drew every type of strip and illustration work imaginable from then on, for a wide range of… Read More ›
Former comics editor Derek Lord died at 10.10am on Thursday 23rd September 2004, having been rushed into hospital for an emergency operation for a perforated bowel. He was 77 years old. I’d known Derek for about five years – from… Read More ›
Author Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, has died suddenly aged 49. Mr Adams died on Friday morning in Santa Barbara, California, following a heart attack, said his spokeswoman Sophie Astin. The author became a household name… Read More ›
We’re sorry to report that talented artist Art Wetherell died on Christmas Day 2003, of a perforated stomach ulcer. He had many friends in the UK comic fraternity, and beyond, and will be much missed. Art’s credits include The Searchers… Read More ›
25 years ago, Britain was at war over islands in the South Atlantic many Britons had never heard of – and some at the time even thought were part of the Shetlands. Jeremy Briggs examines the comics that featured the… Read More ›
A Commando legend has, sadly, passed away
downthetubes is sorry to report the passing of legendary American actor, writer and director Patrick McGoohan, star of the 1960s secret agent series’ Danger Man, playing John Drake, and. later, The Prisoner, starring as the rebellious Number Six — a… Read More ›
“Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were two overgrown boys called Oliver and Peter. And Peter lived on a farm. It was a rather unusual farm because it didn’t grow any crops and there were no sheep… Read More ›
