To tie-in with the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, the University of Sunderland held a free comics event entitled Wonderlands on Saturday 30 May 2015. Based in the university’s £12m sport… Read More ›
Search results for ‘MULP’
Creators @ Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2015
The remarkably warm and dry weekend of 16-18 October 2015 saw the third Lakes International Comic Art Festival take place in the Lake District town of Kendal. LICAF, or more simply Lakes, has grown in stature and visitor numbers over the… Read More ›
Something For the Weekend – Bone China, Doctor Who and Unmentionables!
Here’s my pick of this week’s list of British creator and British publisher-skewed new comics, including new comics on sale in UK newsagents. This feature covers all titles released from Monday 7th March onwards with most new US comics released… Read More ›
First Impressions: A Beginner’s Guide to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival
As a newbie to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) Norman Boyd wondered how he was supposed to tackle a big event like this. Some of you will think “what’s he on about?” but experience tells me Norman’s not the… Read More ›
In Review: Thought Bubble 2015
The culmination of the Thought Bubble Comics Arts Festival in Leeds was this last weekend and, as with previous years, it was a busy bustle of comics in all forms. I was there from the Friday night party to the… Read More ›
In Review: MULP – Sceptre of the Sun Issue 1
The first issue of writer Matt Gibbs and artist Sara Dunkerton’s new five part anthropomorphic adventure series, MULP: Sceptre Of The Sun, which we previewed back in May, is out. Former soldier Jack Redpath is called to Egypt by his… Read More ›
Creators @ Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2014: Part 2
This is the continuation of our round-up of some of the creators who were appearing at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal over the weekend of 17-19 October 2014. The first part is here and this final part… Read More ›
Rats in (cool) Hats: MULP adventure comic gets set for debut
The first issue of MULP – an anthropomorphic comic book, a Pulp adventure set in a world of mice, by Matt Gibbs and Sara Dunkerton – goes on sale in a number of comic shops next week around the UK. The… Read More ›
2016 Annuals Checklist
Heres’a run down of the 2016 annuals we think may interest downthetubes readers, available on release from all good bookshops and online. Please note that annuals are sold into the books trade far in advance of publication (with creators working on them… Read More ›
Creators set to assemble in Lakes Festival’s “Comics Clock Tower”
Along with a huge line-up of comic creator events, including panels, workshops and signings, this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival will again feature the Comics Clock Tower – a gathering place for creators, publishers and fans with its own schedule of events and other happenings…. Read More ›