Aurum Press will release Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen’s autobiography this week – an occasion tempered with sadness, given her untimely death back in April – but a release that prompted my own memories of ‘working’ with the accomplished actress… Read More ›
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The Sleeze Brothers Return!
The Sleeze Brothers are back! Those anarchic, lunatic and downright shady PIs, the creation of John Carnell and Andy Lanning back in the 1980s, are being given a brush up (and probably, a good spanking) just in time for their… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 27 November 2008
• Forbidden Planet International is running a competition to win a thousand pound shopping dash in its Belfast store – a three minutes to dash around grabbing up to a grand’s worth of goodies. It’s only open to residents of… Read More ›
Jeff Hawke’s Cosmos 4.3
The latest issue of Jeff hawke’s Cosmos is now out. The magazine (exclusive Sydney Jordan painted cover artwork shown left) has bulked up for this issue, pushing the page count up to 80 A4 pages and going perfect bound. The… Read More ›
More from Moore-Reppion Duo
Hot on the heels of the release of Space Doubles #1 from US publisher Th3rd World Studios (a five-issue mini-series in a flipbook format, emulating the old Ace doubles paperbacks) and the Raise the Dead hardback from Dynamite Entertainment which… Read More ›
Compalcomics Auction offers rare Beanos, Frank Bellamy Art, Dick Tracy
The Spring 2010 auction at British comics auction site Compalcomics is now open. The catalogue for the auction – one of four held every year – includes a rare copy of The Beano Issue 5 (expected to sell for between… Read More ›
Pictures from France: Sarah McIntyre in Angoulême
downthetubes may have one of the best Scottish comics correspondents in, er, Scotland, in the form of Jeremy Briggs, but we don’t have a foreign correspondent: and yet, British comic creators regularly attend the biggest annual French Comics Festival, Angoulême… Read More ›
Colchester’s firstsite puts out Call to Comic Artists
(with thanks to Smallzone and Bryan Talbot): Colchester-based visual arts organisation firstsite wants to hear from artists working with comic imagery and media, who are interested in undertaking a unique residency as part of their next project… here’s the details… Read More ›
Ricardo Garijo: The Commando List
A checklist of the Commando comics drawn by Ricard Garijo, first compiled by Vic Whittle in 2009
Tube Surfing: Hi-Ex, CD24, Classical Comics and Barefoot Zombies
• The Hi Ex elves may have been quiet but they tell us they’ve been busy behind the scenes rushing around the country banging on doors and jumping through hoops to get their next Highlands convention shipshape. “We’re working hard… Read More ›