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In Review: War Cars

By John Freeman on January 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

What’s that? You don’t remember “War Cars”, the toy sensation of the early 1980s, which Mallet Comics licensed for a short lived return to the publishing world? Written by “Ian Furman” and drawn by “Carlo Ferringo”, the good news is that a digital collection of this fast-paced action SF title is now available, painstakingly restored from the original comics by Bryan Coyle…
Top-selling thriller writer James Swallow pens new Commando comic, out this week

By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

Japanese soldiers versus crocodiles in the mangrove swamps of Ramree Island? Foreign Legion duels to the death? Terror on an isolated sea fort, and a coward in the cockpit? It’s all happening in the latest issues of DC Thomson Media’s… Read More ›
Snapshots in Time: British comics editors on a night out in the 1950s

By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

Dan Dare writer and author David Motton has unearthed a wonderful snapshot from his early days while working on British comics that he has kindly shared with downthetubes. “Very recently, my son Gregory (vide ‘Dan Dare All Treens Must Die’,… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival launches GoFundMe appeal to expand youth-focussed comics programming

By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, the only festival of its kind in the UK, is a not for profit arts festival, aiming to raise awareness of the transformational power of comics – and has just launched a GoFundMe specifically… Read More ›
First Look at Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora’s Once & Future #6 From BOOM! Studios

By John Freeman on January 7, 2020

BOOM! Studios has revealed a first look at Once & Future #6, the latest issue in the critically acclaimed series from New York Times bestselling writer Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Star Wars), Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan… Read More ›
Scottish Police release CCTV of missing comic creator Gordon McLean

By John Freeman on January 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

Police officers in Greenock, Scotland, have released CCTV footage of comic creator Gordon McLean, who was reported missing on Thursday 26th December, 2019. As we previously reported, Gordon was seen at around 8.30am on Wednesday, 18th December, in Prospecthill Street,… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2020 opens Comics Clock Tower applications

By John Freeman on January 6, 2020

There not one but two items of Lakes International Comic Art Festival news this morning, with the event opening applications for tables from comic creators for its 2020 Comics Clock Tower, and a new podcast to savour from the team… Read More ›
Doom Patrol TV series hits Starzplay streaming service in the UK

By John Freeman on January 5, 2020

One of our most popular stories earlier last year on downthetubes centred on the hope that NetflixUK would follow up screening Titans with a screening of Doom Patrol. The service never responded to queries about it, but almost one year later the show focusing on DC Comics oddest superteam has arrived in the UK, through subscription service Starzplay, via Amazon’s Prime Video platform and Virgin TV.
Marvel UK Flashback: When Spider-Man met Queen’s Brian May

By John Freeman on January 4, 2020

It wasn’t the greatest Spider-Man costume Marvel UK had for promotional purposes, but by gum, the company made the most of it, even in encounters with pop royalty like Queen’s Brian May
In Review: Doctor Who – Spyfall, Part One

By downthetubes Guests on January 3, 2020 • ( 1 )

Paul Mount reviews the first episode of the new Doctor Who series. Hold onto your helmets!
In Review: Third World War Book One

By Luke Williams on January 2, 2020

Luke Williams takes a look at the soon-to-be released “Third World War” collection, the strip created by Pat Mills and Carlos Ezquerra for the 1980s Fleetway adult comic, Crisis…
Dinosaur Artist and Comics Creator Steve White fronts new issue of “Colored Pencil”

By John Freeman on January 1, 2020

Celebrating ten years in publication, the latest issue of the US magazine Colored Pencil leads with a cover feature on dinosaur and natural history artist supreme and comics creator and editor, Steve White
Happy New Year, and Decade, Readers!

By John Freeman on January 1, 2020

We wish all downthetubes readers a very Happy New Year – and decade! Here’s to exciting times ahead for us all!
In Memoriam: “Doctor Who” and “Popeye” Comic Artist Bill Mevin

By John Freeman on December 31, 2019 • ( 4 )

We’re sorry to report the death of comic artist Bill Mevin, who passed yesterday, aged 97. Perhaps best known for his work on TV Comic‘s “Doctor Who” strip and his work on later episodes of “The Perishers” with Maurice Dodd… Read More ›
In Review: Cats (2019)

By John Freeman on December 31, 2019 • ( 1 )

Review by Tim Robins A tribe of cats must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life… Nothing I can write will stop Cats from being a critical and box office… Read More ›
“Syd Mead – Future Cities” exhibition continues in Berlin as his passing is mourned worldwide

By John Freeman on December 31, 2019

An exclusive look into the creative world of Syd Mead, one of the great futurists of our time, continues in Berlin into January 2020. The death of the legendary designer, whose film credits include Aliens, Blade Runner, Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Tron, along with an unrealised remake of Forbidden Planet, was announced yesterday
In Memoriam: Those We Have Lost in 2019 – Part Two

By John Freeman on December 30, 2019

downthetubes regularly tries to pay tribute to comic creators no longer with us. We list those we have noted who died between July and December 2019, and others reported elsewhere, here. 2019 has been a difficult year for the family… Read More ›
Comic Artist Spotlight: Bruno Oliveira

By John Freeman on December 30, 2019

I came across this eye-catching study of DC Comics character Shazam by Bruno Oliveira quite by chance – tracking down the Brazilian artist’s original post here back in 2012 on DeviantArt – and thought I’d quickly spotlight it and his work.
Do you remember Lion’s “Danger Man” comic strip?

By John Freeman on December 29, 2019

Back in the 1960s, the success of James Bond in print and on the big screen spawned or inspired many similar heroes – and heroines – on TV and comics. One of them was the hugely-popular British series Danger Man, starring Patrick McGoohan, who would go on to star in the cult show The Prisoner. One of the show’s comic spin-offs is less well known than others…
In Memoriam: Those We Have Lost in 2019 – Part One

By John Freeman on December 29, 2019

downthetubes regularly tries to pay tribute to comic creators no longer with us. We list those we have noted who died between January and June 2019, and others reported elsewhere, here. There have also been major changes in the US… Read More ›