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• Nick Abadzis faces Doctor Who: Panel to Panel probe

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2019

  

  Episode #111 of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel, the great Doctor Who comics-focused podcast by Jeremy Bement, is live and offers a great chat with award-winning comics writer and artist Nick Abadzis. Nick Abadzis’ epic run on Titan Comics’ Tenth… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Inspired by Autobiography

  By John Freeman on June 30, 2019

  

  In an episode of the comics radio show Panel Borders looking at how personal experience can inform the content of graphic novels, Alex Fitch talks to cartoonist Ian Williams about his books The Bad Doctor and The Lady Doctor. Plus, guest presenter Philippa Perry discusses The Book of Sarah with its author, artist Sarah Lightman, about the book’s mix of fine art drawings and diary entries.

• “Penalty” Football Card Game box art by John Armstrong on eBay

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2019

  

  “Penalty“, a football-inspired Pepys card game was invented by Ernesto Scola of Milan, working with a team of twelve specialists who took five years including playing 18,000 trial games to develop the game. It was first published on the continent… Read More ›

• John Patrick Reynolds offers new limited edition “Dennis the Menace” print

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2019

  

  Screen printer John Patrick Reynolds is offering a new limited edition print of Dennis the Menace, based on an which first appeared in an edition of The Beano annual in the 1960s – and has inspired other similar illustrations of the character since

• US technology company Megahoot ramps up comics plans, appoints Lawrence White Chief Creative Officer

  By John Freeman on June 29, 2019

  

  Megahoot “MEGA”, a US-based blockchain technology, Cybersecurity and smart technology company, has appointed writer, artist and publisher Lawrence White as its company’s Chief Creative Officer “CCO” who will lead all creative efforts for MEGA’s online and print graphic novels, online gaming platforms, brand collateral for the company’s film, TV and comic book projects

• WebFind: Exploring the Barnes Museum of Cinematography, St Ives, Cornwall in the 1970s

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The Barnes Collection is a collection of film apparatus and ephemera relating to pioneering Victorian filmmakers from Brighton and Hove. It was purchased by Hove Museum & Art Gallery in 1997 with money from the Headley Trust and the Friends of Hove Museum. The… Read More ›

• Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure game launches this Autumn

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2019

  

  Global video games publisher Outright Games has announced a forthcoming console and PC-gaming experience set in the wondrous, prehistoric, universe of the Ice Age film franchise from Blue Sky Studios, Ice Age: Scrat’s Nutty Adventure. Based on the blockbuster film… Read More ›

• School’s Out Forever, Rebellion’s first in-house movie project, gets greenlit

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2019

  

  Rebellion, owners of 2000AD, recently announced its first in-house projects that will use the company’s new studio space near Oxford. Post-apocalyptic thriller School’s Out Forever will be shot there and on location, followed by several projects based on Rebellion’s comic… Read More ›

• Does Aces Weekly Volume 40 see the debut of a new heroine – Siriana?

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2019

  

  Aces Weekly Volume 40 offers surprise selection box of the light and the dark, the hard and the soft, and the nutty in one digital anthology, with strips by Jok LP, Rodolfo Santullo, David Leach, Roberto Corroto Cuadrado, Anthony Zicari,… Read More ›

• London set to go LEGO crazy at London Film & Comic Con, London Brick Festival

  By John Freeman on June 28, 2019

  

  Celebrate all things LEGO at the London Brick Festival, returning 22nd September 2019

• Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Slash Moron Limited Edition Graphic Novel

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2019

  

  Seeking crowdfunding right now on Indiegogo is a limited edition release of Slash Moron, written, inked and lettered by Bambos Georgiou – a wonderful parody of a certain square-jawed all-action space hero of the 1930s… Bambos, who I’ve known since… Read More ›

• The Future Belongs to Cats! Ahoy Comics “Captain Ginger” collection released

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2019

  

  US publisher Ahoy Comics have just released Captain Ginger – Survival Instinct, collection of their Captain Ginger title, an SF series set in the future where cats have inherited the Earth, brought to you by Deadpool the Duck writer Stuart… Read More ›

• “Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers” features new SF by Jack Campbell, Becky Chambers and many more

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2019

  

  Titan Books are releasing Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers this autumn, a new SF anthology edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt featuring 27 stories – 15 of them original to the book, including one by “Lost Fleet” author Jack Campbell, who I… Read More ›

• Japan House to host “Our Road to Recovery: An Anime Studio in Fukushima” event with Asao Yoshinori

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2019

  

  London’s Japan House hosts an event on Tuesday 2nd July with producer, director and screenwriter Yoshinori Asao, focusing on novel initiatives to bring fresh life and vitality to Fukushima and the region of Tohoku, which was overcome by tragedy. There… Read More ›

• Bromyard’s Time Machine Museum set to close in September

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  There’s sad news for fans of The Time Machine Museum of Science Fiction based in Bromyard, Herefordshire, which, it’s been announced, will close its doors in September – and all assets will be sold at auction

• Dan Watters, Dani, bring “Coffin Bound” to Image in August

  By John Freeman on June 27, 2019

  

  Dani Strips, artist on 2000AD, Girl With No Nam, and the Low, Low Woods for DC Comics teams with writer Dan Watters (Sandman Universe: Lucifer, Limbo) for an all-new action series full of grindhouse nightmares and high-octane chills in Coffin Bound.

• WebFind: Chet Phillips’ Postcards from Britain – with added monsters!

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  American illustrator Chet Phillips is the creator of terrific art projects such as Dr Mew, the Monster Zen book, the Steampunk Monkey Colouring Book and the Steampunk Monkey Cigarette Cards – but here at downthetubes I have to say I… Read More ›

• Promoting Wham! comic in the 1960s – a rare retailer-targeted poster

  By John Freeman on June 26, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Back when British comics had sales in the hundreds of thousands every week, they had a promotional budget to match, extending to retail promotions like this Wham! poster, offered to newsagents in the 1960s by its publisher, Odhams Press

• Pluck and Courage: Marvelman publisher L. Miller’s very short-lived story papers

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Here’s something of a rarity for you to enjoy – some of the covers for Pluck and Courage, two monthly story papers launched in the 1950s by Marvelman publisher L. Miller & Son Ltd. Collector Peter Hansen, who kindly provided… Read More ›

• Out This Week: The Tammy and Jinty Special

  By John Freeman on June 25, 2019

  

  Tammy and Jinty were two of Britain’s best-loved girls’ comics of the 1970s and ’80s – ground-breaking female-led comics that covered everything from science fiction and fantasy to romance and a whole lot of fun… and now they’re back, for… Read More ›

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