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• Spectrum is Indestructible: a new Captain Scarlet book will include comic strip guides

  By John Freeman on April 28, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Regular readers of downthetubes will recall we reported in 2016 that Chinbeard Books is to publish an unofficial guide to Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet later this year, marking the character’s 50th anniversary since his debut on ITV. Spectrum is Indestructible… Read More ›

• Aliens, Daleks and Paul Cornell, Oh My!

  By John Freeman on April 28, 2017

  

  Out next month from IDW is Saucer State, written by Paul Cornell (who I recently worked with on Doctor Who: Heralds of Destruction) with art by Ryan Kelly (Lucifer) – and there’s a new Doctor Who comic collection out too,… Read More ›

• Bryan Talbot payes tribute to Leo Baxendale in final Grandville tale

  By John Freeman on April 28, 2017

  

  Artist Bryan Talbot has sent us this panel from his final Grandville story – a homage to the late Leo Baxendale, scripted five years ago, penciled and inked about 15 months ago and coloured in January. “I’m going to dedicate the book to his… Read More ›

• New Doctor Who Adventures Out Now – We’ll Shout that ’til we’re Horse!

  By John Freeman on April 28, 2017

  

  Doctor Who Adventures Issue 23 is in sale now from Panini, and I’m delighted to report that the Doctor is still battling aliens accompanied by an alien talking horse. (Not that it wouldn’t be great to have new companion Bill… Read More ›

• Leo Baxendale Remembered, by Beano artist Nigel Parkinson

  By John Freeman on April 27, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The first name I recognised in comics was Leo Baxendale, who signed his name on the front cover of WHAM! In 1964. Until earlier this month, he was still my favourite living cartoonist. In the 1950s he gave us Little Plum,… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Leo Baxendale

  By John Freeman on April 27, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Just days after posting an “In Praise of… Leo Baxendale” feature, focusing on his later, creator-owned material, we’re sorry to report his passing. I know this is a loss is going to hit a lot of my friends hard, especially those who know… Read More ›

• DC announces Teen Titans live action show for new streaming service

  By John Freeman on April 26, 2017

  

  Warner Bros. has revealed plans to bring a new live action Teen Titans series, titled Titans, to its upcoming DC branded streaming service which will debut in 2018. Deadline Hollywood reports the new series is the being helmed by Greg Berlanti… Read More ›

• Splank! a New Comic, in the works

  By John Freeman on April 26, 2017

  

  Comics fan Peter Duncan began his British comics-oriented blog Splank! just over a year ago, on 1st April 2016,  starting with a post about Splank!, a totally imaginary Irish version of Pow!, one of a trio of unique and, by… Read More ›

• Can Your Hear Me, Mother? I’m on the Radio This Week

  By John Freeman on April 26, 2017

  

  Thanks to David Chandler, you’ll hear me plugging Lancaster Comics Day (and the Lakes International Comic Art Festival) on this week’s “Friday Night Three” show airing on Beyond Radio (7 – 9.00pm, 103.5FM across Lancaster and Morecambe and also online)…. Read More ›

• BOOM! Studios announces War for the Planet of the Apes mini-series

  By John Freeman on April 25, 2017

  

  BOOM! Studios and 20th Century Fox Consumer Products have announced a comic miniseries that serves as a prequel to the upcoming film War for the Planet of the Apes, which hits UK cinemas on 14th July 2017. The four-issue miniseries… Read More ›

• Robotech #1: first interior art and story details revealed at C2E2

  By John Freeman on April 25, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Titan Comics have just revealed the first interior art and story details for Robotech #1. The influential 1980s anime classic returns on 26th July 2017 with a brand-new ongoing series packed with earth-shattering shocks and surprises. The all-new Robotech comic… Read More ›

• Brand-new Charlotte Corday Adventure by Dan Dare artist Keith Page Launches

  By John Freeman on April 24, 2017

  

  Launching soon will be an all-new Charlotte Corday adventure titled Blasted Trubshaw and the Time Before This, a follow up to the recently re-published Witchcraft Street series. Creator Keith Page has teased his fans with some notes about the story, in which… Read More ›

• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Illustrator: Sarah McIntyre on How to Beat It

  By John Freeman on April 24, 2017

  

  How on earth did I miss the news that illustrator and writer Sarah McIntyre is now Writer in Residence at BookTrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity? My belated and heartiest congratulations on this new role, which she took up in February. Sarah now… Read More ›

• Supergirl actress Chyler Leigh heads to Liverpool to support FAB 4000 comics project 

  By John Freeman on April 24, 2017

  

  Up, up and away! The most wonderful synchronicity is bringing Supergirl star Chyler Leigh to Liverpool next month. The visit is in support of THE FAB 4000, a brilliant new comics project developed by comics creator Tim Quinn, artist Jorge Pacheco… Read More ›

• 2000AD Prog 2028 Preview: Mars Attacked!

  By John Freeman on April 24, 2017

  

  There’s some sweet space war action on the cover of this week’s 2000AD, on sale Wednesday, as the Venusians take it to their Martian enemies, in “Scarlet Traces: Cold War” on this week’s cover, from co-creator and series art droid,… Read More ›

• Artist Chris Achilleos asks fans help to trace missing Cybermen art

  By John Freeman on April 22, 2017

  

  Can anyone find out where this Doctor Who original painting is!? Artist Chris Achilleos, who drew this Tenth Planet art for the Doctor Who WH Allen/ Target Books range back in the 1970s, is trying to track it down. Chris is… Read More ›

• “Inking Woman” Exhibition opens next week at London’s Cartoon Musuem

  By John Freeman on April 22, 2017

  

  Opening next week at London’s Cartoon Museum (running from 26th April to 23rd July 2017), The Inking Woman is an exhibition bringing together original artwork spanning 250 years, from 18th century caricatures to modern graphic novels, The Inking Woman is a celebration… Read More ›

• Explore the SF and Fantasy art of Patrick J. Jones

  By John Freeman on April 22, 2017

  

  Back in 2009, I edited SciFi Art Now, a compendium of great art with a foreword from one of my favourite all-time SF artists Chris Foss. One of the artists who responded to my international appeal for art to be… Read More ›

• This Week’s Top Ten Most Read Stories on downthetubes

  By John Freeman on April 21, 2017

  

  A look back at a short-lived Commando fan magazine edited by artist Peter Richardson, Frank Bellamy Eagle art, a Jack Kirby-related crowdfunder and the first UK Gerry Anderson’s UFO convention in a long time topped downthetubes most read stories this week…. Read More ›

• In Praise of… Leo Baxendale

  By John Freeman on April 21, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Leo Baxendale is a British cartoonist who should need no introduction to downthetubes readers. Not only was the creator of the classic Beano strips “Little Plum”, “Minnie the Minx”, “The Bash Street Kids” and “The Three Bears”, but he was… Read More ›

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