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• New documentary set to put Soviet “Soyuzmultfilm” in the spotlight, team calls out to those who worked in it

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2016

  

  London-based Bill Melendez Productions are currently in pre-production on a feature length documentary exploring animation for children and families in the USSR, in part, focusing on the studio Soyuzmultfilm, and the women in Soviet animation: from Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, co-director of the… Read More ›

• More British Creators Announced for Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Just ahead of tickets going on sale on Friday 1st July, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced the upcoming appearances by a number of top British comic creators, all looking forward to a weekend of comics fun 14th – 16th October… Read More ›

• Something For The Weekend: New Comics On Sale (w/c 13th June 2016) – Mix With Some Bad Company!

  By John Freeman on June 17, 2016

  

  Along with your usual fine mix of new comics on both sides of the Atlantic, how could we not direct you to the new Bad Company: First Casualties collection? It’s been a decade since the vicious war with the Krool… Read More ›

• Alien Air Aces in Commando? The Truth is Out at Your Newsagent!

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Here’s the inside intel on the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando – Issues 4923-4926 – on sale now in all good newsagents and via various digital platforms. They’re a great mixed bag of tales this week, with even a… Read More ›

• In Review: The Moniaive Comic Festival 2016

  By Colin Noble on June 16, 2016

  

  Most comic conventions measure their success by either footfall, social media reach or economic success. Well, I am here to report that the Moniaive Comic Festival takes a different route to measuring success. The aim of Sue Grant and her… Read More ›

• Lancaster Comics Day 2017 Date Announced

  By John Freeman on June 16, 2016

  

  The Friends of Lancaster Library have announced Lancaster Comics Day will return for a third year on Sunday 11th June 2017. Post the date in your diary now! Lancaster Comics Day 2016 raised over £600 for Library funds, which will be used to… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Comics Letterer and Designer Derek Pierson

  By John Freeman on June 15, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  We’re sorry to report the passing of Derek Pierson, who once self deprecatingly described his comics career as “from Hulton’s to IPC Magazines with Fleetway, taking a chunk of the middle”. Aged 77, he had been ill for some time. A… Read More ›

• VATMOSS Tax Problems will continue for indie comic creators, in or out of the EU

  By John Freeman on June 15, 2016

  

  Anyone remember the VATMOSS debacle which is still costing small business time and money – including comic creators selling digital editions? The debacle that put some small electronic publishers out of business? We reported on it here last year –… Read More ›

• Jack Kirby Thor Comic Cover Art Pops Up in British Toy Figure Auction Catalogue

  By John Freeman on June 14, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Nestling in an auction from Charterhouse Auctioneers, due to take place on Friday 24th June 2016, is the cover to an early issue of Marvel’s Thor, drawn by Jack Kirby and Vince Colletta. The original artwork for the cover of The Mighty… Read More ›

• In Preview: The Intercorstal 683

  By downthetubes Guests on June 13, 2016

  

  By: Gareth A Hopkins Reviewed by Simon Russell The Book: The Intercorstal: 683 is a Kickstarter-funded anthology-style abstract comic, by a single artist, inspired by, and in homage to, British sci-fi comics. The Preview: You can look at the drawings of Gareth… Read More ›

• Tiger Crab Studios launches “Nevera Tales” Kickstarter, a new British comic book

  By John Freeman on June 13, 2016

  

  Tiger Crab Studios has just launched a Kickstarter for Nevera Tales – described as The Shawshank Redemption meets Interview with a Vampire, a fantasy horror tale of mutual survival, written by the undead – although, actually, it’s a script by Daniel… Read More ›

• WebFind: A Foreigner’s Guide to Polish Comics

  By John Freeman on June 13, 2016

  

  While the Polish comics industry may not be as internationally recognised as that of the US or the Francophone countries, it certainly has its own share of writers and artists creating world-class comics. From the most famous albums and books… Read More ›

• In Review: ELCAF 2016 – Back for its Fifth Year and Buzzing!

  By Antony Esmond on June 13, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  This year was the 5th Annual East London Comics Art Festival (ELCAF) and it was a whopper! There has been a lot of talk recently about what makes a genuine and good Comic Convention. Well, it’s this attendee’s belief that a… Read More ›

• Photo Review: Wonderlands UK Graphic Novel Expo 2016

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 13, 2016

  

  Saturday 28 May 2016 saw the Wonderlands UK Graphic Novel Expo return to the CitySpace building of the University Of Sunderland. Named for the city’s links with Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and inaugurated last year to help celebrate the book’s… Read More ›

• Metaphrog’s Next Fairy Tale Will Be The Little Mermaid

  By Jeremy Briggs on June 12, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Last year Metaphrog, the Franco-Scottish duo of artist Sandra Marrs and writer John Chalmers, had their adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes And Other Tales released by US publisher Papercutz as a full colour hardback with a red fabric spine…. Read More ›

• Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Eleven

  By Roger Perry on June 12, 2016 • ( 9 )

  

  Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a Creative Visionary… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive biography of the man which continues here on downthetubes, is only due to him having… Read More ›

• Writer Maureen Hartley reveals the Inside Story on Writing for DC Thomson’s Girls’ Comics

  By John Freeman on June 12, 2016

  

  Over on the brilliant Girls Comics of Yesterday site, dedicated to girls comics published by DC Thomson, Maureen Hartley has written a fascinating piece about her experiences writing picture stories and working for the company. She first started writing picture script… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend: Sherlock Shenanigians and Wonder Woman Reborn (New Comics w/c 6/6/16)

  By John Freeman on June 10, 2016

  

  DC Comics “Rebirth” project continues this week, with two of the creators I had the pleasure of working with back in my Marvel UK days working on separate books. Aquaman #1 is written by Dan Abnett (with art by Oscar… Read More ›

• Batman: The Killing Joke to get limited US theatrical release

  By John Freeman on June 10, 2016

  

  Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Fathom Events are working together to give Batman: The Killing Joke a special, one-night big screen release on Monday 25th July in select cinemas across the US shortly after its world premiere as part of… Read More ›

• Doctor Who’s (brief) cameo in new LEGO Dimensions game trailer

  By John Freeman on June 10, 2016

  

  Doctor Who‘s the Twelfth Doctor makes a quick appearance in the latest E3 trailer for the latest expansion of the LEGO Dimensions game, which introduces a host of new characters. The expansion of LEGO Dimensions , the LEGO toy and videogame… Read More ›

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