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• 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 ›

• London’s Cartoon Museum Gets Set for a Summer Makeover

  By John Freeman on June 9, 2016

  

  Nothing is more boring than going to a gallery and seeing the same pieces over and over again. After a while, it’s time to shake it up, and that’s exactly what they’re doing at London’s Cartoon Museum. At the end… Read More ›

• NBM Publishing Announces February 2017 Release Date for Paco Roca’s new book, “The Lighthouse”

  By John Freeman on June 9, 2016

  

  NBM Publishing’s upcoming releases of its new graphic novels include The Lighthouse by Paco Roca, one of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival‘s guests in October. Paco Roca is a Spanish artist best known for his graphic novel Wrinkles (reviewed… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Adventures artist Russ Leach joins Hull Comic Con Line-Up

  By John Freeman on June 9, 2016

  

  Following on from a very successful event last year, Hull Comic Con is back on Saturday 18th June 2016, and will be a much bigger event, taking over over all three floors of its venue, the Hull University Union building…. Read More ›

• ELCAF Back This Weekend, Celebrates Fifth Year In Style

  By John Freeman on June 9, 2016

  

  Celebrating its fifth birthday across three days and three new venues, ELCAF 2016 is back this weekend (10th – 12th June), offering an exciting roster of international cartoonists, picture book illustrators and digital creators, included in the mix are Adrian Tomine,… Read More ›

• Beano Studios Launched, revamp on the way for comic, web site and new Dennis the Menace TV show in the works

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  DC Thomson – publishers of The Beano, Commando and other comics, as well as newspapers and magazines – has just launched a new creative company called Beano Studios, which aims to become the number one choice for seven to ten year olds… Read More ›

• Comichaus Closes In on Funding for New British Monthly Comic Book Anthology Launch Issue

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Comichaus – the web-based comic book market place launched last year which among other services offers independent comic creators the means to sell their books online with no seller fee commission – looks on course to gain funding for its… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: The Life and Work of Alberto Breccia – Part One by Ron Tiner

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2016

  

  He’s perhaps best known to British comic fans for his work through the Bardon Press Features office in Barcelona for Fleetway Edtions in the 1960s, first on Super Detective Picture Library Number 172 “Passport to Peril” (an adaptation of the novel, Assignment Helene by Edward… Read More ›

• In Review: Darwin’s Diaries Book One: The Eye of the Celts

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2016

  

  by Sylvain Runberg & Eduardo Ocan Publisher: Cinebook Reviewed by: Paul H. Birch (previously reviewed for downthetubes by Jeremy Briggs here) The Book: Victorian England. In Yorkshire, several men and horses working on a railway line have been killed. The… Read More ›

• Cam Kennedy, John Wagner and more head to Moniaive

  By John Freeman on June 8, 2016

  

  Here’s the details of this year’s Moniaive Comic Festival Weekend (11th – 12th June) – two days of all things related to comic books in Moniaive, a village in the Parish of Glencairn, in Dumfries and Galloway, South-West Scotland. Some… Read More ›

• Dave Gibbons Returns to Doctor Who Magazine

  By John Freeman on June 7, 2016

  

  As we’ve already mentioned, Doctor Who Magazine has just published its 500th issue, and is celebrating with a special 20-page comic strip adventure, “The Stockbridge Showdown” – and writer Scott Gray kindly took time out of his schedule to give… Read More ›

• Lancaster Comics Day 2016 – Comics, Cake and REPAINTED Cybermen!

  By Antony Esmond on June 6, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The Second Annual Lancaster Comics Day was a lavish and star studded event (smiley face). Full of eager comics buyers, readers, sellers, creators and cake, lots of cake (thanks, Katie White). Whilst not exactly a red carpet event, it evoked comics… Read More ›

• Awesome Comics Podcast Episode 49 – Gareth A Hopkins and The Intercorstal

  By John Freeman on June 6, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  This week, the Awesome Comics Podcast gang are joined by Gareth A Hopkins, the creator of the abstract sequential comic book The Intercorstal. He talks about how the creation of this unique book came to be, the creators who have… Read More ›

• Something For the Weekend: Awesome Slaine and Sold Out Rebirths! (New Comics w/c 30/5/16)

  By John Freeman on June 4, 2016

  

  Yes, yes, we know it’s Saturday already and you’re on the way to the comic shop already. We’re a bit busy at this end, getting ready for Lancaster Comics Day on Sunday, revamping the Lakes International Comic Art Festival web… Read More ›

• When Tiny Skulls Attack! Kek-W’s and Lukasz Kowalczuk’s new strip for 100% Biodegradable

  By John Freeman on June 4, 2016

  

  Here’s a sneak preview of “Tiny Skull Attack” – a brand new strip by 2000AD‘s Kek-W and Aces Weekly‘s Lukasz Kowalczuk – coming to Issue 13 of the digital anthology 100% Biodegradable (due out this month). The quarterly sci-fi digital… Read More ›

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