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• Beano celebrates record-breaking run as a weekly comic, and Toytopia aims for another!

  By John Freeman on September 3, 2015

  

  ‘ Thanks to Guinness World Records, this week’s Beano (Issue 3800),  on sale now in all good newsagents and sporting a new logo, confirms the comic’s status as the longest-running comic published weekly. The Beano is officially a record breaker! We’re the longest-running… Read More ›

• Beano artist Steve Beckett goes to War! (Punic War, that is…)

  By John Freeman on September 3, 2015

  

  The latest issue of Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy (Issue 80) features a Punic Wars diorama on the front cover created by Beano and HOME comic artist Steve Beckett – his model making work just another of his many talents. Featuring… Read More ›

• Esquire gets Bond exclusive – new interview with Daniel Craig

  By John Freeman on September 3, 2015

  

  Men’s magazine Esquire has landed the first UK interview and photo shoot exclusive with actor Daniel Craig ahead of the release of SPECTRE, the new James Bond film. It’s is the second time Esquire has scooped its competitors to the UK… Read More ›

• Metaphrog Gains New Funding From Creative Scotland

  By Jeremy Briggs on September 2, 2015

  

  In these days of contracting budgets for the arts it is good to report that Glasgow based couple John Chalmers and Sandra Marrs, better known as Metaphrog, have been awarded £35,000 by Creative Scotland to research, develop, produce and promote their graphic… Read More ›

• “Annotated Alice” project celebrates 150 years of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland

  By John Freeman on September 2, 2015

  

  As we’ve previously noted, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is 150 years old this year and to celebrate the Public Domain Review, which archives and promotes out of copyright art and writings has teamed up with Medium to create… Read More ›

• First Ever ComicCity Festival heads to Derry next weekend

  By John Freeman on September 2, 2015

  

  Some of the UK and Ireland’s leading comic artists and writers – including PJ Holden, John McCrea and Declan Shalvey – will touch down in Derry next weekend for the first ever ComicCity Festival. The two-day festival, which is being run… Read More ›

• Is Time Inc UK hoping to revive its British Comic Characters for new films?

  By John Freeman on September 2, 2015

  

  Admittedly reading between the lines a little, Time Inc UK – formerly IPC, owners of many pre-1970 comic characters ranging from The Spider and the Steel Claw to Faceache – announced the formation of a dedicated advertising film division at… Read More ›

• Licensing.biz announces month of Thunderbirds exclusives and features

  By John Freeman on September 2, 2015

  

  If you’re a fan of the original Thunderbirds or the re-imagined Thunderbirds Are Go, then bookmark the trade site Licensing.biz, because they’ve just announced a month of features, interviews and exclusive news will celebrate 50 years of the Gerry and Sylvia… Read More ›

• Lakes Festival Focus 2015: An Interview with Karrie Fransman, creator of “Death of the Artist”

  By John Freeman on September 2, 2015

  

  Last year, in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, downthetubes brought you a number of interviews with creators attending the event – and we’re delighted to be able to run a series in the run up to their… Read More ›

• Comics Forum web site seeks editors

  By John Freeman on September 1, 2015

  

  The Comics Forum is seeking to appoint three or more individuals to the roles of Articles Editors, News Editors, and Reviews Editors on the Comics Forum website. Comics Forum was established in 2009 as part of Leeds’ annual sequential art festival Thought Bubble, which takes… Read More ›

• Give Me 50! War Machine joins Marvel Heroes game

  By John Freeman on September 1, 2015

  

  Game makers Gazillion have released the Fiftieth fully unique playable character Marvel Heroes 2015 – War Machine – and announced another new developments in the game, including the chance to team up with super villain Carnage and the arrival of the… Read More ›

• Remember, Remember: Warren Ellis’ “James Bond” debuts 4th November

  By John Freeman on September 1, 2015

  

    The first issue of the Warren Ellis-scribed James Bond debuts on 4th November 2015 in comic shops across the world, published by Dynamite Entertainment – just ten days after SPECTRE launches in cinemas in the US and UK. Featuring art by… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: Fourth Global Forum of Critical Studies in Italy

  By John Freeman on August 31, 2015

  

  A call has gone out for paper on the broad subject “The Sequential Art: Comics as a Cultural Nexus“, for a panel at the Fourth Global Forum of Critical Studies, organized by Vienna-based Euroacademia in Lucca, Italy, which will take place… Read More ›

• The Awesome Comics Pod – Rachael Smith and Kat Chapman

  By Antony Esmond on August 31, 2015

  

  Finally! The gentlemen of the Awesome Comics Podcast have had the restraining orders removed and welcome not one, but two female creators onto Episode 9 of their weekly small press comics podcast. This week Vince Hunt, Dan Butcher and Tony Esmond… Read More ›

• Comic Stars head for Birmingham for this year’s International Comics Expo

  By John Freeman on August 31, 2015

  

  Some of the biggest names from the world of comic book art and publishing will be descending onto the Studio Venue in Birmingham city centre this coming weekend for this year’s International Comics Expo. The International Comic Expo, or ICE as… Read More ›

• A Day in the Country: Melksham Comic Convention, August 2015

  By Antony Esmond on August 31, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  “This is the country!”  I heard someone shout as the Awesome Comics Podcast crowd (Dan Butcher, Vince Hunt, Tony Esmond and buddies Shaun Dobes and Marc Laming) arrived in the lovely town of Melksham for this year’s Melksham Comic Convention…. Read More ›

• Panel Borders: On the Brink of a Brass Sun with 2000AD’s  I.N.J. Culbard

  By John Freeman on August 30, 2015

  

  Concluding a month of shows about ‘The Galaxy’s Greatest Comic’ on the smashing podcast (and radio show Panel Borders, Alex Fitch talks to artist I.N.J. Culbard about his work for 2000AD on strips such as ‘clock-punk fantasy’ serial “Brass Sun”… Read More ›

• Show and tell: Airfix illustration at the House of Illustration 

  By John Freeman on August 29, 2015

  

  Join Matt Curtis, Art Director of the Sunday Times Magazine next Saturday (5th September), for an informal drop-in show and tell session at London’s House of Illustration examining the breadth of vintage Airfix illustration. Curtis will share pieces from the… Read More ›

• Crucible Episode 40: Strike Back!

  By John Freeman on August 29, 2015

  

  The Chrell strikes back… Crucible is an ongoing creator-owned strip which started in STRIP: The Adventures Comics Magazine, created by myself and 2000AD artist Smuzz (perhaps best known for his work on ABC Warriors) and lettered by Jim Campbell. We’re hoping we can attract a print publisher…. Read More ›

• Crucible Episode 39: Chrell Attack!

  By John Freeman on August 28, 2015

  

  With Beloc’s help, the battle against the Chrell seems to have taken a turn in the party’s favour… or has it? Crucible is an ongoing creator-owned strip which started in STRIP: The Adventures Comics Magazine, created by myself and 2000AD artist Smuzz (perhaps best known for… Read More ›

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