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• First official Roald Dahl story-inspired app launched: Twit or Miss

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2015

  

    Children’s writer Roald Dahl‘s disgustingly memorable The Twits are the first of his characters to star in a new app – and their habits are just as yucky as ever. Today sees the launch of  Roald Dahl’s Twit or Miss,… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Surface Tension Issue Three

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2015

  

  Next Wednesday (29th July 2015) sees the release of Surface Tension #3: the defining chapter of the new creator-owned eco-horror fable from writer/artist Jay Gunn, who we interviewed here recently about the book and his career in games and comics. The corals activate… Read More ›

• Incoming: Episode 4 of The Awesome Comics Podcast, featuring artist Christian Wildgoose

  By Antony Esmond on July 24, 2015

  

  Episode four of the new UK small press Awesome Comics Podcast will be coming at you this Monday. The hosts Vince Hunt (The Red Mask from Mars), Dan Butcher (Vanguard) and downthetubes contributor Tony Esmond will be chatting to artist… Read More ›

• “Wish You Were Here” – comic artists re-imagine the Lake District – ahead of Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2015

  

  The Lake District National Park is England’s largest covering 229,200 hectares of land with 16 large lakes and more than 200 fells. Beatrix Potter, Alfred Heaton Cooper, Arthur Ransome, JMW Turner, and William Wordsworth were just a few of the famous names inspired… Read More ›

• Halfpenny Dreadful Comic Publishing – punk pulp fiction from Mike Knowles

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2015

  

  Halfpenny Dreadful Comic Publishing – the brainchild of veteran comics writer Mike Knowles – is seeking aspiring writers and artists who might enjoy producing punk pulp fiction. Mike has  been a published writer/artist for over 30-years working mainly in comics, (DC Thomson… Read More ›

• Something for the Weekend (22nd July 2015) – A little 2000AD for the weekend, folks?

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2015

  

  Here’s  this week’s list of comics on sale now in comic shops across the UK. As usual, our list highlights the work of British creators and publishers. Prize-winning British cartoonist Julian Hanshaw makes his US debut this week with the… Read More ›

• Every Doctor (Who) Has His Thursday…

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

    The latest Doctor Who Magazine (Issue 489) is on sale tomorrow and we’ve detailed the issues’ full run down below. It includes the first part of a new 12-page comics strip, “Spirits of the Jungle” by Jonathan Morris, illustrated… Read More ›

• In Review: The Troll by Martin Flink

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 23, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Accent UK may be better known for titles about zombies and gunslingers but the rise of more family orientated comics conventions has led them to release The Troll  by Danish artist, storyteller and co-founder of the Copenhagen Comics Festival, Martin… Read More ›

• Rachael Smith’s “The Rabbit” graphic novel launches in September

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2015

  

  Comic creator Rachael Smith and the Avery Hill Publishing crew will be launching The Rabbit, Rachel’s second graphic novel, at Manchester’s Travelling Man comic shop on Friday 28th August and  London’s Orbital Comics  on Friday 11th September 2015. Following her debut, critically acclaimed graphic… Read More ›

• Judgement Comes to Cardiff! (Judge Dredd judgement, that is)

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Judgement in Cardiff, a  unique exhibition of Judge Dredd art comes to Cardiff next month – the work of a duo known as Caped in Case who commissioned David Roach to draw the event’s promotional poster. The exhibition brings together some of… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Bruce Mutard – from The Bunker to The Sacrifice

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2015

  

  Continuing a month of shows about Australasian comics, Alex Fitch talks to Melbourne cartoonist Bruce Mutard about his career so far, from his first graphic novel The Bunker to experimental comics such as Alice in Nomansland, and working on a sequel to his… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: Comic Artist Jim Watson

  By Colin Noble on July 22, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  There are many comic artists that I have still to identify whose work I’ve enjoyed down the years. Others that I have identified and see that others also share my enjoyment of their work. But there are many more who… Read More ›

• Sapphire & Steel Competition: Nigel “Spleenal” Auchterlounie joins the fun

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Recent news of a possible return to our screens of the spooky Sapphire & Steel prompted various comic artists to pipe up that they’d love to draw a new comic based on the show, so we’re challenging our readers to do… Read More ›

• Wart horror comic continues, last round of crowdfunding permitting…

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2015

  

  Comic creators Chris Welsh and Ammar Al-Chalabi are closing fast on their modest Kickstarter to fund WART Book Three at the moment, so we thought we’d give him a deserved plug to hopefully help him gain full backing. In January, he successfully funded books One… Read More ›

• In Review: London Film and Comic Con 2015

  By downthetubes Guests on July 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  London Film and Comic Con took over the Olympia this year, spreading across four floors. Tickets for both Saturday and Sunday sold out well before the event, leading to some disappointed people who couldn’t get in – but they will know… Read More ›

• In Review: Panel Borders: Crowd-Funded Comics

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2015

  

     A train journey to the Lakes afforded me the chance to listen to this terrific episode of the Resonance FM ’Panel Borders‘ podcast about the positives and negatives of crowd funding your comic projects. This show concluded a month… Read More ›

• Signing at Deadhead Comics

  By Colin Noble on July 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  For those that shop for their comics in Edinburgh, you could do worse than pop along to the recently relocated Deadhead Comics at their new address of 30 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh EH8 9DD. On Saturday 25 July 2015 from 2:30pm… Read More ›

• John Ridgway Interviewed for Doctor Who Panel to Panel Podcast

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2015

  

  Veteran comic artist John Ridgway, still drawing issues of Commando but perhaps best known for his work on 2000AD, Doctor Who Magazine and DC Comics Hellblazer, is the guest on the latest Doctor Who: Panel to Panel podcast. A true Doctor Who comics legend,… Read More ›

• Warren Ellis: “Read Comics. All comics. And then cut them open…”

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2015

  

  Comic creator Warren Ellis – author of Trees, Injection, Ministry of Space and whose fanzines I bought back in the 1980s when we met at the Westminster Comic Mart days, publishes an entertaining weekly newsletter, Orbital Operations (subscribe here), covering all… Read More ›

• Remembered Reading: Dr Mel Gibson’s new study of Girls Comics released

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Remembered Reading, a reader’s history exploring the forgotten genre of British girls’ comics by Dr Mel Gibson, has just been published by Leuven Univeristy Press. Girls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain. The most popular titles sold between… Read More ›

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