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• Thunderbirds Are Go: First Trailer Released

  By John Freeman on December 25, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    As a festive treat. ITV have released a very short Thunderbirds are Go trailer as part of their ongoing teaser campaign for the re-imagining of the original show created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, which launches in April 2015…. Read More ›

• SEQUENTIAL launches massive digital comics sale

  By John Freeman on December 24, 2014

  

      Digital comics distributor SEQUENTIAL will be a huge winter sale right now, with 50 – 80 per cent off the print RRP on books… A perfect way to populate the iBooks section of your shiny new (or spruced… Read More ›

• Weeping Angels stalk the Western Front in upcoming Tenth Doctor comic

  By John Freeman on December 24, 2014

  

    Wednesday 7th January 2015 sees the release of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6 by Robbie Morrison and Flash Gordon artist Daniel Indro, and features The Doctor and Gabby facing the terror of Weeping Angels in the trenches of the… Read More ›

• New Light and Darkness War collection by Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy

  By John Freeman on December 24, 2014

  

    Alongside Titan Comics numerous May 2015 releases for Doctor Who, Madefire tie-ins and several collections including Penguins of Madagascar is a new edition of the stunning creator-owned Light and Darkness War by Tom Veitch and Cam Kennedy. Originally published in the late 1980s… Read More ›

• Gosh announces “Soppy” Launch Party with Philippa Rice

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2014

  

  Small press sensation Soppy is back – bigger, better, and more hardcover-y than ever – and Gosh London have just announced a launch party with creator Phillipa Rice on the 16th January 2015. What started out as a self published collection… Read More ›

• Ninth Doctor Comic: Blair D. Shedd reveals #1 variant cover

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2014

  

  Artist Blair D. Shedd has revealed his variant for the first issue of Titan Comics upcoming Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor mini series, to launch in March, written by Cavan Scott. “Alice X. Zhang is doing the ‘A’ (primary) cover… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All Our Readers!

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2014

  

    With Christmas almost upon us I’d like to thank everyone who has been reading downthetubes over the year and wish you all the very best of the season. I hope you’ve enjoyed the site in 2014 – we have some… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: The Penguins of Madagascar #2 by Alex Matthews and Grant Perkins

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2014

  

    This week sees the release of some fantastic new titles from Titan Comics including Penguins of Madagascar #2,  Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #3 (previewed here); a very special issue of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #6 (previewed here); and the final instalment of The Evil Within #4, based… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor #3 by Robbie Morrison and Dave Taylor

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    This week sees the release of some fantastic new titles from Titan Comics including Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #3 by Robbie Morrison (Spider-Man) and Dave Taylor (Batman: Death By Design); and a very special issue of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #6 in which, as we… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Releases (24th December 2014) – Christmas Eve Comic Stocking Fillers!

  By John Freeman on December 23, 2014

  

    Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday 24th December 2014. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold below, or titles with… Read More ›

• Frank Bellamy TV Century 21 “Thunderbirds” art up for auction

  By John Freeman on December 22, 2014

  

    Three Thunderbirds art boards drawn by Frank Bellamy for TV Century 21 Issues 141 and 142 are up for auction through the US Heritage Auctions web site in February 2015. The pages – all a trifle faded with age – are from… Read More ›

• Doctor Who tops BFI favourite SF character poll

  By John Freeman on December 22, 2014

  

    The ultimate showdown between science fiction heroes The Doctor and Ellen Ripley – both also comic heroes – has seen British TV’s favourite Time Lord from Doctor Who emerge victorious in a British Film Institute poll we mentioned recently. The BFI launched… Read More ›

• Looking Back on 2014: Creators Choose their ‘Top Three’ comics

  By Antony Esmond on December 21, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  As 2014 draws to a close, here at downthetubes we thought it might be fun to contact some of the creators we have featured on the site this year and beyond and ask them what comics have caught their eye…. Read More ›

• Titan reveals new Ninth Doctor comic

  By John Freeman on December 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Titan Comics is to release a Ninth Doctor limited series comic in March 2015, which not only features the post Time War Doctor (played on screen by Christopher Eccleston) but Rose Tyler and Captain Jack, too. The new, five-part… Read More ›

• Sneak Preview: Kingdom of the Wicked by Ian Edginton & D’Israeli

  By John Freeman on December 19, 2014

  

    On 6th January 2015 Titan Comics brings you a new horror/fantasy graphic novel series, Kingdom of the Wicked, in which Ian Edginton and D’Israeli bring war to wonderland…   In this sumptuous collection of their first collaboration, Ian Edginton and D’Israeli – whose work together… Read More ›

• Thunderbirds Are Go! gets second series even before first airs

  By John Freeman on December 19, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

    UK broadcaster CITV has commissioned ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures to make a second series of Thunderbirds Are Go, even before the first has premiered. News of the second commission breaks just as the official web site for the show… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: The Comics Grid

  By John Freeman on December 19, 2014

  

  The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is inviting all authors to submit contributions to the journal. The Comics Grid publishes one issue per year, with rapid publication as soon as articles are ready. Its purpose is to make original, media-specific contributions to… Read More ›

• Firebox Ricky Rouse Graphic Novel Competition launched

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2014

  

    What could be more festive than a bizarro graphic novel that’s a little bit like Die Hard, only set in a knock-off Disney theme park? Nothing, that’s what. This Christmas online retailer Firebox are giving away three hardback copies of the… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2014

  

  The Sixth International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference / Ninth International Bande Dessinée Society Conference, which takes place in Paris in June next year has put out a last Cal For Papers – with a deadline of the end of… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Non-Verbal Communication with Laura Malacart and artist Daniel Locke

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2014

  

  Concluding a trio of shows about ‘untold tales’, narratives not normally depicted in comics, Alex Fitch talks to writer Laura Malacart and artist Daniel Locke on today’s Panel Borders radio show, about their comic book Yes! which explores the true story of an autistic… Read More ›

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