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• Madefire Motion Book Tool offers digital comic creators new vistas

  By John Freeman on August 9, 2014

  

    With abject apologies to my old friend, artist Liam Sharp who is integral part of the project team (it’s been a busy old month), the launch of the Madefire Motion Book Tool to create digital comics with added animation and… Read More ›

• Amazon issues statement on eBook pricing

  By John Freeman on August 9, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

    The online bookseller Amazon has issued the following statement about their aim to reduce eBook prices, and comment on their ongoing dispute with publisher Hatchette, who have resisted price drop requests from the multinational company . We’re running it… Read More ›

• Plok! From video game star to comic strip hero!

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2014

  

    Veteran video game designers The Pickford Bros have released an eBook of the first volume of their weekly webcomic, Plok The Exploding Man, starring the hero of their 1993 SNES game. At the end of his Super Nintendo game… Read More ›

• Titan Magazines bites into “Wolfblood” magazine rights

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Titan Magazines is to publish a one-off Wolfblood magazine to tie in with the return of the cult werewolf teen drama to CBBC in the autumn. Created by Debbie Moon, the BAFTA-nominated supernatural series, a co-production between CBBC and ZDF/ZDFE,… Read More ›

• Tartan Squirrel release official Thunderbirds pins

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Tartan Squirrel, an official licensees to ITV and have produced a range of impressive-looking Classic Thunderbirds limited edition collectable pins to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2015. The company has released a range of eight pins including the Classic… Read More ›

• All-New Thunderbirds Revealed

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

    Pictures of all five of the new Thunderbirds vehicles from ITV Studios new Thunderbirds Are Go!  have appeared online, revealing most have, in the main, retained the iconic design of the originals, apart from Thunderbird 5. ITV previously released images… Read More ›

• Comic Creators set to invade LonCon 3

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2014

  

    London’s Excel Centre will host Loncon 3 – the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention from Thursday 14th – Monday 18th August and there are a number of comic creators on the guest list over the long, busy weekend to… Read More ›

• Creating Comics is No Disaster for Alex Potts

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2014

  

    South London-based Avery Hill Publishing will be releasing A Quiet Disaster by Alex Potts later this month and we’re delighted to be able to publish this short interview with him on downthetubes. Alex Potts – Animation Showreel from Alex Potts… Read More ›

• 2000AD’s John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra headline first Preston Comic Con

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2014

  

  Lancashire city Preston will host its first ever major comic con event, Preston Comic Con, on Saturday 25th October, a one day event Preston’s Guild Hall, with comic artist Carlos Ezquerra and 2000AD writer John Wagner heading up the guest… Read More ›

• HOAX cross media project nominated for £10,000 Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize 2014

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2014

  

    Seven artists have been shortlisted for the inaugural Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize 2014, a single £10,000 prize for a creative work that explores the interface between art and medicine, including Manchester-based graphic novel author and cross-media writer Ravi Thornton…. Read More ›

• Award-winning graphic novel author Ravi Thornton heads to MancsterCon

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2014

  

  MancsterCon has announced that author Ravi Thornton of Ziggy’s Press will be giving a talk on Friday 8th August, about her work and acclaimed graphic novel, HOAX Psychosis Blues. Ravi Thornton is an award-winning cross-media writer from Manchester. She is keenly… Read More ›

• Jamie Smart’s Whubble Gets A Sponsor

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  There’s good news for fans of Jamie Smart‘s web office-woe-oriented comic, Whubble, this week with news that he’s secured US company WorkCompass as a sponsor for the strip. Pity poor Pete Whubble, the reluctant hero of Jamie’s strip, which he… Read More ›

• Tower of London’s “Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red” supports military charities

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2014

    Anyone impressed by the breath taking Tower of London ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red‘ commemorative art installation might be interested to know the aim is to eventually fill Tower’s moat with almost 900000 ceramic poppies – and their sale supports… Read More ›

• In Review: Thrones & Bones – Frostborn

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    By Lou Anders Cover by Justin Gerard Published by Crown Books (Random House Children’s Books) Out: 15th August 2014 The Book: Fantasy fans of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprenticeseries will embrace this first novel in an adventure-filled, Viking-inspired… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Comic Releases (6th August 2014) – “Jaegir” storms into 2000AD

  By John Freeman on August 5, 2014

  

      Here’s a list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops from tomorrow, Wednesday 6th August 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in… Read More ›

• Exploring the Legacy of Fear: the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund come to London

  By John Freeman on August 4, 2014

  

    As part of his flying visit to the UK this month, Charles Brownstein, Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund will host a special talk at London’s Orbital Comics on Thursday 14th August 2014, entitled Legacy of… Read More ›

• Looking Back: New Mirabelle, 1977… a girls’ 2000AD?

  By John Freeman on August 4, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

    In February 1977, Fleetway released two new titles. One was 2000AD, still going strong today, but artist David Roach reminds us that the other was New Mirabelle – a radical re-launch of one of the UK’s first and longest-running romance… Read More ›

• Dept of Monsterology collection out from Renegade Entertainment this month, includes bonus strip

  By John Freeman on August 4, 2014

  

  Renegade Entertainment release the first collection of Dept of Monsterology this month, a terrific action adventure comic from writer Gordon Rennie, with art by c-creator PJ Holden, colour by Steven Denton and lettering by Jim Campbell. Officially, it’s the Department of… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Comics Unmasked closing soon, How To Make Awesome Comics out this week

  By John Freeman on August 3, 2014

  

    • Paul Gravett, co-curator of the Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK exhibition at The British Library reminds us that it closes on Tuesday 19th August. He’s giving two more Co-Curator’s Tours, free with your ticket but… Read More ›

• Kevin O’Neill’s League art from “Century: 2009” go on sale

  By John Freeman on August 3, 2014

  

  Pages from The League of Extraordinary Gentleman – Century 2009 by Kevin O’Neill are now on sale from the Paris-based gallery Galerie Champaka. 2009 is the third part of the Century trilogy by Alan Moore and Kevin, the latest cycle of the The League of Extraordinary Gentleman,… Read More ›

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