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• High praise for “On Dangerous Ground”, new Bannockburn Graphic Novel

  By John Freeman on May 5, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

      A graphic novel produced to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, released by the National Trust for Scotland and written by Fiona Watson, illustrated by top independent comics creator Conor Boyle and lettered by Jim Campbell,… Read More ›

• BBC News features ‘Comics Unmasked’ new British Library exhibition

  By John Freeman on May 4, 2014

  

    Here’s Paul Gravett and academic Dave Huxley on BBC News this morning, talking comics and the Comics Unmasked exhibition at the British Library. Crisis, the Eagle and more got name checks (and there’s a vox pops sequence shot at… Read More ›

• Markosia primes “Future Primitive” for digital, print release

  By John Freeman on May 3, 2014

  

  Future Primitive is a new, “digital first” series set to  launch from Markosia very soon, and based on the artwork and premise former Image and Marvel creator Kevin Gunstone sent over, featuring art by  by rising Serbian talent Slobodan “Bobann” Jovanovic, we reckon… Read More ›

• London’s ICA to celebrate work of Moomins creator Tove Jansson, comics to feature

  By John Freeman on May 3, 2014

  

    Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Moomins creator Tove Jansson (1914 – 2001), London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts is to host an exhibition, starting in July, presenting original unseen photographs and material relating to her life and work,… Read More ›

• Meet Marvin the Paranoid Android at the National Space Centre’s “Towel Day” celebrations

  By John Freeman on May 3, 2014

  

      Are you a Hoopy Frood who really knows where your Towel is at? Then stick out a thumb and hitchhike your way to Britain’s National Space Centre in Leicester on 25th May for Towel Day. Strags welcome! Towel Day… Read More ›

• Patreon funding helps bring a dark “Arabian Night” comic, SKAL, to life

  By John Freeman on May 2, 2014

  

      Swedish-born comic artist and designer Jennie Gyllblad has just launched a new online graphic novel, SKAL, set in an Arabian-inspired desert fantasy world. “The Monastery feared Mushirah. They feared her so much that they threw her in a prison… Read More ›

• Rats in (cool) Hats: MULP adventure comic gets set for debut

  By John Freeman on May 2, 2014

  

    The first issue of MULP – an anthropomorphic comic book, a Pulp adventure set in a world of mice, by Matt Gibbs and Sara Dunkerton – goes on sale in a number of comic shops next week around the UK. The… Read More ›

• Biodegradable anthology “Bundle” offered on DriveThru

  By John Freeman on May 2, 2014

  

  Get this, it’s ace. Dave Hailwood and the rest of the team on the idnie British anthology 100% Biodegradeable sweated blood to bring this to you. No, really! Vampires love them. Now, in celebration of the imminent Free Comics Book Day,… Read More ›

• ITV offers sneak peek of new Thunderbird 2

  By John Freeman on May 2, 2014

  

  Nestling behind this new ITV Studios advertisement for the upcoming Thunderbirds Are Go on various web sites is a link to a mysterious web site – www.hi-secure.net The site plays a short looped video of a video camera trained on two steel… Read More ›

• Taking the Widdershins route: An interview with web comic creator Kate Ashwin

  By John Freeman on May 1, 2014

  

    Regular readers of downthetubes will recall that earlier this week we plugged an upcoming Laydeez do Comics event in Leeds, which prompted me to follow the links to the creator sites, just to check they were correct more than… Read More ›

• Digital Reading Network announces first Symposium in June, includes digital comics discussion

  By John Freeman on May 1, 2014

  

  The Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Digital Reading Network will be hosting its first symposium on 19th June in the Executive Business Centre at Bournemouth University, and will include a number of comic-related panels.. All are welcome to attend this… Read More ›

• New exhibition celebrates 25 years of Wallace & Gromit

  By John Freeman on May 1, 2014

  

    A new Wallace & Gromit exhibition to celebrate 25 years of two of Britain’s best loved animated characters comes to Bristol’s M Shed Museum from 24th May 2014. Wallace & Gromit From the Drawing Board will run throughout the summer, inviting W&G… Read More ›

• Titan teams with Lakes Festival for new comics Talent Search

  By John Freeman on May 1, 2014

  

    Titan Comics has just announced it is teaming-up with the Lakes International Comics Art Festival to launch a competition for unpublished comics creations. The competition goes live today (Thursday 1st May) and is an exciting opportunity for fledgling comic creators to submit completed… Read More ›

• Superhero Competition aims to encourage Girls to “Be Bold, Be Brave, Be You”

  By John Freeman on May 1, 2014

  

  As another male-led superhero movie (The Amazing Spider-Man 2) hits the big-screen, the dearth of female superheroes is all too apparent. A recent poll, conducted among parents on behalf of toy company on behalf of Arklu, demonstrates a severe lack of… Read More ›

• Paul Magrs celebrates the Doctor Who annuals in all their, erm… glory?

  By John Freeman on May 1, 2014

  

    Out in June in hardback from Obverse Books, with cover art and internal illustrations by Adam Bullock, and commentary on every single story from Paul Magrs, author of Doctor Who fiction for Big Finish, the BBC and AudioGo, The… Read More ›

• Behind the Scenes: Creating Sally Heathcote: Suffragette

  By John Freeman on April 30, 2014

  

    Out this week from publisher Jonathan Cape is is Sally Heathcote: Suffragette, marvellous historical graphic novel created by Mary and Bryan Talbot and Kate Charlesworth which I enthused about in our early review here. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a… Read More ›

• downthetubes Forum changes

  By John Freeman on April 30, 2014

  

  Some important news for users of our discussion forum. The downthetubes forum has changed location on the web to http://downthetubesforum.ning.com, as part of changes to the way the host, Ning, delivers its services. To upgrade the site to take advantage of… Read More ›

• Eddie Campbell joins Lakes International Comic Art Festival Line-Up

  By John Freeman on April 30, 2014

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival  has just announced that the award-winning comic creator Eddie Campbell has joined the event’s line-up of guests, as one of the “extra” names for the weekend-long event in October that will be revealed across the next few months…. Read More ›

• Godzilla movie merchandise roll-out is almost as big as the monster

  By John Freeman on April 30, 2014

  

  Paving the way for Godzilla’s return to the big screen on 16th May, Legendary Comics  official graphic novel, Godzilla: Awakening is on sale in all good book and comic shops across Britain next week (7th May). The cover reveals the King of the Monsters in… Read More ›

• Shaun the Sheep Movie Trailer debuts

  By John Freeman on April 30, 2014

  

    Aardman, the creators of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run have released the first trailer for the upcoming Shaun the Sheep the Movie, due for release in Spring 2015. This first teaser trailer to mark the start of Shaun’s… Read More ›

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