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• Sneak Preview: “Pablo” by Julie Birmant and Clément Oubrerie from SelfMadeHero

  By John Freeman on 16 March 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    Picasso. For over a century, one name has dominated the art world, and few have matched his prolific output. But what were his formative years like? Writer Julie Birmant and artist Clément Oubrerie recreate his early years as an… Read More ›

• BBC Worldwide’s April DVD, Blu-Ray releases include “Orphan Black”, “Da Vinci’s Demons”

  By John Freeman on 16 March 2015

  

  BBC Worldwide has just released more details of its DVD and Blu-Ray releases, some of which may apeal to DownTheTubes readers, including The Musketeers Season Two, a show surely crying out for a comic book spin-off, and Orphan Black, which is already a comic… Read More ›

• London Super Comic Con 2015 – A DownTheTubes Photo Report

  By Antony Esmond on 15 March 2015

  

    London Super Comic Con was held at the Excel Centre in the Docklands again this year and  is fast becoming one of my favourite comic events.  I popped in for Day One of the weekend and had a absolute blast. The… Read More ›

• Fund Raiser in memory of Sir Terry Pratchett raises over £35,000 so far

  By John Freeman on 15 March 2015

  

      Over £35,000 has been donated so far for the Bath-based registered charity The Research Institute for the Care of Older People in memory of the Sir Terry Pratchett, who died last week. Terry Pratchett’s publicist, Lynsey Dalladay set… Read More ›

• In Review: Wisher – The Faeriehood

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 March 2015

  

  Cinebook’s translated adventures of the world’s last genie returns in writer Sebastien Latour and artist Guilio De Vita’s Wisher – The Faeriehood. In the previous book, Nigel (the Wisher of the title) discovered that supernatural creatures are real and living… Read More ›

• Web Comic Spotlight: Crucible

  By John Freeman on 14 March 2015

  

  I’ve had this idea to spotlight British web comics, and I’m starting with some of the projects I’m working on, since I know the teams aren’t going to object! If you’re a British web comic creator, please send us information in… Read More ›

• Edinburgh Comic Con: Four weeks to go

  By Jeremy Briggs on 14 March 2015

  

  After its inaugural event in 2014 under the remarkably ill-conceived name of “Something Bl**dy Awesome” the newly renamed Edinburgh Comic Con returns to the Edinburgh University Students’ Union Potterrow building at Edinburgh’s Bristo Square in four weeks time, the weekend after Easter,… Read More ›

• Web Comic Spotlight: WarWorldz – Origins

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2015

  

  I’ve had this idea to spotlight British web comics, and I’m starting with some of the projects I’m working on, since I know the teams aren’t going to object! If you’re a British web comic creator, please send us information in… Read More ›

• Thunderbirds Are Go – Full Trailer Released

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2015 • ( 2 )

  

    The global YouTube reveal of the Thunderbirds Are Go trailer has just gone live, 24 hours before it’s aired on ITV and CITV. The show debuts in April in the UK and is also coming to TV2 in New Zealand and… Read More ›

• Laura Howell’s Bizarre Adventures of Gilbert & Sullivan: The Very Model of a Mirthful Graphic Novel!

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2015

  

  Everyone knows Gilbert and Sullivan were peerless as composers of light opera. But fewer people are aware of their dual identities as super-powered, dapper defenders of the realm! How else could they have come up with the inspiration for The… Read More ›

• Sneak Peek: Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #1

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2015 • ( 2 )

  

    The first issue of Titan Comics brand-new five-part Doctor Who mini-series starring the Ninth Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston hits comic stores on 1st April 2015 – and we have a sneak peek. Written by the co-author of… Read More ›

• Lancaster Comics Day spotlights Doctor Who comic creators

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2015

  

    The guest line up for Lancaster Comics Day on Sunday 14th June 2015, a new event organised by the Friends of Lancaster Library in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, is now confirmed. Centred on Lancaster Library events include a… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Sir Terry Pratchett

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2015

  

    In over 70 books, translated into at least 37 languages, Sir Terry Pratchett, whose death was announced yesterday, enriched the planet like few before him. “As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirise this world,”  noted Larry Finlay,… Read More ›

• Simpsons Comics artist Bill Morrison heads to Lakes International Comic Art Festival

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    Fans of the anarchic animated adventures of The Simpsons will be able to enjoy a stroll through Springfield via Kendal this autumn, because the Lakes International Comic Art Festival has announced the stellar signature of award-winning Simpsons Comics artist Bill Morrison,… Read More ›

• CrowdFunding Spotlight: The Heart of Time by Sarah Millman

  By Antony Esmond on 12 March 2015 • ( 1 )

  

      Sarah Millman is a regular on the Convention circuit in the UK and has been very busy over the last few years creating her fun webcomic series, The Heart of Time.  It’s been printed in a single issue format… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Releases (11th March 2015) – Dark Judges and the Final Incal

  By John Freeman on 12 March 2015

  

    Here’s our (slightly belated) weekly list of both British and US comics on sale this week in comic shops (Wednesday 11th March 2015). It complements our monthly lost of new graphic novel releases which you can find here for March 2015. There’s some great… Read More ›

• Comics, So What? at Dundee University: A Good Day Had By All!

  By Colin Noble on 12 March 2015 • ( 1 )

  

    For most of us, the idea of a day chatting and hearing about comics has to be as close to a perfect way to spend an afternoon as we could get. In this event, Dundee University got it exactly… Read More ›

• Comic artist Oliver East returns to Millom, Cumbria for Talk and Live Draw this Saturday

  By John Freeman on 12 March 2015

  

    Oliver East, creator of the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival-funded project The Homesick Truant’s Cumbrian Yarn will be giving a talk and Live Draw at Hardknott on Track, the new real ale pub, Station Building, Millom, LA18 5AA this Saturday, 14th… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat stars return in Team Sputnik’s new “Skid Avenue” web comic

  By John Freeman on 12 March 2015

  

  Lancaster-based Team Sputnik’s brand new comic strip Skid Avenue is now free to read online, telling the story of John and Jo, a pair of ordinary folk who suddenly find themselves becoming part of the ‘squeezed middle’. Taking a wry and… Read More ›

• Lakes Comic Festival twins with Toronto Comic Art Festival in Guest Exchange

  By John Freeman on 12 March 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has just released further details of its partnership with the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, which will see top cartoonist Hunt Emerson and others head to Canada in May – and a host of Canadian creators coming to Kendal in… Read More ›

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