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

  By John Freeman on 22 December 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 22 December 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 21 December 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 20 December 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 19 December 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 19 December 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 19 December 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 18 December 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 18 December 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 18 December 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 ›

• Free Comic Book Day 2015: Full Line-Up of Comic Books Announced – 2000AD, Titan on board

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2014

  

    Fifty comics will be available during Free Comic Book Day 2015, including a Gold Sponsor Doctor Who comic from Titan – and Diamond Comic Distributors has announced thirty-eight all new Silver comics. Free Comic Book Day is the comic… Read More ›

• comic Who Doctor new in Reverse Into Goes Doctor Eleventh

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2014 • ( 2 )

  

    Titan Comics Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #6 is released next week  (24th December) in all good comic shops and be warned that you’ll need to have your thinking caps on, because the events of the issue itself run… Read More ›

• Titan to release new ‘White Trash’ collection in April from Gordon Rennie and Martin Emond

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2014

  

    Titan Comics is releasing a new collection of White Trash in April 2015, a comic strip by Gordon Rennie (Judge Dredd, Dept. of Monsterology, Robbie Burns: Witch Hunter) and  New Zealand artist, the late Martin Emond (Accident Man, Lobo)​ first published… Read More ›

• Sad news as Great Beast Comics announces it will shutter in January

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2014

  

    Great Beast Comics, a group of independent comic creators self publishing their work to a professional level founded in April 2012 by Adam Cadwell and Marc Ellerby has announced it is to shut down next month after just two years… Read More ›

• Final Commando titles of 2014 On Sale on Thursday, World War One epic concludes

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2014

  

  Here, for the last time in 2014, is the release information for the latest issues of Commando (4767-4770) from DC Thomson,  on sale this Thursday, 18th December, in all good newsagents and digitally for iPhone and iPad via the Commando app…. Read More ›

• London Art Fair returns for 27th edition in January

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2014

  

    The London Art Fair, the UK’s premier Fair for Modern British and contemporary art, kicks off the cultural calendar with its 27th edition at the Business Design Centre, Islington, from 21-25 January 2015. The Fair presents a unique overview… Read More ›

• ITV commissions Beowulf series

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2014

  

    ITV has commissioned thirteen-part drama Beowulf, an epic re-imagining of one of literature’s greatest and most enduring heroes, a character that’s no stranger to comic book fans. Created by James Dormer (Strike Back, Wallander, Outcast) , Tim Haines (Primeval,… Read More ›

• Marc Jackson auctions Aces Weekly art for charity

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2014

  

    Aces Weekly contribuor Marc Jackson is auctioning a page for a new comic of his that will feature in the online anthology comic from March 2015 for charity. The auction is to raise money for East Cheshire Hospice (a local Macclesfield, Cheshire hospice)… Read More ›

• Comic Creators take to Twitter to protest at EU VAT changes that will cripple their business

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2014

  

    With so little time before the European Parliament shuts for Christmas, the VAT Action Group urged its supporters to take to Twitter this morning in an urgent bid to show both EU commissioners and the UK government that we are not going… Read More ›

• British Comic Shop Releases (17th December 2014) – Prog 2015, Titan’s new Madefire titles – and Neil Gaiman, too

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2014

  

    Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday 17th December 2014, courtesy of First Age Comics, Lancaster. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in… Read More ›

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