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• Top 10 downthetubes Posts: 9th – 15th January 2014

  By John Freeman on 15 January 2014

  

  Here’s a rundown of the Top Ten posts on downthetubes over the last seven days: • Comic Criticism: A Call for Calm – and Common Sense Liam Sharp calls for some better manners from the comics community. You may also… Read More ›

• Everyone’s Not A Critic: comics writer Fiona Avery on Constructive Criticism

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  We recently published an item by comic creator and digital publisher Liam Sharp on his concerns  about the manner of some online criticism of comic creators, making an erudite appeal for calm – and common sense. His appeal reminded me… Read More ›

• Adventures in Comics 4 – competition deadline extended

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2014

  

  (With thanks to Paul Gravett) Great news! Adventures in Comics returns for its fourth fantastic year, inviting comics creators worldwide to submit their two-page comics for an exhibition at Marine Studios, Margate, Kent from April 1st 2014 and other venues… Read More ›

• Lakes International Comic Art Festival opens Marketplace applications for 2014 weekend

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2014

  

  Important news about the next Lakes International Comic Art Festival: if you are a creator, publisher or retailer, the Comic Clock Tower, their version of a comics marketplace and artists’ alley, is now open for applications. From this year, entry… Read More ›

• The Badger is back – new Grandville story out in November

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2014

  

  Comic creator Bryan Talbot has announced a new Grandville title in his ongoing Eisner and Hugo Award-nominated series is in the works – and will be published in November. The first critically-acclaimed steampunk detective thriller graphic novel Grandville was published in… Read More ›

• ABC Warriors back in 2000AD

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2014

  

  Mecha madness hits Prog 1864 this week, as the ABC Warriors return to 2000AD – and there’s a sneak peek on the comic’s official tumblr blog now. Wrapped in a cover by Clint Langley, who also draws the strip written… Read More ›

• Oor Wullie joins T-Shirt Booth charity app offering

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2014

  

  Digital Giving’s charity fund raising app T-Shirt Booth has confirmed its 20th licensed character, DC Thomson’s “Oor Wullie” has now joined the initiative. His planned inclusion announced last year, fans and T-Shirt Booth customers can now customise their own t-shirts… Read More ›

• Tripwire Digital interviews Ian Rankin, Maria Paz Cabardo

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2014

  

  The comics, film and TV magazine Tripwire , published by Joel Meadows, has moved from print into digital with the launch new app edition. Until 2011, Tripwire ran as a once a year print title costing £9.99 – and following… Read More ›

• Bryan Talbot DVD documentary to be released in May

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2014

  

  A new DVD – The Graphic Novel Man: the Comics of Bryan Talbot – is to be released in May, offering a unique insight into the life and work of one of Britain’s pioneering comic creators. Internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning… Read More ›

• Unicorn Press to publish Eagle’s “Happy Warrior” biography of Winston Churchill

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2014

  

  Unicorn Press is to release anew collection of The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill, written by Clifford Makins and drawn by Frank Bellamy, in March. The strip was last re-published in the United States only in… Read More ›

• Stripped Event Reviews And Recordings Available Online

  By Jeremy Briggs on 12 January 2014

  

  The 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival took place in the Scottish capitol in August this year and for the first time incorporated a major comics thread in its programming – Stripped. Over the course of its near two and a… Read More ›

• Garry Leach heads to Orbital for Marvel Man… Miracle Man signing

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2014

  

  London’s Orbital Comics is to host a signing by the original Marvel Man – sorry, Miracle Man – artist Garry Leach on Wednesday 15th January from 5.00pm. KIMOTA! With one magic word, a long-forgotten legend lives again! Freelance reporter Michael… Read More ›

• New online project explores the impact of comics on everyday life

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2014

  

  MediaCommons’ The New Everyday has announced the publication of a cluster on The Multimodality of Comics in Everyday Life, curated by Ernesto Priego of City University London and David N. Wright of Douglas College. The cluster includes Harriet Kennedy’s article,… Read More ›

• Rough Cut Comics collect Jim Alexander’s GoodCopBadCop

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2014

  

  Regular readers will recall our past news items for Jim Alexander‘s horror comic GoodCopBadCop, but now the entire series to date has been repackaged by Rough Cut with all-new material ready to be unleashed end of January onto an unsuspecting… Read More ›

• The Last Ever Alan Moore Interview?

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2014

  

  Pádraig Ó Méalóid has published a wide-ranging and, possibly, the last ever comics-related interview Alan Moore will ever give, in which he responds to recent criticism of his work online and reveals some forthright views on some members of the… Read More ›

• Comic Criticism: A Call for Calm – and Common Sense

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Whether it’s the bad weather on both sides of the Atlantic, or simply a case of rising bile reaching a point at which those who appear to be bearing the brunt of it have decided to say “Enough!”, the past… Read More ›

• RM Guera’s new Judge Dredd story – sneek peek!

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2014

  

  The artist on the critically-acclaimed Scalped crime series for Vertigo, RM Guera, comes to the Judge Dredd Megazine next week with a one-short Judge Dredd story written by Rob Williams (Cla$$war, Daken) – and Tharg has kindly provided this sneek… Read More ›

• “To End All Wars” – the story behind a new World War One comic anthology

  By downthetubes Guests on 9 January 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Feature by Jonathan Clode When the British government unveiled its plans for the centenary of the Great War last year, many of us shuddered with the expectation it would be a flag waving exercise, glossing over what Harry Patch, the… Read More ›

• Win a copy of Titan Books’ “Battle Classics”

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2014

  

  Thanks to those fine folk at Titan Books, we have TWO copies of their new British comic collection, Garth Ennis Presents Battle Classics, to give away! All you need to do is answer the question below and tell us in… Read More ›

• ITV Studios hints at new Thunderbirds merchandise as 50th anniversary approaches

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2014

  

  ITV Studios has begun preparing in earnest for its new Thunderbirds are Go! series in 2015, having already announced the launch of its Classic Thunderbirds 50th anniversary plans and commenced the countdown to the new TV series, both set to… Read More ›

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