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• DOJ-Con, Scotland’s largest free anime convention, unveils 2013 plans

  By John Freeman on March 25, 2013

  Dundee will once again proudly nail its geeky colours to the mast when Scotland’s largest free anime, comics and video games convention returns to Dundee University Students Union this year. DOJ-CON will take place on Saturday 13th April when film… Read More ›

• Amazing & Fantastic Tales #1 out this week

  By John Freeman on March 25, 2013

  Pulp gets a modern twist with comic strips and text stories combined in Amazing & Fantastic Tales #1, due to be released later this week by Planet Jimbot, the indie publisher set up by Jim Alexander and Jim Campbell. The… Read More ›

• Modesty Blaise Comic Challenge: The Winner

  By John Freeman on March 25, 2013 • ( 1 )

  Davey Candlish, publisher of ace indie anthology Paragon, is the winner of our latest Comic Challenge to draw Modesty Blaise. Here’s his winning entry, which earns him a copy of Titan Books newest Modesty Blaise collection, Girl in the Iron… Read More ›

• Veteran comic artist Ron Smith focus of new podcasts

  By John Freeman on March 25, 2013

  

  (With thanks to Graeme Neil Reid): Over on the Everything Comes Back to 2000AD site the team have produced two podcast interviews with artist Ron Smith which are pure gold. Ron talks about his whole career: obviously the podcasts centre… Read More ›

• Team Girl Comic Issue 7 Now Available

  By John Freeman on March 25, 2013

  Scotland’s favourite all-female comix collective, Team Girl Comic, have just released their seventh issue. TGC 7 is a 28 page, A5 size, anthology featuring an eclectic mix of short comic strips by female writers and artists from a wide variety… Read More ›

• Colour Ranger Reprints From Bear Alley Books

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2013

  Steve Holland’s Bear Alley Books imprint have been putting out reprint titles from old British comics for two years now and the latest titles from the imprint are adaptations of the classic novels King Solomon’s Mines and Treasure Island, both… Read More ›

• WebFind: New official Gerry Anderson web site preps for Go

  By John Freeman on March 23, 2013

  A new official website is in the works for the late, great Gerry Anderson, with a launch page in place inviting interested fans to sign up. The Gerry Anderson Legacy site is simply described as “GerryAnderson.co.uk is the new home… Read More ›

• Web Find: Bunty And Judy Digest Covers

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 23, 2013

  

  Here on downthetubes we regularly promote DC Thomson’s (and indeed the UK’s) last digest or ‘Picture Library’ comic, Commando, a title that has changed little in the half century since it was first published. As well as war, DCT’s boy’s… Read More ›

• Anthology Three to be released at Dundee Comics Expo

  By John Freeman on March 22, 2013

  An anthology of work from aspiring comic and graphic artists from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) will be launched on Saturday the 30th of March at the Dundee Comics Expo, wrapped in an all-new cover by… Read More ›

• Self Publisher Magazine interviews Spandex creator Martin Eden

  By John Freeman on March 22, 2013

  The latest free issue of Self Publisher! Magazine is out now – a US based title devoted to the creation of independent comics but one that regularly features British creators talking about their craft .  “Issue 63 has a lot… Read More ›

• Radio interviews with postmodern webcomic creators, including Paul O’Connell

  By John Freeman on March 22, 2013

  Panel Borders: Collage and reappropriation Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Panel Borders examines the work of a quartet of creators whose online strips and cartoons reinvent retro images and iconic characters from film and TV to beguiling… Read More ›

• ‘Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition’ Signing at Gosh announced

  By John Freeman on March 22, 2013

  Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill will be signing copies of Marshal Law: The Deluxe Edition at London’s Gosh! Comics in London on Saturday 20th April, 2-4pm. This whopping 480-page collection been a long time coming. Since it began in 1987… Read More ›

• downthetubes Forum Maintenance Next Week

  By John Freeman on March 22, 2013

  We need to perform some simple but necessary maintenance on the downthetubes British Ciomics forum, which is powered by Ning, on Thursday 28th March 2013 between around 0500-0800 GMT. During this time, all Ning Networks will be offline and will… Read More ›

• Modesty Blaise Comic Challenge drawing to a close, deadline extended

  By John Freeman on March 22, 2013

  Today is intended to be the last day for our Modesty Blaise Comic Challenge – but we’ve decided to extend it until Monday 25th March, 12 noon GMT, just in case there any more entries artists had almost completed between… Read More ›

• World War One Layman’s Guide and App released

  By John Freeman on March 22, 2013

  

    Is it possible that a 20-year-old, internationally successful Greek footballer doesn’t know what a Nazi salute looks like? Is it time to ‘just move on’ and teach young people about more recent historical events such as the advent of… Read More ›

• Prisoners of Time: An Interview with artist Mike Collins

  By John Freeman on March 21, 2013

  British comic creators are heavily involved in US publisher IDW’s Doctor Who at 50 celebrations for their ‘Prisoners of Time’ maxi series, which launched  in January with a First Doctor story drawn by Simon Fraser and continued with a Second… Read More ›

• BCExpo eXclusive charity prints by Ian Gibson

  By John Freeman on March 21, 2013

  The Bristol Comic Expo – back on 11-12th May 2013 at Brunels Old Station, Bristol – is publishing a series of “Expo eXclusive” charity prints and the latest is by the long running comic festival’s special guest Ian Gibson, who… Read More ›

• Showmasters plan ‘Independents Day’ events to promote British indie press

  By John Freeman on March 20, 2013

  Showmasters, who run the London Comic Marts at the Royal National Hotel, have announced a number of ‘Independents Day’ events through 2013. The aim is that there will provide a platform for the independent press and celebrate their work. The… Read More ›

• Book Palace release "Illustrated British Classics"

  By John Freeman on March 20, 2013

  Book Palace Books have just published Illustrated British Classics featuring some simply stunning-looking strips collecting three stories – King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain and Montezuma’s Daughter, each written by H Rider Haggard, the father of the lost-world genre. The three… Read More ›

• War Drama ‘The Trench’ Digs Deep

  By John Freeman on March 20, 2013

  

    As the centenary of World War One looms, the true story of a miner trapped in a tunnel during the conflict is being be told at theatres across the UK. The Trench is an award-winning play which achieved a… Read More ›

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