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• Panel Borders: Comic stamps

  By Alex Fitch on March 31, 2012

  Starting a month of shows all about British Comics, radio show Panel Borders’ Alex Fitch interviews Richard Scholey, from design company The Chase, and Philip Parker, Head of Stamps strategy, Royal Mail, about the new range of comic book stamps… Read More ›

• Dee-Con 2012 – Dundee’s Free Manga and Anime Convention

  By John Freeman on March 30, 2012

  With most Scottish comics fans decamping this weekend for the Hi-Ex comics convention in Inverness, the next major Scottish event in the comics calendar will be the manga, anime and games convention Dee-Con at the University of Dundee Students Union… Read More ›

• Drokk track offered in new Megazine

  By John Freeman on March 29, 2012

  The latest issue of the Judge Dredd Megazine (322) is on sale now with an exclusive downloadable track from a brand new album by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Emmy-nominated composer Ben Salisbury.   DROKK is the pair’s ‘soundtrack’ for Judge… Read More ›

• David Lloyd’s ‘Kickback’ graphic novel arrives on the iPad

  By John Freeman on March 29, 2012

  It’s the mask protesting about corruption and greed around the world, and its creator David Lloyd, the artist behind V for Vendetta, has just released an interactive graphic novel for the iPad addressing those very issues. “V for Vendetta was… Read More ›

• Latest Commandos Have A Chilly Theme

  By John Freeman on March 29, 2012

  Just to prove Commando is read around the world here are four members of the British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 reading Commando in Antarctica. They are (left to right) Lt Col Pete Davis, Surg Lt Simon Hornby RN, Major Justin… Read More ›

• CD Comics ‘Meadowhell’ reveals the true horror of shopping

  By John Freeman on March 28, 2012

  Meadowhall Shopping Centre is located between Sheffield and Rotherham and is just like every other shopping mall – but independent comic company CD Comics has published a humorous Surreal Murder Mystery Graphic Novel on CD-ROM that has sold triple figures… Read More ›

• In Review: Turning Tiger Special Edition

  By John Freeman on March 28, 2012

  Written by an Ulster man living in Scotland, drawn by an English woman, published by a Canadian company and set in small town America, Turning Tiger is quite the international collaboration. Originally published as a two issue mini-series, it has… Read More ›

• STRIP Magazine #4 on sale next week

  By John Freeman on March 27, 2012 • ( 2 )

  Good news at last from Print Media Productions. STRIP Magazine #4 has finally arrived in the UK and will be on sale in British comic shops next week. In the latest edition of the all-ages adventure anthology comic, which features a cracking… Read More ›

• In Review: Anthology One

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 27, 2012

  Anthology One is the first publication to come from the new UniVerse imprint set up as part of the various comics related courses run by the University of Dundee. Co-edited by Dr Chris Murray of the university’s School of Humanities… Read More ›

• Review Of Scottish Comics Events In 2011

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 26, 2012

  Over the last few years downthetubes contributor Jeremy Briggs has collated a Scottish Comics Events Review Of The Year. These articles originally came about after discussions at the first Hi-Ex comics convention in Inverness in 2008 showed that many people… Read More ›

• Latest Spaceship Away features new Don Harley paintings

  By John Freeman on March 26, 2012

  Issue 26 of the Dan Dare-inspired Spaceship Away is now at the printers and will soon be winging its way to subscribers and stockists. Along with the regular strips the issue features three new Don Harley paintings, including a fabulous… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Reaches Its Quarter Century (Volume 25, Number One)

  By John Freeman on March 25, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Eagle Times, the quarterly journal of the Eagle Society, has reached its twenty-fifth year of publication. By far the longest running British comics fanzine, Eagle Times has now been published some six years longer than the weekly comic that it… Read More ›

• Treating Comics Seriously: Six Questions For Lecturer Phillip Vaughan

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 25, 2012 • ( 1 )

  Phillip Vaughan is a lecturer at the University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art And Design (DJCAD) with a background in 3D animation for the television, film and games industry. At DJCAD he teaches graphic design and has… Read More ›

• British Comic Stamps: 2000AD

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2012

  

  Here’s the final post to mark the release of the Royal Mail’s Comic Collection, celebrating 75 years of British comics. The Royal Mail have kindly sent us large versions of each stamp, so we thought we’d show them off in… Read More ›

• CamCon 2012 lines up its guests

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2012

  A new British comic convention will take place in May and has an impressive line-up of guests that includes longtime indie creator Glenn Dakin, 2000AD artist Leigh Gallagher and many others. The brainchild of Ziggy Newman, CamCon – Cambridge’s new… Read More ›

• British Comic Stamps: Twinkle

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2012

  

  Here’s the ninth of our ten posts to mark the release of the Royal Mail’s Comic Collection, celebrating 75 years of British comics. The Royal Mail have kindly sent us large versions of each stamp, so we thought we’d show… Read More ›

• Good Cop, Bad Cop checks into High-Ex

  By Jeremy Briggs on March 24, 2012

  If you’re planning a trip to the Highlands for the Hi-Ex Comic Expo next weekend, then be sure to track down the latest comics from Black Hearted Press, run by Jim Alexander, David Brayher, John Farman and Sha Nazir. Black… Read More ›

• In Review: Jennifer Wilde Issue 1

  By John Freeman on March 24, 2012

  Set in 1921 Jennifer Wilde is the Eagle Award nominated lightly supernatural title from Atomic Diner, written by Maura McHugh, illustrated by Stephen Downey and based on a plot by Maura McHugh and Robert Curley. Jennifer Chevalier is an artist… Read More ›

• British Comic Stamps: Valiant

  By John Freeman on March 23, 2012

  

  Here’s the eighth of our ten posts to mark the release of the Royal Mail’s Comic Collection, celebrating 75 years of British comics. The Royal Mail have kindly sent us large versions of each stamp, so we thought we’d show… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Gods and Monsters by Bernie Wrightson and Rebekah Isaacs

  By John Freeman on March 23, 2012

  Concluding radio show Panel Borders month of shows about iconoclastic American comic book artists, Alex Fitch talks to a master of horror comics, Bernie Wrightson, and a relative newcomer, Rebekah Isaacs who has made a name for herself in deftly… Read More ›

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