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• Hammer Horror homaged in new comic, Cushing & Sons

  By John Freeman on 31 July 2013

  

  The team behind the fab indie action-adventure title Paragon have just launched a free e-comic inspired by the Hammer Horror films and the work of one of its key actors – Peter Cushing. Written by Mark Howard (aka the Legendary… Read More ›

• The DFC Library Regenerates In August

  By Jeremy Briggs on 31 July 2013

  

  Thursday 1 August 2013 sees the release of six titles from the DFC Library, the book publishing spin-off from The DFC comic, including a strip not previously reprinted, Jamie Smart’s Fish Head Steve! The predecessor to The Phoenix, The DFC… Read More ›

• Sophie’s World ‘Doctor Who’-inspired exhibition heads for Orbital

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2013

  

  Way back in 1988 (yes – that long ago…) my first professional job in the wacky world of comics (thanks to Richard Starkings who suggested me and Sheila Cranna, who took him up on the idea) was designer on Doctor… Read More ›

• STRIP Issue 2 finally reaches the news stand

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2013

  

  Print Media, the Bosnia-based publisher of STRIP: The Adventure Comics Magazine, has confirmed the much-delayed print edition of Issue 2 will be on sale in UK newsagents this week, with distribution to UK comic shops to follow soon. “Our distributors… Read More ›

• LICAF Guest Spotlight: Ed Brubaker

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2013

  

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has over 70 guests lined up for its first out in October. As the event is on our doorstep (downthetubes is based in Lancaster), we thought we’d try and spotlight as many as we… Read More ›

• Egmont UK releases Hook Jaw, Rat Pack in digital collections

  By John Freeman on 30 July 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Egmont UK have made more strips from Battle and Action available with the launch of Hook Jaw and Rat Pack e-comics. Egmont launched its Classic Comics imprint in June last year with Roy of the Rovers e-comics for the nostalgia… Read More ›

• Knitters go nuts for comics in Kendal

  By John Freeman on 29 July 2013

  

  We love left field stuff here at downthetubes, and (apart from comics themselves)  you probably can’t get more left field than the news that Kendal’s knitters and crochet enthusiasts are so enthused by the upcoming Lakes International Comic Art Festival,… Read More ›

• Comic art takes over the Lake District!

  By John Freeman on 29 July 2013

  

  Some of the best-known comic artists in the UK will be displaying work in showcase exhibitions at this year’s inaugural Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October. As well as a huge selection of events, workshops, a special family zone… Read More ›

• Hunt Emerson tackles some Myth Conceptions

  By John Freeman on 28 July 2013

  

  Hunt Emerson continues to create numerous cartoons for a wide variety of publications and has just launched a new website, www.huntemerson.com, replacing his older one (although it’s still live) largecow.com. Hunt’s work features in the new Myth Conceptions, a collection… Read More ›

• Coming Soon: Garth Ennis Presents – Battle Classics

  By John Freeman on 28 July 2013

  

  Titan Books – publishers of the ten volume Charley’s War series – have announced the October release of Garth Ennis Presents – Battle Classics, a new collection of strips from Battle Picture Weekly. Titan previously released one collection of some… Read More ›

• Design an Original Beano Character competition

  By John Freeman on 27 July 2013

  

  We met up with Julie Tait, the organiser of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, earlier this week, and among other things (like telling us about supporters of the Festival creating knitted comic charcaters to promote it, an amazing tie-in… Read More ›

• Cartoonists assemble in Herne Bay to celebrate the life of Dadaist Marcel DuChamp

  By John Freeman on 27 July 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Following Ralph Steadman’s lead, the cream of Britain’s cartoonists and illustrators will be in Herne Bay on Saturday 3rd August to celebrate the Marcel Duchamp Centenary Festival. Marcel Duchamp was a French-American painter, sculptor and writer whose work is associated… Read More ›

• Auto Assembly 2013 – pre-registration for Transformers event closing soon

  By John Freeman on 26 July 2013

  

  If you haven’t already booked your tickets for Auto Assembly 2013 then time is running out fast. You now only have one week to pre-register for Europe’s Largest Transformers Convention online and then after that point you will only be… Read More ›

• I’m ready for my close-up: Reconstructing Nightbreed

  By John Freeman on 26 July 2013

  

  Ahead of its tour of America, in a panel discussion recorded in Welwyn Garden City, actors Simon Bamford (who played Ohnaka) and Nick Vince (Kinski) –  plus restoration producer Russell Cherrington and restoration editor Jimmy Johnson discuss the reconstruction of… Read More ›

• Which Way is the Frontline from Here?

  By John Freeman on 26 July 2013

  

    A moving portrait of acclaimed wartime photojournalist and filmmaker Tim Hetherington who was killed covering the Libyan conflict in 2011, Which Way is the Frontline from Here? is directed by friend, journalist and Restrepo co-director Sebastian Junger. The film… Read More ›

• In Review: Monkey Nuts

  By Jeremy Briggs on 26 July 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  One of the humour comic strips in the weekly DFC comic in 2008 and 2009, Monkey Nuts Book 1: The Diamond Egg Of Wonders written by Robin Etherington and illustrated by brother Lorenzo Etherington, was originally released as a DFC… Read More ›

• Campaign gathers pace to make ‘Accident Man’ film

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2013

  

  Inappropriate Films, a small, independent movie outfit that made the comedy series Bumjam and who are working on Selkie, described as “a creature feature with a difference,” have begun a Kickstarter campaign to bring Pat Mills and Tony Skinner’s Accident… Read More ›

• In Review: Numbercruncher #1

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2013

  

  Writer: Si Spurrier Artist: PJ Holden Colourist: Jordie Bellaire Publisher: Titan Comics Out: Now The Comic: Dying young, a brilliant Mathematician discovers a way to cheat the terrifying Divine Calculator. He schemes to be endlessly reincarnated in the life of… Read More ›

• Marvel UK: Things That Might Have Been

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2013

  

  The recently-announced news that Marvel was to bring back a number of Marvel UK characters in a new limited series, Revolutionary War, by Alan Cowsill and Andy Lanning next year prompted memories of some of the projects that were in… Read More ›

• Ant and Dec destroy Bash Street!

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2013

  

  Blimey! It’s bad news for Bash Street School in The Beano‘s 75th Anniversary issue – those cheeky chappies Ant and Dec have demolished it! In the special edition, on sale today, Ant and Dec appear in both The Numskulls and… Read More ›

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