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• Autism Education Trust creates ‘Awesome’ superheroes

  By John Freeman on February 3, 2012

  A new set of comic book characters, The 100% Awesomes, has been created by Doctor Who Adventures and Blake’s 7 audio adventures writer Simon Guerrier for the Autism Education Trust to promote awareness of difference and autism. The superhero characters… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From script droid Gordon Rennie

  By John Freeman on February 3, 2012

  Name: Gordon Rennie Currently working on: Dept of Monsterology, Absalom, Aquila, Judge Dredd, Robert Burns: Witch Hunter, Big Finish Doctor Who audio plays. Computer game stuff. First memory of 2000AD?I was there from Prog 1 (minus a wander off into… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Rufus Dayglo

  By John Freeman on February 3, 2012

  Name: Rufus Dayglo, artdroid Tumblr: http://rufusdayglo.tumblr.com/Blog: http://rufusdayglo.blogspot.com/Web: solidgolddeathmask.com/ Currently working on: I’m working on my new creator owned series Solid Gold Death Mask, which you’ll be able to get free from the website, solidgolddeathmask.com/, so bookmark it now! I’m also… Read More ›

• Classic images captured in new jigsaws

  By John Freeman on February 3, 2012

  Children of the late 1950s and early 60s who eagerly awaited birthdays and Christmas in the hope of receiving a fast paced Scalextric or iconic Corgi James Bond Aston Martin DB5 are in for a real treat with the launch… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: From Akira to Žižek: Comics and Contemporary Cultural Theory

  By John Freeman on February 3, 2012

  Papers are now being invited for the academic comics tome Studies in Comics (volume 3.2).   Guest editor Tony Venezia tell us this special issue – sub-titled From Akira to Žižek: Comics and Contemporary Cultural Theory –  seeks to provide a forum for new articulations between… Read More ›

• The Trial of Dennis the Menace: More Details

  By John Freeman on February 3, 2012

  

  We mentioned this before as part of a longer post but it is worth mentioning again by itself. The new children’s musical The Trial of Dennis the Menace will be taking place in London’s Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room over the… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Searching comics with DJ Food

  By Alex Fitch on February 2, 2012

  Starting a month of Panel Borders radio shows about non practitioners’ love for comics, guest presenter Robin Warren talks to musician and 2000AD fan  Strictly Kev about collaborating with Henry Flint on the artwork for his new LP The Search… Read More ›

• Invasion Alerts and Commando Cooks!

  By John Freeman on February 2, 2012

  Here’s the latest Commando war comics on sale now in all good UK newsagents and for iPad and iPhone… Commando No 4467 – Invasion AlertStory: Mac MacDonald Art: Carlos Pino Cover: Carlos Pino It was a dark and stormy night… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From former Tharg, Andy Diggle

  By John Freeman on February 2, 2012

  Name:Andy Diggle  Web site: www.andydiggle.comTwitter: www.twitter.com/andydiggle  Currently working on: Six Guns (for Marvel) with Davide Gianfelice – currently on sale; Rogue Trooper (2000AD) with Colin Wilson – a “What If?” one-off for the 35th birthday prog, February 2012; a creator… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From art droid Arthur Ranson

  By John Freeman on February 2, 2012 • ( 2 )

  Mazeworld, written by Alan Grant, drawn by Arthur Ranson Name: Arthur Ranson Website, with blogs: www.arthurranson.com/ Present work: Rather recklessly I have recently commenced producing in Paint software a ‘comic’ – Sirius. An Intergalactic Adventure – appearing on my web-site…. Read More ›

• Tartan Bucket Prize Winning Strip In The New Beano

  By John Freeman on February 2, 2012

  About this time last year the Dundee University Humanities Department, in conjunction with DC Thomson, launched the Tartan Bucket Prize competition to create, write and illustrate a new Beano and Dandy style children’s humour comic strip. At the conclusion of… Read More ›

• Hogan, Parkhouse on regular ‘Resident Alien’ title for Dark Horse

  By John Freeman on February 2, 2012

  US publisher Dark Horse has commissioned British creative duo Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse to bring their epic Dark Horse Presents tale of an alien hero named Harry to a fully fledged series! beginning with Resident Alien #0 in April. In Resident Alien,… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From script droid Garth Ennis

  By John Freeman on February 1, 2012

  Name: Garth Ennis Blog or web site: No blog, no website. Currently working on: Working on The Boys, Battlefields (and other war stories), Nick Fury, Dicks III, Crossed, some more stuff still on the secret list. First memory of 2000AD?… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From script droid Alan Grant

  By John Freeman on February 1, 2012

  Name: Alan Grant Blog or web site:  Check out www.2000adonline.com for Alan’s numerous 2000AD creditsCurrently working on:  I’ve just finished Part 5 of the new 6-part Cadet Anderson series, Algol; hopefully, the villain of the piece will re-emerge from the… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, 2000AD!

  By John Freeman on February 1, 2012

  2000AD celebrates its 35th birthday this month its official birthday is 26th February, with Judge Dredd following one week later. Here at downthetubes we would like to wish the title – and everyone who has worked on it down the… Read More ›

• londonprintstudio Comic Workshops continue

  By John Freeman on February 1, 2012

  Comics interns at the londonprintstudio, funded by the John Lyon’s Charity are still running free comic workshops tailored towards 16-20 year olds, as a youth project. Working under the mentor-ship of artist Karrie Fransman, the project is also offering the… Read More ›

• Crucible debuts in May in STRIP Magazine

  By John Freeman on January 31, 2012

  

• STRIP Magazine overseas subscriptions, news stand plans

  By John Freeman on January 31, 2012 • ( 1 )

  Non-UK subscriptions to Strip Magazine are now available online at www.printmediaproductions.com. Previously, the only ways for non-UK comic fans to get the Print Media Productions-published title was via mail order from comic shops, or by purchasing the iPad edition, co-published… Read More ›

• Comic Village Kicks Off 2012 with Double Midlands Dates

  By John Freeman on January 31, 2012

  MCM Expo’s acclaimed Comic Village hits the road again this year, giving fans across the country the chance to check out the latest works by home-grown indie comics creators. The first stop of 2012 is the popular Midlands Comic Con… Read More ›

• Bear Alley Books Presents CL Doughty

  By John Freeman on January 30, 2012 • ( 1 )

  Cecil Langley Doughty is not a familiar artist, even to those of us who regularly write about the history of British comics, but Steve Holland is planning to change all that with Pages From History: Illustrated By CL Doughty, the… Read More ›

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