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• Photographer Rich Hendry’s ‘Legends’ exhibition superhero inspired

  By John Freeman on July 27, 2012

  The latest London exhibition by top photographer Rich Hendry takes its inspiration from superheroes and Greek gods. Titled ‘Legends’ the exhibtion opens at The Great Eastern Bear gallery next month, the photographs included the result of an intense three week… Read More ›

• In Review: XIII – The Trial

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 27, 2012

  

  Who is XIII? For the last two years of these reviews I have listed the current pseudonyms that XIII the man was using over the course of the many books in this series – a list that has grown rather… Read More ›

• In Review: The Scorpion – In The Name Of The Father

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 26, 2012

  

  Mourning the passing of 2000AD’s Nikolai Dante? Then it is time to start reading The Scorpion books written by Stephen Desberg, illustrated by Enrico Marini and published in English for the first time by Cinebook. With the conclusion to the… Read More ›

• Craig Collins’ Forever Foes assembles wicked Scottish talent

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2012

  Everyone seems to be getting in on the children’s book market these days… Madonna, Katie Price, Idi Amin and many more. And, just as they stretched their respective talents beyond pop music, brutal repression and other accomplishments Glasgow-based comic creator… Read More ›

• Street press comic ‘Off Life’ preps for launch

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2012

  OFF LIFE, described by its creators as the UK’s only street press comic magazine, is to launch this autumn. Editor Daniel Humphry says the magazine will feature the best new, undiscovered and underground comics artists taking aim on modern life… Read More ›

• Tom Humberstone savages warped Olympics ideals in new cartoon

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2012

  Art © Tom Humberstone. Read the strip (Updated 30/7/12, quote added from Tom): Over on Cartoon Movement, a publishing platform for high quality political cartoons and comics journalism, Solipsistic Pop editor and ace artist Tom Humberstone‘s commentary on the London… Read More ›

• In Review: Papyrus – The Anger Of The Great Sphinx

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 25, 2012

  Papyrus, written and illustrated by Lucien de Gieter, is a young Egyptian fisherman who, having been given a magical sword by the crocodile goddess Sobek, must protect the Pharaoh’s young daughter Theti-Cheri from danger. In The Anger of The Great… Read More ›

• Dennis to Menace the Edinburgh Tattoo

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2012

  © DC Thomson The 220,000 people who are expected to attend this year’s Edinburgh Tattoo (3rd-25th August) on the Castle Esplanade will witness one of the most unusual performance pieces in the event’s 60 year history. Sporting his famous red… Read More ›

• Artist Monty Nero offers online digital art class

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2012

  Monty Nero’s cover for CLiNTVolume 2 Issue 3 Ace artist Jim Montynero, whose credits include Death Sentence for CLiNT Magazine, is teaching two weeks of live online digital painting classes from 6th August 2012. These courses, organised by the Computer… Read More ›

• Monty Nero offers online digital painting class

  By John Freeman on July 24, 2012

  

  Monty Nero’s cover for CLiNTVolume 2 Issue 3 Ace artist Monty Nero, whose credits include Death Sentence for CLiNT Magazine, is teaching two weeks of live online digital painting classes from 6th August 2012. These courses, organised by the Computer… Read More ›

• In Review: Antares – Episode 2

  By Jeremy Briggs on July 24, 2012

  Brazilian artist and writer Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira) continues his Worlds of Aldebaran saga with Antares Episode 2, the second part of the third series of his incredibly alien tales of 22nd century interplanetary settlers and the beasts and… Read More ›

• Marshall Law Deluxe edition set for March 2013 release

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2012

  The Marshal Law: Deluxe Edition, collecting all the character’s solo stories, has been confirmed for release next March from US publisher DC Comics. Marshal Law was one of the first major creator-owned characters for a major American publisher, first published… Read More ›

• Telos releases ‘Ape-Man’ an unofficial Tarzan guide

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2012

  In October 1912, readers of The All-Story magazine were enthralled by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ tale of John Clayton, an orphaned English lord given a simian upbringing in the African jungle who went on to reclaim his birth-right in civilisation while… Read More ›

• Cinebook Titles On DVD

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2012

  It has been a while since we reviewed any Cinebook titles here on downthetubes so this week we will be putting that right with a selection of reviews of various Cinebook releases from the last few months. Before that, and… Read More ›

• Megacon Comes To Carlisle In August

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2012

  With just less than one month to go, the Carlisle Megacon comics, manga/anime and gaming event has finalised its guests, small press and dealers line-up. Organised by the Carlisle branch of Waterstones, this is an expansion of the shop based… Read More ›

• Diamond launch digital comics service, linked to comic shops

  By John Freeman on July 22, 2012

  Diamond Comic Distributors and iVerse Media have partnered to create Diamond Digital, a unique initiative that lets your local comic book shop retailer sell digital comics and graphic novels for Apple and Android devices directly to you. Diamond and iVerse… Read More ›

• Deadly Commandos hit the newsagents

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2012

  Here’s the latest information on DC Thomson’s Commando title, with these four Commando stories now on sale in good newsagents and via iTunes for iPad and iPhone… Commando 4515 – The Deadly GamesStory: Alan Hebden Art: Keith Page Cover: Keith… Read More ›

• Dead Universe’s Late Launch today

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2012

  Today sees the official launch of Dead Universe Comics in Aylesbury. Regular readers may recall we mentioned the opening of the shop last year. You may have already seen Aylesbury Dead, Little Terrors and Apes ‘n’ Capes, plus the Japan… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Multimedia comics by Edgar Wright and others

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2012

  Tommy Lee Edwards + Edgar Wright  Panel Borders: Multimedia Comics In the third of our series on comic book collaborators, Alex Fitch talks to two pairs of creators who have created cross platform comics that exist as both as sequential… Read More ›

• Beasts take over the Cartoon Museum!

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2012

  Animals have always inspired cartoon and comic artists, from the British Lion to Bunny Suicides, Korky the Cat to Simon’s Cat. Now, London’s Cartoon Museum is to host an exhibition of animal-inspired cartoons. The Animal Crackers exhibition includes works by… Read More ›

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