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• The Phoenix Issue Zero Via Waitrose

  By John Freeman on November 18, 2011

  The first issue of the new Phoenix comic is due to come out on at the start of January 2012 however Waitrose supermarket customers are being given the change to get a sneak preview with a printed copy of the… Read More ›

• Crazy comic-related Christmas presents: the Spider-Man Guitar

  By John Freeman on November 17, 2011

  You know Christmas is on the way when we start getting PR for perhaps the stranger kinds of comics tie-in merchandise at downthetubes. Case in point? New guitars from Nevada Music featuring favourite Marvel Super Heroes including Wolverine, X-Men, Spiderman,… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Mick Anglo 1916 – 2011

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Earlier this week Comic Bits Online broke the news of the passing of Mick Anglo, the British comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher, most famous for his association with the creation of the comic character Marvelman. Anglo died, aged 95… Read More ›

• 2000AD’s Thought Bubble portfolio session: a quick reminder

  By John Freeman on November 15, 2011

  2000AD is heading north to Leeds for the annual Thought Bubble comic book convention, taking place at the Saviles Hall conference venue at Clarence Dock in Leeds. That’s right next to the Royal Armouries museum, on 19th and 20th November,… Read More ›

• In Review: Long John Silver – The Emerald Maze

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 15, 2011

  

  Cinebook have reached the third in writer Xavier Dorison and artist Mathieu Lauffray’s Long John Silver series, The Emerald Maze, set some 20 years after the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Lady Vivian Hastings’ husband has found the… Read More ›

• In Review: Commando 4443 – Killer In No-Man’s-Land

  By John Freeman on November 11, 2011

  The batch of Commandos that are in the shops now, as well as including the reprint of the original Issue 2 from 50 years ago, also has two brand new stories set during the First World War. On the eleventh… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  Continuing the Panel Borders comic radio show’s month of programming about genre in comics, Alex Fitch talks to creators of small press and mainstream cowboy comics. In the 300th radio show that Alex Fitch has made for Resonance FM, he… Read More ›

• Sale, Starkings, Hughes among Thought Bubble guest signings at Travelling Man

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  Hulk by Tim Sale The Travelling Man comic shops and Thought Bubble festival have just announced their line up of international comic superstars signing with at the store next week, as follows: Tim Sale, Richard Starkings and Gail SimoneTravelling Man… Read More ›

• That Funny Little Man… Roy Newby exhibition announced

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  (with thanks to David Roach and Tim Pilcher) An exhibition by little-known artist Roy Newby, whose work over many decades included numerous comics, will go on show at Phoenix Place in Lewes, East Sussex, later this month. Roy’s work displays… Read More ›

• Black Hearted Press to launch new titles at Thought Bubble

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  Comics writer Jim Alexander, whose credits include stories for 2000AD, DC and Marvel Comics and Metal Hurlant has been heavily involved with Glasgow-based publishers Black Hearted Press and is the writer on two new books that will be launched at… Read More ›

• Mike Trim’s Airfix Paintings

  By John Freeman on November 10, 2011

  After mentioning Airfix’s re-release of the Angel Interceptor kit from Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet And the Mysterons TV series, we have another Airfix/Captain Scarlet cross-over to report but this time it is one of the behind the scenes team. Mike… Read More ›

• Classic Commandos re-released

  By John Freeman on November 8, 2011

  Another four Commandos will be out this Thursday and as it’s November, thoughts turn towards the Armistice at the end of the Great War. So it’s no surprise there’s a pair of World War 1 stories in this set of… Read More ›

• In Review: Lucky Luke Vs The Pinkertons

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 8, 2011

  Cinebook have been selective in their choices of Lucky Luke albums to translate into English, jumping around in the original French order and with Lucky Luke Versus The Pinkertons they have come completely up to date with their first English… Read More ›

• Markosia’s mind-bending comic releases!

  By John Freeman on November 8, 2011

  

  It’s not often you get to release a book that causes people to worry about reality and feel unstable after reading it – which is how I felt after reading one of them. It’s almost unthinkable, dangerous even, that you… Read More ›

• Buy the Crucible Poster

  By John Freeman on November 7, 2011

  

  Crucible: Promotional Art by ~theheavygreatcoat on deviantART      If you were lucky enough to grab a copy of STRIP Magazine Issue Zero – it’s been distributed at various comic events and there’s a online version on Yudu – you can’t… Read More ›

• Treating Comics Seriously – Belfast’s Linen Hall Library

  By John Freeman on November 7, 2011

  As part of their Northern Ireland Political Collection Lunchtime Lecture series, this week Belfast’s prestigious Linen Hall Library will feature talks on comics and political cartoons. The Linen Hall Library, opposite Belfast’s City Hall, was founded in 1788 and is… Read More ›

• Millar and McCrea Create A Blue Peter Superhero

  By John Freeman on November 6, 2011

  The creator of Kick-Ass and Wanted creating a comic strip for the BBC children’s programme Blue Peter? As odd as it sounds writer Mark Millar visited the new Blue Peter studio in Manchester on 1 November along with STRIP Magazine… Read More ›

• Dundee Comics Day 2011 – Other Voices

  By Jeremy Briggs on November 6, 2011

  downthetubes has been reviewing the Dundee University comics events run by Dr Chris Murray for many years, long before they were labelled as the Dundee Comics Day, and those reviews were often the only independent record of those events. Indeed… Read More ›

• Alan and Steve Moore’s poetry goes online

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2011

  One of the more obscure of Alan Moore‘s works is Technical Vocabularies, a poetry collection he and Steve Moore produced in 2004 in very limited numbers. Now, Alan and Steve have allowed Padraig O Méaloid to post it online on… Read More ›

• Bizarre Omen Bodes Well for Strip Magazine?

  By John Freeman on November 5, 2011

  It’s a funny old world. This week, Print Media Productions launched their new comic magazine Strip, featuring reprints of the classic 1970s comic story Hookjaw, which features a shark with a hook stuck in its jaw as the main character…. Read More ›

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