downthetubes.net

Recent Posts - page 728

• Radio interviews with Russell Willis and Charles Kriel about webcomic apps

  By John Freeman on 30 March 2013

  Panel Borders: Digitising comics Concluding a month of shows looking at web comics, Alex Fitch talks to two experts in web based technologies about their dissemination methods aimed at bringing comics to tablets and other devices. Russell Willis discusses his… Read More ›

• In Review: Laptop Guy Issue 2

  By John Freeman on 29 March 2013

  Created by artist Sha Nasir, Laptop Guy is one of the comics titles published by Glasgow’s Black Hearted Press. The first issue was something of an oddity – a US-size, anthology humour comic that played with the somewhat nonsensical idea… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Adventures revamped as series returns to BBC

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2013 • ( 2 )

  Coinciding with new episodes of Doctor Who hitting TV screens on Easter Saturday, Immediate Media Co is re-launching Doctor Who Adventures magazine and its website with a new logo, fresh design and brand-new features today, Thursday 28th March 2013. With… Read More ›

• D(undee)-Day For Commando

  By John Freeman on 28 March 2013

  Commando raiding party at the Dundee exhibition in 2011. From left to right: Scott Montgomery (deputy editor), Calum Laird (editor), George Low (former editor), Ian Kennedy (artist) and Gordon Livingstone (artist). This Saturday, for the first time that we can… Read More ›

• London Film and Comic Con back in July

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2013

  The London Film and Comic Con returns to Earl’s Court 2 this summer (Friday 5th – Sunday 7th July 2013). Along with a host film and TV guests such as Avery Brooks, Nicole deBoer, Sylvester McCoy, Colin Baker and more,… Read More ›

• Charlie Adlard, Viz creators and more join Lakes Festival line up

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2013

  The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has revealed more of the writers and artists who will be taking part in the event later this year. The festival, which will run from 18-20th October 2013 in Kendal in Cumbria, has a… Read More ›

• UniVerse Titles Available From UK On Display

  By John Freeman on 27 March 2013

  UniVerse is the imprint set up by the University Of Dundee to publish the work of the students on both the university’s MLitt in Comics Studies and the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) Animation, Graphic Design… Read More ›

• Thrill Power, 1957 Style, in the new Eagle Times (Volume 26 Number One)

  By John Freeman on 26 March 2013

  

  The new issue of Eagle Times, Volume 26 Number One – the magazine published by the Eagle Society – features an interview article by downthetubes writer Jeremy Briggs entitled “A Thrill Of A Lifetime In 1957“. “The Thrill Of A… Read More ›

• In Review: WesterNoir Book Two

  By Jeremy Briggs on 26 March 2013

  After the Old West of the first book, writer Dave West and artist Gary Crutchley take us to America’s Deep South where demon hunter Josiah Black is battling a new supernatural enemy in Accent UK’s WesterNoir Book Two – The… Read More ›

• DOJ-Con, Scotland’s largest free anime convention, unveils 2013 plans

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2013

  Dundee will once again proudly nail its geeky colours to the mast when Scotland’s largest free anime, comics and video games convention returns to Dundee University Students Union this year. DOJ-CON will take place on Saturday 13th April when film… Read More ›

• Amazing & Fantastic Tales #1 out this week

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2013

  Pulp gets a modern twist with comic strips and text stories combined in Amazing & Fantastic Tales #1, due to be released later this week by Planet Jimbot, the indie publisher set up by Jim Alexander and Jim Campbell. The… Read More ›

• Modesty Blaise Comic Challenge: The Winner

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2013 • ( 1 )

  Davey Candlish, publisher of ace indie anthology Paragon, is the winner of our latest Comic Challenge to draw Modesty Blaise. Here’s his winning entry, which earns him a copy of Titan Books newest Modesty Blaise collection, Girl in the Iron… Read More ›

• Veteran comic artist Ron Smith focus of new podcasts

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2013

  

  (With thanks to Graeme Neil Reid): Over on the Everything Comes Back to 2000AD site the team have produced two podcast interviews with artist Ron Smith which are pure gold. Ron talks about his whole career: obviously the podcasts centre… Read More ›

• Team Girl Comic Issue 7 Now Available

  By John Freeman on 25 March 2013

  Scotland’s favourite all-female comix collective, Team Girl Comic, have just released their seventh issue. TGC 7 is a 28 page, A5 size, anthology featuring an eclectic mix of short comic strips by female writers and artists from a wide variety… Read More ›

• Colour Ranger Reprints From Bear Alley Books

  By John Freeman on 24 March 2013

  Steve Holland’s Bear Alley Books imprint have been putting out reprint titles from old British comics for two years now and the latest titles from the imprint are adaptations of the classic novels King Solomon’s Mines and Treasure Island, both… Read More ›

• WebFind: New official Gerry Anderson web site preps for Go

  By John Freeman on 23 March 2013

  A new official website is in the works for the late, great Gerry Anderson, with a launch page in place inviting interested fans to sign up. The Gerry Anderson Legacy site is simply described as “GerryAnderson.co.uk is the new home… Read More ›

• Web Find: Bunty And Judy Digest Covers

  By Jeremy Briggs on 23 March 2013

  

  Here on downthetubes we regularly promote DC Thomson’s (and indeed the UK’s) last digest or ‘Picture Library’ comic, Commando, a title that has changed little in the half century since it was first published. As well as war, DCT’s boy’s… Read More ›

• Anthology Three to be released at Dundee Comics Expo

  By John Freeman on 22 March 2013

  An anthology of work from aspiring comic and graphic artists from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) will be launched on Saturday the 30th of March at the Dundee Comics Expo, wrapped in an all-new cover by… Read More ›

• Self Publisher Magazine interviews Spandex creator Martin Eden

  By John Freeman on 22 March 2013

  The latest free issue of Self Publisher! Magazine is out now – a US based title devoted to the creation of independent comics but one that regularly features British creators talking about their craft .  “Issue 63 has a lot… Read More ›

• Radio interviews with postmodern webcomic creators, including Paul O’Connell

  By John Freeman on 22 March 2013

  Panel Borders: Collage and reappropriation Continuing a month of shows looking at webcomics, Panel Borders examines the work of a quartet of creators whose online strips and cartoons reinvent retro images and iconic characters from film and TV to beguiling… Read More ›

• ‹ Older Entries
• Newer Entries ›