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• Newcastle Gets The Canny Comic Con

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2011

  Newcastle-Upon-Tyne has long had a regular comic mart to go with its branches of Travelling Man and Forbidden Planet, but it has apparently been some fifteen years since it has had a big comics event. Small Press Big Mouth-er Stacey… Read More ›

• Pat Mills Talks Charley’s War At The Tank Museum

  By John Freeman on October 15, 2011

  Having already given talks this year on Charley’s War at the Imperial War Museum in London and the Edinburgh International Book Festival, writer and editor Pat Mills continues to discuss his World War One character at the The Tank Museum… Read More ›

• John Ryan Artwork Exhibition in Rye

  By John Freeman on October 14, 2011

  Two characters that were created for the first issue of Eagle comic in April 1950 have entered the British public’s collective consciousness. The first is Eagle’s most well known character, the spaceman Dan Dare, but the other, whilst well known,… Read More ›

• Commandos race into danger

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2011

  The latest issues of Commando are on sale in all ggod newsagents now, with this batch including a pair of books written by Eric Hebden and another by his son Alan – a first for the war comic perhaps. Commando… Read More ›

• Commando Raids Estonia

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2011

  Commando may be best known for its one-off stories but it has run quite a few series over the years with recurring characters and situations. Perhaps the best known, mainly due to the sheer number of issues they have been… Read More ›

• Latest Issue Of Eagle Times Now Available (Volume 24, Number Three)

  By John Freeman on October 13, 2011

  

  Leslie Ashwell Wood was Eagle’s premier cutaway artist providing over 600 different painted cutaways for the weekly comic between 1950 and 1969. While some of these paintings have been reused in the recent Eagle reprint books published by Orion to… Read More ›

• Historic Event told in Comic Strip Form

  By John Freeman on October 12, 2011

  A gigantic comic strip depiction of the Battle of Wakefield drawn and written by artist John Welding, previously shown at Wakefield Museum as part of their ‘Battle of Wakefield 1460’ Exhibition, can be seen at the University of Leeds until… Read More ›

• Steve Moore’s Somnium novel out in November

  By John Freeman on October 12, 2011

  

  Comic creator Steve Moore — creator of such wonderful characters as Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer and Axel Pressbutton — has an intriguing new novel on the way from Somnium Press, with Strange Attractor Press. A prominent inclusion in Iain Sinclair’s 2006… Read More ›

• Striker site down – but no early bath for the strip, says creator

  By John Freeman on October 11, 2011

  

    Football comics seem to be getting it in the neck this month – after the demise of the print edition of Comic Football (due to return online later this year), fans have alerted us to say that the official… Read More ›

• WebFinds: Girls Comics of Yesterday and Bunty’s British “Supergirl”

  By John Freeman on October 9, 2011

  

  Researching a question from a downthetubes reader about a fondly-remembered British ‘Supergirl‘, I came across Girls Comics of Yesterday, a relatively new fan site dedicated to British girl comics of the past, looking at three of the most long lasting… Read More ›

• Larry Hama Rolls Out for Action Force Roll Call

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2011

  

  All The Cool Stuff has just announced the third Roll Out/ Roll Call, the UK Fan Show Convention dedicated to Transformers, Action Force and GI Joe – and that one of its star guests will be top US writer Larry… Read More ›

• Multiverse muses on DC makeover, Com.X and Valiant reboot

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2011

  The latest issue of British comic news magazine Multiverse is on sale now in all good UK comic shops – and back issues are now also available digitally from graphic.ly. Edited by Mike Conroy, Issue 4 sports a DC Comics… Read More ›

• Comic Football bounces back, looking for creators

  By John Freeman on October 6, 2011

  We’ve got some good news about Comic Football, the national subscription-only comic that recently informed subscribers it had been cancelled. It seems that this is only part of the story – the comic will return later this year, but in… Read More ›

• Starblazer Covered

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Regular downthetubes readers will recall we published some features about DC Thomson’s much-missed SF digest comic Starblazer on downthetubes some time ago, including a checklist of the title. The section orginally kicked off with a feature by Jeremy Briggs called… Read More ›

• Hoodie Horror from Smith and Bagwell!

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2011

  The Ravenglade Estate is ‘broken Britain’ as its worse. Plagued by ASBO-wielding gangs, boarded-up shops stinking with human despair, scattered with piles of rubbish from a month-long binmen strike – this is the Daily Mail’s worst nightmare. But there are… Read More ›

• Guest Post: Al Ewing Tells you why we should be reading 2000AD

  By John Freeman on October 5, 2011

  Last month, comics writer Al Ewing (who’s writing a series of increasingly regular reviews and musings for the Travelling Man website) gave the thumbs up to 2000AD, urging readers past and present to give it a try.  With Al’s permission,… Read More ›

• Comic Football sent off

  By John Freeman on October 4, 2011

  (Updated 13:24 4/10/11) We’re sorry to report the demise of Comic Football, the subscription-only title – after just three issues. Subscribers have just received a letter advising of the title’s “temporary suspension” and the return of any subscription money owed… Read More ›

• In the Spotlight: Ron Embleton

  By John Freeman on October 2, 2011 • ( 1 )

  One of our most popular and talented artists, Ron Embleton – whose work is getting major promotion this month over at the Book Palace web site’s Illustration Art Gallery – began drawing as a young boy, at 12 winning a… Read More ›

• Comic workshops part of this year’s Bloomsbury Festival

  By John Freeman on October 1, 2011

  Comic creators Steve Marchant and Sally Kindberg will be on hand to keep kids happy during this year’s Bloomsbury Festival in London. Five years after the first ever Bloomsbury Festival (Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd October, 2011), this annual celebration… Read More ›

• London Super Comic Con ramps up impressive guest list

  By John Freeman on September 30, 2011

  The London Super Comic Convention, announced for February next year (25-26th), is ramping up an impressive guest list, with the likes of US creators George Perez, Howard Chaykin, Bernie Wrightson, Mike Carey, Tony Moore, Bob Layton and more all confirmed… Read More ›

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