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

  By Jeremy Briggs on 26 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 ›

• Elephantmen versus Strontium Dog story in the works

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2012

  Elephantmen creator Richard Starkings and artist Boo Cook will be signing at Travelling Man in Leeds this Saturday with advance copies of the fifth Elephantmen hardcover, Devilish Functions. The collection includes ‘Man and Elephantman’ (including the sold out one shot… Read More ›

• Black Tower’s Return of the Gods proves an Unexpected Hit

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2012

  Indie publisher Black Tower is enjoying strong sales for its Return of the Gods collection, originally published for the European market. Sales of the title totalled more than all Black Tower sales for the previous six months  in just one… Read More ›

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