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• Tube Surfing: Wallace and Gromit, Insomnia on PSP, Free Digital Comics and Christmas Covers

  By John Freeman on December 22, 2009

  • Titan Publishing’s Wallace & Gromit digital comic has taken the iPhone by storm with over half a million downloads of its first free app – and the company is surely hoping to repeat the success with its release on… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 3 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on December 22, 2009

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. “Merry Christmas, Mortals!” Does anyone actually remember this short run, toy tie-in title from Christmas 1987? Ian Kennedy does his typically superlative full colour cover for the fifth… Read More ›

• In Review: Smart Bomb

  By John Freeman on December 21, 2009

  (Our apologies to both reviewer Dave Hailwood and the Smart Bomb team for the delay posting this item) Smart Bomb is a brand new all ages anthology that fuses computer game geekiness with comic-style nerdiness. You can be forgiven for… Read More ›

• Striker Returns

  By John Freeman on December 21, 2009

  

  Long-running football strip Striker is set to return – this time as a weekly strip in an as yet unnamed magazine. A Striker movie is also again in development. Announcing the return on the official Striker forum (membership required to… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 4 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on December 21, 2009

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. By far the oldest of our Christmas covers for this year, the girl’s comic School Friend wished their readers “A Very Happy Christmas” in December 1962 with this… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 5 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on December 20, 2009 • ( 1 )

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. DC Thomson’s humour comics can always be relied on to do Christmas issues. Christmas 1984 brought these offerings from the digest sized Beano Comic Library. Pup Parade are… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 6 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on December 19, 2009

  As the 25th of December rapidly bears down on us, each day for the next week downthetubes will be taking a look at a selection of comics and magazines from past Christmases.Speed and Power was Look and Learn’s sibling, using… Read More ›

• Strip! – Cartoons in Classrooms

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2009 • ( 1 )

  In the last of this month’s shows looking at the use of comics in education, the Strip! radio show, broadcast on Resonance FM and now available as a podcast, have interviews with a variety of practitioners and tutors with an… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Mike Collins Draws New Who, Harker, Alternative Press News…

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2009

  Some quick, short items today, as I’m immersed in some research for Titan and other things… • A slew of updates from ever busy comics artist Mike Collins, which are mostly Doctor Who related, including an original graphic novel for… Read More ›

• Simon Mackie: Positively Christmas

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2009

  downthetubes gets a lot of eCards, and we put all the artist contributuons here on Flickr, because we can’t think of anywhere else to display them. But this year Simon Mackie has again outdone others with a whole Christmas-inspired comic… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Warms Up Winter (Volume 22 Number 4, Winter 2009)

  By John Freeman on December 18, 2009

  

  The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22 Number 4, Winter 2009) is now available from the Eagle Society, wrapped in this cheery winter scene that illustrated an article titled ‘He wants to be a Postman’ from the Christmas issue… Read More ›

• Fractal Friction springs from love of 2000AD

  By John Freeman on December 17, 2009

  A number of long-time fans of 2000AD have banded together to launch Fractal Friction, an online collaborative storytelling venture, a story that starts when a man turns up for a job interview only for it to lead to something altogether… Read More ›

• Mirabalis Christmas Ghost Story is an Online Gem

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2009

  We plugged the Mirabilis team’s free-to-download Year of Wonders PDF comic just yesterday, but we’re so knocked out by the Henry James-styled Christmas ghost story that we’re urging you all to head over and grab your own copy – described… Read More ›

• British Comic Creator Interviews on SciFiPulse

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2009

  Longtime downthetubes readers know this site trades news items with the superb science fiction TV, film and genre site SciFiPulse, but what with recent holidays here in the tubes, we’ve missed some of their coverage of British comics. So here’s… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Death’s Head, Poot, Chattyman and a Christmas Competition

  By John Freeman on December 15, 2009

  • Death’s Head is back! And not some Johnny-Come-Lately Death’s Head II or III, or even the bit-on-the-small-side Version I, the result of an encounter with the good Doctor and his TARDIS. No, Marvel’s new S.W.O.R.D. title features everyone’s favourite… Read More ›

• SciFi Art Now book gets green light

  By John Freeman on December 14, 2009

  ILEX Books have given the green light to SciFi Art Now, a book project assembling outstanding examples of the very best in science fiction art, which is being edited by downthetubes webmaster John Freeman. John hopes plenty of illustrators from… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat Review of the Year 2009

  By John Freeman on December 13, 2009

  

  Yes – a new Really Heavy Greatcoat! Longtime downthetubes readers will know the Greatcoat strip was the joint creation of myself and Nick Miller back in 1987 (more info here), but what with other work commitments and the assumed demise… Read More ›

• Road of Courage film in the works

  By John Freeman on December 10, 2009

  A film adaptation of the life of Christ inspired by The Road of Courage, a strip that first appeared in Eagle in the 1960s, is apparently in production. Re-titled Jerusalem A.D., the project, based on the illustrations of Frank Hampson,… Read More ›

• Christmas Commandos!

  By John Freeman on December 10, 2009

  Here’s the latest Commando intelligence, courtesy of DC Thomson. These titles went on sale today, 10 December… Commando 4251: Deadly Despatches Story by Norman Adams Art and cover by Keith Page At the end of the 19th Century our intrepid… Read More ›

• In Review: Misty Comic Special

  By John Freeman on December 10, 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  What It Is: Not to be confused with the Egmont WH Smiths special released recently, this is an entirely new fan-produced title published by the official Misty web site, comprising all-new strips by a wide range of creators including 2000AD… Read More ›

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