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• Simon Spurrier uncoils at Forbidden Planet London

  By John Freeman on 5 July 2011 • ( 1 )

  Forbidden Planet has announced a signing by Simon Spurrier for his novel A Serpent Uncoiled at the Forbidden Planet Megastore, London in August. Dan Sharper’s sins are a sickness. Sharper is a former underworld enforcer who now scrapes a living… Read More ›

• Pulpfest 2011 celebrates classic magazine art

  By John Freeman on 5 July 2011

  

  Doc Savage cover (January 1939) by Emery ClarkeVia www.pulpartists.com PulpFest 2011 will be celebrating the 100th anniversaries of the births of illustrators Emery Clarke, Robert Harris, and Milton Luros on Friday, 29th July in Columbus, Ohio. Clarke and Harris are… Read More ›

• In Review: Rose Black

  By John Freeman on 5 July 2011

  She is a vampire who is 600 years old and doesn’t know why her lonely, endless life began. Such is the character of Rose Black created by Edward Murphy and Tom Campbell in Rough Cut Comics’ Rose Black graphic novel,… Read More ›

• Summer fun with Eagle Times (Volume 24, Number Two)

  By John Freeman on 4 July 2011

  

  The Summer 2011 edition of Eagle Times is available now and features articles by downthetubes contributors Jeremy Briggs and Richard Sheaf. Here’s the line up: Frank and the Newspaper Cuttings: a look at the use by Frank Hampson, throughout his career, of… Read More ›

• Rainbow Orchid Vol 3 Preview On-Line

  By John Freeman on 4 July 2011

  The third and final volume of Garen Ewing’s excellent series The Rainbow Orchid is due to be published on 2 April 2012 – which does sound like an awfully long way away. However to keep us all going until then,… Read More ›

• Comics @ Edinburgh International Book Festival 2011

  By Jeremy Briggs on 3 July 2011

  The Edinburgh International Book Festival is not just the largest literary festival in the UK but, it claims, in the world and it returns to the Scottish capital’s Charlotte Square Gardens from 13 to 29 August. Last year, under its… Read More ›

• “Lou Scannon” debuts with werewolf opener

  By John Freeman on 1 July 2011

  

    Doctor Who and Transformers colourist Kris Carter is a man juggling many projects and one of them is an independently-produced sci-fi comedy comic, Lou Scannon, written and drawn by him and his friend Dan Harris. The first issue, ‘The… Read More ›

• Sculpture and Comic Art feature for Comics Forum

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2011

  The second edition of Sculpture and Comic Art by Kirstie Gregory is now available on the Comics Forum blog. Entitled ‘Chris Ware: Cabinets, Cardboard and Joseph Cornell’, the piece will be of interest to anyone who’s thinking about submitting a… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Doctoring Comics

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2011

  Concluding radio show Panel Borders month of shows looking at medical comics, they have a talk by Dr. Ian Williams recorded at Laydeez do Comics last month about his work in sequential art including curating Graphic Medicine and creating comic… Read More ›

• McCrea, Ellerby among comic creator guest at first Manchester MCM Expo

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2011 • ( 1 )

  The MCM Expo team have just released the first details of comics artists and writers who will be attending the inaugural MCM Expo Manchester Comic Con, held at Manchester Central on Saturday 30th July. MCM Expo’s Comic Village tour features… Read More ›

• Commando: Music From The Home Front

  By John Freeman on 30 June 2011

  In this 50 anniversary year of the Eagle award winning Commando, there are a number of tie-ins scheduled to be published in addition to the standard 104 issues of the comic. As well as the latest of the big reprint… Read More ›

• Oxfam Edinburgh Comic Event 2011

  By Jeremy Briggs on 29 June 2011 • ( 1 )

  The Oxfam Edinburgh Comic Event returns to the MacDonald Road Library on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk on Saturday 23 July 2011. As in its two previous years this will be a discussion based event with signings by the guests plus a… Read More ›

• Comedian Jimmy Carr writes debut comic strip in CLiNT

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2011 • ( 3 )

  ‘Beat My Score’ by Jimmy Carr, art by Ryusuke Hamamoto Jimmy Carr, famed stand-up comedian and co-host of Channel 4’s 10 O’Clock Live, has written an exclusive comic strip story in the latest issue of Titan Magazines’ CLiNT. Stepping out… Read More ›

• Cartoonists naturally good at social web practice?

  By John Freeman on 29 June 2011 • ( 1 )

  (Above: A panel from Darryl Cunningham’s Evolution strip. Click to enlarge.) There’s an interesting post over at Pete Ashton’s Ash-10 blog about cartoonists and social web practice. ‘I often pick up on cartoonists as examples of good social web practice,’… Read More ›

• Air Pirate Press launches ‘The Art of Brett Ewins’

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2011

  Recently released by Air Pirate Press is The Art of Brett Ewins, a new book shedding light on the life and times of on of Britain’s best-known comic artists. In a frank and revealing 11,000 word interview, the 80-page book,… Read More ›

• Comic Con Comes to Manchester – and kids will go free

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2011

  Hold on to your seats – the MCM Expo Manchester Comic Con is ready for lift off! Next month sees the UK’s perhaps most famous comic con arrive in Manchester, bringing the best in pop culture entertainment to the city… Read More ›

• In Review: Commando 4404 – Misfit Squad

  By Jeremy Briggs on 27 June 2011

  

  Jeremy Briggs checks out a special anniversary issue of Commando

• Warrior Remembered in Manchester

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2011

  

  Legendary British comics editor Dez Skinn is back in Manchester again next weekend (he was there only a couple of weeks ago for the relaunch of Starburst). “There’s an all-day celebration of one of my old titles reaching its 30th… Read More ›

• Gene Colan Scholarship Launched

  By John Freeman on 27 June 2011

  Following earlier discussions with the late Gene Colan, writer Clifford Meth has established a Gene Colan Scholarship at the Joe Kubert School. The much respected comic artist, passed away aged 84 on 23rd June. His work at Marvel, reprinted in… Read More ›

• Comics Creators At The Glasgow Comic Con

  By John Freeman on 26 June 2011

  The inaugural Glasgow Comic Con took place on Saturday 25 June 2011 in the Mackintosh Church Arts and Heritage Centre in Maryhill, Glasgow. The downthetubes review of the event is here but with more photos available we have decided to… Read More ›

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