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• Cesar to release Judge Dredd costume, ideal for would-be vigilantes

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  The new Judge Dredd costumefrom Cesar. Solid helmet and Lawgiver not included! Costumed vigilante “The Statesman” may be gaining press coverage battling intoxicated baddies and wannabe burglars on the streets of Birmingham, as reported by papers such as the Daily… Read More ›

• Comics Grid web blog on the move

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  The Comics Grid, a collaborative, peer-edited and authored blog dedicated to comics scholarshiphas moved its website to www.comicsgrid.com Although the main focus of  the Comics Grid is on the analysis of specific comics page layouts and panels, the site also… Read More ›

• Comics Launchpad initiative kicks off to help British comic creators

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  Orgnaisers who brought us the British International Comic Show have announced Launch Pad, a one-day conference aimed at comic professionals, aspiring professionals and those with a serious interest in the business of making comics, promising it will be “an enlightening… Read More ›

• Comics @ Edinburgh International Science Festival

  By John Freeman on 2 March 2011

  Edinburgh’s many festivals often offer comics events but they do tend to happen during the Book Festival or the Film Festival so it is unusual to see something turn up at the Science Festival. This year Paul Collicutt, author and… Read More ›

• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Nelson Evergreen

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Flight of the Cosmicby Nelson Evergreen Nelson Evergreen’s work is mainly geared towards childrens’ publishing, but he tells us he likes to do a fair bit of slightly more adult/peculiar small press comics stuff on the side. His more recent… Read More ›

• WebFinds: Chris Weston, Movie Star

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2011

  Today’s WebFind: ace British artist Chris Weston has re-plugged some ‘motion comics’ created to promote last year’s Book of Eli film directed by the Hughes brothers and starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman. It looks like two comics were published,… Read More ›

• The Image on the Sleeve May Not Necessarily Correspond with the Film

  By John Freeman on 1 March 2011

  It isn’t often that we go eastern here on downthetubes and when we do it is normally manga or anime, so this is a little different. Maiti Jakku was a 13 episode live action TV series broadcast in Japan in… Read More ›

• Colourist Kris Carter joins The Quest

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2011

  

  I’m pleased to announce that ‘The Quest’ has a colourist – Kris Carter, whose work I saw on the new 10thology title, edited by Stuart Tipples, but who came recommended by my old friend Mike Collins. Based in South Wales,… Read More ›

• Dan Dare of Eagle Force? A British comics mystery…

  By Jeremy Briggs on 28 February 2011 • ( 7 )

  

    (Updated 28/2/11 PM) Dan Dare and Eagle fans were spoilt for choice last December and January when, in addition to the latest Dan Dare reprint book, Trip to Trouble, released by Titan Books, two other books on the creation… Read More ›

• View from the Trenches: the Cardiff Comic Expo

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2011

  Time Bomb Comics publisher Steve Tanner kindly sent us a report on the Cardiff International Comic Expo, which included the launch of titles such as Stuart Tipples 10thology project and Barry Nugent’s Fallen Heroes… Fallen Heroes – one of several… Read More ›

• Flesh returns to 2000AD in March

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2011

  After more than 30 years, one of very first strips to appear in 2000AD is to return in blood-splattering, eon-spanning dinosaur-hunting glory. Dino-terror classic Flesh is to return to the weekly comic with Prog 1724, out on 9th March.Written by… Read More ›

• GoCompare homages Dan Dare

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2011 • ( 1 )

  The creators of those annoying Opera Singer insurance adverts for GoCompare.com have redeemed themselves, in part, with this clearly Dan Dare inspired plug for their services – complete with comic-style speech balloons, weird aliens and Space Fleet uniforms. ‘Gio Compario’… Read More ›

• Commando Webbing: Ian Kennedy, Ken Barr and More Reprint Books

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2011

  It has been a while since we did a Commando Webbing and there is rather a lot to get through… Two weeks ago DC Thomson’s Dundee Courier ran an interview with Commando cover artist Ian Kennedy on his long career… Read More ›

• Motton’s Memories: An Interview with one of Dan Dare’s early writers

  By John Freeman on 26 February 2011

  

  Thanks to a chance discovery on the Internet, downthetubes is pleased to be able to present a rare interview with comics writer David Motton, whose career spanned three decades of British comics publishing, but is probably best known for his… Read More ›

• Print Media to publish Dave Morris and Leo Hartas Mirabilis project

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2011 • ( 2 )

  

  Print Media Productions has announced it will be publishing hardcover editions of Mirabilis: Year of Wonders — a huge graphic novel project by Dave Morris and Leo Hartas, also available on iPad and soon to debut on digital platforms Graphic.ly… Read More ›

• 2000AD, TV21 and Whoopee art offered in latest Compalcomics auction

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2011

  Bionic Woman art for Look-In 13 by John Bolton. Lot details here There’s artwork and British comic rarities in the Spring 2011 auction at Compalcomics, which has just opened, including 2000AD art by Ron Smith and superb work by artists… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: British Artists – Interviews and Unpublished Art

  By Jeremy Briggs on 25 February 2011

  

  There has been a small flurry of British artists getting interviewed recently. Alex Ronald, who has worked as an artdroid for 2000AD in the past and is now getting a lot of attention for the Vampire Vixens Of The Wehrmacht… Read More ›

• Happy Fifth Birthday, Panel Borders!

  By John Freeman on 24 February 2011

  We plugged the latest Panel Borders show earlier today, but presenter and producer Alex Fitch has just let us know that yesterday marked his 5th anniversary of making programmes for Resonance FM in London, so here’s a look back at… Read More ›

• Panel Borders: Women of Caption

  By John Freeman on 24 February 2011

  Concluding Women in Comics month on Panel Borders, Alex Fitch presents three interviews conducted at the small press comics convention Caption, held in Oxford last Summer. Selina Lock and Jeremy Day discuss the history of the convention, how it has… Read More ›

• 2000AD Mongrol Figure on sale next week

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  (Updated 24/2/11): The first of a series of seven A.B.C Warriors action figures, Mongrol, goes on sale next Monday and should be available from your local classy toy retailer. Produced by 3A Toys, Mongrol is just one figure in a… Read More ›

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