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• Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Chris Askham

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2011

  

  Space Ape by Chris Askham For as long as he can remember, British artist Chris Askham has had an obsessive desire to draw comic strips, beginning at an early age by copying characters out of The Dandy and then progressing… Read More ›

• Bob Monkhouse: Beano Artist?

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s been a matter of debate for British comics fans for many years, but DC Thomson staff think they may have confirmed the late, great comedian Bob Monkhouse wrote and drew for The Beano. It’s well known Monkhouse, who had… Read More ›

• Comics & Conflicts Conference at the Imperial War Museum: Call for Papers

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2011

  London’s Imperial War Museum is organising a Comics & Conflicts Conference (curated by Panel Borders Alex Fitch) in August, aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Taking place on 19th-20th August, conference speakers and guests will include Charley’s War creator… Read More ›

• In Review Times Two: Dare Dare, the Biography by Daniel Tartarsky

  By Steve Winders on 10 January 2011 • ( 1 )

  Steve Herbert, who’s involved in the Altered Vistas web site and Eagle Times and Eagle Flies Again contributor Steve Winders have kindly reviewed Daniel Tartarsky’s new Dan Dare book for downthetubes… Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future: A Biography by… Read More ›

• Pat Mills guest at Imperial War Museum Conference

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2011

  

  London’s Imperial War Museum is organising a Comics & Conflicts Conference (curated by Panel Borders Alex Fitch) in August, aimed at comics scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. Taking place on 19th-20th August 2011, conference speakers and guests will include Charley’s War… Read More ›

• Bristol Comic Expo tickets on sale now

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2011

  Tickets for the Bristol International Comic Expo in May are now on sale – and in a special IN FIRST offer, if you buy now, before 30th January, you pay only the 2010 admission price. “As you recall, we sold… Read More ›

• Commando is 50! – Editor Calum Laird Speaks

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2011

  Commando comic is fifty years old this year – in the UK only the Dandy and the Beano are older than it – and since there are eight Commandos a month it has by far the highest issue count of… Read More ›

• New Temple APA showcasing British creatives free online

  By John Freeman on 7 January 2011

  The lightly seasoned Eighth Issue of the Temple APA digital comics showcase is now available to download as a completely free pdf file. Full of comicy goodness from such persons as Simon Mackie, (also responsible for the cover shown above),… Read More ›

• londonprintstudio offers Free Comic workshops for 16-20 year-olds

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2011

  londonprintstudio is running free workshops in ‘Comics and Comic Production’   this year for 16-20 year olds on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5-7.00pm, led by industry professionals and comic interns. Part of the londonprintstudio comic collective project, artist Karrie Fransmen… Read More ›

• Wanted: Your Mechanical Elephants

  By John Freeman on 2 January 2011

  As part of their ‘First Fridays’ events, Marine Studios in Margate are putting together an exhibition that looks at comics, graphic novels and sequential art. Featuring work from a range of local and international artists and writers, live talk from… Read More ›

• Wanted: Your Mechanical Elephants

  By John Freeman on 2 January 2011

  As part of their ‘First Fridays’ events, Marine Studios in Margate are putting together an exhibition that looks at comics, graphic novels and sequential art. Featuring work from a range of local and international artists and writers, live talk from… Read More ›

• Wishing you a very Merry Midwinter and a Happy New Year

  By John Freeman on 22 December 2010

  

  I’ll be back posting in the New Year with more interviews from the Sci-Fi Art Now contributors but in the mean time, Oliver Wetter (aka Fantasio) just sent me this cheeky Christmas card you might enjoy! Check out more of… Read More ›

• Wishing you all the best of the season!

  By John Freeman on 21 December 2010 • ( 1 )

  The cover of Rainbow, 15th December 1917. The downthetubes team would like to wish all our readers the very best of the season. If you’re travelling, take care out there and enjoy some down time with family and friends. Normal… Read More ›

• Commando evades blizzards, heads for newsagents

  By John Freeman on 21 December 2010 • ( 3 )

  Here are the latest issues of DC Thomson’s Commando to fight their way through the snowdrifts to the newsagents’ shelves. Just in time for Christmas, too. If anyone is having difficulty getting copies in the seasonal weather, Commando editor Calum… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Sample Issues Now Available

  By John Freeman on 20 December 2010

  

  Eagle Times, Britain’s longest running comics fanzine, is making sample issues available to purchase without the need to join the Eagle Society. While the magazine concentrates on the original 1950s and 1960s Eagle, the current issue includes features on the… Read More ›

• Detective Comics #27 flies for £28,200 in British comics auction

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2010

  Multiple bidding in the room from their live internet feed and three transatlantic telephones led to some impressive results from the Dominic Winter/ Comic Book Auctions on Thursday night, including the headline sale of a copy of Detective Comics #27… Read More ›

• Creator-owned strip Numbercruncher launches in Megazine in New Year

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2010 • ( 2 )

  A quick Friday plug for Numbercruncher which starts in the New Year in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Created by Si Spurrier and PJ Holden, it’s a creator owned series and we reckon that it deserves support since it is, for… Read More ›

• Glasgow’s Hope Street Studios looking for intern

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2010

  Hope Street Studios in Glasgow are looking for any illustration students interested in a paid internship, who would mainly be doing comic book work but possible storyboarding and design. Top artist and Sci-Fi Art Now contributor Gary Erskine, who is… Read More ›

• Glasgow’s Hope Street Studios looking for intern

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2010

  Hope Street Studios in Glasgow are looking for any illustration students interested in a paid internship, who would mainly be doing comic book work but possible storyboarding and design. Top artist Gary Erskine, who is heading up the hunt, tells… Read More ›

• Read Duncan Long’s Masque of the Red Death for free

  By John Freeman on 16 December 2010

  

  Duncan Long has released his Christmas gift for his fans – a newly illustrated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Masque of the Red Death (in PDF format). “A Poe story may seem an odd choice for Christmas,” he notes, “but… Read More ›

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