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• Dan Dare at 60: Merchandise Update

  By John Freeman on 30 April 2010 • ( 1 )

  With the Eagle and its best-remembered character Dan Dare celebrating a 60th birthday this month, fans will be pleased to hear that several items are either in development or already on sale now to mark the event. • The collectable… Read More ›

• downthetubes John Freeman at Sci-Fi-London

  By John Freeman on 30 April 2010 • ( 1 )

  

  A quick reminder of two panels I’ll be appearing on tomorrow (Saturday 1st May) at Sci-Fi-London… 60 Years of Dan Dare A panel on 60 years of the lantern jawed space pilot. Alex Fitch will be talking to: Garry Leach,… Read More ›

• ConceptArt launches Female Form Course

  By John Freeman on 29 April 2010

  This coming Sunday, ace illustrators web site ConceptArt.Org, who kindly helped promote my original appeal for artists for SciFi Art Now, will begin a new round of live streaming classes with a very beautiful program on the art of the… Read More ›

• Paper Science II launch

  By John Freeman on 29 April 2010

  (With thanks to Alex Fitch): As part of Free Comics Day on Saturday 1st May, We are Words + Pictures will be launching their new, free newspaper format comic Paper Science II at Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street, London… Read More ›

• Losers on My Radio!

  By John Freeman on 29 April 2010

  Concluding their month long look at the crossover between comics and film, Resonance FM broadcasts Strip! – The Art of The Losers this evening. Alex Fitch interviews Jock, the main illustrator of The Losers by Andy Diggle, the 32 issue… Read More ›

• Inker Appeal from Ex Astris comic creator

  By John Freeman on 27 April 2010

  

  Bill Storie – my colleague and co-creator of the Ex Astris science fiction strip we’re producing – has too much work on his plate at the moment and he’s looking for a reliable UK-based inker to work with him. “There just… Read More ›

• IlluXcon Artists Line Up gathers pace

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2010

  The third annual IlluXCon symposium whose guests include SciFi Art Now contributors Bob Eggleton and Patrick Jones, will take place in Altoona, Pennsylvania in the United States on November 11-14, 2010. As the only convention exclusively dedicated to fantastic art,… Read More ›

• Destinauts arrives online

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2010

  Comic creator Ian Hewett, who’s also behind the mediablog Dystopian Fuschia, has just launched a free web comic, Destinauts. The comics opens with a mysterious object falling to Earth, crashing in the small town of Calendering… Five years later, and… Read More ›

• More Screaming Artists Wanted!

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2010

  Back from the Depths, a group of horror comic fans inspired by the fondly-remembered but short-lived British title Scream! needs your blood… Creative blood, that is: the group is looking for artists and contributors for the new Back from the… Read More ›

• London MCM Expo prepares for comics invasion

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2010

  The Comic Village at the upcoming London MCM Expo is looking more like a metropolis, with hundreds of fantastic creators already signed up for the 29-30 May show – including a visit from former Marvel UK editor in chief Richard… Read More ›

• Hammer Films Bray Studios Faces Demolition

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2010

  Bray Studios – considered the spiritual home of cult British films and the home of Hammer Film Productions for years – could be turned flattened and turned into homes, unless a new campaign to save it succeeds. Earlier this month,… Read More ›

• Glory Be! creator joins Who actors for Harlow Sci-Fi weekend

  By John Freeman on 24 April 2010

  Writer and artist David C Hill will be attending the renowned Comic Book & Sci-Fi Weekend at the Harvey Centre in Harlow, Essex to sign copies of his esteemed yet off-beat comic, Glory Be! – and is offering fans the… Read More ›

• VV Brown’s City of Abacus launches in May

  By John Freeman on 23 April 2010

  

  downthetubes readers may be familiar with the music or modelling work of British singer-songwriter and model VV Brown, whose single releases include “Shark In The Water” and “Crying Blood”. But what you might not know is that she’s also a… Read More ›

• Visual treats included in latest Writers of the Future collection

  By John Freeman on 23 April 2010

  

  The 25th anniversary coffee table edition for the L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future (www.writersofthefuture.com) will feature a year by year pictorial overview of its winners with sidebars highlighting those whose careers continued to blossom. Publishers say the… Read More ›

• In Review: Buck Danny – The Secrets Of The Black Sea

  By Jeremy Briggs on 22 April 2010

  The Secrets of the Black Sea is the second of Cinebook’s translations of the many adventures of American military pilot Colonel Buck Danny. Buck Danny was created by writers Georges Troisfontaines and Jean-Michel Charlier with artist Victor Hubinon for Spirou… Read More ›

• New Commandos Hit the News Stand

  By John Freeman on 21 April 2010

  The latest four Commandos from DC Thomson, on sale one week earlier than is traditional, are available now from all good newsagents… Commando 4287: Guided MissileStory: Bernard Gregg Inside art: Vila Cover art: Ian Kennedy Over the Austrian mountains in… Read More ›

• Shrewsbury gears up for magical cartoon mayhem!

  By John Freeman on 21 April 2010

  The Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival 2010 takes place this coming weekend (22nd – 25th April) and this year’s theme is Magic, Myth and Mystery. This wonderful Festival offers unique opportunities to see artists at work: 20 of them on huge… Read More ›

• In Review: Mezolith Book 1

  By Jeremy Briggs on 20 April 2010 • ( 2 )

  

  The DFC, the subscription-only anthology comic that ran for some 10 months in 2008 and early 2009, was always seen as a breeding ground for graphic novel compilations of its stories and so it’s good to see the comic tales… Read More ›

• Time’s Almost Up for There’s No Time Like the Present

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2010

  Part 12 of Paul Rainey’s comic, or serialised ‘graphic novel’, There’s No Time Like The Present is now available priced £2.50. “It’s an exciting issue because it’s the penultimate part to the story that I began back in 2004,” says… Read More ›

• New Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer story released

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2010

  Following the release of Star Tigers Chapter One at the beginning of the year, Doctor Who fan film makers Altered Vistas have just announced the DVD not-for-profit release of Chapter Two: With Friends Like These, based on the classic Doctor… Read More ›

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