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• Torchwood Strip on Watch Web Site!

  By John Freeman on February 16, 2009

  Titan Magazines, publishers of Torchwood Magazine, have partnered up with UK digital channel Watch to offer an exclusive Torchwood strip on their web site, as part of their promotion for the screening of Torchwood Season Two. The strip has been… Read More ›

• Something Useful from the European Union…

  By John Freeman on February 16, 2009

  — Well, sort of… it’s in beta at present but the European Union is assembling a huge online digital resource, which includes imagery from publishers as well as museums at: www.europeana. eu/portal You can search for subjects etc and results… Read More ›

• Photo Review: Hi-Ex 2 – From Inverness, With Love

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 16, 2009

  by Jeremy Briggs Last year’s inaugural Hi-Ex comics convention, held on the first weekend in February, was besieged by snow leaving many guests and potential attendees unable to travel to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The downthetubes review of the… Read More ›

• Beating Up Baddies, Watchmen Style…

  By John Freeman on February 16, 2009

  A new Watchmen viral has just been launched, hot on the heels of the Watchmen TV channel, all to promote the upcoming release of the eagerly-anticipated Watchmen movie. This time, it’s a Watchmen arcade game, retro-styled like the classic 1980s… Read More ›

• Kiwi Comic Creators Join Copyright Protest

  By John Freeman on February 16, 2009

  New Zealand comic creators have joined a nationwide protest this week (16-23 February) protesting against new copyright laws there, that could see anyone perceived as infringing copyright lose their internet connection — including schools and libraries. The Guilt Upon Accusation… Read More ›

• Alternative Press Anthology 2009: More Details Emerge

  By John Freeman on February 16, 2009

  Jimi Gherkin, one of the organisers of the recent Alternative Press Fair in London, has revealed more for the plans for an Alternative Press Anthology, to be released later this year. “The Alternative Press Fair was great,” he reports. “We’ve… Read More ›

• Lancaster Comics Event

  By John Freeman on February 16, 2009

  Lancaster’s comics fans gather at the northern town’s Gregson this week, for an event organised by First Age Comics, which is based in the Assembly Rooms in King Street. The Uncanny League Of Astonishing Amazers will kick off at 8.00pm… Read More ›

• Garen Ewing Interviewed

  By John Freeman on February 13, 2009

  Forbidden Planet International has a very special treat for you today, as Matthew Badham sits down for a good, long chat with The DFC and Rainbow Orchid artist Garen Ewing, looking back to what drew him into creating comics, his… Read More ›

• Hi-Ex in the Highlands This Weekend

  By Jeremy Briggs on February 13, 2009

  Hi-Ex 2, currently Scotland’s only comics festival, will be “bigger and better” this weekend when it opens in Eden Court, Inverness, tomorrow. Organisers Richmond Clements and Vicky Stonebridge are determined to make Hi-Ex and annual event, even though bad weather… Read More ›

• Shades of Milligan

  By John Freeman on February 13, 2009

  (with thanks to Reuben Willmott): Yesterday, we gave passing mention to Peter Milligan‘s new project for DC Comics’ Vertigo crime line, The Bronx Kill, working with James Romberger. Coincidentally, Milligan, whose past work includes 2000AD‘s Bad Company and Shade: The… Read More ›

• Doctor Who: The Anime

  By John Freeman on February 13, 2009

    (with thanks to Frank Garcia, via Topless Robot and Japanator): Expect this stunning piece of work to go hugely viral — and if BBC Worldwide don’t pick up the phone to Sheffield-based artist and animator Paul “Otaking” Johnson and… Read More ›

• Seventh Doctor’s Adventures Collected

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2009 • ( 2 )

  Panini, the publishers of Doctor Who Magazine, will release the first volume of the Seventh Doctor’s collected adventures in May, compiling eleven stories under the umbrella title A Cold Day in Hell, the comic strip adventure written by Simon Furman,… Read More ›

• Adrian Tomine on Strip!

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2009

  Continuing Indie comics month on the radio show and podcast Strip!, Eagle Award winning writer and artist Tom Humberstone will be talking to American comic book creator Adrian Tomine who writes and draws the comic book Optic Nerve, originally self… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 12 February 2009

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2009

  • Former Star Trek actor Wil Wheaton, now an ardent campaigner for internet rights and longtime blogger has a new short collection of his favorite pieces from his books and blog called Sunken Treasures, including a production diary from his… Read More ›

• Southsea Goes Sequential

  By John Freeman on February 12, 2009 • ( 1 )

  (with thanks to Darren Morrow): News reaches us of an over 18s only comics event in Southsea in April. Taking place at the Festing Hotel on Albert Road, The Annual Review of Sequential Endeavours (Facebook Link) invites all comics makers…. Read More ›

• downthetubes On The Air!

  By John Freeman on February 11, 2009

  downthetubes editor John Freeman was interviewed on Lancaster’s Diversity FM this morning, the show repeated at 6.00pm tonight (Wednesday 11 February). The interview was the latest by local writer Jomar de Vrind as part of his “Imaginary Friends” series for… Read More ›

• In Review: Watchmensch

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2009

  Out in early March, Lying in the Gutters’ Rich Johnston’s Watchmensch, a parody of a certain major DC Comics-published comic series, soon to be a major movie (at least that’s what a lot of film people and DC Comics are… Read More ›

• In Review: Dangerous Ink

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2009

  After we plugged the alternative arts magazine Dangerous Ink recently, editor Tom Green very kindly sent downthetubes copies of the most recent issues — and I’m very impressed. Quite aside from the comics-related interviews — which include 1960s Batman actor… Read More ›

• Fly Me to the Moon, Forties Style

  By John Freeman on February 10, 2009

  Manchester-based comics artist Jim Boswell, whose credits include Markosia‘s Starship Troopers and more, has begun posting some of his designs and pages for Project: Luna 1947, his latest project for the company. Written by Martin Hayes, who Jim worked with… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 9 February 2009

  By John Freeman on February 9, 2009

  • The animated feature based on Neil Gaiman’s Coraline is now on release int the US and seems to be doing well both critically and at the box office. “A lot more people than anyone expected are going to see… Read More ›

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