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• 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 ›

• 60 Years of Eagle Celebrated

  By John Freeman on 19 April 2010

  Eagle Society member Phil Daniels has posted the first part of his video report on the 60th Anniversary of the Eagle in Southport on youtube. (The whole video will be split into at least three parts). “The Eagle was the… Read More ›

• Vaughn to Jonathan Ross’ Turf

  By John Freeman on 16 April 2010

  Various web sites have picke up on the information that Turf, the prohibition-era mash-up of gangsters, vampires and aliens written by TV presenter Jonathan Ross and drawn by Tommy Lee Edwards for Image Comics may be headed to the big… Read More ›

• That Alan Moore, He Likes to Draw

  By John Freeman on 16 April 2010

  The Forbidden Planet Blog Log has just posted this fab wraparound cover for esoteric comics-magazine-thing Dodgem Logic #3 (courtesy of Knockabout Comics), featuring artwork by none other than Alan Moore himself, who as older readers will recall, once drew the… Read More ›

• John Watkiss’ Sherlock Holmes Art on Sale

  By John Freeman on 16 April 2010

  

  Quality Communications is offering a limited edition portfolio of Sherlock Holmes art by John Watkiss

• Windett Joins Comic Book Mafia!

  By John Freeman on 16 April 2010

  Preston-based comics artist Dave Windett – whose credits include work on a variety of animated characters from Fox and Warner Bros. and his illustrations for the Norwegian book series, Magic – has joined the Comic Book Mafia. Lest you think… Read More ›

• Blast from the Past: SCAN, with added Alan Moore

  By John Freeman on 16 April 2010

  

  A quick guide to the “legendary” British comics zine (accoriding ton its editor)

• Ron Jobson In Book And Magazine Collector

  By John Freeman on 15 April 2010

  

  The latest issue of the A5 size monthly Book and Magazine Collector is now in the shops and it has reached Issue 320. This issue has an article by Norman Wright and David Ashford on the artist Ron Jobson. While… Read More ›

• Panini’s Marvel Deal Under Threat?

  By John Freeman on 15 April 2010 • ( 1 )

  Back when Disney bought out Marvel Comics, here at downthetubes we speculated Panini, which reprints Marvel titles across Europe, may find their titles under threat. Now, news site Bleeding Cool reports that as Disney has now finally taken charge of… Read More ›

• More Scottish Comics Events

  By Jeremy Briggs on 15 April 2010

  As the afterglow of Hi-Ex slowly fades we have some advance notice of two other comics events in Scotland. The fourth Dundee Comics Day will be held at Dundee University as part of the Dundee Literary Festival on Sunday 27… Read More ›

• LifeSupport: Change Through Art Competition

  By John Freeman on 14 April 2010

  What has the recession meant to you? LifeSupport: Change through art, a project of online guide to life, is challenging comic creators to express their view on the Globalization Crisis. Creators are being encouraged to create a photograph, film or… Read More ›

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