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• ROK Comics Launches New Competitions

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2008

  ROK Comics has just announced the launch of not one but two great competitions – open to everyone using the ROK Comics comics-to-mobile service, so pass it on! Both offer the chance to win a top of the range Nokia… Read More ›

• James Bond Theme Spoof

  By John Freeman on August 8, 2008

  Fun parody from one Joe Cornish, who would like to offer this song to the makers of the new James Bond movie ‘The Quantum of Solace’, entirely free, for use over the opening credits of their forthcoming movie. — with… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Part Work in the Offing

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2008

  (with thanks to Jeremy Bentham and Tony Clark): Alerted by a posting on the web site of Blackpool’s Who shop, it seems plans are afoot to release a Doctor Who DVD Files Magazine. Part works publishers GE Fabbri, publishers of… Read More ›

• Doctor Who’s Brief Encounter!

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2008

  Colin Baker, who played the Sixth Doctor Who in the 1980s, is visiting Carnforth, Lancashire for a special bank holiday event. Colin will meet and greet fans of the series at Carnforth Station‘s Doctor Who-themed shop ‘The Tardis’ on Monday,… Read More ›

• Marvel Revenues Double

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2008

  US comics publisher Marvel Entertainment has reported a huge growth in its operating results for its second quarter and six months ended 30th June 2008, with licensing and film revenues helping to swell its coffers – but comic sales have… Read More ›

• Eleventh Hour Vol 1 hits WOWIO!

  By John Freeman on August 7, 2008

  Eleventh Hour Volume 1, the latest installment in the Eagle Award Nominated anthology series produced by Orang Utan Comics Studio and published by AAM/Markosia has joined the digital revolution in comics this week. The full 80-page trade paperback is now… Read More ›

• Moggy in the TARDIS

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2008

  Liking a) Doctor Who and b) cats is obligatory for all downthetubes contributors – and anyone disliking either of these two things is asked to leave pretty quickly, I can tell you. The team was therefore thrilled to see this… Read More ›

• Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Computer Adventure!

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2008

  With Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park in the news as guest editor of the 70th Birthday Beano, Telltale, Inc., the leader in interactive episodic entertainment, have just released a cinematic teaser trailer and new details about the Wallace &… Read More ›

• Narnia by Night

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2008

  British film fans, families and kids are getting a unique opportunity to relive the magic of The Chronicles of Narnia movies at close quarters at a one-off, Narnia-themed Wow Night on Thursday, 14th August 2008. ‘The Wonderful World of Weta… Read More ›

• Exclusive Hand Made Transformers Figures Up-For-Grabs!

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2008

  Transformers — a robot toy range that has spawned several successful comics across the globe down the years and will see the launch of a new UK comic title from Titan in October — has a massive collector fan base,… Read More ›

• Unico Launches Collections Title

  By John Freeman on August 6, 2008

  After a two-year gestation period, indie British publisher Unico Comics is soon to publish a special annual collecting a number of strips from some of the best amateur comics talent in the UK. Unico Collections was started in 2007 by… Read More ›

• New Anti Doping Comic from UNESCO

  By John Freeman on August 5, 2008

  Just launched on the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences website is a new weekly comic by Mychailo Kazybrid which aims to promote the battle against doping in sport. Published by UNESCO in partnership with EDGE G3 Ltd., The Case of… Read More ›

• Comics International Returns to Action!

  By John Freeman on August 5, 2008

  After a prolonged absence from comic shops, Comics International is finally about to return to the stands — and is offering its readers the opportunity to win a ClanDestine original specially drawn for the competition by British writer/artist Alan Davis,… Read More ›

• Crossovers That Never Happened: The Two Doctors

  By John Freeman on August 4, 2008 • ( 2 )

  

  … The Two Doctors in question being Doctor Who and Marvel’s Doctor Strange. It was TV Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel who proposed a Doctor Who/ Doctor Strange crossover and submitted a plot to me around 1991/92, about the… Read More ›

• Let’s Do the Timewarp Again…

  By John Freeman on August 4, 2008

  CAPTION, if you aren’t aware, is a long-running comics festival dedicated to the British independent and small comics press — and also the longest running comics festival in Britain by many years. A week before the 2008 ‘Timewarp’ themed event,… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday Beano: The Dandy’s Better!

  By John Freeman on August 2, 2008

  One last word from the Happy Birthday Beano exhibition in the Lamb Gallery in Dundee. One of the first things you see on entering the exhibition gallery from the stairway is a comments book for the exhibition and it has… Read More ›

• Ron Smith in Book and Magazine Collector

  By John Freeman on August 2, 2008

  

  The long running series of articles on Great British Comics Artists by David Ashford and Norman Wright in Book and Magazine Collector has reached part 28. This time the subject is Ron Smith and it is the first time that… Read More ›

• In Review: Happy Birthday Beano Event At Dundee University

  By John Freeman on August 1, 2008

  GASP! Would you believe it? The Beano is 70! Taking place on 30 July 2008, which was The Beano’s 70th birthday date, this event had been billed as the official opening of the Happy Birthday Beano exhibition in the University’s… Read More ›

• The BeONEo Show!

  By John Freeman on August 1, 2008

  Thanks to iplayer, there’s still time to catch an appearance by Beano writer and artist Kev F. Sutherland on the BBC’s The One Show, which featured an item on the 70th birthday of the comic on Wednesday. With a mix… Read More ›

• Space Raoul Heads Stateside

  By John Freeman on August 1, 2008

  (via Blimey! It’s A Blog About Comics): Jamie Smart’s Space Raoul strip, which has featured in The Dandy, appears in its own comic this October in a new comic from US publisher Slave Labor Graphics. Part adventurer, part explorer, part… Read More ›

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