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• Merry Christmas

  By John Freeman on 25 December 2009 • ( 1 )

  Well hopefully Santa arrived at your house last night and didn’t look too much like this. New Eagle’s most popular character was of course Dan Dare but its most popular new character was Doomlord.The alien Doomlord Vek from the planet… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 1 Day To Go

  By John Freeman on 24 December 2009 • ( 1 )

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a good Look and Learn Santa cover and this one comes from issue 728 in 1975. With Santa speeding over the snow on… Read More ›

• New Sandman Collections Announced

  By John Freeman on 23 December 2009

  DC Comics imprint Vertigo has announced new, re-mastered editions of Neil Gaiman’s critically-acclaimed series, Sandman. Beginning next year, Vertigo will publish new trade paperback editions of Sandman in ten volumes – remastered and corrected versions of the comic the Los… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 2 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on 23 December 2009

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. There wasn’t much Christmas cheer on display on the Christmas cover for Bunty in 1987. Indeed it seemed to be all doom and gloom – a miserable Christmas… Read More ›

• Paul Cornell: Hanging with the Captain

  By John Freeman on 22 December 2009

  

  A catch up with Captain Britain writer Paul Cornell

• Tube Surfing: Wallace and Gromit, Insomnia on PSP, Free Digital Comics and Christmas Covers

  By John Freeman on 22 December 2009

  • Titan Publishing’s Wallace & Gromit digital comic has taken the iPhone by storm with over half a million downloads of its first free app – and the company is surely hoping to repeat the success with its release on… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 3 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on 22 December 2009

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. “Merry Christmas, Mortals!” Does anyone actually remember this short run, toy tie-in title from Christmas 1987? Ian Kennedy does his typically superlative full colour cover for the fifth… Read More ›

• In Review: Smart Bomb

  By John Freeman on 21 December 2009

  (Our apologies to both reviewer Dave Hailwood and the Smart Bomb team for the delay posting this item) Smart Bomb is a brand new all ages anthology that fuses computer game geekiness with comic-style nerdiness. You can be forgiven for… Read More ›

• Striker Returns

  By John Freeman on 21 December 2009

  

  Long-running football strip Striker is set to return – this time as a weekly strip in an as yet unnamed magazine. A Striker movie is also again in development. Announcing the return on the official Striker forum (membership required to… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 4 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on 21 December 2009

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. By far the oldest of our Christmas covers for this year, the girl’s comic School Friend wished their readers “A Very Happy Christmas” in December 1962 with this… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 5 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on 20 December 2009 • ( 1 )

  Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. DC Thomson’s humour comics can always be relied on to do Christmas issues. Christmas 1984 brought these offerings from the digest sized Beano Comic Library. Pup Parade are… Read More ›

• Merry Christmas: 6 Days To Go

  By John Freeman on 19 December 2009

  As the 25th of December rapidly bears down on us, each day for the next week downthetubes will be taking a look at a selection of comics and magazines from past Christmases.Speed and Power was Look and Learn’s sibling, using… Read More ›

• Strip! – Cartoons in Classrooms

  By John Freeman on 18 December 2009 • ( 1 )

  In the last of this month’s shows looking at the use of comics in education, the Strip! radio show, broadcast on Resonance FM and now available as a podcast, have interviews with a variety of practitioners and tutors with an… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Mike Collins Draws New Who, Harker, Alternative Press News…

  By John Freeman on 18 December 2009

  Some quick, short items today, as I’m immersed in some research for Titan and other things… • A slew of updates from ever busy comics artist Mike Collins, which are mostly Doctor Who related, including an original graphic novel for… Read More ›

• Simon Mackie: Positively Christmas

  By John Freeman on 18 December 2009

  downthetubes gets a lot of eCards, and we put all the artist contributuons here on Flickr, because we can’t think of anywhere else to display them. But this year Simon Mackie has again outdone others with a whole Christmas-inspired comic… Read More ›

• Eagle Times Warms Up Winter (Volume 22 Number 4, Winter 2009)

  By John Freeman on 18 December 2009

  

  The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22 Number 4, Winter 2009) is now available from the Eagle Society, wrapped in this cheery winter scene that illustrated an article titled ‘He wants to be a Postman’ from the Christmas issue… Read More ›

• Fractal Friction springs from love of 2000AD

  By John Freeman on 17 December 2009

  A number of long-time fans of 2000AD have banded together to launch Fractal Friction, an online collaborative storytelling venture, a story that starts when a man turns up for a job interview only for it to lead to something altogether… Read More ›

• Mirabalis Christmas Ghost Story is an Online Gem

  By John Freeman on 15 December 2009

  We plugged the Mirabilis team’s free-to-download Year of Wonders PDF comic just yesterday, but we’re so knocked out by the Henry James-styled Christmas ghost story that we’re urging you all to head over and grab your own copy – described… Read More ›

• British Comic Creator Interviews on SciFiPulse

  By John Freeman on 15 December 2009

  Longtime downthetubes readers know this site trades news items with the superb science fiction TV, film and genre site SciFiPulse, but what with recent holidays here in the tubes, we’ve missed some of their coverage of British comics. So here’s… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Death’s Head, Poot, Chattyman and a Christmas Competition

  By John Freeman on 15 December 2009

  • Death’s Head is back! And not some Johnny-Come-Lately Death’s Head II or III, or even the bit-on-the-small-side Version I, the result of an encounter with the good Doctor and his TARDIS. No, Marvel’s new S.W.O.R.D. title features everyone’s favourite… Read More ›

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