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• Moon Landing: T Plus 1 Day – First Footsteps

  By Jeremy Briggs on 21 July 2009

  

  Americans would have us believe that Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969 because they saw it happen in their late evening

• Starblazer from the Command Deck

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  DC Thomson editor Bill McLoughlin has kindly given downthetubes his account of the rise and fall of DC Thomson’s 1980s SF digest title Starblazer, which has recently spawned its own Role Playing Game (see our review). Revealing the origins of… Read More ›

• Engines of Enchantment at Cartoon Museum

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  London’s Cartoon Museum is to host an exhibition dedicated to the work of eccentric genius Rowland Emett this summer. Described in TIME Magazine as “a nostalgic-romantic artist-humorist social commentator-engineer,” this exhibition brings together, for the first time in Britain, the… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Comic Cutbacks, San Diego Schedules, Dinsoaurs and Weird Fishes…

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  • Filming has started on the new series of Doctor Who that will see Matt Smith will take on the eponymous role. Matt is seen here in costume, side by side with Scottish actress Karen Gillan who plays new companion… Read More ›

• 2009 Graphic Short Story Competition Launched

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  UK Sunday newspaper The Observer has just launched this year’s Graphic Short Story competition, part of the activities of the ComiICA Festival. The winner of last year’s Graphic Short Story prize, Julian Hanshaw, is about to publish a book, so… Read More ›

• Graeme Neil Reid: Walking on the Moon

  By John Freeman on 20 July 2009

  

  Here’s the latest contribution to our marking of the 40th Anniversary of the first Moon Landing: “Walking on the Moon” by Graeme Neil Reid

• Moon Landing: T Minus 0 Days – The Eagle Has Landed

  By Jeremy Briggs on 20 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the Lunar Module, Eagle, and undocked from the Command Service Module, Columbia

• Moon Landing: T Minus 1 Days – What Could Go Wrong

  By Jeremy Briggs on 19 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, the crew of Apollo 11 were almost at the Moon with their mission progressing smoothly

• Ian Rankin’s Comics Debut

  By John Freeman on 18 July 2009 • ( 1 )

  International bestselling crime writer and recipient of an OBE for his services to literature, acclaimed Scottish author Ian Rankin makes his comics debut with the tense and twisting tale inspired by reality TV, Dark Entries – on sale from Titan… Read More ›

• Moon Landing: T Minus 2 Days – The Spacecraft

  By Jeremy Briggs on 18 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew were at the half way stage in their journey from Earth orbit to lunar orbit in their Command Service Module, Columbia

• Nick Abadzis: Apollo Remembered

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2009

  

  Here’s a fab image from Nick Abadzis he’s sent us for our Moon Landing Comics Celebration album

• Every Wednesday (Or Thursday If You Are British)

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2009

  Much has been made by British reviewers of DC’s new tabloid size Wednesday Comics. This is a modern take on the American style of comic based pullouts from the Sunday newspapers which ran multiple stories in colour in the same… Read More ›

• Dave Gibbons to launch Watchmen 3D Graffiti Art Instillation

  By John Freeman on 17 July 2009

  

  To celebrate the UK DVD and Blu-ray release of Watchmen, London’s Southbank will stage an art exhibition with a difference on Tuesday 28th July with the comic’s artist Dave Gibbons and acclaimed graffiti artist Chu. Chu will showcase his artistic… Read More ›

• Moon Landing: T Minus 3 Days – Mission Overview

  By Jeremy Briggs on 17 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew were on the first day of their journey from Earth orbit to lunar orbit

• New Century 21 Cover Exposed

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2009

  Publishers Reynolds & Hearn have just given us a ‘first look’ at the cover of their third collection of comics from 1960s comic TV Century 21. Titled Escape from Aquatraz, it features the submarine Stingray, as realized by the late,… Read More ›

• Panel Borders Goes SciFi Mad!

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2009

  We don’t often cover every podcast or radio show Alex Fitch and his team are about to broadcast, but he’s got plenty lined up we think downthetubes fans will want to check out, so hold on to your hats… •… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: Cursitor Doom, Nitro!, More Moon Stuff and Comics in Limbo…

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2009

  • Bear Alley Books has just published the first inked and colour ‘rough’ for their upcoming Cursitor Doom collection. “I’ve put this together from a low-res scan e-mailed by artist John Ridgway, so this isn’t the final version,” says publisher… Read More ›

• The Doctor Lands on the Moon for the BBC

  By John Freeman on 16 July 2009

  

  nderground Comics organiser Oli Smith has penned a new Doctor Who short story for the BBC Doctor Who web site

• Moon Landing: T Minus 4 Days – Launch

  By Jeremy Briggs on 16 July 2009

  

  Forty years ago today, Apollo 11 and its crew of three blasted off from Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral…

• Tripwire Goes to San Diego

  By John Freeman on 15 July 2009

  Fab Brit genre magazine Tripwire continues its yearly San Diego Comic-Con tradition by premiering its third Tripwire Annual at the world’s best-known genre media convention. A stunning Jeff Carlisle full colour original Nick Fury cover sets the tone for the… Read More ›

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