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• Happy 70th Birthday, Beano!

  By John Freeman on July 26, 2008

  

  As Britain’s top weekly humour comic The Beano celebrates its 70th birthday, downthetubes asked comic creators to offer their birthday wishes, and the first received have now been published in a special tribute section on the main downthetubes site, including… Read More ›

• If You Go Down to the Woods Today…

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2008

  You’ll find Malcolm Kirk has used ROK Comics to promote an appeal for creators for his new Scream-inspired project… and a fab little story it is too! • Check out the Back from the Depths web site

• Sun, Sangria and San Diego…

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2008

  • It’s the San Diego Comic Con this weekend and many British comic creators, including Grant Morrison, have headed to the sunshine state for the monstrous event, surrounded by thousands of sweating people and lovely ladies in very few clothes… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 25 July 2008

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2008

  • Steve Winders has reviewed Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future Voyage to Venus Part 1 , Orion’s new audio version of the first half of Dan Dare’s first ever adventure from Eagle for Bear Alley, noting it sticks rigidly… Read More ›

• In Review: The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2008

  Editor: Paul GravettPublisher: Constance and Robinson Considering crime comics as featured in this collection span some 80 years of the medium’s history, I can’t begin to imagine how hard it must have been for Paul Gravett, editor of The Mammoth… Read More ›

• Weird Web Finds

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2008

• Turn your iphone into a light saber

  By John Freeman on July 25, 2008

  Warning: video above includes swearing… If there was ever a reason to buy an iphone, surely the PhoneSaber app is it, now available free from the Apple “App Store”. This fun little app fires up a virtual lightsaber that uses… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 23 July 2008

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2008

  Two DVD releases coming soon from the worlds of Gerry Anderson are worth a mention. The last of the major Anderson productions to reach UK DVD, the 1969 live action feature film Doppelganger, will be released under its American title… Read More ›

• More Halloween Comics on the way

  By John Freeman on July 23, 2008

  Following the success of Halloween: Nightdance, the four issue mini-series based on the popular film franchise, more Halloween-inspired comics are on their way, after issues one and two of the mini series proved so popular publishers Devil’s Due have had… Read More ›

• Les Starblazeurs

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2008

  It has been eleven months since both downthetubes and Bear Alley mentioned the Starblazer Adventures role-playing game due out from Cubicle Seven. The Starblazer Adventures core rulebook is now scheduled to be in games stores in “Autumn/Winter 2008” according to… Read More ›

• Comic Book Adventures in Time and Space!

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2008

  

  A group of Manchester comic and Doctor Who fans have organised a special event on 18 October at the Lass O’Gowrie, Manchester featuring several top creator names including Paul Cornell (left) and Steve Dillon. Vworp Vworp! Comic Book Adventures in… Read More ›

• The Graphic Art of Comment

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2008

  With the flurry of outrage over New Yorker‘s recent Barrack Obama cover, a new exhibition of cartoons commenting on politics and more published by Britain’s Guardian newspaper may well gain more attention than usual.The Graphic Art of Comment runs from… Read More ›

• Beano Mischief on Radio 4!

  By John Freeman on July 21, 2008

  Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park and Beano editor Alan Digby were interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, part of the ongoing celebrations for the weekly comic as it fast approaches its 70th birthday. Park, who is… Read More ›

• Crikey’s DC Thomson Special

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2008

  The next issue of British comics history magazine Crikey! (Number 6) on sale soon, with the editors promising that the “Summer Special” (remember those?) is a DC Thomson focused issue, apt given the upcoming 70th birthday celebrations for that company’s… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 20 July 2008

  By John Freeman on July 20, 2008

  • Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett has been interviewed by The Guardian. “His is the pen behind Eighties comic-strip heroine Tank Girl, virtual band Gorillaz and the opera Monkey,” the article opens, “and soon you’ll be seeing his animated title… Read More ›

• How to Draw a Cartoon Cat

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2008

  Esbjorn Jorsater, who runs the Comic Art School forum on Ning, has come up with a novel use for ROK Comics — as a way to deliver tutorials! Esbjorn has created this simple guide to creating a cartoon cat, which… Read More ›

• New British ebook service launches

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2008

  Just launched in the past few weeks is Myebook.com (www.myebook.com), a new web-based ebook community from a British company, which aims to give people the tools to create book content and ‘get it out there’ for free. Every aspect of… Read More ›

• Classical Comics Video Interview

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2008

  Comics artist Jon Haward and writer John McDonald, part of the creative team on Classicial Comics Macbeth, have been interviewed for the BookZone TV, an online video channel from the Borders bookshop. View the video here Classical Comics recently announced… Read More ›

• Comic Book Movies

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2008 • ( 1 )

  Brian Bolland has provided the artwork for the “Comic Book Movies – Graphic novels on the big screen” festival at the BFI on London’s Southbank. Showing a non-identified spandex-wearing hero (is it Directorman? FirstGripman? Gafferman?) the season of movies is… Read More ›

• Celebrate 70 years of Comic Mayhem!

  By John Freeman on July 19, 2008

  Ken Harrison has provided this great illustration for the forthcoming Beano and Dandy exhibition at the Cartoon Muesum in London. While some of the characters featured will be familar to today’s readers of The Beano and Dandy Ken has also… Read More ›

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