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• Comix Come To Telford: Creators Wanted

  By John Freeman on 11 June 2009

  Budding young comic artists in Telford have the chance to learn from Marvel/DC/DC Thomson pro’s. For the first time since it started five years ago, Midlands-based organisation Hi8us, which develops and delivers a range of arts and media projects collaborating… Read More ›

• Mindjammer is first Starblazer Adventures game add-on

  By John Freeman on 11 June 2009

  

  Rebellion-owned role-playing adventure games and card and board game publisher Cubicle 7 Entertainment has just announced Mindjammer, a self-contained campaign setting designed to bring the transhuman space theme to its new Starblazer Adventures role playing game, just released in the… Read More ›

• Spanish Artists Go Global in Work Hunt

  By John Freeman on 10 June 2009

  Vampirella by Sanjulian Originally uploaded by JohnFreeman. The “green shoots” of an economic upturn don’t seem much in evidence today, as more creators get in touch to tell me they are seeking work in a depressed and rapidly diminishing market…. Read More ›

• Matters of Convention: “We like original voices…”

  By John Freeman on 10 June 2009 • ( 2 )

  

  Matthew Badham goes behind the scenes of the Caption (taking place at the East Oxford Community Centre on August 15-16th) with two of several co-organisers, Jay Eales and Selina Lock. This is the third of a series of interviews with… Read More ›

• 8th Fantastic Film Weekend in Bradford

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009

  The National Media Museum in Bradford will be presenting their 8th Fantastic Film Weekend from 12 to 14 June. The Film Weekend has become a hugely popular event for fans of sci-fi and horror movies and this year there’ll be… Read More ›

• Enter Burke and Hare…

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  After critical acclaim for Cancertown, Burke and Hare by writer Martin Conaghan, artist Will Pickering and letterer Paul McClaren is the next book from Insomnia Publications, which will be launched at the British International Comic Show) in early October. The… Read More ›

• Tim Quinn on Tour

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009

  

  Comics writer Tim Quinn is back on the cartoon workshop and lecture circuit, appearing at The Brindley in Runcorn tonight and elsewhere in the UK (see current dates below). Tim, whose credits include The Beano, Doctor Who Magazine and The… Read More ›

• In Review: Khaki Shorts Issue 19

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009

  I was sent this issue of Khaki Shorts, probably Glasgow’s longest running small-press comic, a while back but somehow it got buried between a copy of the local Chamber of Commerce business magazine and a review copy of Erotic Comics… Read More ›

• Dez Skinn – Dragged from the Grave!

  By John Freeman on 9 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  Dez Skinn, writer and former editor of Warrior, Comics International, British MAD and many more has been persuaded back to Manchester’s fab Lass O’Gowrie pub for another event. “The b****** have dragged me out of mothballs to do a talk… Read More ›

• In Review: Aldebaran – The Catastrophe

  By Jeremy Briggs on 8 June 2009 • ( 2 )

  Created by a Brazilian and originally published in French, Aldebaran was never going to be that traditional a story for British bande dessinee publisher Cinebook to translate into English for the first time. Set on the human colony world of… Read More ›

• Comics Go to War!

  By John Freeman on 8 June 2009

  

  Comics International editor Mike Conroy has written War Comics: A Graphic History

• Spaceship Away Back with More Dan Dare

  By John Freeman on 8 June 2009

  The latest issue of British SF comics magazine Spaceship Away, on sale soon, continues to deliver a terrific mix of classic SF comics, including new Dan Dare adventures and more. The magazine features three Dan Dare strips featuring the original… Read More ›

• In Review: The Sisterhood

  By John Freeman on 7 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  

  Time Bomb Comics has a new title out now

• Something Completely Different

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2009 • ( 1 )

  … this surely has to rank as one of the best titles for a magazine ever. Someone tell Lew Stringer he was been pipped to the post sometime during the Second World War…

• Comics In Scotland: 2000AD And More

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2009

  As part of the first national Oxfam Bookfest, which runs from 4 to 18 July 2009, the British charity will be holding a comics event in Edinburgh. With the Dundee Literary Festival Comics Day in June and the Edinburgh International… Read More ›

• Timeframes – The 3rd Dundee Comics Conference

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2009

  With the successful Scottish comics convention Hi-Ex over for this year and already confirmed as going ahead next year, the countdown to the next major Scottish comics event of the year is now in full swing. The third Dundee University… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 5 June 2009

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2009

  • Busy racing between secret locations in an effort to find an internet connection that worked, we missed out on wishing Garen Ewing, creator of The Rainbow Orchid, a happy birthday yesterday (4th June) but there’s still time to enter… Read More ›

• 2D Festival Begins in Derry

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2009

  If you’re in Northern Ireland this weekend, then head along to the 2D Festival at the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, which is now up and running with guests David Lloyd, Liam Sharp, Glenn Fabry, Mike Collins, Bryan Talbot, David… Read More ›

• Dandy Issue 1, Amazing Fantasy #15 Up For Sale

  By John Freeman on 5 June 2009

  There’s still time to bid on items – including a rare copy of the first ever Dandy – from British online auction site Comic Book Auction’s Summer Catalogue. Included in the British section of the catalogue is an extremely rare… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: David Carradine

  By John Freeman on 4 June 2009

  downthetubes is very sorry to report the death of actor David Carradine, star of 1970s cult TV show Kung Fu, whose career saw a huge revival in recent years with an appearance in Quentin Tarrantino’s Kill Bill. As a teen… Read More ›

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