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• Woolworths RIP

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2009 • ( 3 )

  What is the least popular of the current batch of Doctor Who action figures? If the closing down sales in Woolworths were anything to go by it was the Destroyed Cassandra, a toy which rather looks like the sprue left… Read More ›

• Panel Borders Podcast News

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2009

  

  Alex Fitch of ResonanceFM and Panel Borders has been in touch with information on his new broadcasts / podcasts: On Air Now: Strip – The work of Raymond Briggs The UK’s only weekly radio show about comic books returns after… Read More ›

• Fox Challenged on Watchmen

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2009

  Above: the latest promotional video for Watchmen featuring more on the Minute Men’s role in the movies story and includes brief interviews with Zack Snyder and Dave Gibbons who worked on the graphic novel with comic’s writer Alan Moore. By… Read More ›

• Ex Astris on Clickwheel

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2009

  

  The Ex Astris strips first featured on ROK Comics are now appearing on Rebellion’s iPod and iPhone service Clickwheel. Ex Astris is a multi-strand CGI-created strip written by John Freeman and drawn by Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll). The strip… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 8 January 2009

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2009

  • Things to buy this month – Marvel Heroes #3 from Panini UK, which allegedly features an Iron Man story by Al Ewing and Kev Walker, and Judge Dredd Megazine #280, on sale now in UK newsagents, which has the… Read More ›

• Frost, Pegg for TinTin?

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2009

  After what seems like months of no news on the project since it was first announced back in May last year, reports are appearing online suggesting Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have reportedly signed up to play the Thompson Twins… Read More ›

• In Review: Aya of Yop City

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  • Written by Marguerite Abouet • Art by Clement Oubrerie • UK Publisher: Jonathan Cape • Released: 15 January 2009 For the residents of Yopougon, everyday life is good. It is the early 1970s, a golden time – work is… Read More ›

• Countdown To Hi-Ex

  By Jeremy Briggs on 6 January 2009

  The first British comics convention of the year, Hi-Ex, will be taking place at the Eden Court in Inverness over Valentine’s weekend, 14 and 15 February. Guests this year will include 2000AD artists Mick McMahon and Colin MacNeil, Dan Dare… Read More ›

• Mike Battle: Stirred, Not Shaken!

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  For years Sgt Mike Battle, the creation of artist-writer Graham Pearce, has been defending America (and sometimes her allies) from harm… but in his latest adventure he has to call in some help in the form of a certain British… Read More ›

• More Manga in Barrow

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  Kate Holden from IndieManga has been in touch to let us know she’s running another Manga workshop in Barrow. “Bookings won’t be open for a week or two yet, but it’s still free of charge and will be at Barrow… Read More ›

• Dick Turpin Heads for UK Comic Shops

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  UK indie publisher TimeBomb Comics has gotten off to a great start in 2009 with their Dick Turpin comic listed in this month’s UK Section of Diamond Previews, making it available to order from all UK and European comic shops…. Read More ›

• Poopsheet Wants Your Comics!

  By John Freeman on 6 January 2009

  The Poopsheet Foundation, a US-based organisation whose primary focus is mini-comics and their history, from their underground/new wave “birth” in the 1970s to the current scene of today, is actively seeking comics collections both for use in their web site’s… Read More ›

• Tube Surfing: 5 January 2009

  By John Freeman on 5 January 2009

  • Empire Online, illustrating the news with a tasty image of Judge Dredd by Dylan Teague, report Danny Boyle’s DNA films has snatched up the rights to return the famous Judge to our screens in a story that remains so… Read More ›

• Wallace & Gromit Game Peek

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2009

  It seems to be a day for Wallace & Gromit news – no surprise, perhaps, given the ratings success for the pair over the festive season. Telltale Games have just released the first in-game screenshots from their upcoming new series,… Read More ›

• Shades of Yesteryear! Looking Back at British Comic Fanzines

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2009 • ( 6 )

  

    Over on social community Facebook, former 1980s fanzine editor Russell Willis, who now lives in Japan, has posted a huge number of covers to some fondly-remembered British fanzines of the period, including this example of SCAN, edited by me,… Read More ›

• Cracking Contraptions!

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2009

  (with thanks to Katie Bleathman): London’s Science Museum has announced a new Wallace & Gromit-themed exhibition, which will run from Friday 27 March until Saturday 31 October 2009. From Techno-trousers, the Telly-scope and the Shopper 13, Wallace is famous for… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat Review of 2008

  By John Freeman on 4 January 2009

  

  Art and script by Nick Miller. We haven’t been doing many Greatcoats lately, maybe there will be more opportunities in 2009… • More Really Heavy Greatcoats on the main downthetubes website • Check out Nick Miller’s fab work over on… Read More ›

• Who’s Who?

  By John Freeman on 2 January 2009

  It has been going on in earnest since October when David Tennant announced that he would be standing down as the Tenth Doctor after the four Doctor Who specials in 2009 and speculation went into overdrive as to who would… Read More ›

• Gromit Reads The Beagle

  By John Freeman on 2 January 2009 • ( 1 )

  Wallace and Gromit had a triumphal Christmas with the new story A Matter Of Loaf And Death topping the TV ratings while their film, Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, made it to number eight. Of course all the publicity surrounding the… Read More ›

• Run With Dennis in 2009

  By John Freeman on 1 January 2009

  So Christmas is over and the New Year celebrations are a vague memory, even if they only were last night. Your 2009 Dennis The Menace calendar is set to January, the Beano and Dennis annuals are both read and you… Read More ›

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