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• In Review: Thomas Wogan is Dead

  By John Freeman on 15 January 2009

  

  Back in 2004 British indie creator Dave Hughes, who hails from Barrow but in now based in Lancaster, self-published his first comic story, The Immeasurable Adventures of Gorky Park (see news story). Reaction was positive but sales were not what… Read More ›

• The (Comic) Art of War

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2009

  Last year, Matthew Badham interviewed Christian Dunn, ex-editor of Warhammer Monthly, for an article about the comic published in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Although he used several quotes from Christian in the finished article, there was still a lot of… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Patrick McGoohan

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2009 • ( 1 )

  downthetubes is sorry to report the passing of legendary American actor, writer and director Patrick McGoohan, star of the 1960s secret agent series’ Danger Man, playing John Drake, and. later, The Prisoner, starring as the rebellious Number Six — a… Read More ›

• Commando Webbing: 14 January 2009

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2009

  Putting the lie to the idea that Commando only covers World War II and only has one-off stories issue 4163, currently on sale, tells of Jimmy Ramsey resurrecting his Special Raiding Force to go into battle in Korea in Raiders… Read More ›

• EU Comics Competition

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2009

  A competition offering the chance to win some 6000 euros launched by the European Commission last year, designed to promote European citizenship, is still up and running. All young arts students are invited to take part by drawing a one-page… Read More ›

• DFC Previews Site Launched

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2009

  The DFC starts 2009 with a bang, with all-new Mirabilis, Frontier (see news story, below), Lazarus Lemming, and Mezolith, plus all of your other favourites! The susbscription-only comic continues to expand its online presence with a brand new DFC Previews… Read More ›

• New Take on the Wild West in Frontier

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2009

  Frontier, the new comic strip by Jason Cobley and Andrew Wildman is now up and running in weekly subscription-only comic The DFC. The second instalment sees heroes Mitch and Daisy dealing with the Weird and Wonderful… well, check out the… Read More ›

• "Sober Dog" Comes To An End

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  Top comics creator Nick Abadzis‘ strip The Trial of the Sober Dog, which started its run back in June last year (see news story), finished its run in the British daily newspaper The Times yesterday. If you missed it, the… Read More ›

• John Barrowman collaborates on new Torchwood strip

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  Titan Magazines has confirmed that Doctor Who and Torchwood actor John “Captain Jack” Barrowman will be co-writing an episode of an upcoming Torchwood Magazine comic strip. Issue 14 of the Magazine, on sale 19 February in the UK, will feature… Read More ›

• Ex Astris Continues in Spaceship Away

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  

  Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll) and I have just completed work on the second episode of “Secrets of Ceres”, the Ex Astris prequel strip running in science fiction comic magazine Spaceship Away, which goes to the printers soon. There were… Read More ›

• Ask Alan!

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  Joe Gordon from Forbidden Planet International has been in touch to let us know that as a follow up to their cracking big interview with Alan Moore, conducted by Pádraig Ó Méalóid (Part One here, Part Two here), the pair… Read More ›

• What’s Chores? No Heroics on ITV1 tonight…

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  The second episode of the ITV2 superhero comedy No Heroics, produced by Tiger Aspect, will be getting its first airing on ITV 1 at 11.35pm. The six-part series features a group of British off-duty superheroes living their day to day… Read More ›

• New Garth on MyEBook

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  

  The first new adventure of longtime Daily Mirror hero Garth, which has already been published on the British newspaper’s web site, have now been collected and are available in an online format from British e-publisher myebook.com. As noted in an… Read More ›

• Planetary Stories with a British flavour…

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2009

  (via writer Erwin K. Roberts): The coming of the new year also brings new issues of the quarterly sister web magazines Planetary Stories and Pulp Spirit, described by their editor as an online homage to the S-F pulp magazines of… Read More ›

• Weetabix to launch new Shaun the Sheep Promo

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  Shaun the Sheep creators Aardman have teamed up with Weetabix to launch a special promotion on over 20 million packs of Weetabix, Minis, Bitesize and Ready Brek in the UK. Yes – that’s right. 20 million boxes of Shaun covered… Read More ›

• Commando Webbing: 12 January 2009

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  Over Christmas the boffins on the Commando Mag site launched a sneek attack under the radar and added a fourth complete on-line Commando story before they had even finished the third. Last Laugh is a World War II story of… Read More ›

• Paul Cornell Signing in London

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  Captain Britain and Doctor Who writer Paul Cornell will be signing copies of the Captain Britain and MI13 – Secret Invasion graphic novel, the first collection of the Marvel Comics series, at Forbidden Planet later this week (Thursday 15th January)…. Read More ›

• New Judge Dredd Movie: First Look

  By John Freeman on 12 January 2009

  (via Rufus Dayglo and I09): 2000AD artist Jock has posted some designs for the new Judge Dredd film online, prompting excitement from fans hoping this time round the movie won’t turn into the disappointment for many of the Sylvester Stallone… Read More ›

• Tintin is 80!

  By John Freeman on 11 January 2009 • ( 3 )

  

  Happy birthday Tintin! 80 years ago this weekend (on 10 January 1929), Hergé’s Tintin made his first appearance in Le Petit Vingtième, the weekly children’s supplement of Le XXe Siècle. With Steven Spielberg working on a Hollywood film of the… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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