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• Titan’s Top UK Sales

  By John Freeman on 15 March 2008

  London-based Titan Books, well known for its comics collections and which recently announced a publishing deal with Egmont for new Roy of the Rovers and Battle titles, topped sales in two categories UK sales in the week ending 2nd March…. Read More ›

• Third Heavy Metal Film Planned

  By John Freeman on 15 March 2008

  A new animated ‘anthology’-styled movie inspired by the Heavy Metal SF and fantasy comics magazine and directed by David (Zodiac) Fincher is in the works from Paramount. Los Angeles-based animation studio Blur, whose credits include graphics for games such as… Read More ›

• A Gaffe of Media

  By John Freeman on 14 March 2008

  Over on socksandbarney.com, top artist Steve Conley recently delivered a telling blow on the US mainstream media with a fun cartoon, just one of his very funny “Socks and Barney” strips he’s been keeping far too quiet about, in my… Read More ›

• Red Dwarf’s Holly on Tour!

  By John Freeman on 14 March 2008

  Both incarnations of Red Dwarf computer Holly, Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge, are to tour UK theatres in their new stage show Double Header. The actors will perform comedy stand-up as well as talking about Red Dwarf, celebrating its 20th… Read More ›

• Platinum Studios’ Comic Book Challenge Opens

  By John Freeman on 14 March 2008

  US publisher Platinum Studios, also owners of the Drunk Duck webcomics site, has announced the launch of The Comic Book Challenge 2008 – a Pop Idol-styled comic book contest – at www.ComicBookChallenge.com, coinciding with the release of Jorge Vega’s 2007… Read More ›

• Sean Azzopardi Interviewed

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2008

  With the release of his new book, Twelve Hour Shift, Matthew Badham has just interviewed London-based cartoonist Sean Azzopardi and both have kindly given permission for us to republish the piece here. Sean Azzopardi is a self-published cartoonist living and… Read More ›

• Paul Cornell Interviewed

  By John Freeman on 13 March 2008

  British podcast producers Geek Syndicate have just released an epic 90 minute journey through time and space and into the mind of comics and TV writer Paul Cornell, whose credits include Doctor Who, Primeval, Wisdom, Robin Hood and a host… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Dave Stevens

  By John Freeman on 12 March 2008

  

  Writer Mark Evanier has paid tribute to Rocketeer artist Dave Stevens, who died this week after a long battle with leukaemia. He was just 52. A tributes page has been added to the American artist’s official web site, and in… Read More ›

• New Columbo DVD out 31 March

  By John Freeman on 12 March 2008

  The next volume of Columbo DVDs is due out in the UK on 31 March. The Season 8 box set comprises the four episodes which made up the 1989 season – at the time of broadcast they were the first… Read More ›

• Doctor Who Fun in the 1990s…

  By John Freeman on 12 March 2008

  

  I recently came across this spoof Doctor Who Magazine cover in my archive, which once graced my office wall at Arundel House, Marvel UK when I was editor of the title in the 1990s. Do you think it will sell… Read More ›

• Martin’s Match of the Day

  By John Freeman on 11 March 2008

  Artist Martin Baines, whose work includes strips for Spaceship Away, DC Thomson and work on Titan’s Wallace & Gromit, is busy working on the BBC’s new, weekly, Match of the Day magazine, which has just launched. The title features a… Read More ›

• ROK Comics Creator Interviews Online

  By John Freeman on 11 March 2008

  Several interviews with creators of UK-based comics to mobile service ROK Comics, have been posted on the downthetubes.net main site. The questions were compiled by David Hailwood. • Artist Josh AlvesJosh Alves is a Graphic Designer/Cartoonist/Stand-up Comedian residing in the… Read More ›

• Gerry Anderson In Glasgow

  By John Freeman on 9 March 2008

  Television producer Gerry Anderson has appeared at the Aye Write Book Festival in Glasgow, talking about his career in series as diverse as Four Feather Falls, Stingray, Space:1999 and Lavender Castle as well as his career defining Thunderbirds, and giving… Read More ›

• MamTor’s Mother of a Comic

  By John Freeman on 9 March 2008

  Mam Tor Publishing, the brain child of Liam (Death’s Head II, Man Thing etc.) and Chris McCormack Sharp has collaborated with Mother (London) Advertising Ltd. to produce a 16 page quarterly comic inside the London edition of Time Out magazine… Read More ›

• Happy Birthday, Oor Wullie!

  By John Freeman on 8 March 2008

  He is Scotland’s most famous son, a dungaree-wearing, spiky-haired scamp who has sown mischief in Auchenshuggle for 70 years — and first appeared in the Sunday Post on 8th March 1936. Oor Wullie, who celebrates being “nine years auld” today… Read More ›

• The Last Lecture: People versus Things

  By John Freeman on 8 March 2008

  I came across this video completely by chance — but that should be no surprise, because at the moment it’s a version of one the most viral videos on the Net. This is virtual reality pioneer Randy Pausch, who is… Read More ›

• Merlin Begins Filming at Last

  By John Freeman on 7 March 2008

  Former One Foot in the Grave comedy star Richard Wilson is to star in a new 13-part drama Merlin BBC1 is lining up for a Saturday teatime slot which will screen later this year. Independent production company Shine, who also… Read More ›

• In Review: Henry V

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2008 • ( 1 )

  With the release of Classical Comics Macbeth (read our interview with artist Jon Haward here), artist Paul Harrison-Davies reviews the company’s first outing Henry V for downthetubes… There seems to have been a bit of a trend in classics adapting… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Smoky Dawson

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2008

  Over on Comics Down Under, Kevin Patrick recently paid tribute to Australian musician Smoky Dawson, who died last month but who was at one time famous enough to be the star of his own comic. “Even if you’re not a… Read More ›

• Spaceship Away Now on Sale

  By John Freeman on 6 March 2008

  The latest issue of Dan Dare magazine Spaceship Away is now on sale from specialist shops and the official web site, but if you’re a subscriber and haven’t received your copy yet, read on… As Richard Sheaf noted last month… Read More ›

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