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• Make Mine Marvel UK!

  By John Freeman on 29 February 2008

  

  Great news about an exciting book for a Marvel UK fans!

• ¿Hay vida en Marte?

  By John Freeman on 29 February 2008

  Or, is there Life on Mars? BBC Worldwide inked its first scripted format sale ever in Spain in a new agreement for Life on Mars, with television and media company Antena 3. The Spanish version will be produced as an… Read More ›

• Here come the Robots…

  By John Freeman on 29 February 2008

  British independent publisher Accent Press are about to launch Robots, another beast of a book in the tradition of their previous anthology, Zombies, released last year. At 204 pages it features many new, emerging and established talents including Paul Harrison… Read More ›

• Zombies – Review by David Hailwood

  By John Freeman on 29 February 2008

  With the rapidly-approaching arrival of Accent Press Robots anthology (see news story), David Hailwood kindly provides downthetubes with a review of last year’s collection, Zombies… As a good friend of mine once said ‘Zombies are in many ways like skinheads…. Read More ›

• Subscribe to a … T-Shirt?

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2008

  Here’s a weird one, but so wacky it’s worthy of mention. Subscriptions, it seems, are no longer limited to comics and magazines – you can now subscribe to a t-shirt. And over 2500 people already have. T-post is described by… Read More ›

• China Now! Comics Exhibition

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2008

  China Now, the UK’s largest ever festival of Chinese culture, has announced the first ever major exhibition in Britain to explore Manhua – the powerful narrative art form of comics and graphic novels in China – and will include the… Read More ›

• House of Usher Sale

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2008

  Brilliant comics artist Shane Oakley is currently selling; three pages from The Fall of the House of Usher at £55 each, which includes p&p and a signed print. More details and imagery on his blog, where you can also find… Read More ›

• Steve Whitaker: Online Memorial Site Launched

  By John Freeman on 28 February 2008

  

  A livejournal gommunity and a flickr group devoted to the late, already-much missed artist and colourist Steve Whitaker, who died last week have now been launched

• Doctor Who Experiment

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2008 • ( 2 )

  Purely for research purposes of course, given that ROK Comics, which I edit, has a comic creator too, I had a go at using the BBC’s Doctor Who Comic Maker. Have to say I wasn’t 100 per cent impressed: the… Read More ›

• DFC – Ask The Editor

  By John Freeman on 27 February 2008

  I’m interviewing the editor of new, originated, British comic DFC for downthetubes.net to tie in with the launch of the title, so if you have any questions you’d like to ask, fire them my way asap. Needless to say, this… Read More ›

• Phoo Action gets series order

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2008

  Almost passing me by, just a quick note that BBC3 has ordered a full run of tongue-in-cheek kung-fu drama PPhoo Action. Series creator Jamie (Tank Girl) Hewlett is working on six sixty minute episodes (which will hopefully be a lot… Read More ›

• The Flash Gordon story retold

  By John Freeman on 25 February 2008

  Comics International editor Mike Conroy is one of many contributors to a Flash Gordon documentary being screened on the the UK Sci-Fi Channel tonight (Monday 25 February) at 8.00pm. Scheduled to air ahead of the series pilot, the programme provides… Read More ›

• Aye Write!

  By John Freeman on 24 February 2008

  The third Aye Write! Book Festival takes place in Glasgow’s Mitchell Library from 7 to 15 March 2008. Included this year in the programme are talks by Scottish science fiction authors Iain M Banks and Ken MacLeod who will be… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Comic Artist and Colourist Steve Whitaker

  By John Freeman on 24 February 2008 • ( 1 )

  

  British artist and colourist Steve Whitaker is, I am deeply sorry to report, no longer with us.

• Spaceship Away #14 counting down

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2008

  Spaceship Away, the glossy magazine that is home to new Dan Dare adventures as well as reprints of classic sci-fi strip Journey Into Space and Sydney Jordan’s new Hal Starr strip, is nearly out again. Issue 14 (cover seen left,… Read More ›

• Steve Whitaker

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2008 • ( 1 )

  

  I have just learnt that British artist and colourist Steve Whitaker is no longer with us

• A golden Oldie

  By John Freeman on 23 February 2008

  In celebration of his 100th birthday Willaim Geoge Bunter, better known of course as Billy Bunter, features proudly on the cover of the Oldie magazine this week. The Oldie promises “…Deliciously politically incorrect, the Bunter stories were nevertheless underpinned by… Read More ›

• Iron Legion Reprinted Again!

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2008

  The Iron Legion, perhaps the most reprinted Doctor Who strip ever, is to be collected again, this time as a collection of several strips currently being published as a monthly comic by Idea & Design Works (IDW) for the US… Read More ›

• Titan scores with Roy of the Rovers

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2008

  In an extensive deal for worldwide book publishing rights, Titan Books has acquired a licence to publish an exciting range of classic comic strip collections from Egmont UK, in what promises to be the beginning of a winning range of… Read More ›

• Johnston’s Dead Space

  By John Freeman on 22 February 2008

  British writer Anthony Johnston‘s latest project is Dead Space, a new comic book series from Electronic Arts and Image Comics based on the upcoming survival horror video game. The new six-book series is set in the Dead Space universe is… Read More ›

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