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• Friday Fun: The Legion of Super Potatoes

  By John Freeman on 2 May 2008

  With all the interest in potatoes as a potentially better crop than rice in terms of round the year food source (last August, Chinese farmers were being urged to grow spuds instead of rice, for example), what better time for… Read More ›

• Borderliners Launched

  By John Freeman on 2 May 2008

  Salford-based writer and artist Brian Gorman is launching a brand new comic book this month, and his work, employing some of the techniques used by Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson and featuring the likeness of Sir Ian McKellen in a… Read More ›

• New Elephantmen On Sale Now

  By John Freeman on 2 May 2008

  

  Elephantmen plugged us, so, by return…

• Free Comic Book day

  By John Freeman on 2 May 2008

  Tomorrow is Free Conic Book Day worldwide and your local comic shop may well be supporting it. A free comic featuring Dan Dare from Virgin Comics is just one of the many offerings. Find out if your ocal comic shop… Read More ›

• Join Stargate

  By John Freeman on 1 May 2008

  

  You can keep your Grand Theft Auto, people. Stargate Worlds, the massively multiplayer online role playing game from new publisher FireSky, is now taking registrations for closed beta at www.StargateWorlds.com. The closed beta is an invitation-only test of the upcoming… Read More ›

• Daily Mirror’s Jane on DVD

  By John Freeman on 1 May 2008

  One of the more obscure titles in our British Comics on Film list has just been released on DVD. Odeon Entertainment have released the 1949 B-movie The Adventures of Jane which is based on the Daily Mirror ‘s Jane comic… Read More ›

• downthetubes upgraded!

  By John Freeman on 1 May 2008

  The main downthetubes site featuring comic creator interviews, a guide to writing comics, comics links, a comics events guide, the Really Heavy Greatcoat archive and more has just switched to a new server and the transfer may take a few… Read More ›

• Comics on My Radio

  By John Freeman on 30 April 2008

  How do cartoonists choose the words for their speech bubbles? And – although we call them “speech” bubbles or balloons – how close are they to real speech? The language of cartoons, comics and graphic novels was the subject of… Read More ›

• Bulletproof Launches!

  By John Freeman on 29 April 2008

  New UK-based comic book publisher Bulletproof Comics has announced the launch of its updated website and the release of its first issue # 0. “It’s certainly taken longer than we expected,” said Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Matt Yeo, “but it’s great… Read More ›

• BBC’s Comedy Map Of Britain – Dundee

  By John Freeman on 26 April 2008

  The BBC2 programme The Comedy Map Of Britain turned its attention to Scotland for the second programme of the second series. As well as taking Johnny Vegas back to the ruins of the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh and Doon Mackichan… Read More ›

• Comic Creation As It Happens

  By John Freeman on 25 April 2008

  Website NewTeeVee reports that the hugely popular online comics Penny Arcade and PVP have begun live-casting their cartoon artists as they create the sites’ Web comics. Webcams pointed at computer desktops follow the process through the completed script. Each live… Read More ›

• Milligan on Mobile

  By John Freeman on 25 April 2008

  The work of writer, poet, musician and comic genius Spike Milligan, who revolutionised comedy after the Second World War, is now available on the web and for mobile phone users through ROK Entertainment, the global mobile entertainment group, owners of… Read More ›

• Being Human To Return

  By John Freeman on 24 April 2008

  BBC Three has ordered a six-part series of the popular one-off drama, Being Human from Touchpaper Television, part of the RDF Media Group. The intriguing pilot screened in February (as reported on downthetubes at the time), as part of the… Read More ›

• Prince Caspian Game: Special Scenes Filmed

  By John Freeman on 24 April 2008 • ( 3 )

  Although there may well be no more Narnia films after Dawn Treader is released in 2010, there certainly seems to be enough being filmed when it comes to the upcoming Prince Caspian, with ans of The Chronicles of Narnia will… Read More ›

• Missing Believed Wiped

  By John Freeman on 24 April 2008

  I don’t know if anyone caught ITV3’s affectionate documentary Those Were The Days about the Apollo 11 Moon Landing last night, with interviews and footage about the momentous event. (It’s currently available on ITV’s CatchUp service and to be repeated… Read More ›

• Dan Dare at the Science Museum

  By John Freeman on 24 April 2008 • ( 1 )

  Good news for Frank Hampson fans. The upcoming Dan Dare and the Birth of High Tech Britain exhibition at London’s Science Museum, which opens next week, now includes murals drawn by Dan Dare creator Hampson back in 1977. Talking of… Read More ›

• Ewing and Holden Interviewed

  By John Freeman on 23 April 2008

  Matthew Badham has just posted a great interview with 2000AD and small press creators Al Ewing and PJ Holden (who has also worked for Image Comics and Fantagraphics) on his Overspill blog. “We were supposed to be talking about Dead… Read More ›

• Saint Johns Church Edinburgh Easter Sign

  By John Freeman on 23 April 2008

  Saint Johns church Edinburgh Easter sign – China and OlympicsOriginally uploaded by byronv2 Following up on our earlier post about Chinese piracy, Forbidden Planet’s Joe Gordon recently published this photograph of a thought-provoking poster outside Saint John’s church on the… Read More ›

• No More Narnia?

  By John Freeman on 23 April 2008

  Several entertainment web sites including Digital Spy are reporting that Disney may end its The Chronicles of Narnia franchise after the third film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, is released. Prince Caspian, the second film in the series of… Read More ›

• Chinese Copyright Theft

  By John Freeman on 22 April 2008

  (with thanks to Matthew Badham): Illustrator Darren Di Lieto and British artist Jonathan Edwards are just two of many creators on the warpath after discovering a Hong Kong-based publisher has illegally used illustrations and interviews conducted by Darren in a… Read More ›

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