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• Comica rounds off with British creator events

  By John Freeman on 3 November 2007

  Comica in London is coming to a close – with 5 and 6th November evenings polishing off this year’s festival at the ICA in The Mall. On Saturday, Nick Abadzis launches his Laika graphic novel about the world’s first living… Read More ›

• What Editors Really Think

  By John Freeman on 3 November 2007 • ( 1 )

  Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been having an email discussion with a few creators about the Joy of Pitching — that dark art of trying to sell a script to an editor. For some years now, downtheubes has… Read More ›

• Cosmogenesis Trailers Released

  By John Freeman on 2 November 2007

  Ramping up its publicity for a 550 page collection of Adam Grose and Tony Suleri‘s epic SF comic Cosmogenesis: The Chronicles of Quongo, Clown Press have just released several video trailers for the book via YouTube. The book — a… Read More ›

• More cuts to kids TV

  By John Freeman on 2 November 2007

  Disturbing news from the BBC. SaveKidsTV reports CBBC is being required to make 5 per cent cuts over the next five years — a drop from an annual spend of £108 million now to £98 million in 2012. As a… Read More ›

• More Sound of Drowning released

  By John Freeman on 2 November 2007

  Comic creator Paul O’Connell, creator of cult comic book The Sound of Drowning, has a brand new issue (#10! double figures! ) out now. “It’s a non-linear comic book inspired by those kids ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ stories,” he says,… Read More ›

• Ian Gibson Column: Mobile Phones and Dan Dare

  By John Freeman on 1 November 2007

  

  Ian Gibson goes mobile. Comics, that is…

• The Flying Friar arrives

  By John Freeman on 1 November 2007

  Thursday 1st November is All Saints Day in the UK. What better date to choose for The Flying Friar to return to print, now in full colour, from Markosia? Created by British gossip columnist Rich Johnston and German illustrator Thomas… Read More ›

• Hippo Fairy Tale in the works

  By John Freeman on 1 November 2007

  Active Images, the innovative US comics company run by former Marvel UK talent Richard Starkings, has begun promoting an unusual fairy tale – starring hippopotamus hero, Hip Flask. Captain Stoneheart and the Truth Fairy Hardcover by Ben 10 creator Joe… Read More ›

• ‘Boring’ writer becomes bestseller

  By John Freeman on 31 October 2007

  Actor, director and cult guru, Kevin Smith now has another accolade to add to his name, as astonishing sales of his new book My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (out now from Titan Books) have made… Read More ›

• Murky Depths

  By John Freeman on 31 October 2007

  A quick plug now for Murky Depths, a quarterly anthology of top quality speculative fiction, including comics, with sprinklings of horror and fantasy that push the boundaries of science fiction. The first issue was released a couple of months ago… Read More ›

• ComicSpace and Webcomics Nation announce merger

  By John Freeman on 31 October 2007

  ComicSpace community creator Josh Roberts and WebComics Nation creator Joey Manley have announced the merger of various properties into a single corporate entity. When the dust settles, ComicSpace, Webcomics Nation, TalkAboutComics and OnlineComics.net will be rolled up into one big… Read More ›

• Spaced goes Stateside

  By John Freeman on 30 October 2007

  UK TV trade magazine Broadcast reports US broadcaster Fox has ordered a pilot of a US version of Nick Pegg’s Spaced, which revolves around a young man and woman who pose as a couple in order to rent a cheap… Read More ›

• Titan gets The Spirit

  By John Freeman on 29 October 2007 • ( 1 )

  Adding yet another official, in-depth companion to its catalogue, Titan Books has announced it acquired worldwide rights to a deluxe making-of book for the Lionsgate and Odd Lot Entertainment production of Will Eisner’s The Spirit, due to be released in… Read More ›

• Complete Peanuts

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2007

  I came across another comics gem in one of our two local Waterstones this weekend, just on sale in the UK — Charles Schultz Peanuts are being collected chronologically in some classy but reasonably priced hardback editions. These really nice… Read More ›

• Mad World

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2007 • ( 1 )

  Just occasionally, all the hard work the team do here at downthetubes gets some welcome praise from our many readers that encourages us all to keep plugging away at the site. Several indie comic creators have kindly written in recently,… Read More ›

• Joe Colquhoun Article In B&MC 288

  By John Freeman on 28 October 2007

  Book and Magazine Collector issue 288 continues David Ashford and Norman Wright’s Great British Comic Artists series with a twelve page article on Joe Colquhoun, consisting of ten pages of mainly colour illustrations backed up with a two page Price… Read More ›

• Local Papers victims of Spanner PR stunt

  By John Freeman on 25 October 2007 • ( 1 )

  downthetubes has learnt that our story posted yesterday about a missing Dick Spanner puppet is pure hokum contrived by the PR company promoting the release of the new DVD – and many local papers across the country have been victims… Read More ›

• Where’s Clive?

  By John Freeman on 23 October 2007 • ( 1 )

  (Note: the “missing puppet” story that inspired our reporter Jeremy Briggs’ research below was quickly revealed as a PR hoax, see follow up, but we have kept this item live for information purposes) Gerry Anderson fans have a new game… Read More ›

• The Hammer Story book launch

  By John Freeman on 23 October 2007

  The launch of the new edition of Titan Books’ The Hammer Story is being celebrated with a special one-day event at the Cine Lumiere in Queensberry Place, London SW7, this coming Saturday, 27th October. The event will include cinema screenings… Read More ›

• Dracula – back from the dead!

  By John Freeman on 23 October 2007

  This Hallowe’en, a stunning new restoration of Hammer’s classic Dracula will thrill audiences at over 70 cinemas across the UK thanks to the British Film Institute. The Hammer studio’s most celebrated film, Dracula stars Christopher Lee in his first ever… Read More ›

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