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  • In Memoriam: Jim Cronin

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    I was very sorry to hear from my Mum last night that ape rescue campaigner Jim Cronin died this week. Jim was the co-founder of Dorset’s Monkey World with his wife Alison, an internationally renowned ape rescue centre I’ve visited… Read More ›

  • Re-visiting childhood

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    Talk about a labour of love. dtb contributor Matthew Badham’s just passed on a note from 2000AD fan Paul (Book of Lists, There’s No Time Like the Present) Rainey, who’s re-visitng the entire 30 year run of the title, after… Read More ›

  • Flat Pyramid

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    This might be a useful site for artists: Flat Pyramid, founded by professionals in the creative media and corporate America, is dedicated to the creation, management, worldwide promotion, and distribution of digital content online. The website provides an intermediary platform… Read More ›

  • Some things just aren’t right…

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    Case in point: Bratz dolls. I can’t believe I’m alone in thinking they’re deeply disturbing in terms of look (quite frankly, they give me the heebie jeebies), and now Worth 1000’s running a competition to turn the world into them…. Read More ›

  • Comics International sells out

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    Just had an e-mail from Comics International editor Mike Conroy who tells me demand for its first issue of the new-look mag has been phenomenal and retailers around the UK are reporting a virtual sell out within the first four… Read More ›

  • Super Lawyer Required?

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    Talk about complex. Stan Lee Media, which the legendary Stan Lee no longer has any involvement with, is suing Marvel for a stonking $5 billion — claiming rights to titles including Spider-Man. Stan Lee Media was orginally co-founded by Lee,… Read More ›

  • Racing Rockets!

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    Anyone interested in getting costumes based on comics characters might be interested in this interview with designer Ruby Rocket, who has developed a deserved web-wide reputation for her creations based on the likes of Marvel’s Black Cat etc. Ruby has,… Read More ›

  • This week’s great Internet find…

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    I just found this on the Internet thing: a ‘lost’ Marvel UK Warheads strip, Loose Cannons, by Dan (Sinister Dexter) Abnett and Mark (Durham Red) Harrison Edited by Jacqui Papp, the project – guest starring Death’s Head II and Dark… Read More ›

  • Rebellion Buying Spree

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    Hot on the heels of their purchase of comics-to-ipod publisher Clickwheel comes news that 2000AD owner Rebellion Studios has acquired Ignition’s Banbury development studio, formerly known as Awesome Developments and perhaps best known for developing the PSP puzzle game Archer… Read More ›

  • Thrud #5 – The Beer Necessities

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    Writer-artist-genius Carl Critchlow has just sent me a copy of Thrud the Barbarian #5: The Bear Necessities, the continuing four-colour adventures of the very stupid fantasy warrior he first created for fanzines which went on to become one of the… Read More ›

  • Modern Tales adopts CBR

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    The Modern Tales suite of websites, which publishes the work of webcomics creators such as the brilliant Roger “Fred the Clown” Langridge has just announced it’s to offer select longform comics in the downloadable CBR format. This is a pretty… Read More ›

  • Sean Blair reveals Commando secrets

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    Commando No. 3536, written by Sean Blair

    Commando Picture Library writer Sean Blair has just provided downthetubes with a terrific piece on his experiences writing Commando. Special thanks to Sean for taking time out to write the piece, which includes some useful tips on writing Commando. Also… Read More ›

  • Naughty Artists at Work

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    Hmm, I seem to have passed to the dark side this week with all these US comic comments, but it seems I’m not the only one being naughty. As several fans have spotted, Ms Marvel clearly does have the sexiest… Read More ›

  • Gorilla Sex?

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    Gorillas may have been responsible for the introduction of pubic lice in humans, according to a new study. Evolutionary biologist David Reed of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville USA has traced the genetic structure of lice and… Read More ›

  • Shatner versus Wheaton

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    Somehow, no matter how immersed in a show you become when editing or being part of the production of its official Magazine, some aspects of that show’s history slip you by. Case in point: Wil Wheaton‘s apparently revived beration of… Read More ›

  • Captain America

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    I think Adam Rogers over on Wired‘s Blog Network neatly sums up my similar feelings (aside from how the character has best been handled in the past) on recent developments Hey, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m… Read More ›

  • Cam Kennedy on Kidnapped

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    Over on the Forbidden Planet International blog, Joe Gordon has delivered a full transcript of the recent Kidnapped event at the Scottish Book Trust where artist Cam Kennedy was talking with publisher Ron Grosset about Cam and Alan Grant’s adaptation… Read More ›

  • Kidnapping Edinburgh

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    Kidnapped - Free Edition Cover

    Jeremy Briggs reports on how a new comics adaptation of Robert Louis Stevens classic novel took Scotland’s capital by storm in February 2007… February 2007. In Edinburgh, you just could not get away from Cam Kennedy’s artwork for the new… Read More ›

  • 20 years of cartoon craziness celebrated

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    Angry aliens, terrified police and bemused party goers. Yes, it’s the 20th Anniversary Really Heavy Greatcoat – three pages of mothball-inspired mayhem! Artist Nick Miller has pulled out all the stops to mark this momentous date for the strip and… Read More ›

  • Are Games really Killing Comics?

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    2000AD artist Ian Gibson’s renewed claim that computer games are killing comics, comments reported in the BBC’s feature on the comics’ 30th anniversary, have been savaged up by some games press web sites such as Games Radar and Addict3D, the… Read More ›