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• In Memoriam: Joe Gill

  By John Freeman on 22 January 2007

  (Thanks to Shaqui): Joe Gill is probably not a name most of British comics fans will be familiar with, but Joe Gill was one of the most prolific US comic writers, mainly for Charlton, and contributed strips to their Space:1999… Read More ›

• Computer Woes

  By John Freeman on 22 January 2007

  My laptop keeled over and died last Thursday, its logic board giving up the ghost. Although fixed thanks to some amazingly speedy service from Apple I now have to reinstall everything so if you’re looking for UK comics news from… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Bryan Pearce

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007

  I was very sorry to hear about the passing of artist Bryan Pearce, who died 11 January. My late father was the vicar of St. Ives Parish Church in the 1970s and I recall meeting Bryan as a child on… Read More ›

• 40 Years of Spider-Man in the UK

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007 • ( 1 )

  It’s an incredible 40 years this week since Spider-Man first made a regular appearance in a British comic, so cartoonist Lew Stringer has done a little tribute to that title, POW!, on his blog. There’s a few entries about the… Read More ›

• Comics designed in CBR format

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007 • ( 2 )

  Interesting development on the digital comics front: a group of creators including Pierre Villeneuve and Jim Shelley have begun releasing their comics in CBR format online at Flashback Universe. As I’m sure folk reading this know, CBR is the file… Read More ›

• London Calling

  By John Freeman on 17 January 2007

  Spent yesterday in London meeting people about a variety of things. Some interesting developments happening soon regarding some classic comics being reprinted, but can’t say more than that at this point. Yes. I am a tease…

• Commando goes Space Opera with “Shuttle Down!”

  By Jeremy Briggs on 17 January 2007

  

  For those who would like some new British space opera in the gap between issues of Spaceship Away, one of the early January batch of DC Thomson’s Commando comics is titles “Shuttle Down!” Commando Issue 3971 – one of four Commando titles released this… Read More ›

• Collected Hook Jaw Hardback Up For Auction

  By John Freeman on 14 January 2007

  

  One of five special hardback versions of the upcoming Hook Jaw collection from Spitfire Comics is up for auction on ebay. The softcover is due for release soon through online and high street bookshops. Prior to the official release of Hook Jaw, Spitfire Comics… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 8

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

• One of the Most Beautiful Women in the World: Yvonne De Carlo

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  I was sorry to read about the death of actress Yvonne De Carlo, star of The Munsters, who died on Monday of natural causes aged 84. The Munsters, which ran for two seasons and enjoyed a couple of follow up… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 7

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  As part of this strip, I added the contents of a note using an image map in the version on the main part of the downthetubes site, but here it is in an easier to find display (plus I have… Read More ›

• New Comics Anthology, MC², Launches

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  

  (With thanks to Matthew Badham and Joe Gordon at FPI): MC², a new comics anthology, was launched in November and it’s something that was on my radar to plug but I’ve just been reminded about it thanks to number of related… Read More ›

• Free Classic Comic to Flood Edinburgh in February

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  

  (Updated 17/1/07 with thanks to Jeremy Briggs and Alan Grant): 25,000 free copies of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped – including a graphic novel version by Alan Grant and Cam Kennedy – are to be distributed throughout Edinburgh in February in a campaign to get… Read More ›

• Look and Learn Returns

  By John Freeman on 13 January 2007

  

  (With thanks to Steve Holland): The first issue of the Look and Learn Company‘s limited run (48 issues) of a magazine made up of the best of the original Look and Learn has just been published and released to subscribers, printed to… Read More ›

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 6

  By John Freeman on 10 January 2007

• Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 5

  By John Freeman on 9 January 2007

• Comics Nostalgia

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007 • ( 1 )

  Cartoonist and writer Lew Stringer has just blasted us with the past on his new blog with a number of covers from fanzines, some going back as far as 1976 headlined with news of the death of Frank Bellamy. It’s… Read More ›

• High Praise for the “Worry Doll” by Matt Coyle

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007

  

    (With thanks to Liam Sharp): The Daily Telegraph has published in interview with Matt Coyle, creator of the forthcoming graphic novel from UK publisher Mam Tor, Worry Doll. The book is a noir story about three dolls who discover the horrific murder… Read More ›

• The Really Heavy Greatcoat – The Party 4

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007

• The power of personal e-mail marketing…

  By John Freeman on 8 January 2007

  

  Some good news from my friend Lou Anders, Editorial Director at US publisher Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books. Last year Lou wrote plugging one of Pyr’s authors, David Louis Edelman, whose novel Infoquake, described on America’s National Public Radio… Read More ›

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