Brawler is a great looking new comics project from Time Bomb Comics – and a Kickstarter campaign for pre-orders that launched just last week has already hit target. downthetubes caught up with publisher Steve Tanner to talk to him about… Read More ›
Adventure Comics
FQP puts out urgent call for scripts its not-for-profit 2000AD-inspired comics zines
Independent British comic publisher FutureQuake Press has put out a call for more Script’s to consider for its 2000AD-inspired not for profit comic strip zines, Dogbreath and Zarjaz. FQP have been bringing you the very finest small press talent they… Read More ›
Marvel’s Death’s Head is back, new series launches later this year
Death’s Head is back! Marvel has announced a new limited series, written by Tini Howard with art by Kei Zama coloured by Felipe Sobreir, edited by Sarah Brunstad – and with regular covers by Nick Roche, launching in July. Here’s… Read More ›
Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman is back… and in big trouble!
The next issue of indie hit and Kickstarter-funded Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman (#8), created by Tom Ward and Luke Parker (artist on the Halloween Eagle strip for Dark Horse appearing in Astro Hustle), lettered by Nic J. Shaw, is available to pre-order now!
In the Spotlight: Marvel UK’s European Comic Reprints
Over on his Boys Adventure Comics Blog, downthetubes contributor Richard Sheaf has highlighted the inclusion of a strip from Le Lombard‘s Franco-Belgian Tintin comic magazine in a short-lived Marvel UK comic. It’s an example of European reprint by the company,… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: UNSTOPPABLE
ArmageDoom Factory studio is in the final hours of raising funds for UNSTOPPABLE, an original action-packed “GreatSwordPunk” graphic novel set in a dark fantasy world, written by novelist Daniele Bonfanti, with art by 2000AD artist Stefano Cardosell, coloured by Aftershock colourist Patrizia Comino… and it looks flippin’ amazing.
World’s Greatest Cartoonists create Heroes!, a new comic for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital patients
Liverpool Lions Club have teamed up with some of the world’s best known cartoonists to produce a new comic book, HEROES!, for the patients of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.
First Look: The Art Of Ian Kennedy
DC Thomson Media’s Heritage Comics much-anticipated and eagerly awaited book, The Art Of Ian Kennedy, celebrating 70 years of Kennedy’s illustrious career at DC Thomson, is available to pre-order now
Spaceship Away springs into 2019 with a focus on Dan Dare artist Don Harley
The first issue of the Dan Dare-inspired title Spaceship Away for 2019 – Issue 47 – is available now, featuring front and back covers, and a centre spread, by veteran artist Don Harley. Don of course worked on the original… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: The Burning Black – Legend of Black Shuck
Renegade Entertainment are to publish The Burning Black: Legend of Black Shuck by Mark Allard-Will, a British-born writer now living in Canada, bringing one of Britain’s most famed monsters, Black Shuck, to comics. Regular readers may recall the project was… Read More ›
FutureQuake 2019 out now, and Zarjaz 33, too!
Two new Futurequake Press titles FutureQuake 2019 and the 20000AD-inspired stripzine Zarjaz 33 are heading your way, both available from today! FutureQuake 2019 features cover art by Rafael Romeo Magat, and it’s an edition that sets to shock, surprise and… Read More ›
Max Allan Collins & Terry Beatty’s “Ms. Tree” gets new collection
Titan Comics‘ Hard Case Crime imprint continues to release sharp, stylish crime thrillers, and 2019 is no exception. The legendary detective Ms Tree – created by Mystery Writers of America 2017 Grand Master ‘Edgar’ winner Max Allan Collins, and inker… Read More ›
Who was Ian Kennedy’s Space Captain Dave Garratt?
(Originally posted 29 March 2016 – updated 24 February 2019) There is a little known science fiction comics character called Dave Garratt who appeared in at least three of the Collins Boys’ Annuals published by William Collins Sons And Co… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: “The Hammer” by Simon and Kieran Squires
Comic creator Kieran Squires gave downthetubes a heads up on his new project, The Hammer – an action-packed slams fantasy tale, reinventing Norse mythology with a savagely British sense of adventure and humour. The modest Kickstarter has just gone live and… Read More ›
Space hero Jet Ace Logan returns in new limited edition collection
Book Palace Books are working in partnership with Rebellion to publish a number of limited edition “Fleetway Picture Library Classics” comic collections, bringing strips such as “Jet Ace Logan” back into the limelight.
These collections are in addition to their ongoing Illustrators magazine, which will highlight work of artists such as 2000AD’s John Michael Burns and others.
Just Ask for Mercy – the comiXology Originals collection is out soon!
Out next month from comiXology is Ask for Mercy: The Key to Forever by British creators Richard Starkings and Abigail Harding – the first collection of the creator-owned series launched last year on the digital comics platform. An action-packed and artistically stunning dark… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Beyond Milford Green
Samuel George London has just launched his Kickstarter for the sequel to his hugely-popular Milford Green graphic novel – and the Beyond Milford Green campaign looks on course to be as successful as the first, with over £2000 of the £4000… Read More ›
Eagle Cutaways by Roy Cross recalled in Constant Scale magazine
The latest issue of Constant Scale, the journal of the Airfix Collectors Club, features an article by downthetubes contributor Jeremy Briggs about the 1950s and 1960s Eagle comic cutaways by artist Roy Cross, the Club’s Honorary President.
Who remembers Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, a TV – and TV Comic – favourite?
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is one of Australia’s all-time most successful cultural exports. The TV show had a global audience in the early 1970s of more than 300 million – and the character was a star that rivalled Doctor Who… Read More ›
Flashback Focus: Who Remembers Jerry Paris’ Bug Hunters?
By Lucas Williams For pre-teen computer game geek me of the early 1980s, artist Jerry Paris was simply the guy who did cool computer game magazine covers… but it would turn out he did great comics, too, and I was… Read More ›