To celebrate The Surrogates movie wrapping principal photography, surviving San Diego ComicCon, and all the cool new summer and fall releases, for the next ten days — through Friday 12th September — Top Shelf, a regular US retailer and publisher… Read More ›
Alan Moore
How Much Is A Fanzine Worth?
Just how much is a fanzine worth? For the buyer, in theory, it is worth the amount of money that he has just paid for it. If it wasn’t that good and the buyer believes that it is worth less… Read More ›
‘Watchmen’ Races Towards The Top Of The Amazon.Co.Uk Book Chart
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ ground-breaking Watchmen has raced towards the top of the Amazon.co.uk book chart as sales rise by over 3000% and excitement builds around 2009 film release. Its trailer is currently running before screenings of The Dark… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 20 July 2008
• Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett has been interviewed by The Guardian. “His is the pen behind Eighties comic-strip heroine Tank Girl, virtual band Gorillaz and the opera Monkey,” the article opens, “and soon you’ll be seeing his animated title… Read More ›
NetFinds: SF in Six Words
A nice little find this evening… back in November 2006, Wired Magazine published the results of an appeal for some very short SF stories – six word stories to be precise. The challenge to sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Remembering Michael Turner, Virgin’s Dan Dare Collection
Scurrying around the web for comic related news, so you don’t have to
Tube Surfing: 13 June 2008
• We’re pleased to report that our report by David Baillie on the recent No Barcodes event in Camden Market, organised by London Underground Comics is online. You can read it here.Don’t forget LUC are at Camden Market every Saturday…. Read More ›
Alan Moore in London
(via the Forbidden Planet International blog): Great Britain’s Comics Alchemist in Extraordinary Alan Moore will be appearing at London’s Orbital Comics (148 Charing Cross Road) on the 24th May to promote the new DVD The Mindscape of Alan Moore, a… Read More ›
Alan Moore Interviewed for Inside Out
Alan Moore has been interviewed for BBC East’s The Inside Out show, to be broadcast on tonight (Friday 21 March). The interview can also be viewed on the Inside Out website. Alan talks candidly about his work, revealing he was… Read More ›
Watchmen Film: Character Designs released
The official blog for the Watchmen film, due for release in the US 6 March 2009, has just published several character sketches from the new movie based on the designs created by British artist Dave Gibbons for Alan Moore’s seminal… Read More ›
Moore, Gebbie Signing at Gosh London
Writer and Shaman Alan Moore and artist Melinda Gebbie will be making a rare signing appearance at Gosh! in London on Saturday 2nd February from 2-5pm to sign copies of their book Lost Girls, so mark your calendars now. People… Read More ›
Lost Girls reach the UK
Warning: Potential readers are warned of the “adult nature” of this book before following any links below. Lost Girls, Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s controversial take on the adult lives of Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), Wendy (from Peter Pan)… Read More ›
San Diego: More UK Creator and UK News
The 38th annual Comic-Con took this place this weekend in San Diego, California and many British creators were on hand to talk about their new projects to some 120,000 visitors. Here’s a few more items from what sounds a frenetic… Read More ›
Casting Call for Watchmen
(via Comics2Film): Film web site MovieHole has laid hands on casting calls for the film adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal Watchmen, with character outlines as follows offered as a guide to agents seeking to work for the… Read More ›
Who Artist Interviewed
Doctor Who and Dan Dare illustrator Andrew Skilleter is the focus of a 15-page, full colour, highly illustrated, wide ranging interview covering highlights of his career, in the August edition of Book & Magazine Collector, a glossy pocket size monthly… Read More ›
Comics on My Radio
(with thanks to Bugpowder): London radio station Resonance 104.4FM is to air three shows on comics this month, presented by Alex Fitch. “I’m Read For My Close Up” can also be heard online and include contributuons from creators such as author… Read More ›
downtheubes Archive News: October 2002
SCOOBY DOOBY THREE! 15/10/02: Hollywood Reporter (subscription required for full story) has revealed that with a sequel to Warner Bros. Pictures’ Scooby-Doo on the fast track, the studio is already moving forward on a third instalment, hiring scribes Dan Forman… Read More ›