• During a short interview for an upcoming issue of Star Trek Magazine about his new IDW comic, Alien Spotlight – Romulans, Ian Edginton also gave me a quick run down on his other current projects. As usual, the acclaimed… Read More ›
Alan Moore
Major Alan Moore Interview Published
Alan Moore and interviewer Pádraig Ó Méalóid. Picture via Forbidden Planet International The Forbidden Planet International blog – earlier this week announced as one of the Top 50 blogs in the UK and the only comics blog in the list… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 4 May 2009
• Over on Comic Book Resources, Brian Cronin has just completed a month of posting reviews of a different self-published comic book each day. Check out the archive of reviews here • Meanwhile, Matthew Badham has perhaps taken a leaf… Read More ›
It Crept Up on Us!
downthetubes reader John Owens reminds us that last week was the 25th anniversary of the first publication of the short-lived but long-remembered Scream!, published by Fleetway. The date crept up on us and almost passed us by! First published on… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Saturday 28th March 2009
• British comics creator Sean Michael Wilson, whose recent credits include writer for Classicial Comics upcoming Canterville Ghost (out in November) and Sweeney Todd (out next year) adaptations, has become, we believe, perhaps the first British creator to have a… Read More ›
Alan Moore’s Unpublished Big Numbers #3 Discovered on eBay
Comics collector Pádraig Ó Méalóid and documenter of Alan Moore‘s prestigious career has turned up a remarkable find — art for Big Numbers #3 — on eBay. Big Numbers is an unfinished comic book series by Moore and artist Bill… Read More ›
More Moore: Book and Magazine Collector 306
Just as the hullabaloo over the Watchmen movie was dying down and you thought that you could take a breather from it, the latest issue of Book and Magazine Collector jumps back on the band wagon. Well almost. To tie-in… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 13 March 2009
• Lucasfilm has published a feature on Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore’s connections to Star Wars, documenting the pair’s early Star Wars work. Alan wrote several Star Wars tales for Marvel UK while Dave’s first contribution was as an artist… Read More ›
Watchmen Reviews Round Up
In the absence of getting to the film myself yet — is it really worth putting up with modern cinema goers habits like texting on their mobiles, talking through the film and having the bladder control of fleas to bother?… Read More ›
Alan Moore on Writing, League and Watchmen
In a new interview for Salon.com that, like other news media features such as this one in The Independent, notes Alan Moore‘s absence from the credits of the Watchmen movie despite being the comic’s co-creator, the Northampton-based writer talks extensively… Read More ›