Unlike the talented comic artists whose work we promote here, I can’t draw for toffee, so I hope you don’t mind this adaptation of a piece of art by the great pulp magazine artist Virgil Finlay. Have a Merry Christmas… Read More ›
Christmas
Austerity Reviews of the Year
It is that time of the year when bloggers think of their favourite books, comics and magazines of the year. However since there can be a lot of overlap in what various people consider to be worth mentioning, and you… Read More ›
Crazy comic-related Christmas presents: the Spider-Man Guitar
You know Christmas is on the way when we start getting PR for perhaps the stranger kinds of comics tie-in merchandise at downthetubes. Case in point? New guitars from Nevada Music featuring favourite Marvel Super Heroes including Wolverine, X-Men, Spiderman,… Read More ›
Wishing you all the best of the season!
The cover of Rainbow, 15th December 1917. The downthetubes team would like to wish all our readers the very best of the season. If you’re travelling, take care out there and enjoy some down time with family and friends. Normal… Read More ›
Merry Christmas
Well hopefully Santa arrived at your house last night and didn’t look too much like this. New Eagle’s most popular character was of course Dan Dare but its most popular new character was Doomlord.The alien Doomlord Vek from the planet… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 1 Day To Go
Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without a good Look and Learn Santa cover and this one comes from issue 728 in 1975. With Santa speeding over the snow on… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 2 Days To Go
Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. There wasn’t much Christmas cheer on display on the Christmas cover for Bunty in 1987. Indeed it seemed to be all doom and gloom – a miserable Christmas… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Wallace and Gromit, Insomnia on PSP, Free Digital Comics and Christmas Covers
• Titan Publishing’s Wallace & Gromit digital comic has taken the iPhone by storm with over half a million downloads of its first free app – and the company is surely hoping to repeat the success with its release on… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 3 Days To Go
Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. “Merry Christmas, Mortals!” Does anyone actually remember this short run, toy tie-in title from Christmas 1987? Ian Kennedy does his typically superlative full colour cover for the fifth… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 4 Days To Go
Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. By far the oldest of our Christmas covers for this year, the girl’s comic School Friend wished their readers “A Very Happy Christmas” in December 1962 with this… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 5 Days To Go
Our run of Christmas covers continue as we countdown to Christmas Day. DC Thomson’s humour comics can always be relied on to do Christmas issues. Christmas 1984 brought these offerings from the digest sized Beano Comic Library. Pup Parade are… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 6 Days To Go
As the 25th of December rapidly bears down on us, each day for the next week downthetubes will be taking a look at a selection of comics and magazines from past Christmases.Speed and Power was Look and Learn’s sibling, using… Read More ›
Merry Christmas
The final Christmas cover and a cover that just screams Seventies at you. Since the cover date was 25 December 1977 Look and Learn Plus Speed and Power went all out with this gem from artist Ron Embleton. Having presumably… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 1 Day To Go
After the less than peaceful image of yesterday our Christmas covers look to their feminine side. Ian Kennedy is the artist once again but from DC Thomson’s long running “For Girls” title Bunty and a far cry it is from… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 2 Days To Go
Two days to go to Christmas and a slight cheat on our Christmas cover today in that it is the cover of an annual rather than a weekly title. That said Christmas covers on war comics are few and far… Read More ›
Merry Christmas: 3 Days To Go
Just when you though that there couldn’t possibly be any Christmas covers that Lew hadn’t used in his mammoth, and excellent, coverage of Christmas comics over on Blimey, let us bring you just a few more in this countdown to… Read More ›
Simon Mackie’s Christmas Credit Crunch!
Tis the season for Christmas e-cards, and this one from cartoonist and illustrator Simon Mackie, creator of the Flick and Jube web comic, is one of my favourites so far… not only funny but summing up the mood of the… Read More ›
Comic Christmas Covers
Over on his ever-wonderful Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics!, Lew Stringer has been running a series of features on British Christmas Comic Covers, offerings samples from a wide range of titles, from Film Fun and TV Express to the… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 15 December 2008
• Warren Ellis has announced he will be writing a column for Conde Nast’s upcoming Wired UK magazine, edited by David Rowan, which launches next spring. “This attempt involves the services of Ben Hammersley, whose CV is twice as long… Read More ›
Cartoon Days of Christmas!
Cartoonist and friend Rich Diesslin came up with this Cartoon 12 Days of Christmas. Enjoy. You can check out more of his work at the-cartoonist.com