Here’s the a new promotional poster for the new Judge Dredd movie starring Karl Urban, due in UK cinemas on Friday 17th September. The future. America is an irradiated wasteland. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC… Read More ›
Comics By Country
SciFi Art Now Creator Interview: Graeme Neil Reid
About two years ago, Graeme Neil Reid went full time as an illustrator after having produced work part time and in conjunction with his job in the marketing and advertising industries for over 15 years. “These days I spend every… Read More ›
Sci-Fi Art Now Creator Interview: Neil Roberts
Neil Roberts is a freelance artist and lecturer who’s worked in the videogame industry as a character artist for 12 years before going fully freelance in October 2008. In his time he worked on games such as Colin McRae Rally,… Read More ›
Eagle Times (Volume 22, Number Three) Delivers Danny Dare
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22, Number Three) features an article by downthetubes contributor Jeremy Briggs on Danny Dare (“Dan Dare’s Number One fan”), who appeared in Wham! in the 1960s. The cover art illustration for the issue is… Read More ›
Thomas Wogan Is Re-Published
Any comic creator out there who wonders if it’s worth self-publishing will be pleased to hear that sometimes all those hours slaving away at the photocopier, then stapling comics together until you’re sick of the sound of the ‘ker-chunk’ as… Read More ›
It’s Fantastic: Johnny Future Flies in from the Sixties
Never before reprinted, Bear Alley Books have just announced they are to reprint the complete adventures of Johnny Future, a stunning British superhero strip which first appeared in 1960s comic Fantastic. The stories, featuring art by Luis Bermejo, will be… Read More ›
Cold Day at Marvel UK: Strip by Strip Feature
As previously noted, Panini UK has just released A Cold Day in Hell, its first collection of Doctor Who strips featuring the Seventh Doctor, played on TV by Sylvester McCoy, in May 2009. downthetubes has now published an in-depth ‘strip… Read More ›
Eagle Times Volume 22 Number One
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 22, Number One) is available now from the Eagle Society. Spring 2009 contents Operation Saturn – but not as we know it. Details of Frank Hampson’s original 1952 story outline for Dan Dare’s… Read More ›
Eagle Times Volume 20 Number 3 Released
The latest issue of the Eagle Society’s magazine Eagle Times (Volume 20 Number 3) is now available by mail order. Contents Frank Hampson’s pre- and post-Dan Dare Art (part 2) Some thoughts on Dan Dare’s ‘Operation Saturn’ Jack o’Lantern in Wiltshire,… Read More ›
Kidnapping Edinburgh
Jeremy Briggs reports on how a new comics adaptation of Robert Louis Stevens classic novel took Scotland’s capital by storm in February 2007… February 2007. In Edinburgh, you just could not get away from Cam Kennedy’s artwork for the new… Read More ›