There’s still a couple of days left to vote in TIME’s Top 100 Poll, an annual feature in the US weekly magazine which selects the world’s most influential – note, not necessarily the most popular – people. Along with the… Read More ›
Comics
Promoting Comics rant
Hmf. I’ve been trying to add old blog entries from previous blogs to this one, back dating as I go. I’m having little success doing this – it either works once, and then starts treating the entry as a modern… Read More ›
Marshall Rogers dies
Just read via Newsarama that US artist Marshall Rogers has died. His work on Mister Miracle, Detectives Inc. and Doctor Strange remain personal favourites, but it was his Batman strips for Detective Comics which originally made him an artist whose… Read More ›
Re-visiting childhood
Talk about a labour of love. dtb contributor Matthew Badham’s just passed on a note from 2000AD fan Paul (Book of Lists, There’s No Time Like the Present) Rainey, who’s re-visitng the entire 30 year run of the title, after… Read More ›
Super Lawyer Required?
Talk about complex. Stan Lee Media, which the legendary Stan Lee no longer has any involvement with, is suing Marvel for a stonking $5 billion — claiming rights to titles including Spider-Man. Stan Lee Media was orginally co-founded by Lee,… Read More ›
Racing Rockets!
Anyone interested in getting costumes based on comics characters might be interested in this interview with designer Ruby Rocket, who has developed a deserved web-wide reputation for her creations based on the likes of Marvel’s Black Cat etc. Ruby has,… Read More ›
This week’s great Internet find…
I just found this on the Internet thing: a ‘lost’ Marvel UK Warheads strip, Loose Cannons, by Dan (Sinister Dexter) Abnett and Mark (Durham Red) Harrison Edited by Jacqui Papp, the project – guest starring Death’s Head II and Dark… Read More ›
Thrud #5 – The Beer Necessities
Writer-artist-genius Carl Critchlow has just sent me a copy of Thrud the Barbarian #5: The Bear Necessities, the continuing four-colour adventures of the very stupid fantasy warrior he first created for fanzines which went on to become one of the… Read More ›
Sean Blair reveals Commando secrets
Commando Picture Library writer Sean Blair has just provided downthetubes with a terrific piece on his experiences writing Commando. Special thanks to Sean for taking time out to write the piece, which includes some useful tips on writing Commando. Also… Read More ›
Naughty Artists at Work
Hmm, I seem to have passed to the dark side this week with all these US comic comments, but it seems I’m not the only one being naughty. As several fans have spotted, Ms Marvel clearly does have the sexiest… Read More ›