The ninth annual Thought Bubble Festival took place in Leeds over the week of 9-15 November 2015, however it is the huge two-day comic convention over the weekend of 14-15 November that the vast majority of punters and creators think… Read More ›
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Creators @ Glasgow Comic Con 2015 – Part 2
The fifth Glasgow Comic Con took place over the weekend of 4/5 July 2015 near the centre of Scotland’s largest city. downthetubes has already covered the convention with a preview and a review of the event and here we present the… Read More ›
In Review: Glasgow Comic Con 2015
As the tables are cleared away and the volunteers, artists, writers and local traders head off for a post-convention tipple, we look back at how Glasgow Comic Con 2015 fared… Organised by Black Hearted Press and spread over three sites,… Read More ›
Lakes International Comic Art Festival “Clock Tower” Line-Up revealed
Following up on our reports on the international and British guests attending this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October – which includes Steve Bell, Darwyn Cooke, Dave McKean, Kieron Gillen, Kathryn and Stuart Immonen and many more – the organisation… Read More ›
Edinburgh Comic Con: A Bird’s Eye View
In April 2014, I went to a rather small, poorly attended comic show called SBA at the Students Union that is part of Edinburgh University. I was lucky and I got to spend an inordinate amount of time chatting with… Read More ›
Cup of O – Thought Bubble Stash Dissection
Last month saw the annual appearance of the Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival in Leeds – the convention element of which is a permanent fixture on the convention calendar for the majority of small pressers in the UK. I was there… Read More ›
Thought Bubble Gets Cross (the Disconnected Anthology, that is…)
This weekend will see the launch of the CROSS anthology from Disconnected Press at Thought Bubble, a glorious assemblage of political wit, satire and polite British rage! And we do mean glorious, because Conor Boyle, the co-conspirator in the project with partner… Read More ›
Comic Creators Get Cross, launch appeal to fund new British satire comic
An impressive group of British comic creators have joined forces to launch a Kickstarter campaign for CROSS, a 64-page anthology of satire, born from a group of people who wish Spitting Image was still around to keep us all… Read More ›
The Sentient Zombie Space Pigs return!
We’re pleased to report that the second issue of Sentient Zombie Space Pigs from Disconnected Press, written by Lizzie Boyle and drawn by partner Conor Boyle, is now on sale – and it looks just as fun as the first issue, which we… Read More ›
Cup of O – Small Press Reviews
Before diving into some reviews I just want to give a shout out to on-going webcomic Warm Cube by the masterful Neil Ford – an absorbing and astounding weekly odyssey which is as absorbing as it is gorgeous. See the web links at… Read More ›
Here come the Zombie Space Pigs!
Zombies. How many more permutations can there be? The Walking Dead and Dead Roots are just two examples of this horror staple translated into fine comics that we’ve mentioned here recently on downthetubes, but there are many more… —… Read More ›