This article was first published on 13th January 2012 on the Forbidden Planet International Blog by Joe Gordon and is re-published here with the permission of Mary Talbot I’m always fascinated to learn more about how works of art come… Read More ›
downthetubes News
Post Office celebrates British Comics
Britain’s Post Office is celebrating what it’s defined as “75 Years of British Comics” with a special issue of stamps featuring the covers of various much-loved comics, including 2000AD and The Beano. Set to be released on 20th March 2012,… Read More ›
Last Commandos of 2011 go on sale
The last four Commandos of the year are now on sale, and the veteran title sees off its 50th aniversary year with another batch of great stories old and new – and what a year it’s been for the title…. Read More ›
New Eagle Times released (Volume 24 Number Four)
The latest issue of Eagle Times – Volume 24 Number Four – is now available from the Eagle Society. Contents include: From Under the 1950s Christmas Tree, Pepys Card Games – a seasonal look at the numerous Pepys games, which… Read More ›
British ‘My Favorite Martian’ strips to be reprinted
Martian madness on the way!
British Comics Rock! Conference announced for June 2012
After a successful two years at Manchester Metropolitan University, the next International Comics Conference is heading to the seaside next year and the call for papers has just been announced The Third International Comics Conference: ‘Comics Rock!’ will take place… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Alan Moore and the Horrors at Red Hook
Continuing the Panel Borders radio show’s month of shows about H.P. Lovecraft, Alex Fitch talks to Alan Moore about his final graphic novel that isn’t part of the continuing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen narrative – Neonomicon – which has been… Read More ›
Panel Borders: The Danger of Romance
Concluding a months of shows about genre in comics, Panel Borders Alex Fitch talks to writer and manga translator Sean Michael Wilson and lecturer and author Ian Rakoff about romance comics this Sunday. Sean is the editor of AX Volume… Read More ›
Panel Borders: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes
Continuing the Panel Borders comic radio show’s month of programming about genre in comics, Alex Fitch talks to creators of small press and mainstream cowboy comics. In the 300th radio show that Alex Fitch has made for Resonance FM, he… Read More ›
Photo Review: Dundee Comics Day 2011
“The Dundee Comics Day has been the highlight of my comics year so far and I look forward in anticipation to what Chris Murray and his team have in store for next year” was how I ended my review of… Read More ›
Slow Toy Movement sets out challenge to Christmas shoppers
Is the ideal toy for your child this Christmas really a battery operated dog that poos?
Latest Issue Of Eagle Times Now Available (Volume 24, Number Three)
Leslie Ashwell Wood was Eagle’s premier cutaway artist providing over 600 different painted cutaways for the weekly comic between 1950 and 1969. While some of these paintings have been reused in the recent Eagle reprint books published by Orion to… Read More ›
Striker site down – but no early bath for the strip, says creator
Football comics seem to be getting it in the neck this month – after the demise of the print edition of Comic Football (due to return online later this year), fans have alerted us to say that the official… Read More ›
WebFinds: Girls Comics of Yesterday and Bunty’s British “Supergirl”
Researching a question from a downthetubes reader about a fondly-remembered British ‘Supergirl‘, I came across Girls Comics of Yesterday, a relatively new fan site dedicated to British girl comics of the past, looking at three of the most long lasting… Read More ›
Panel Borders moves nights, interviews David B, Kid Koala
Concluding the Panel Borders radio show’s month of war comics coverage and four years of broadcasts on Thursday evenings, Alex Fitch talks to French graphic novelist David B about his new book Black Paths, published by SelfMadeHero, which depicts a… Read More ›
Signup Books Century 21: Menace from Space line-up revealed
Some great strips lined up for the next Century 21 collection
Classical Comics goes Chinese!
(with thanks to Clive Bryant and Jon Haward): Classical Comics adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, is to be re-published in China by its Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, along with a number of other titles from the successful range…. Read More ›
Panel Borders: War – The Human Cost
Continuing radio show Panel Borders month about War Comics, they will broadcast a final panel discussion recorded at the ‘Comics and Conflicts’ conference at the Imperial War Museum in August tonight. Alex Fitch chairs a discussion on ‘The personal and… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Children of the Atom
For this week’s Panel Borders show, in a panel discussion recorded at last month’s Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum, London, Paul Gravett talks to Mikkel Sommer about his graphic novella Obsolete, to publisher Adrian Searle and… Read More ›
Free Crucible t-shirt? Yes, please…
When a British-based company tshirtprinting.net offered us something for free in return for a spot of publicity for their wares, we took them at their word and asked them to make up a ‘Crucible’ t-shirt. We’re happy to report… Read More ›