How is Greece being affected by the ongoing financial crisis and the ongoing instability of its recently-re-elected government, still without a clear majority? Greek cartoonist Spiros Derveniotis hopes to cast an informative light on a dificult subject, told through the lives of… Read More ›
Richard Pink, the Managing Director of Licensing Agent and Brand Licensing company Pink Key Consulting, now handling the licensing of numerous Egmont UK brands including their “Classic Comics”, has big plans for the publishing company’s best-known vintage brand – Roy… Read More ›
The latest episode of Jeremy Bement’s Doctor Who: Panel to Panel podcast features a chat with longtime Doctor Who Magazine comic artist Martin Geraghty about all the Doctors, his 20 plus years with DWM and much more. Martin began drawing… Read More ›
There has long been a tradition of comics and graphic novels adapting, or drawing inspiration from, well-known stories, and “The Art Of The Graphic Novel: Adapted and Inspired“, an exhibition that’s part of the Guernsey Literary Festival (on now, running… Read More ›
Not having been a Deca Thargo since 1997, it is rare that a 2000AD cover grabs me by the Id and will not let go until my ego and super-ego have reviewed that piece. Many will think that the… Read More ›
In a move indicating further expansion beyond its own well-established and much-loved titles, 2000AD has announced it has acquired the rights to Scarlet Traces by Ian Edginton and Matt “D’Israeli” Brooker. 2000AD has secured the global rights for the series,… Read More ›
Last year, in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, downthetubes brought you a number of interviews with creators attending the event – and we’re delighted to be able to run a series in the run up to their… Read More ›
An exhibition of over 150 cartons by The Times’ political cartoonist Peter Brookes has just opened today at London’s Chris Beetles Gallery. All of the satirical works are up for sale. Peter Brookes was born in Liverpool in 1943, the son of an RAF officer…. Read More ›
Here’s this week’s list of comics on sale now in comic shops across the UK. As usual, our list highlights the work of British creators and publishers. The top spot goes this week to Jem & The Holograms #7 from IDW… Read More ›
Dundee Literary Festival, which takes place at the University of Dundee from 21 to 25 October, has announced its 2015 line-up of authors and events with talks by comics creators including Mike Collins, Karrie Fransman, Dave Gibbons, and Will Morris. The annual event… Read More ›
Over on the official Charlotte Corday web site, author and comic strip writer Stephen Walsh and Commando and Dan Dare artist Keith Page have just kicked off another fiction strand – a serialised text story, “Warp Wizard” revealing the early… Read More ›
The boys from the Awesome Comics Podcast are back with their sweary antics and this week have downthetubes favourite and ball of creative energy Sarah Millman. Vince Hunt, Dan ‘The Guns’ Butcher and Tony Esmond chat to Sarah about her… Read More ›
I’ll readily confess to woeful ignorance of modern Marvel continuity, but I was delighted to hear the news that the Black Knight is to get his own book – launching in November. I couldn’t help but hope, however, that writer… Read More ›
Gosh, the fab comic shop based in London’s Berwick Street, will be hosting a Launch Party for Wild’s End Volume 1 with creators Dan Abnett and I.N.J Culbard, on Friday 2nd October. Published by Boom! Studios, Wild’s End offers a great new takes on classic science-fiction, and the creative… Read More ›
Lew Stringer‘s seriously-stupid superhero Brickman is back after an equally stupidly-long absence from comics – and his creator has finally realised a long-held ambition to bring the character’s many fans a new comic packed with his wacky adventures. Brickman Returns!,… Read More ›
‘After Smith’ is a new exhibition work opening in Germany today that re-interprets 10 pages of comics originally written by John Smith, and drawn by eight different artists as abstract works, as part of the ongoing ‘Intercorstal’ project created by Gareth A… Read More ›
Based in Bury Street, London, The Illustration Cupboard Gallery is hosting an exhibition of some of Britain’s finest political cartoonists: the Daily Telegraph’s Christian Adams, the late Punch cartoonist Albert Edgar Beard, the Financial Times cartoonist Jeremy Banks (better known as BANX) , The Week’s… Read More ›
Here’s this week’s list of comics on sale now in comic shops across the UK. As usual, our list highlights the work of British creators and publishers. What’s not to like about Judge Dredd storming out of the latest cover… Read More ›
Bill Morrison, Disney artist and cofounder of Bongo Comics with Matt Groening, and a headline guest at this year’s Lakes International Comic Art Festival in October, has teamed with Dark Horse Comics and artist Keith Champagne for his first creator-owned… Read More ›
Egmont UK has just launched a new 32-page magazine reflecting the new-look Bob the Builder TV show which launches on Channel 5’s Milkshake slot in September. The new-look Bob the Builder magazine aimed at preschoolers aged 3-5 is packed with… Read More ›