Speculation is rife on the future of Panini’s Doctor Who comics collections today, after news broke that the planned release of The Crimson Hand – featuring Tenth Doctor David Tennant’s last comics adventures – had been cancelled. Sheffield based store… Read More ›
The entire 25-year archive of the football strip Striker, first published in The Sun and now featuring in mens magazine Nuts, is to be available online as free to view comics on the Striker website when it relaunches in early… Read More ›
Former Doctor Who comic artist Richard Piers Rayner has produced a limited edition print recreating one of football’s most iconic moments, when Pele and Bobby Moore were pictured swapping shirts. The original photograph, taken by John Varley at the Estadio… Read More ›
Classical Comics adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest has been shortlisted for two different awards. The company will hear this week if it has won a gold, silver or bronze Independent Publisher (or “IPPY”) award from Independent Publisher Online: no small… Read More ›
downthetubes readers may be familiar with the music or modelling work of British singer-songwriter and model VV Brown, whose single releases include “Shark In The Water” and “Crying Blood”. But what you might not know is that she’s also a… Read More ›
Quality Communications is offering a limited edition portfolio of Sherlock Holmes art by John Watkiss
Garry Leach, Rian Hughes, Dez Skinn, Gary Erskine, Emma Vieceli and Simon Furman are just some of the comic creators who will be appearing at this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON event on Saturday 1st May. At last year’s SCI-FI-LONDON (www.sci-fi-london.com) the organisers… Read More ›
Southport College is hosting to a Dan Dare exhibition celebrating 60 years of Eagle
A special signing announced
The latest issue of Eagle Times (Volume 23 Number One) is now available from the Eagle Society and, naturally enough, is an issue dedicated to the impending 60th anniversary of The Eagle on 14th April. The issue includes an examination… Read More ›
Pat Mills looks back at the career of the extraordinarily talented John Hicklenton, who sadly passed away on Friday 19th March 2010. Best known for his brutal, visceral work on flagship 2000AD characters like Judge Dredd (in particular “Heavy Metal Dredd”) and Nemesis the Warlock during… Read More ›
New issues of DC Thomson’s war comic digest Commando are now on sale now… got get ’em! Commando 4279: Too Many Heroes Previously No 2590 from 1992 Story: Ian Clark Inside Art: Salmeron Cover: Ian Kennedy With three older brothers… Read More ›
Coming in 2010: a collection of Frank Hampson’s Road of Courage from Titan Books
New thrills for Anderson fans!
Fans of the classic Carol Day newspaper strip may be interested to hear that the strip’s official web site, www.carol-day. com has recently updated with new stories and art. The new stories are “Money Matters” and “Jimmy Hayes“. Carol Day ran from 1956-1967, and was… Read More ›
Dan Dare movie rumours…
Express Weekly’s “Wulf the Briton” in the spotlight
The latest issue of Spaceship Away, the science fiction comics magazine inspired by and featuring the original Dan Dare has just gone to the printers and will be on sale in all its usual outlets, and online, soon. This issue,… Read More ›
downthetubes may have one of the best Scottish comics correspondents in, er, Scotland, in the form of Jeremy Briggs, but we don’t have a foreign correspondent: and yet, British comic creators regularly attend the biggest annual French Comics Festival, Angoulême… Read More ›
Check out Alex Ronald’s first ever comic