Happy birthday Tintin! 80 years ago this weekend (on 10 January 1929), Hergé’s Tintin made his first appearance in Le Petit Vingtième, the weekly children’s supplement of Le XXe Siècle. With Steven Spielberg working on a Hollywood film of the… Read More ›
Alex Fitch of ResonanceFM and Panel Borders has been in touch with information on his new broadcasts / podcasts: On Air Now: Strip – The work of Raymond Briggs The UK’s only weekly radio show about comic books returns after… Read More ›
The Ex Astris strips first featured on ROK Comics are now appearing on Rebellion’s iPod and iPhone service Clickwheel. Ex Astris is a multi-strand CGI-created strip written by John Freeman and drawn by Bill Storie (aka Mike Nicoll). The strip… Read More ›
The Christmas issue of the fanzine devoted to the original Eagle comic, Eagle Times, published by The Eagle Society, is now available. Volume 21 Issue 4 includes articles on artists Tony Weare and Ian Kennedy, the first part of a… Read More ›
It’s just been announced that Gerry Anderson’s classic puppet series Thunderbirds has been re-licensed to Sci Fi Channel UK. SCI FI has renewed its license for the 32-episode show, for launch in the spring, and has also taken two additional… Read More ›
As reported here last month, Issue 8 is a milestone edition for British comics fan magazine Crikey! with this 52-page issue published in full colour throughout. “So far, the response has been tremendous and the issue has only been on… Read More ›
British publisher Reynolds and Hearn are to release two books reprinting strips from TV Century 21 comic and other titles first published by City Editions in the 1960s such as Joe 90: Top Secret. Scheduled for release early next year and titled Century 21 – Classic Comic… Read More ›
We mentioned Gary Northfield‘s popular Beano (and first creator owned) strip Derek the Sheep earlier today with good reason. The first collection of the strip, published back in September by Bloomsbury but which just arrived here at downthetubes (thanks, Gary!),… Read More ›
Alex Fitch has just sent us details for the shows he produces that are being broadcast / podcast over the next seven days… On air: Strip: The work of Art Spiegelman Guest presenter Grant Rogers talks to Pulitzer Prize winning… Read More ›
Rammie, the first issue of an all-new football humour comic for children will go on sale in UK newsagents tomorrow (26th November) featuring work by Duncan Scott, Nick Brennan, Nick Miller, Lee Healey, and Lew Stringer. With a cover price… Read More ›
A new project from best-selling writer Jim Krueger
Picking up from where the international best-selling Erotic Comics: A Graphic History (Volume 1) left off, Ilex press have just announced Volume 2 will reveal how European, American and Asian artists have explored the possibility of the form in the… Read More ›
Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple made his first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938 and went on to appear in novels, film, television and a daily newspaper strip. Now, there’s even a cocktail named after him – and an… Read More ›
Here some details on the current and upcoming schedule for the comics podcast “Reality Check”
The latest issue of Eagle Times, (Volume 21 Number Three), the quarterly journal dedicated to Britain’s national picture strip weekly Eagle, features 50+ A4 pages (of which 20 are in full colour) of all sorts of things to do with… Read More ›
Harrods “Comic Timing” Exhibition is continuing until 31st October 2008
The International Comics Festival is back!
The latest issue of Britain’s longest running comics fanzine, Eagle Times, is now available. After downthetubes contributor Richard Sheaf’s article on the newly discovered dummy issue of Eagle number 2 in the last issue, downthetube’s contributions to the 54 page… Read More ›
The organisers of this event have asked me to help plug the Barry Gray Centenary Concert (which Jeremy Briggs trailed here back in July). After watching a few classic (and, admisttedly, some not-so-classic) Thunderbirds episodes on SciFiUK over the past… Read More ›
Check out this fantastic comics exhibition at Harrods