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Gateway City
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Gateway City Volume Two by Russell Mark Olson
Gateway City is back and is looking great!
Russell Mark Olson’s Gateway City returns, as web comic and quarterly “newspaper”
A superb SF noir comic is heading back into the limelight
Lakes Festival Focus 2020: Artist Russell Mark Olson
Check out our chat with this award-winning comics artist and writer
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Gateway City Volume One by Russell Mark Olson
Regular readers of downthetubes will recall we’ve previously plugged the independent comic Gateway City created by Russell Mark Olson – and now the first four issues are to be collected into a new collection, accompanied by extra pages, new art… Read More ›
Creating Comics: An Interview with Russell Mark Olson, creator of “Gateway City”
As regular downthetubes readers know, we’ve given a couple of mentions to the digital comics platform Tapastic here, highlighting some of the great strips featured. One of these is the intriguing Gateway City, a crime noir/ SF mash up by… Read More ›
“Martian” author Andy Weir short stories published exclusively on the books and comics app, Tapas
Before Andy Weir’s brilliant SF novel The Martian became a bestseller and a box-office hit, it was posted in short, free instalments to his website. His approach mirrors the serialised stories of 19th century periodicals, which popularized authors like Charles Dickens and… Read More ›