Over on socksandbarney.com, top artist Steve Conley recently delivered a telling blow on the US mainstream media with a fun cartoon, just one of his very funny “Socks and Barney” strips he’s been keeping far too quiet about, in my… Read More ›
Humour Comics
Chicken Impossible
Special thanks to my friend Daniel for tipping me off to this sure-to-become-classic ringtone… FREE YOUR PHONE – ZEDGE.NET
Go Monkey Nuts!
Following up on our earlier post about the new DFC comic, just to note the Etherington Brothers Monkey Nuts comic makes its debut in The Guardian this coming Saturday (23rd February). “After a long(ish) period of enforced silence we are… Read More ›
Philip Pullman joins new weekly British comic, The DFC
Britain will see the launch of a brand new comic in May, which will include a weekly strip by award-winning author Philip Pullman. The DFC, the new weekly comic for boys and girls is the brainchild of David Fickling, publisher… Read More ›
Norbert le Mouton
(via Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics): Gary Northfield’s popular Beano (and first creator owned) strip Derek the Sheep has been collected into a 64-page softback book for the French market. Published by Actes-Sud-l’An 2, the full colour Norbert le… Read More ›
Olympics Puzzle
Apparently, Steven Spielberg has decided not to participate in the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing… what event was he entering? Shark wrestling? Oh, as artistic adviser. He’s citing the lack of progress in ending the genocide in Darfur, which he… Read More ›
Babies Go Boom
UK independent publisher Orang Utan Comics has announced a new title they’re describing as “Calvin and Hobbes meets Spy vs Spy”. Baby Boomers is a heartwarming tale of two adorable infants and their ongoing desire to cause each other as… Read More ›
101 Uses for a Mac: A Cat Toy
… this has got to be one of the daftest uses for a computer, period. Especially when three quarters of the way in, the cat almost bites through the power cord. I’d love to know how the owner planned to… Read More ›
Star Trek Meets Monty Python
Two universes collide… and the results are spectacular. First published back in July 2006 I believe, but no idea who did it. Admissions of guilt welcomed!
The New 12 Days of Christmas…
Beano artist and writer Kev F. Sutherland penned the following sketch from the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, recorded live at the Canal Cafe Theatre, London. Warning: some swearing…
Happy Christmas from the Really Heavy Greatcoat
This Really Heavy Greatcoat strip pays tribute to Bob Dylan’s classic “Subterranean Homesick Blues” – script and art by Nick Miller
My Wife Left Me…
Before the sublime Doctor Who: Blink, before the gory Jekyll, before his two consecutive Hugo awards for new Doctor Who episodes, before even the four seasons of Coupling, Steven Moffat wrote two seasons of a little gem of a sitcom… Read More ›
One for those of us working in publishing…
– and advertising, marketing, promotions etc. etc. For the record, we of course don’t know any pubisher or anyone in advertising who behaves like this. (Do you?). This mashup was conceived, written and produced by World Wide Wadio (“an All-Star… Read More ›
Should Have Been Christmas Number One…
Well this, or Shaun the Sheep…
Londo in 2008?
It seems there aren’t a lot of candidates Americans can agree upon in the US presidential elections. Fortunately, Babylon 5 creator and Amazing Sider-Man and Thor writer J. Michael Stracyznski (pictured right) has kindly solved the problem as a public… Read More ›
Happy 70th Birthday, Dandy!
Over on Lew Stringer’s always wonderful Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics, he notes that the world’s longest running comic The Dandy is 70 years old any day now. Issue Number 1 was cover dated 4th December 1937, which means… Read More ›
The World Needs More Teddies
At this festive time for many religions, perhaps it’s time to start spreading some love so I’ve gone all fuzzy and am proposing a Send a Teddy Campaign. So, if you’re concerned by religious intolerance (Catholic groups bemoaning The Golden… Read More ›
Blog Readability Test
(with thanks to Gad Sir! Comics). According to this simple Blog Readability Test from the Critics Rant web site, you apparently have to be a genius to read the downthetubes blog. It appears to work on some HTML based sites… Read More ›
Friday Fun: Talking Cats
You may have seen the original “Talking Cats” … … but now someone has kindly provided a Babelfish provided translation for those of us who don’t speak cat. The original cats, Stina and Mossy usually fight instead of talk, so… Read More ›