Who is Strawjack? The truth is elusive
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Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh by Keith Page, Part 7
Who is Strawjack? He has many identities…
Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh by Keith Page, Part 6
Strawjack has escaped the Royal Navy – in a submarine!
Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh by Keith Page, Part 5
Captured by the Royal Navy, can Strawjack escape death?
Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh by Keith Page, Part 4
Captured by the Royal Navy, Strawjack faces a grim execution…
Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh by Keith Page, Part 3
Has Strawjack been captured by the Royal Navy at last?
Starts Today! Strawjack – The Terror of Romney Marsh by Keith Page – Parts 1 and 2
We’re delighted to begin a serialisation of a steampunk-skewed adventure by Keith Page
In Review: A Corner of Some Foreign Field (a free web comic)
Written by Martin Hayes Art by Alfie Gallagher Colours by Chris O’Halloran Letters by Bram Meehan This short, eight page strip, available to read online for free, is ideally suited to those long cold, and slightly spooky, winters nights. It’s… Read More ›
Creating Comics: British web comic “The Putto” gets print publication – in Czech!
Given the unfortunate lack of outlets when it comes to original comics on the news stand here in the UK, it’s hardly surprising to hear that many comic creators are enjoying publishing success outside this country. Creators such as Pat… Read More ›
Web Comic Spotlight: Bastard Galaxia, a crazy homage to 1980s action figures
Lancaster-based comic creators Steve Gregson and Matt Simmons have created a daft homage to the 1980’s action figure craze with Bastard Galaxia, centring on a maniacal bad guy that wouldn’t look out of place on Adult Swim (some of the… Read More ›
New Wolfblood Motion Comic Continues CBBC saga
Fans of CBBC’s Wolfblood will be pleased to hear that a second motion comic based on the series is on the way, written by Rik Hoskin and illustrated by Tom Waterhouse. Set after the dramatic events of the show’s fourth season,… Read More ›
Halloween Man Creative Team Takes on Donald Trump!
In March 1941, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby took a political stance against the rise of fascism in Europe with their famous creation, Captain America. Now in the 21st Century, say the creative team of the underground comic, Halloween Man, a US presidential… Read More ›
Striker dropped from The Sun’s print edition, goes online only
The Sun has unexpectedly dropped the print version of its popular football comic, Striker, moving the strip online – much to the disappointment of its many fans – and the surprise of its creator, Pete Nash. “I was told on… Read More ›
Acclaimed Web Comic BREAKS Celebrates Second Anniversary, but still battles for readers
Comic creators Malin Ryden and Emma Vieceli should be celebrating this week, after their much-praised web comic, BREAKS, reached its milestone second anniversary – but despite all their hard work promoting the comic, we’re sorry to report they’re still battling… Read More ›
The Really Heavy Greatcoat Review of the Year 2015
The Really Heavy Greatcoat by myself and Lancaster-based artist Nick Miller was published fairly regularly for about 20 years in alternative Lancaster print titles such as On The Beat and Off the Beat and online on virtual-lancaster.net. The strip’s last regular appearance in print was in the… Read More ›
Dave Windett’s new web comic “Intergalactic Medical Doctor” launches
Dave Windett has a new web comic over at the Webcomic Factory – Intergalactic Medical Doctor, written by Christian Beranek and Tony DiGerolamo (who he worked on with another strip, Comic Book Mafia). “It’s been described as ‘kind of like… Read More ›
Marc Michael Jackson revamps “Man from Space” strip for Tapastic
Last week saw the launch (blast-off) of Marc Michael Jackson‘s new Man from Space series on the digital comics platform Tapastic, a service we’ve mentioned before as a great place to read a range of new comics (and which I… Read More ›
Creating Comics: The Battle for the Backing of Online Readers
If you follow me on social media, you’ll know I’ve been regularly plugging my SF comic project, Crucible (co-created with Smuzz, lettered by Jim Campbell), which runs on the web comics platform Tapastic and is embedded here on downthetubes as… Read More ›
Exploring Tapastic: The Weird and the Fantastic
As regular readers of downthetubes know, we regularly post new episodes of our SF adventure strip, Crucible, to the web comics platform Tapastic. The series, written by me, drawn by Smuzz and lettered by Jim Campbell (and which has had an… Read More ›
Webcomic Spotlight: Vanguard by Dan Butcher
Written by Dan Butcher & Gary Cohen Drawn and created by Dan Butcher View it at: www.VanguardComic.com The Story: Vanguard is the story of a team of genetically enhanced meta-humans employed by the British government to protect… Read More ›