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WEBTOON announces plans for global comic talent contest in 2025, offering $1 million dollars in prizes
Who says there’s no money in comics?
Rachael Smith’s Adorable “Nap Comix” Reaches 200 Episodes
Congratulations to the award-winning creator on hitting a landmark
Coming Soon: Poetry Comics by Grant Snider
Grant Snider’s latest book celebrates poetry, and encourages you to, too…
Launching Today: PJ Holden’s Null Space
Launching today, a new web comic from PJ Holden and some top draw SF authors
Digital comics platform WEBTOON announces European expansion plans
Digital comics platform WEBTOON has announced it is to establish a new European corporation, expanding its presence in the region
Comic Creator Spotlight: Cartoonist Sarah Andersen
Sarah Andersen’s comics are great fun – and now there’s a calendar, too!
Substack email delivery platform announces major push into comics delivery, highlighting creator support
Another way to bring comics to readers is getting a major boost
Comic Creator Spotlight: Shazleen Khan
Check out some of the work of this talented colourist, comic maker and illustrator
Trouble in the “Wild, Wild, East End”… of London, for Wild Bill Hickok, Sitting Bull – and time traveller Charlotte Corday!
Check out this free-to-read web comic by a British comics veteran
To The Death: Simon Furman And Geoff Senior talk world building and roads not taken on Death’s Head
This week sees the full launch of British comic creators Simon Furman and Geoff Senior’s creator owned story To The Death as a full digital package of 18 weekly web episodes, so how could we not catch up with them both… 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 ›
Creating Comics: Dos and Don’ts Advice for Creators Printing Their Comics for the First Time
We’re delighted to repost this nifty advice about getting your comics printed, posted recently by the folk at ComicPrintingUK. This isn’t a sponsored post – I simply came across the feature, which covers both printing tips and offers other useful… Read More ›
Taking the Widdershins route: An interview with web comic creator Kate Ashwin
Regular readers of downthetubes will recall that earlier this week we plugged an upcoming Laydeez do Comics event in Leeds, which prompted me to follow the links to the creator sites, just to check they were correct more than… Read More ›
Could your webcomic be part of WASP 2014?
Earlier this year, twelve artists created some fantastic and unique strips swapping art duties amongst their respective webcomics and working to each others’ scripts. Now the team gearing up for Round Two – and throwing down the challeneg to other… Read More ›
Creating Web Comics: Some Useful Books
If you’re thinking about creating your own web comic, I’ve found these three books useful reading. How to Make Web Comics by Scott Kurtz and Peter Straub For years young, creative men and women have dreamed about making a living… Read More ›
Marc Jackson’s ‘Man from Space’ lands online
Marc Jackson, one of the team at Macclesfield-based design agency Creative Hero, has just launched his Man from Space web comic – an all-ages, all-awesome (hopefully) outer-space adventures of a intergalactic hobo and his smart-mouthed sidekick Michael… the Goldfish. “It’s… Read More ›
Kayla Hillier and Oliver East on Panel Borders
Panel Borders: …for travel’s sake In the last in a month of episodes of Panel Borders looking at depictions of travel in comic books and graphic novels, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of cartoonists whose small press and collected… Read More ›
In Review: The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator
Writer / Director: Edgar WriterArtist / Animator: Tommy Lee EdwardsNarrator: Julian BarrattMusic: Unloved (David Holmes, Keefus Green and Jade Vincent)Publisher: Microsoft 4 online episodes, approx 7 mins each The plot: Brandon Generator, a freelance writer with writer’s block, overdoes on… Read More ›
Comic Football bounces back, looking for creators
We’ve got some good news about Comic Football, the national subscription-only comic that recently informed subscribers it had been cancelled. It seems that this is only part of the story – the comic will return later this year, but in… Read More ›