The Best of the Season to all our Readers!

By John Freeman on 24 December 2011

Unlike the talented comic artists whose work we promote here, I can’t draw for toffee, so I hope you don’t mind this adaptation of a piece of art by the great pulp magazine artist Virgil Finlay.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – although we’ll probably be posting more stories between now and the start of 2012!

With the launch of The Phoenix in January, 2000AD‘s 35th Birthday in February and the continuing strength of the UK indie press, it’s not all doom and gloom out there, no matter what the mainstream media would have us believe.

Our thanks to everyone who sent us stories – publishers, individual creators and others – and the very best of luck in your comic endeavours next year.

• More eCards sent to the DTT team here on my virtual fireplace on Flickr

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.