Our apologies for yesterday’s site outage, which is now, hopefully, resolved; the unexpected hiatus hopefully remedied, for now, although more under the bonnet tinkering may be required.
Running a long-running website like downthetubes – we’ve been publishing this site in different forms since 1998! – still sometimes forces you on unexpected learning curves involving acronyms, dealing with hidden legacy detritus and coding demands you never expected you’d be having to do when you start your day. I hope our issues didn’t spoil your experience of our site too much!
One of the casualties of the changes is that our newsletter will now feature on our Crucible Comic Press Substack. We have not exported any addresses from our previous newsletter to Substack, so you’ll have to subscribe there for updates.
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Mickey Bach (1909 – 1994) was producing Word-A-Day cartoons offered through various syndicates to American newspapers, from the 1940s to about 1985, for the pleasure of people who wanted to improve their vocabulary skills. You can enjoy seeing hundreds of his images by visiting the Word A Day Revisited Index.
Although AmazonUK lists details of the 1965 Word-A-Day Index, you’re more likely to find a copy on eBay for a reasonable price
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The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “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.
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Site Announcement: Permalinks issue persistently breaking site 
A Huge Thank You to our Amazing downthetubes Readers 
Coming Soon: GOOF! A fabulous, funny comic for kids, launching at Macc-Pow! next month