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and SF Events
Updated 6/10/08: More events, info always welcome. Use the email contact
link above.
• Dreaming
up The DFC: An Interview with
Publisher David Fickling
First published 17 September 2008: Earlier this
year, David Fickling Books and Random House launched The
DFC, a new weekly comic in the UK, the first of its kind in terms
of the levels of originated, new characters for many years... Read the
Interview
• ROK Comics Series
First
published: 1 September 2008. This is not a list of every series on the
comics to mobile service I manage, ROK Comics, but it does include the
most regularly updated ones in alphabetical order.
• UK Comic Sales
Figures
Updated 22/8/08: UK Comic Sales date shows a marked decline in the popularity
of some titles. Read More...
• British
Graphic Novels On Sale Now
Our list of upcoming British comics-related
graphic novel and comic collection releases. Details of new books from
Jonathan Cape, Panini and Titan and others. Information for this page
is always welcome from publishers.
• British
Comics On Sale Now
Listing of current UK comic titles, or titles that
include comic strip. Information and updates from publishers welcome.
I try and feature latest covers if possible. Read
More...
LATEST
FEATURES
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• Happy 70th Birthday,
Beano!
As Britain's top weekly humour comic The
Beano celebrates its 70th birthday, downthetubes asked
comic creators to offer their birthday
wishes, and the first received have now been published in a special
tribute section on the main downthetubes site, including this
great Minnie the Minx drawing
by Garen Ewing and other art from the likes of Stephen Baskerville,
Paul Harrison-Davies, Nigel Dobbyn, Mychailo Kazybrid, Tim Perkins and
Kev F Sutherland.
More are welcome, or share your memories or thoughts about the comic on the downthtubes forum!
• Read the Birthday Wishes
• Let us know your own
• Find
out more about the Official 70th Birthday Exhibition in Dundee
• Visit the Official Beano web site
• Find out more about the Cartoon Museum's Beano exhbition
• Creating
Comics for Mobile Phones
25/7/08: Following publication of our brief guide to
creating WebComics recently, here's an overview of one Mobile Comics platform
open to indpendent creators.
LATEST
INTERVIEWS
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• To
Infiinity and... er, Japan!
First published 13 September 2008: Russell Willis
produced and published a number on important underground cartoon magazines
in the 1980s. He moved to Tokyo in the early 1990's where he now runs
a web based publishing company in Tokyo. UK underground cartoonist, Simon
Mackie, who also lived in Tokyo in the early to mid 1990's, recently
met up with Russell in Tokyo where they talked about Russell's involvement
with the UK comics underground two and a half decades ago... Read
the interview
• The
Return of Garth
First published: 31 August 2008: In August 2008,
after a long gestation period, adventure hero Garth returned
to British newspaper The Mirror - albeit, for now, only on the publication's
web site. Here, artist Huw-J talks to John Freeman about the new strip
and his many plans for the character's ongoing revival...
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