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  • 3 days ago | downthetubes.net | downthetubes Guests |John Freeman

    Review by Andrew PixleyThe fact that this superb volume has taken its author, Tony Hadoke, some 36 years to assemble – as he explains in his introduction – is probably a key reason as to why it is such a superb volume. The changes in technology in recent decades and the increased access to archival material via physical examination or electronic replication has allowed a massive shift in the way that television and film has been researched, studied and presented.

  • 1 week ago | downthetubes.net | downthetubes Guests |John Freeman

    on • Publisher David McDonald looks back at 20 years of bringing classic British comics back into print through limited run books that are, today, regularly rapid sell outs…20 years ago, I released Doomlord, the Deathlords of Nox!I was long a fan of British comics and was frustrated by the lack of any collections of these, so green as I was, I set about publishing the first Hibernia collection- the aforementioned Doomlord.

  • 3 weeks ago | downthetubes.net | downthetubes Guests |Tyler James |John Freeman

    By Tyler James, Publisher of ComixTribe, Creator of the ComixLaunch Comic Book Crowdfunding PlannerThe comics industry, like most, is living through a period of economic uncertainty. The cost of living is rising, major publishers are scaling back, and the recent bankruptcy of Diamond – the longtime backbone of comic book distribution – has shaken the direct market to its core. And yet, in the midst of all this instability, comics on Kickstarter are thriving.

  • 1 month ago | downthetubes.net | downthetubes Guests |John Freeman

    on • David Leach, cartoonist writer, editor, kindly sent us a copy of his new autobiographical comic, David Leach Conquers the Universe #4, for review, But then we discovered Philip Boyce of the indispensable Oink! blog had already written one – and has kindly let us repost it here…How many times in your life have you heard someone start a sentence with, “They say…”? For example, “They say the best way to beat a cold is…”, or “They say it’s better to have loved and lost…” etc.

  • 1 month ago | downthetubes.net | downthetubes Guests |John Freeman

    Commando cover artist Simon Pritchard pays tribute to an artist who was, and always will be, a British toy industry legend… Dave Barnacle, one of the great British artists of the 1970s and 1980s toy industry passed away in April. For any kid like myself who grew up in Blighty during the 1970s the wonderful box art featured on the Action Man range from Palitoy will be imprinted on their minds, very deeply so for me.

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