John Freeman

2 days ago | downthetubes.net | John Freeman |Stephen Walsh |Keith Page

Exploring Comics and More on the Web since 1998 on • Author Enid Blyton‘s wooden toy character Noddy first appeared in the Sunday Graphic on 5th June 1949, with art by Harmsen van der Beek.

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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.

3 days ago | downthetubes.net | John Freeman |Stephen Walsh |Keith Page

British comic creator Martin Simpson has just launched his Kickstarter for his latest project Rasp: Book One, an amazing looking and intriguing adventure, featuring a unique detective – and it’s clearly captured the imaginations of his fans. Detective Agent Fritz Rasp works for ‘The Agency’, a ruthless, all-powerful institution that enforces order and discipline across a vast totalitarian metropolis of slaves.

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.

4 days ago | downthetubes.net | John Freeman |Stephen Walsh |Keith Page

Exploring Comics and More on the Web since 1998 on • Congratulations are deservedly due to comic creator Bryan Talbot, who has just won the 2025 Prix Graphique at Le Prix ActuSF de l’Uchronie for his brilliant Grandville series, awarded the “Prix Graphique“.