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Pete McKinney, the creator of The Hindsight Hut blog, is currently researching a piece about Birmingham’s Nostalgia and Comics (now Worlds Apart), and would like to hear from people who have fond memories of using the store and who worked there.
07.08.2025 07:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Comics Youth CIC and its charitable arm, Comics Youth SCIO, has announced the launch of a search for the UK’s first Youth Comics Laureate, a ground-breaking, youth-led role designed to empower, pay, and amplify comics creators aged 18–30
06.08.2025 16:56 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Forbidden Planet Liverpool has had a makeover, and is celebrating with an all-day relaunch event and exclusive signings this Saturday, 9th August 2025
06.08.2025 09:45 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Secret Artist Sale in aid of charity to offer work by top British Comic Artists for amazingly low prices
Original work by some of the country’s top comic artists will be available for £50 at a charity art event in Shrewsbury this summer. Artist Charlie Adlard and Jonathan Soden of The Soden…
Emily the Strange arrives in Forbidden Planet stores and on forbiddenplanet.com this summer - featuring a range of licensed apparel, giftware and homewares
06.08.2025 07:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Oh, so it wasn’t just the cat wanting me to get up at half three, then… art by Brian Bolland
Oh, so it wasn’t just me the cat wanted to get up at half three, then… art by Brian Bolland
06.08.2025 06:49 — 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
On its way in November from Simon & Schuster is a new Star Trek: The Original Series novel, Identity Theft, by Greg Cox: downthetubes.net/new-star-tre... (previous item updated with cover)
06.08.2025 06:45 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Prison Paradox, a new Doctor Who comics series featuring The Fifteenth Doctor and companion Belinda Chandra launches in November from Titan Comics
06.08.2025 06:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Several stories are ramping up for their endgame this week in 2000AD Prog 2444. Among them, “Scarlet Traces”, investigators under fire – as it turns out, literally…
06.08.2025 06:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A digital illustration of a tiny red and green dragon perched on a leaf.
A digital illustration of a large, brown tyrannosaurus, sat on a muddy shoreline, gazing across a lake with tall trees around its shore.
A pencil sketch of two large dinosaurs, affectionately nuzzling.
A digital illustration of a herd of woolly mammoths walking into a fierce blizzard in a white-out.
Hello new followers.
I’m Andy - an illustrator of dragons, dinosaurs and other extinct animals. I work in both traditional and digital media, and am a passionate advocate for human-made art. You can find all my work, purchase my books and contact me here: www.andyfrazer.com
Zoinks!! By John Freeman, Tuesday 5th August 2025. “Well, the bins were either blown away, or eaten by geese…” | More Zoinks!! at www.flickr.com/gp/downthetu...
05.08.2025 08:23 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A stamp of my character loki's face saying foolish mortals and a test of the stamp on a post it, plus an ink pad.
My new toy from @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social
05.08.2025 09:48 — 👍 90 🔁 4 💬 7 📌 1
A new study from Cambridge shows the diverse motivations young people have for learning English, brought to life through a series of drawings by primary school children from around the world
05.08.2025 10:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zoinks!! By John Freeman, Tuesday 5th August 2025. “Well, the bins were either blown away, or eaten by geese…” | More Zoinks!! at www.flickr.com/gp/downthetu...
05.08.2025 08:23 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
**FINAL 4 HOURS!**
Last call to back BOXES Vol. 4 on Kickstarter! We are within £500 of our goal.
BOXES is an anthology that showcases exciting UK based cartoonists.
You can help bring this latest issue to life by backing it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
Thanks!
The inaugural Liverpool Book Festival has been announced for Sunday 7th September 2025 – and acclaimed novelist Ramsey Campbell and Marvel comic writers Alan Cowsill and Tim Quinn are on the guest list
05.08.2025 06:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The latest issue of PARAGON, the long-running action adventure comics anthology edited by Davey Candlish, is available now – and comes packed with plenty of enjoyable strips
04.08.2025 14:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alberto Foche is possibly best known to regular downthetubes readers for his work for Marvel, and as the artist who drew the Titan Comics Dan Dare mini series, He Who Dares, written by Peter Milligan, collected in 2018. Here's a quick look at his career so far...
04.08.2025 09:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An Eva Kant illustration by Giancarlo Caracuzzo, a character from the Italian series, Diabolik, via https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/96954362-caracuzzo-giancarlo-1-original-colour-drawing-eva-k-eva-kant-2025
An Eva Kant illustration by Giancarlo Caracuzzo, a character from the Italian series, Diabolik, via https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/96954362-caracuzzo-giancarlo-1-original-colour-drawing-eva-k-eva-kant-2025
An Eva Kant illustration by Giancarlo Caracuzzo, a character from the Italian series, Diabolik, via www.catawiki.com/en/l/9695436...
04.08.2025 08:03 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Enric Badia Romero original art for the 1977 Modesty Blaise series "The Junk Men" (#4225) via href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/97017547-enric-badia-romero-1-original-page-modesty-blaise-strip-4225-1977
Enric Badia Romero original art for the 1977 Modesty Blaise series "The Junk Men" (#4225) via href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/97017547-enric-badia-romero-1-original-page-modesty-blaise-strip-4225-1977
Enric Badia Romero original art for the 1977 Modesty Blaise series "The Junk Men" (#4225) via href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/97017547-enric-badia-romero-1-original-page-modesty-blaise-strip-4225-1977
04.08.2025 07:59 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Art by Jean-Claude Servais, "Le Jardin des Glaces" (2008), offered here on Catawiki: https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/97001405-jean-claude-servais-1-original-drawing-servais-le-jardin-des-glaces-2008
Art by Jean-Claude Servais, "Le Jardin des Glaces" (2008), offered here on Catawiki: www.catawiki.com/en/l/9700140...
04.08.2025 07:52 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Looks great - backed.
03.08.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Mini con ahead?
03.08.2025 06:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Crowdfunding Spotlight: BOXES Volume 4, from ThirdBear Press
A heady mix of challenging, entertaining comics
Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
02.08.2025 20:00 — 👍 14651 🔁 5263 💬 161 📌 513I’m glad he’s been honoured in his home town
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Did you know Reg Bunn, co-creator of “The Spider”, published in Lion, is honoured as part of a £2.5 million refurbishment of The Navigation pub in Kings Norton? You do now!
02.08.2025 06:18 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 3
Limit Break Comics will be releasing ace downthetubes contributor and roving reporter James Bacon’s first non-fiction book, Irish Conflict in Comics in the 20th Century, Rebellion, Nazi Spies and The Troubles, at Dublin Comic Con on Saturday 9th August.
02.08.2025 05:48 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
