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In Review: Doctor Who – Lux
Review by Tim Robins
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Gosh! Chris Weston “Paranoid Gardens” signing tonight
Gosh! In London have a signing with superstar artist Chris Weston tonight, Friday 25th April 2025, for their Gosh! exclusive bookplate collection of Paranoid Gardens, the latest comics opus from Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, Chris Weston and Dave Stewart. Chris is at Gosh! from 6.00 until 7.00pm. Published
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Author and comics auteur Paul Gravett’s name hijacked by scammers?
Comic creator David Lloyd has alerted us to what appears to be a scam ad circulating on Facebook using comic creator or auteur names, including writer and publisher Paul Gravett, to promote their AI-created graphic novels. Such projects are unlikely to garner support from those the ads claim “like” their
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downthetubes: An Apology
Owing to internal technical problems, we are currently unable to add new posts to downthetubes, as of Saturday 20th April 2025. The problem is being addressed, but in the meantime, news items will be published to our Tumblr at downthetubes.tumblr.com. The issue is very much a technical one,
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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 4th April 2024
Catching up on Liam Sharp's "Conan" teasers, "The Expanse", and remembering Ian Gibson's "Annie Droid"
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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 21st March 2024: AI, Battle Action, Daleks and more
Don't miss my video look at an amazing new art book, below...
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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 14th March 2024: Daleks, Leprechauns and other craziness...
We discovered a little known Irish comic and helped saved some of those evil pepperpots, hopefully...
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London Book Fair fast approaching…
Here’s some quick items of interest for creatives heading to this year’s London Book Fair (can’t make it myself), taking place 11th to 13th March 2025... • The London Book Fair 2025 is a place for authors to learn, connect, and get inspired. Check out this sketchnote by
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Award-winning SF author Lorraine Wilson heads to Lancaster Literature Festival for event with Yvonne Battle-Felton
Lorraine Wilson, author of BSFA longlisted We Are All Ghosts In The Forest and Mother Sea, shortlisted for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2023), will be at the 46th Lancaster Literature Festival (LitFest) on Sunday 9th March at 5.30pm. She'll be in a superb double bill
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Limited Time Deal on Tom Gauld Prints
The Guardian newspaper has released three of Tom Gauld’s cartoons as prints. They are an open edition in two sizes and are available for one week only, available here as “Current Print Drops”. Tom draws weekly cartoons for The Guardian and New Scientist magazine. He has created a number
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Changes in the Works at downthetubes
Under the bonnet update is in the works next week, but there's plenty to catch up on, published over the past seven days...
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Cartoonist or Comic Creator with Something to Say?
UK-based Shaun McClure runs the YouTube channel GeekRetrospective, specialising in nostalgia, and is keen to feature comic creators and cartoonists to appear. He’s interviewed illustrators such as Jim Burns, Bob Eggleton, the late Chris Moore and others, and features a lot of computer game nostalgia, too. Talking to The