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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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Catching up on Liam Sharp's "Conan" teasers, "The Expanse", and remembering Ian Gibson's "Annie Droid"
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Don't miss my video look at an amazing new art book, below...
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We discovered a little known Irish comic and helped saved some of those evil pepperpots, hopefully...
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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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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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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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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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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
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Out and about, an Award win, and can you help save a Dalek?
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Happy Valentines’ Day! Although, if you are celebrating the day (chocolates, flowers and kittens optional), you might be surprised to learn early nineteenth century Valentines were solely intended to insult, attack, humiliate, or otherwise torment their recipient. Mind you, given some of the cards I’ve had in past years,
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