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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
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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 21st February 2024
Out and about, an Award win, and can you help save a Dalek?
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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 14th February 2024: Space Zombies, venge-filled crusaders, and more
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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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 7th February
Out and About
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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 31st January 2025
News items you may have missed, and a badly-drawn cartoon...
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downthetubes News Round Up - Friday 24th January 2025
Some news items you may have missed...
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