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.

The modern reprints of Garth drew to a close in July 2020. Colourist Martin Baines had begun work on “Twin Souls” (Story No. 145) before the decision was made to end the reprints. downthetubes is ...

The Comics Cultural Impact Collective, founded by comic creators including Rhiannon Griffiths MBE, Karrie Fransman and former ...

Celebrating Superman Day today, Saturday 18th April Jim Lee has shared my pencils for his variant cover for the upcoming new ...

Over on the awesome FANSCENE British Comic zine archive, curator David Hathaway-Price has added online only resources ...

At times, The Robot Revolution, Doctor Who ’s Season Two (2025) opener, ran at such breakneck speed that I failed to keep up ...

Looking back on Season One (2024), Disney+ celebrated the fact that Doctor Who was a Top Five series for them, “globally ...

Prompted by a newly-released book, Legends of Indie Comics: Words Only featuring work by a staggering range of indie comic ...

The next issue of Time Bomb Comics anthology title Quantum, Issue 12, out soon for subscribers, will be the last for a while, ...

A new collection of Sky Masters of the Space Force, Sunday strips, written by Dave Wood with art by Jack Kirby and Wallace ...

“Nicola Bryant, best known for her role as Peri Brown alongside both the Fifth and Sixth Doctors, takes on a powerful new ...

“Judge Dredd”, “Silver”, “Ghosted” and “Chimpsky’s Law” surge forward in their respective plotlines in this week’s 2000AD ...