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downthetubes.net is a comics news and features site, with a focus on British comics and creating comics.
News and features on comics and the people who make them.
A running tracker of TG Jones store closures after WHSmith's High Street business was bought by Modella Capital. It is arranged by town and month, with notes on the effect on post office services and on local sales of magazines and comics, and it is updated as closures are announced.
Visit linkThe news archive holds items published on the site's original HTML pages, before the move to its current platform. The archive is still being worked through, and because many items are old, links in them may be dead, so the page points readers to the Internet Archive for earlier snapshots.
Visit linkdownthetubes.net has covered comics online since 1998 and presents itself as written by people. Its focus is British comics and the people who make them, rather than comics in general. It pairs a news feed with a reference section: profiles of British comic characters and strips, research guides, a who-owns-what list of classic titles, and industry questions and answers on sales figures and newsstand titles. Doctor Who and other popular culture also appear in its coverage.
Read the noteThe British Comics Reference section is the site's research area. It profiles British comic characters and strips, including Dan Dare, Garth, Roy of the Rovers, Action and Charley's War, and it has a research guide to British comic titles and a list of current titles. For people making comics, the Creating Comics Guide and the Comic Creator Interviews and Profiles section cover the making side.
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