Downthetubes Celebrates 2000AD's 35th Anniversary

THE POPULAR comics website Downthetubes is taking time out this February to celebrate the 35th anniversary of 2000AD.

One of the few comics to continue that proud British tradition of being a weekly title, the comic burst onto our newsstands with the sense of anarchy that had steered IPC's earlier Action title, but now fueled by the popularity of Hollywood sc-fi blockbusters like Star Wars to give it a theme that found a responsive readership that has continued through thick and thin down the subsequent decades.

Featuring the likes of Judge Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock, Strontium Dog and even Dan Dare, it was the first British comic to feature credits and leading to the likes of Brian Bolland, Gibbons, John Wagner and Pat Mills becoming popular creators in their own right.

Downthetubes will feature different comics personalities reminscing on the first time they came across the comic themselves, or when they began work on the title.

It started yesterday and in grand tradition with no less than writer Alan Grant taking a stroll down memory lane... or perhaps that should be a swinging leap, as he references the old Tarzan comic as being related to his own introduction to the title.

Downthetubes features news, interviews and a whole lot more besides, courtesy of John Freeman and associates. Freeman has served his own time on 2000AD, among other titles, not least the well-praised new anthology comics Strip.

To keep up to date with Downthetubes and their 2000AD celebrations visit: www.downthetubes.net/