The Doctor Who Appreciation Society has announced its next publication: DWAS: Doctor Who 70-79, a full-colour hardback publication looking at the decade of the Third and Fourth Doctors, played on screen by Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker.
The new book, coming soon, edited by Bruce Nicholson, designed and produced by Paul MC Smith, with cover artwork by Andy Lambert, delves into one of the most popular periods for the long-running Doctor Who TV series. It was also the decade that saw the foundation of The Doctor Who Appreciation Society (DWAS), which today has nearly 30 thousand followers across the globe.
It features contributions from author, critic, and journalist Kara Dennison, writer and producer Simon Guerrier, fan studies researcher Matt Hills, former DWAS Co-ordinator Tony Jordan, writer Chris McAuley, librarian, creator of knitted people and eccentric fan fiction Lucy McCaul, author and Doctor Who comic strip expert Paul Scoones, short story author Dale Smith, Jez Strickley, editor for the Canadian Doctor Who magazine Whotopia for a decade, author of The Mysterious Planet: 79 (Black Archive), published last year, writer and “occasional broadcaster” Tim Worthington and more.
DWAS: Doctor Who 70-79 also features a number of stunning interior illustrations by the brilliant Andy Lambert.
The book includes essays on topics from how a line of dialogue in 1969 changed the programme irreversibly, to the circumstances that made the series a national talking point as the 1980s dawned. Along the way the book discusses companion Liz Shaw, the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, Weetabix, Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars, teatime brutality and the first Doctor Who Weekly comic strip, “The Iron Legion”. Plus, from the DWAS archives, interviews with the late Caroline John (who played Liz Shaw), writer Terrance Dicks and Mary Tamm, who played Romana.
The world’s longest running major Doctor Who fan club, The Doctor Who Appreciation Society (DWAS), which ceased to be a paying membership society last year, offers a free online quarterly magazine, Celestial Toyroom, which itself is the longest running Doctor Who magazine currently in existence, and everyone is welcome to contribute.
They also regularly offer publications and DWAS organised conventions and events. The next is Projections In Time: Black & White & Silver, this coming Saturday, 20th June at Riverside Studios, London.
• The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is online at dwasonline.co.uk
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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.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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