Doctor Who comic creator Mike Collins interrogated

By John Freeman on March 18, 2015

Comic artist Mike Collins at the Lakes Festival. Photo: Jeremy Briggs

Episode 25 of the excellent Doctor Who: Panel to Panel podcast is up and in this episode, Jeremy Bement covers recent news about the Three Doctors mini-series coming up from Titan Comics and chats with longtime Doctor Who Magazine writer and artist Mike Collins.

A featured artist on Doctor Who Magazine since the television series’ triumphant return, Collins has had the longest uninterrupted run as artist on the lead strip, pencilling the debut stories of actors Christopher Eccleston, David Matt Tennant and Smith as The Doctor. He has also illustrated two Doctor Who graphic novels for the BBC, The Only Good Dalek and The Dalek Project, and now provides storyboards for the actual TV series. He also contributed to America’s IDW Doctor Who comics.

Jeremy has interviewed many Doctor Who comic creators including Tim Quinn, Dicky Howett, David Roach, Kev Hopgood, Lee Sullivan, Richard Starkings, Gary Russell and myself.

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John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “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.