Andrew Skilleter’s Classic Doctor Who Limited Edition Art Calendar 2024 available to preorder

By John Freeman on August 25, 2023

Artist Andrew Skilleter has opened preorders for his Classic Doctor Who Limited Edition Art Calendar 2024, designed by Rob Moss.

Shipping in September this signed, limited edition A4 featuring the first Eight Doctors plus Companions, Adversaries – and looks terrific.

Order your calendar here, only available direct from Andrew’s official site.

Andrew Skilleter is a long-time British illustrator of many things, with a track record spanning decades using primarily traditional techniques. It was his childhood dream to be an illustrator, his early influence being the cream of the British picture strip artists who flourished in the golden age of comics that was all over by the end of the 1960s.

He is best known for his long professional association with Doctor Who and the BBC while maintaining a busy illustrative career mainly illustrating works of mystery and imagination and a maintaining long creative partnership with the BBC which included the Radio Collection covers such as The Chronicles of Narnia, Journey Into Space and Tolkein. He has worked with other BBC departments, too, including visual entertainment and exhibitions and the Radio Times.

Andrew’s Doctor Who art dominated the 1980s and continued into the 1990s. It included over 40 covers for the Target Books Doctor Who novelisations, the much loved Who Dares Poster Prints, the official Doctor Who calendars, the legendary Cybermen book with Cyber Leader David Banks, the iconic for Radio Times The Five Doctors cover, Doctor Who BBC VHS covers and the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures covers. His artwork has previously been collected in Blacklight, celebrating 15 years of his Doctor Who art published by Virgin in 1995 and a collection of his Dalek art, Exterminart! in 2021.

Andrew Skilleter - ILLUMINART Volume One

Recent releases include ILLUMINART~ The Doctor Who Art of Andrew Skilleter, which follows the sell-out success of Exterminart! This is the first volume of what will be a Trilogy featuring not only most of his Doctor Who art but also selected pieces from his numerous SciFi and Fantasy work.

Outside of Who, Andrew has produced hundreds of covers for adult, teenage and children’s books across numerous genres. His work has also encompassed the illustration of many books, magazines, CDs and Audio, TV and Video. Genres and series include the Gerry Anderson, Dan Dare, Star Wars, Tripods, Earthsearch, Journey into Space.

With John Peel, he launched the Doctor Omega Chronicles and is the creator of a new heroine, Miss Amelia Midnite who features in a ongoing personal project. He publishes his own art collections including the Doctor Who Art Calendar each year and continues with private commissions and selling his original art.

• Andrew Skilleter is online at andrewskilleter.com

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.