Artist Emma Vieceli Mind Probed for Doctor Who: Panel to Panel

By John Freeman on May 5, 2016

Emma Vieceli at Thought Bubble 2015

Better late than never, in the latest episode of Jeremy Bement’s terrific Doctor Who: Panel to Panel, he covers a lot of Doctor Who comic news, reviews “Shock Horror” from Doctor Who Adventures Issue 13 (Danger! Spoilers!), praising Tommy Donbavand’s script writing and Russ Leach’s art; and “Once Upon a Time Lord”, a Sixth Doctor strip published in Doctor Who Magazine (and much reprinted!); and chats with the lovely and talented artist Emma Vieceli, who drew Titan’s Eighth Doctor mini-series.

“We were over the moon at the response,” says Emma of the project last month, which was written by George Mann. “Watch this space for the potential return of the Doctor and Josie!”

As usual Jeremy not only asks about the creator he’s talking to about their Doctor Who work; he also mind probes Emma on her TokyoPop work, her BREAKS web comic, working with Mark Buckingham, Alex Rider and more. “I like to jump around,” she enthuses. She also enthuses about Night of the Doctor (“it was everything I wanted Doctor Who to be”), the Big Finish Eighth Doctor audio adventures she listened to while drawing and her delight that the Eighth Doctor story she drew was more like that than the “silly” Doctor of the TV Movie.

<br />• The Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor, Volume 1: A Matter of Life and Death collection is out on 18th May. Offering eerie Victorian magic shows, living paintings, mysterious lost books, crystalline life-forms, space-barges crammed with the undead, it’s another chance (or your first chance, if you missed it) to embrace all the Gothic Romance and interstellar terror of the Eighth Doctor in this new series starring the most-requested past incarnation!

• Older episodes of Doctor Who: Panel to Panel are archived on the Internet Archive

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.