British comic creators look set to be heavily involved in US publisher IDW’s Doctor Who at 50 celebrations for their ‘Prisoners of Time’ maxi series, which launches this week. ‘Prisoners of Time’ will feature every incarnation of the Doctor, as… Read More ›
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Doctor Who Adventures at 300: An interview with artist John Ross
Doctor Who Adventures has just notched up its 300th issue – and downthetubes caught up with comic artist John Ross, who has drawn a strip for every issue of the popular title… John worked on a lot of magazines for… Read More ›
IDW celebrates 50 years of Who with ‘Prisoners of Time’ maxi series
British comic creators look set to be heavily involved in US publisher IDW’s Doctor Who at 50 celebrations with Simon Fraser and Lee Sullivan among the artists involved in their ‘Prisoners of Time’ maxi series, which launches this month. ‘Prisoners… Read More ›
Bonhams to auction off Sarah Jane’s ‘Figaro’ car
Bonhams upcoming Entertainment Memorabilia sale, to be held next week on Wednesday 12th December, will include an array of props, posters, costumes and related memorabilia from legendary science fiction movies and television shows including Alien, Superman, Star Wars, Blake’s 7,… Read More ›
Plaything Of Sutekh Issue 2 Now Available
The new issue of Doctor Who fanzine Plaything of Sutekh, edited by Richard Farrell and John Connors, is now available to order. Featured in the 40-page, colour covered A5 fanzine are: Five Star! A look at 2012’s new episodes, which… Read More ›
Andrew Wildman draws Doctor Who "PS"
Tra [WARNING: SPOILERS if you have not seen Angels Take Manhattan] Comics artist Andrew Wildman has provided some poignant visuals to a special postscript to the latest Doctor Who TV episodes written by Chris Chibnall. Now live on YouTube, the… Read More ›
10 Questions: Author Paul Scoones
On sale now from publishers Telos Publishing is The Comic Strip Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 — 1979. Written by New Zealand author Paul Scoones, the book documents the early history of… Read More ›
Rummaging Around in Alan Moore’s Shorts!
The Comics Forum has published the first in a series of articles about the short works of Alan Moore over on its blog. This series, cheekily entitled ‘Rummaging Around in Alan Moore’s Shorts’ has been guest edited by Maggie Gray,… Read More ›
Doctor Who / The Dandy / Elephantmen in discussion on the radio
Squeezing in a trio of radio appearances on 104.4 FM and elsewhere before Resonance FM runs a three week repeat schedule while the studio is refurbished, Alex Fitch is covering a variety of subjects over the weekend… Clear Spot: Out… Read More ›
Famous Five to ape Doctor Who (or is that Timeslip?)
The cast of The Famous Five1978 production, scripted byRichard Carpenter London-based Kindle Entertainment, makers of the critically acclaimed CBBC show Leonardo are to turn Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five into a time travel show. The company recently announced it has… Read More ›
Fanfare, Knockabout Comics and K9 team up for San Diego!
The annual pilgrimage that is San Diego Comic-Con has begun anew for many creators and British-Spanish publisher Ponent Mon/Fanfare has dropped us a line to tell us about lots of interesting products they’ll have at the show from a host… Read More ›
Fringe Benefits: Manchester prepares for invasion by Robots of Death
Matt Badham goes behind the scenes on the new Manchester Fringe Festival
Skilleter releases ‘Sarah Jane’ charity print
Artist Andrew Skilleter has released Sarah Jane Tribute Charity Print, donating a set sum from each and every print sale to supporting the Macmillan (Cancer) Nurses, £2.50 on an A4 size print, and £5 on an A3 size print. The… Read More ›
Cybermen limited edition book goes on sale (break out your gold)
Acclaimed illustrator Andrew Skilleter, perhaps best known for his Doctor Who art, is offering Cybermen fans the opportunity to buy a unique edition of the Cybermen book first published by Who Dares/Silver Fist in 1988 – a limited facsimile edition… Read More ›
As any Doctor Who fan knows…
Art by Smuzz. Our purpose is to amuse, simply to amuse… Nothing serious, nothing political….
Plaything Of Sutekh: New Who Zine
In these days of the internet blogs having taken over the position of the old fanzines, it is always good to see a new printed fanzine appear. Plaything of Sutekh is a 40 page, A5, black and white, Doctor Who… Read More ›
30 Years of the New Eagle
Thirty years ago last month, a new incarnation of one of Britain’s most famous comics burst on to the news-stands (ok, we’re a bit slow off the mark with this one, but the down the tubes office is a busy… Read More ›
It’s Life Jimmy, But Not As We Know It
In 2008, the National Library Of Scotland in Edinburgh put on their Local Heroes exhibition which displayed some of the library’s collection of comics and graphic novels and, impressively, Cam Kennedy’s original artwork for the Waverley graphic novel Kidnapped. This… Read More ›
Cybermen, Borg, set to battle in Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover
Following up on our earlier report that a Doctor Who/Star Trek comic crossover was in the works, US publisher IDW have released more detals about the eight-issue mini series. In conjunction with BBC Worldwide Consumer Products and CBS Consumer Products,… Read More ›
IDW to publish Doctor Who-Star Trek crossover
The SF show crossover many fans have longed for but has, until now, been the work of fan fiction alone, is finally about to happen officially for the first time – a Doctor Who meets Star Trek comic crossover. Bleeding… Read More ›