We’re sorry to report the death of Nicholas Courtney, an actor probably best known to downthetubes readers as Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart in Doctor Who, after a long illness. He was 81. I met Nicholas Courtney many times during my editorship… Read More ›
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IDW’s Doctor Who Classics reaches Seventh Doctor era
The first issue of US comics publisher’s latest Doctor Who Classics volume went on sale earlier this month across the pond, featuring re-coloured Seventh Doctor stories by a slew of creators I’ve worked with down the years. The Seventh Doctor’s… Read More ›
Artist Spotlight: Andrew Skilleter
I first worked with Andrew Skilleter when I was editing Doctor Who Magazine in the late 1980s and I admire his work tremendously. He’s a dab hand at both original and licensed art commissions, particularly Doctor Who (for which he’s… Read More ›
Sci-Fi Artist Spotlight: Andrew Skilleter
Andrew Skilleter is an artist who doesn’t feature in Sci-Fi Art Now but I’m hoping that if there is a follow up volume he might be in that. I first worked with him back on Doctor Who Magazine in the… Read More ›
Doctor Who-Inspired Cover for 2000AD
There’s a rather splendid Doctor Who-inspired cover on this week’s edition of 2000AD. Judge Dredd is depicted surveying a portaloo-style TARDIS with a Tom Baker-like scarf trailing out from under the door! Drawn by D’Israeli, it’s promoting Episode 2 of… Read More ›
Life Begins at 40 for Who fans?
Life Begins at 40, a new book by authors Chris Newton and Mark Charlesworth, is the story of two 30-something fanatics sharing a flat in Blackpool, out of pocket, out of luck and clinging to the hope that Life Begins… Read More ›
Matt Smith’s Doctor Who Covered in New Book
Books about Doctor Who aren’t exactly rare these days and downthetubes wouldn’t even begin to try to cover all of them. But every so often, a title of particular interest emerges which is worth looking out for. Often these are… Read More ›
Neil Roberts creates Sarah Jane Adventures comic for the BBC
A panel from the BBC’s new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic As Jeremy Briggs notes in his report on Doctor Who Adventures, the BBC have published a new online Sarah Jane Adventures comic. Although published in a web-friendly ‘sliding frame’… Read More ›
Tony Lee, Mark Buckingham and Richard Piers Rayner take on more TARDIS tales for IDW
A British creator line up that includes writer Tony Lee and artist Mark Buckingham will keep US Publisher IDW’s Doctor Who comics afloat in the coming months. While the Eleventh Doctor has already had several comic strip adventures in Britain’s… Read More ›
Wiped! What Happened to Doctor Who’s Missing Episodes?
A new book from Telos Publishing – Wiped! Doctor Who’s Missing Episodes by Richard Molesworth – looks in detail at how the episodes came to be missing in the first place