Roundel Books, publishers of The DNA of Doctor Who and Go Figure!, celebrating 20 years of 5.5” Doctor Who action figures from Character Options, have opened preorders for The Time Team Unearthed, a collection of Adrian Salmon’s artwork from the classic feature in Doctor Who Magazine.
A fan-favourite in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine for a decade, “The Time Team” followed four fans as they made their way through the back-catalogue of Doctor Who from the very beginning. Initially presented as a single-page, the feature’s popularity soon saw it expanded to a regular three pages, appearing in more than 100 issues between 1999-2009.
Every edition of “The Time Team” was illustrated with striking new artwork from comics legend Adrian Salmon, already known to readers of DWM from his work on the comic strip.
In total, Salmon created more than 150 illustrations for “The Time Team” original run, before returning in 2011 to continue the work throughout the feature’s second incarnation. Regularly described as the “fifth member” of the team, Salmon’s art is synonymous with the feature.
Previously crowdfunded, The Time Team Unearthed collects together, for the first time, all of Salmon’s artwork from the original “Time Team” feature, covering the entire run of 20th Century Doctor Who, from An Unearthly Child through the 1996 TV Movie.
Alongside these illustrations, Adrian has created more than 20 all-new images to plug the gaps missed in the original run doe to space limitations in the magazine. These new illustrations cover much-loved Doctor Who stories including The Daleks, The Moonbase, The Evil of the Daleks and The Time Warrior.
The book also includes a huge wealth of material from Adrian’s extensive archive – rough thumbnail sketches, preparatory drawings, original pencils and inks, giving a fascinating insight into the evolution of the artwork from initial idea to finished design, and an all-new commentary gives extra information about the way the work evolved over the decade.
The Hardback Edition of The Time Team Unearthed also comes with a free DVD, featuring exclusive new material.
Adrian Salmon graduated from Manchester polytechnic with a first degree honours in illustration in 1984, and has spent 40 years working in illustration and comics. in 1992 he broke into comics, simultaneously drawing for the Judge Dredd Megazine and Doctor Who Magazine. His first major comics project was “The Cybermen”, a 24-part monthly strip. since then he has drawn comics for a number of other publishers including IDW, Titan and Cutaway Comics.
Since 2018, he has worked as a colourist and storyboard artist for the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who animations, including co-directing an episode of The Macra Terror.
Roundel Publishing is an independent publisher based in Manchester whose books also include The DNA of Doctor Who, a series of lavish large format books examining the key creatives behind the series down the years, launched with in-depth looks at the stories created under the auspices of producers Philip Hinchcliffe and Graham Williams, and Go Figure! celebrating 20 years of 5.5” Doctor Who action figures from Character Options, Go Figure! is the ultimate guide for any collector.
A division of Room 5064 Enterprises, its sister publishing label Cutaway Comics has successfully Kickstarted comics from the world of Doctor Who, including Eric Saward’s Lytton, Omega, Paradise Towers: Paradise Found, and its more recent titles, Inferno, Sutekh, Omega: Eltralla and Faustine, the first phase of their crossover Gods and Monsters event.
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as 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.
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