Durham Red – Like A Dog by writer Lee Robson and artist Paul Williams

Gronk – Where’s Gronk by writer Steve Hargett and artist Nigel Dobbyn

Strontium Dog – The Scowl And The Pussycat by writer Matt Sharp and artist Neil Sims

“This is actually the first script I submitted to them,” says Matt Sharp of this story, “so I’m grinning like a loon to see it in print. The first script I wrote – ‘The First Day’, with art by David Broughton ran in Dogbreath 30 but that was something like the fifth one I sent in, but was the first one to go to an artist… It was beaten into print by ‘Comic Rock: Silver Song’ (also by David Broughton) in Zarjaz 23″.

Strontium Dog – Toad in the Hole by writer Ursula Kincaid and artist Leigh Shepherd

Strontium Dog – No Choice At All by writer Lee Robson and artist David Broughton

Strontium Dogs – DogBreath the Dog – Rubbish by writer Mark Howard and artist Bolt-01

Strontium Dogs – Flys Eyes Wagner: The Dark by writer Alec Charles and artist Scott Twells

Tales Of The Doghouse – The Only Vet in the Doghouse by writer Oscar Maltby and artist Bolt-01

Oh – and they’ve got a terrific competition to win a Strontium Dog badge, courtesy of Planet Replicas, too!

• Dogbreath Issue 31 costs just £3.00 and is on sale from the online FutureQuake Store and from FutureQuake direct at many conventions around the UK – check their blog for appearance information

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. Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Explorer (previously known as Star Trek 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.