Dan Dare, as re-imagined by Hal Laren
We know we’ve been longer announcing the winner of our Dan Dare Reboot Competition. You can view them all the entries on Flickr here. There’s a piece of news on the character we have been anxious to share with you, but right now that information still remains Top Secret! (Yes, we know we’re being a terrible tease. Sorry).
Dan Dare Reboot Design by Mo Ali – another darn fine entry!
After much deliberation – and given the quality of many entries from artists such as Smuzz, Mo Ali and Jonathan Wyke, it was a hard choice – we had our winner narrowed down to a couple of entrants. We really liked Lucas Bowers‘ take on the character – and we loved Keith Page‘s new Mekon!
But in the end (and given that Lucas won our last competition to create a look for the Twelfth Doctor), I’ve decided that the prize of a a copy of The Dan Dare Space Fleet Operations Manual published by Haynes, and a copy of my 2010 art book, SciFi Art Now, should go to Hal Laren. It’s a striking pose, in my view.
Thanks to everyone who entered!
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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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