Fine artist Andrew Skilleter, best known for his Doctor Who art, recently launched preorders for a rather special new book, Cybertropolis.
A special premium Excellence Edition sold out the first day, but copies of the Classic Limited Edition are still on offer.
Almost 40 years after the publication of the classic 1988 Cybermen book, Andrew returns to the iconic Cybermen of the classic era with Cybertropolis, offering vivid text and insights into one of Doctor Who’s most iconic creations.
Offering striking visual design, the book features a wealth of new artwork, a new comic strip, paintings, and drawings alongside classic favourites and previously unseen pieces.
“Packed with surprises throughout, I’m bringing fresh energy and vision to classic Cybermen nostalgia,” says Andrew, “and even introducing the Cyberfem.”
This book is, he feels, the nearest you’ll get to the Cybermen Annual you never had.
“I could not let the 60th Anniversary of the Cybermen unmarked,” Andrew expands, “and so I brainstormed the possiblities of a concept that would celebrate them in words and image, that would satisfy myself creatively and at the same time be satisifyingly enjoyable to all of you on Earth.
Despite the ever increasing costs of book production, he’s kept the price of the Classic Limited Edition as low as is feasable.
“I’m sure it’ll warm your Autumn days and nights when it arrives! So Convert now!”
Andrew Skilleter should need no introduction to regular downthetubes readers. His professional Doctor Who art sprang to the fore in the 1980s and continued into the 1990s. It included over 40 covers for the the legendary Target Books novelisations, the classic Who Dares Poster prints and official Doctor Who calendars, the legendary Cybermen book, numerous BBC VHS covers, and the Virgin New Adventures covers, culminating in Blacklight, Virgin Books 1995, celebrating 15 years of his Doctor Who art. Cybertropolis is the third art book of his work.
Outside of Doctor Who, Andrew has produced hundreds of covers for adult, teenage and children’s books across numerous genres. His work has also encompassed the illustration of many books, magazines, CDs, Audio,TV and a long creative partnership with the BBC – Video, Audio, and Exhibitions.
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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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