Striker – one of Britain’s longest running newspaper strips, mainly published in The Sun – is on its way back at last, “and probably very soon”, according to creator Pete Nash.
Subject to any last minute hiccups, the strip will return to The Sun very soon, and a new web site – planetstriker.com, not yet live – is in the works.
A PlanetStriker YouTube channel has already been launched, ahead of offering daily Striker motion comics, with its first offering a fun look back at the strip since its beginning in 1985, through to its weekly comic and the various changes in format in The Sun.
Striker’s early days as a line art strip
On the field Striker action from 1992
Drama after Striker star Nick Jarvis loses his leg to a shark
There are also some tantalising teases for things to come, including an snippet of an animated Striker-inspired football match.
“It’s my hope that the Strikerworld forum will be hosted on planetstriker eventually, so everything will be under one roof,” says Pete, who’s been working hard behind the scenes to bring the comic back after it was dropped from The Sun‘s print edition earlier in the year, to the dismay of thousands of the strip’s fans.
The fun but short-lived Striker comic, launched thanks to £200,00 raised through fan support
A scene from the upcoming Striker motion comic, finds Nick still in jail
Last month, Pete also announced plans for collections of Striker from the very beginning, along with, hopefully, his SF strip PsyCops.
• Planet Striker is on YouTube here. If you’re a fan of the strip, don’t forget to subscribe!
• Strikerworld is here: strikerworld.co.uk
Striker © 2016 Pete Nash
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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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