Fans of Dan Dare and 1950s space comics might want to check out this fun web strip by Mark Toner – Gail Scott, Space Pilot.
Featuring a group of Scottish friends exploring space, the current adventure – “Who is Mr Mentor?” – finds Gail and chums (all broad Scottish banter kindly translated for dumb sassenachs) on their way to Mars in a futuristic spacecraft.
The art is a little rough around the edges and the lettering needs much improvement, but the story’s chuntering along nicely – Mark’s includes some humour in the adventure as the characters first experience space flight, for example, which all helps add to the fun.
The strip’s been running for a few weeks now, with a new episode from Dumfries-based artist Mark Toner every Thursday.
“If you like the Gail Scott series and would like to put it on your site, email me,” says Mark. “I’m always happy to help other impoverished web content providers as long as they let me approve the use. If you’ve got commercial plans for my comics, I insist on my share of the proceeds!”
Describing himself as a “Comic artist, astronomer and guitarist” (check out www.twitter.com/ArbelosMusic for his band), you can check out more of Mark’s comics work at www.spacepilot.co.uk.
• All Gail Scott artwork and stories are copyright © 2011 Mark Toner, all rights reserved.
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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. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 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.
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