Preview: DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE No.542

Here's the cover to Doctor Who Magazine No.542, which arrives in shops on Thursday 22nd August. 

Contents include...

Exclusive interviews with Billie Piper and Camille Coduri ahead of Big Finish‘s new audio series Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon!

Bonnie Langford answers questions from the TARDIS tin.

The mag investigates Robert Holmes’ final mystery - The Robots of Ravolox.

PLUS comic strip action with the 13th Doctor by Scott Grey, and another Daft Dimension from me where the Daleks go to Blackpool! 

Doctor Who Magazine No.542. 84 pages for £5.99, available from WH Smith, supermarkets, selected newsagents and comic shops. Don't miss it! 
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My other blog!

As I've mentioned before, Blimey! blog will be drawing to a close later this year. I've been blogging about comics history and promoting the work of others since 2006, although not so many reciprocate by plugging my self-published comics. I think after 13 years of blogging I've done my bit, don't you? It's becoming more of a chore these days, and too time consuming, especially when other blogs often cover the same news. 

There's also been a notable lack of hits this year, and less comments. Even friends in the industry tend to prefer getting their news from John Freeman's Down the Tubes site now, and that's understandable as John puts a lot of work into it and goes more in-depth on his reports.

My other blog will continue though. lewstringercomics.blogspot.com is my business blog where I preview my own upcoming work and show some old strips of mine from the past 35 years or more. (I'll soon be showing some early Robo-Capers strips there, for those of you who have been asking to see them again.) I'll also be posting my thoughts and experiences of the comics industry there from time to time, and showing photos from the comic cons I attend. I'll probably talk about the techniques of comics too at times, so there'll be plenty to read... if enough of you are interested! 

If you like my comic strips (and I presume most of you do, or you wouldn't be here) please bookmark and follow my other blog. Thanks! 
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com

Amazing artwork up for auction from top comics artists

Those of us who were guests at Nice Comic Con in Bedford this year were invited by the organiser to each contribute an A3 piece of artwork for an auction to raise funds for next year's event. That auction goes live tomorrow (Friday 21st September, UK time) and will end on Saturday 29th September. 

You can peruse the art in the auction at this link:

https://www.catawiki.com/a/187949

You'll have to register with Catawiki before you can bid, so that's important.

Art by DaNi.

Artwork includes pieces by Ryan Brown, Simon Bisley, Ian Churchill, Aneke, DaNi, Dylan Teague, Doug Braithwaite, Alan Davis and many more. My contribution is my original artwork for my convention banner, featuring Combat Colin, Pete and his Pimple, Brickman, and more characters...

Good luck to all of you who'll be bidding! 

Art by Esad Ribic.

35 years in comics!

It's been 35 years since I sold my first professional cartoon; "What If Iron Man lived up to his name?" It appeared in Marvel UK's The Daredevils No.7, back in June 1983 (cover dated July), under the editorship of Bernie Jaye. Up to that point I'd received rejections from IPC, D.C. Thomson, and even my local paper, but Alan Moore (who was very supportive of new creators) encouraged me to submit stuff to Marvel. I still remember the feeling of excitement upon hearing that they had accepted my work. 

I'd submitted several cartoons on the "What If..?" theme and they used one a month, paying just £5 each, but it was a start! It soon led to work for other Marvel comics, and for other publishers too. I'll always be grateful to Alan Moore for the encouragement and to Bernie Jaye for publishing my first material. 

You never reach "superstar" status in humour comics, like some superhero / sci-fi artists do, but it's been a busy and varied career and I've made a lot of good friends along the way so that's reward enough for me. Although some diverge outside of comics into computer games, storyboarding, advertising, etc, I've managed to make a living exclusively in comics for 35 years, so I count myself very fortunate for that. Thanks to those of you who have bought and supported my work over the years!

If you want to see what I'm up to these days, check out Big Eggo in The Beano, Team Toxic in Toxic, Hygiene High in Epic, and The Daft Dimension in Doctor Who Magazine. PLUS catch up with reprints of my old work in comics such as Combat Colin, available directly from me:

http://lewstringer.com/page7.htm

...and 35 years in comics is a good time to start a brand new series of Derek the Troll stories, coming your way this Saturday, 23rd June, in the new online comic Goof! Check it out:

http://www.goofcomic.co.uk

Goof! will be launching at Macc-Pow! on Saturday, so see you there!

http://www.maccpow.co.uk

Meanwhile, on my OTHER blog...

If you're new to the Blimey! blog you may not know that I have another blog I regularly update too. That's lewstringercomics, which is focused on my own comics work, covering all the news about my current strips as well as showing material I've done over the 34 years of my career (and sometimes even material older than that from my fanzine days). 

If you're interested, hop over there and have a rummage around to see the various stuff I've posted over the years! Thanks for your time.
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.co.uk