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© 2010 Brian Williamson
Well it’s always the way, I self-publish comics for five years and when I finally get the chance to do it professionally, two come along on the same day! The first, “Ma and Par“, is a Torchwood strip written in conjunction with Torchwood Magazine for the Sky Channel justwatch.co.uk as part of their Alien Invasion Week. It’s the first time I’ve written anything for Torchwood and it was a challenge cramming action, a plot and making our heroes recognisable in just four pages, but I’m very pleased with it. Special credit must go to the phenomenal Brian Williamson who is an artist I’ve long admired and did a fantastic job on the script!
© 2010 BBC Worldwide
My second strip out today is in issue 153 of Doctor Who Adventures Magazine and is entitled “Arctic Eclipse”. It’s illustrated by the wonderful John Ross and marks the end of what I now call my “deckchair trilogy”. Back when I first wrote this I was pretty certain it would be the last Tenth Doctor story I’d write (that’s no longer the case as it happens) and looking back at my previous two stories; one in the 2010 Storybook and one for the BBC Doctor Who website, I realised that both had the Doctor chilling out in a deckchair. I decided that, if this were to be my final story of the Tenth Doctor’s era, I’d kill it off and give the readers some deckchair closure! So, for the two people in the world (hi mum!) who have read all three and actually care about such things, there’s a nice little mini-arc for you!
An old Tom Baker doodle.
Having carefully made sure I wasn’t breaking any secret non-disclosing rules I am happy to announce some news (which is a welcome relief from my previous two introspective blog posts)!
I am writing comics again; notably the strip for next year’s Doctor Who Annual, as well as a couple for the very popular and wonderful children’s magazine Doctor Who Adventures.
It’s an absolutely great feeling, after several years of self publishing, to finally discover that there are editors out there who think I can write comics, and not only that but to make even a small contribution to the very long legacy of Doctor Who strips is a real honour.
I remember finding the Sixth Doctor graphic novel Voyager in my local library as a young boy and being completely obsessed with the surreal and dark universe inside, before moving on to see such luminaries as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons cutting their teeth in collected strips from Doctor Who weekly. Those books were exactly the gateway drug I needed to go from being a fan of Doctor Who to a fan of comics. The next month I picked up Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and it was all over for me.
