CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL EDITION...

Thursday, 16 April 2015

DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL EDITION...

You may already know about this DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL, but I only picked it from WHS today, so I've no idea how long it's been on sale. Its title? Well, you can see that for yourself, and rather than me wittering on telling you all about it, just read the spiel on the back cover. If you're a fan of the good Doc, you'll want this in your collection. Only £5.99 - and well-worth every penny!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: I was in Tesco this morning and they had Dalek themed Easter eggs on sale for £2 reduced to clear so I bought one. I'll eat it tomorrow night with a glass of cider while I'm listening to The Archers :); 17 April 2015 at 00:41
Kid said...: I've bought a couple of these Dalek eggs before - I 'eggsterminated' them. (Guffaw!); 17 April 2015 at 00:47
Anonymous said...: I decided to buy one before they went eggstinct, Kid. If I'm right you'd have just turned 5 when the very first episode of Dr. Who was broadcast so were you watching the show from the very beginning ? My earliest TV memory is a fragment from the final Patrick Troughton episode which (I've since discovered) was broadcast in June 1969 when I was 3 years and 4 months old; 17 April 2015 at 13:32
Kid said...: Looking back, it seems as if I was aware of the show from the very beginning, but I couldn't swear to it. It's a cert that I knew about it from the moment the Daleks made their initial impact 'though. I regard William Hartnell as MY Doctor, so my awareness goes back a long away.; 17 April 2015 at 13:45
John Pitt said...: I got mine today, Kid. It only came out yesterday, so you got it on the day of release.
This special could very well have been put together just for me!
( I may even buy a spare!! Bonkers?- You decide!); 17 April 2015 at 14:26
Kid said...: It's very nice. One will do me 'though, 'cos I'm running out of space.; 17 April 2015 at 23:06

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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