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Vworp Vworp! Volume One

8 February 2010 AT 7.13pm in design work, vworp vworp | 2 comments | Share/Save

Well, it’s finally out there! Vworp Vworp! was officially released into the world on Thursday, at a launch party at that regular haunt for Doctor Who fans, the Fitzroy Tavern in London, hosted by m’colleague and co-editor on the zine, Gareth Kavanagh, and Dez Skinn, who should need no introduction. And it’s gone done really well! The DWM team, who generously gave us loads of free publicity in their latest issue, love it. At the subsequent SFX Weekender convention, it went down an absolute storm. It even got the Dave Gibbons seal of approval!

Apart from co-editing and design duties, I also designed the Vworp Vworp! website, www.vworpvworp.co.uk. I know I’m very biased, but I do urge you all to snap up a copy while you can, if you haven’t already. I’m terribly proud of it and look forward to getting stuck into Volume Two, which should be out in five or six months…

Vworp Vworp! site

Some more links:

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Vworp Vworp! preview pages

4 January 2010 AT 12.12am in design work | 6 comments | Share/Save

Getting there… It will be out by the end of the month!

Click pages for JPG previews (open in new windows).

Dez Skinn interview

The Flood Design Scrapbook

Time Leech

Time Toons

Who Cares!

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Boxing Day

26 December 2009 AT 2.38pm in Blog, Reviews, design work | Add a comment | Share/Save

Hello all.

Been a bit quiet of late here, apologies. I’ve been hard at work on Vworp Vworp!, the fanzine of Doctor Who comics and things that we’re waiting for the printers to get round to. Here are the two covers:

Vworp Vworp!

More to follow when the zine hits the stands in January.

Vague review of The End of Time Part One:
I found yesterday’s Doctor Who the predicted mixture of the exhilarating and the irritating, and am putting off watching it again until I see Part Two. Didn’t much like the sub-Matrix Reloaded ending, but look forward to seeing some hard-ass Time Lord action next week… but what’s the betting that instead we’ll have another hour of faffing around, plot holes, annoying music that either drowns out important dialogue or signifies comedy, then, hopefully, a truly exciting and moving regeneration. Loving John Simms and Bernard Cribbens, and can’t wait to see more of Timothy Dalton.

Thanks to Alex Wilcock for sending me this. Apparently Russell said it was “really rather good”. Hurrah!

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Anyway, turkey sandwiches beckon. I hope you’re all having a marvellous Christmas!

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New Adventurers

14 October 2009 AT 12.09pm in design work | Add a comment | Share/Save

A flyer and poster made to promote the NovelCon event in Manchester last weekend:

NovelCon flyer / poster
 
Reverse of NovelCon flyer
 

And the definitive New Adventures cover, after a scuffle broke out over whose shoulder the owl should be perched on. Now with added Peter Anghelides.

NovelCon New Adventures cover, featuring the convention's attendees

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marked man (private commission)

24 May 2009 AT 6.37pm in photoshop | 1 comment | Share/Save

Susan - Part 1: Marked Man

 Marked Man is the first in a fun but wonderfully odd series of plays, entitled Susan, that exist only in the client’s head. Part one guest-stars Frank Marker from the marvellous Public Eye (I’d love to see Alfred Burke in Doctor Who), Turlough and Dodo. And it’s written by Dennis Potter.

With part two, things start to get strange.

(Open link in a new tab or window for full size.)

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cybermen, blowing shit up

4 May 2009 AT 2.55pm in photoshop | 1 comment | Share/Save

Victory Anyone who remembers my Sword of Orion cover will recognise the origins of this. Sometimes a chap’s got to give in to the urge to just blow shit up. Comments welcome.

Meanwhile, over on the popular online auction website eBay, I’m flogging the jolly rare Press Gang novels: First Edition, Public Exposure, Checkmate and The Date. Go on, have a look - they’re written by Steven Moffat’s dad!

Did you know the name ‘eBay’ originates from a comedy tribute to the world’s favourite organ-liquifying disease Ebola? So, while you’re busy bleeding from every orifice, remember: only twelve minutes left on that chocolate-flavoured nipple spread (with applicator) you’ve been watching.

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The EP of destruction

29 April 2009 AT 9.00pm in photoshop | Add a comment | Share/Save

The Edge of Destruction Big Finish vinyl EP, honest  
Of no particular interest or practical use to anyone, here’s the ultra-rare 1964 Big Finish Dr Who EP, ‘The Edge of Destruction’, found in the basement of a Satanic church in Uttoxter. I had a listen, it’s rubbish. If you right-click and open in a new tab (or window) you can get a much better (1685 x 1226px) look at it.

Edge of Destruction pulp magazine Made using Photoshop, Blender (thanks to Richard Marklew for the fantastic console mesh) and surprisingly little photography.

Also, because I’m really poor, I’m forced to sell more stuff from my house. Apart from a couple more piles of old A5 fanzines (copies of Auton, anyone?), you may be interested in purchasing a signed photo of the actor and cosmic hobo Patrick Troughton, looking a little bit simple and cross-eyed, for display in your very own home. It’s really rare because Mr Troughton’s not signed any autographs in, like, ages, let alone scribbled on the back like he has this one. Have a look here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200336667513

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‘Planet of the Dead’ through the medium of sock puppet

21 April 2009 AT 11.34am in Blog | 2 comments | Share/Save

“Hello, I’m a scary fruit fly!”

“You’ve evolved to keep the head of a fly, the ugly hands of a fly, but not the actual, useful wings?”

“No. Nobody said that evolution was infallible.”

This is wonderful. Please take a look.

(Original link to the silly people at the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre.)

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Why I should never have watched ‘Planet of the Dead’ again…

20 April 2009 AT 12.50pm in Reviews | 4 comments | Share/Save

After raving about it on first viewing, I now find myself loving and hating ’Planet of the Dead’ in equal measure…
 

Tongue40 things I hated…

  1. If the Cup of Athelstan has been in the International Gallery for 200 years, why the sudden need to surround it with a security grid (open at the top and a two-foot gap at the bottom, of course)? Or do the armed guards go through their little ritual every night? If it’s been brought out for display, I’d whack it in a vault at night. Little tip. (Incidentally, I’m glad we never got to see this disaster of design and punctuation.)
  2. Might’ve been an idea to have oiled the waving cat, you silly bint.
  3. Why the ricocheting gunshot sound effect when the camera flips? Followed by a quite deathly twenty seconds of Christina looking hither and thither from one police car to the next. Over and over.
  4. Stock working-class bus driver. Irritating in so few lines, with an over the top accent that’s just weird.
  5. incompetentD I McMillan: awful awful awful, like a bumbling comedy policeman from an episode of Terry and June. Or CBeebies. “It’s definitely her, come on! Jackson, follow that bus!” Perfectly reasonable lines, but from the mouth of Adam James somehow… shit. And later he says “You do not have to say anything, et cetera et cetera” which proves he’s a rubbish copper too.

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Fanzines for sale (UPDATED!)

18 April 2009 AT 11.18pm in Blog | 1 comment | Share/Save

circus 2In case anyone’s interested, I’m selling the last remaining copies of the second issue of my fanzine, Circus, on eBay for three quid - the auction’s here. It’s a whopping 72 pages and includes stuff from Paul Farnsworth, Keith Topping, Daniel O’Mahony, Dave Rolinson and an extract from an unpublished New Adventure by Kate Orman.

I’ve also listed a lot of 15 fanzines from the 1980s and 90s, including Queen Bats and Skaros. Here’s the link.

Sorry to pedal my wares here, won’t happen again…

UPDATE (20/4) - OK, so I lied. Here are 16 more A5 fanzines from the 80s and 90s.

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New old Radio Times cover

18 April 2009 AT 11.56am in photoshop | 4 comments | Share/Save

Planet of the Dead original Radio Times cover Who? What? Where?

I hope this gives you some small pleasure.

(Oh, and right-click and open in a new tab or window to see the full-size version.)

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Circus 1 now online

14 April 2009 AT 11.13pm in Blog | 3 comments | Share/Save

circus1You know those beastly fellows at The Ninth Circle of Hell and their repository of old Doctor Who fanzines? Well, they’ve taken it upon themselves to upload the first issue of Circus, my old fanzine, just so you modern kids, with your fancy iPoops and your indoor toilets, can cruelly mock its simple innocence and poke it with sticks. Have a look, it’s got words in it and everything, contributed by John Connors, Paul Farnsworth, Daniel O’Mahony, Keith Topping and more, but I beg you to be gentle.

Circus 1 (published December 1993)  is available here. More will follow. Curse you, Ninth Circle of Hell!

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Planet of the Dead, now with added wallpaper

11 April 2009 AT 8.35pm in Blog | 17 comments | Share/Save

60s Planet of the DeadSo… I was wondering what you all thought of the latest episode of Doctor Who?

Bloody good fun, I thought. Punch-the-air fantastic in places. Not convinced it had an original bone in its fluffy body (I expected it to riff on Pitch Black, Flight of the Phoenix, Indiana Jones, but Back to the Future Part 3??) but who cares when so many disparate elements were slotted together with such aplomb. Some lovely turns from the guest stars too. I hope we’ll see more of the adventures of Lady Christina and Lee Evans’s Malcolm was fun - could have been a nightmare, but somehow he fitted the story perfectly. The other guest was the gorgeous desert setting - I’m not 100% convinced they couldn’t have made do with a Welsh beach and The Mill, but as the episode went on we were treated to some stunning widescreen vistas quite unlike anything seen on Doctor Who before. Bet it looked amazing in HD. (By coincidence I watched the desert-set first episode of ‘The Chase’ last night. Although I’d argue that ‘The Chase’ is funnier…)

Anyway, I’ll write more after I’ve watched it again. For now, leave a comment and let me know if you enjoyed it as much as I did.

WALLPAPER: Due to overwhelming pressure (well, two of you, but I’m easily overwhelmed) here’s a wallpaper-sized version of the John Cura telesnap above. Click for 1280×960.

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Early Experiments

7 April 2009 AT 11.36pm in photoshop | 3 comments | Share/Save

Early Experiments A new wallpaper that’s been floating around in my head for a while. Pertwee meets the Cybermen… sort of. Please let me know what you think!

Click for the full 1280×960 version.

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baby hartnell

4 April 2009 AT 12.46pm in photoshop | Add a comment | Share/Save

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I found a CD with my old Circus website on it. It felt like the work of someone else - I didn’t even recognise a lot of it, despite it only being a decade old. But while I was trying to scrape together some nostalgia for stuff I couldn’t even remember, I found this funny little animated gif I’d made and everything was all right again :)

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