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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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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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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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