BBC Doctor Who Comic-Con panel from Stacy Tiderington on Vimeo.

Loving Graeme Neil Reid’s latest contribution to the Scottish comics artist’s collective Scotch Corner blog – Graeme comments he expected a slew of fan art after the last season of Doctor Who depicting River Song (sighhh) in her rather alluring lingerie and Nazi uniform ensemble, but he didn’t see the expected flood of art, so here’s his own take. For some reason as well as River I am also flashing back to the late, great Madeline Khan doing Lili Von Schtuck, the ‘teutonic titwillow’ in Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles here… Graeme had some other cracking bits of art drawing (no pun intended) often on some of our favourite shows like Who and Sherlock on his table at Hi-Ex recently, well worth checking his site if you’re looking for a nice wee bit of art for the geek in your life.

(Graeme sketching at Hi-Ex recently, with some of his work on display on the right, pic from my Flickr)

“It always seems impossible when you start casting these parts, but when we saw Matt and Jenna together, we knew we had our girl. She’s funny and clever and exactly mad enough to step on board the Tardis,” Steven Moffat on casting Jeanna-Louise.

Illustrator Jenny Parks‘ cats/Doctor Who mashup Doctor Mew is simply adorable – and some of the Gallifreyan moggies have a pretty cool similarity to their human counterparts, especially the Tom Baker one. Turnstyle, whence this link comes from (via John Freeman at Down the Tubes), also has an interview with Jenny about this and her other work.

The news isn’t all bad though, as they promise to get it back on sale as soon as possible. Details are being regularly posted on the Vworp Vworp blog. As annoying as it is for those wanting the issue, it’s surely a good thing for Colin and Gareth to be so open and honest about the problems they’ve been having, and we’re all hopeful that it sorts itself out very soon.

In the meantime, take a look at a bit of classic Mick McMahon, as featured in Vworp Vworp Volume 2. He’s posted up the complete Junkyard Demon strip at his Tuggin’ Your Coat blog and has this to say:

“The second issue of the Doctor Who fanzine Vworp Vworp! has finally been published. There’s a lot of good stuff about Gibbons, Bakers and sundry others, as well as an interview with yours truly about my all too brief sojourn at Doctor Who Monthly.

This Junkyard Demon strip, my only contribution to the Doctor Who canon, was beautifully written by Steve Parkhouse and ‘Mickily’ inked by the talented Adolfo Bullya. It was the first time I had worked from a plot, as opposed to a full script, and also the only occasion that my pencils were inked by another artist. I am still more than happy with the storytelling/layouts, and the drawing, although a long way from any sort of apex, is still me on top form for those days, though I do still cringe at my clumsy attempt at a likeness for the unfortunate Mr Baker – Harpo Marx, anyone?

All around though, a thoroughly enjoyable experience, and one of the few things from the seventies/early eighties that I can still bear to look at.”

Page 1 of Junkyard Demon by Parkhouse, Mcmahon and Buylla.

McMahon’s Tom Baker Doctor Who – Harpo Marx? He’s too hard on himself surely?

November 23rd and that means happy birthday to the world’s longest-running science fiction show. Join me for a quick Vworp! I think we need some Doctor Who art to celebrate the day – how about some classic Doctor Who comic work from the brilliant Mick McMahon, who recently posted up all of his Junkyard Demon strip on his blog, featuring Tom Baker’s incarnation finding an early style  Cyberman in a glactic junk yard:

I still remember that one from the first time round – also still have fond memories of this classic Doctor Who comic strip from Pat Mills, John Wagner and the great Dave Gibbons: The Iron Legion (image borrowed from Lew Stringer’s fine blog)!

And let’s have some more visual fun with some of the cool Who imagery that’s appeared on our regular weekend Art for Art’s Sake slot:  Laura Howell‘s Gilbert and sullivan meeting the Doctor made me smile!

And I love WJC‘s fab rendering of Tom Baker’s Doctor (still ‘my’ Doctor) with the TARDIS in space, taken from the new Vworp Vworp fanzine:

Geronimo! Cool Matt Smith portrait by Eric Shaner:

Phil Noto‘s portrait of Amy Pond is, approriately, gorgeous:

And since we can never have too much of Amy, this has been one of my favourites since I first saw it last year – a luscious Art Nouveau style Amy with TARDIS by Bill Mudron. Gorgeous:

actually I can’t resist posting another one from Bill – Who Looks Like a Lady?

And how wonderful is Geoffo’s Little Prince-Doctor Who mashup (taken from the Little Prince website)?

And Meghan Stratman has all the Doctors in one go:

and what about some dancing Doctors (from the Journal of Impossible Things)

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Okay, we could fill the blog today with Doctor Who art but enough is as good as a feast and all that. But we can’t have a birthday bash of Who art without some proper old school kicks from the great Chris Achilleos, who drew the cover art to most of the old Target Who novelisations, which back in the days before home video was pretty much the only way we young fans could learn the stories of the older episodes and the Doctors who came before us. Some of those 70s novels even came with some interior B&W illustrations by Achilleos, like this one from the Doomsday Machine featuring Jon Pertwee’s Doctor with Katy Manning’s Jo Grant:

But mostly those of us of a certain age remember Achilleos fondly for his cover illustrations – I remember being so disappointed when Target went with boring photo covers for early 80s onwards Who books, it just wasn’t the same as those fabulous Achilleos covers that gave us a little magical Who thrill back when we didn’t even have the comic, let alone the home videos to keep us going between each season. For an 8 year old Who fan in the mid 70s Achilleos’ cover art was as important as Chris Foss’ work was to the adult science fiction books we’d graduate to further down the line.

This made me smile – it’s a Lego take on Star Trek, but look closer on the Enterprise bridge and there’s the Doctor (with Fez, Fezes are cool) and look out! They’re being attacked by the pirates of the Crimson Permanent Assurance! Genius. (link from The Brothers Brick via Geek Chocolate)