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HAMMER HORROR!
I was recently invited to illustrate a First Day Cover for the upcoming Carry On and Hammer Horror range of British stamps.
The stamp issue is available for collectors from Phil Stamp Covers, - a company run by Steve Oliver. Steve's cousin was the
marvelous UK humour artist/writer Jack Oliver, who contributed First Day Covers himself until his untimely death last year.
As one of several guest artists, the job was a one-off but if you're interested in obtaining a copy of my First Day Cover
("A Classic Carry On") you can find details at the following website:
http://www.philstampcovers.co.uk/
THE UNDERPANTS ARE BACK!
FELIX AND HIS AMAZING UNDERPANTS make a return to the pages of the latest VIZ (No.176) - on sale NOW from newsagents and supermarkets
across the UK.
THE MAD COBBLER RETURNS!
THE MAD COBBLER returns for the first time in over 20 years to menace BRICKMAN AND TROWEL in ELEPHANTMEN No.13. Can our heroes
stomp out his anti-social activities? Find out when the comic is released from Image Comics to comic book stores next month.
$2.99. Click on the cover below for more info.
WET SUMMER?
TEAM TOXIC have to sort out the mystery of a self-motivated storm cloud in TOXIC No.121 on sale in newsagents and supermarkets
on 30th July!
Who's THIS?
The character above is whoever you want him to be... and you can rearrange his limbs, head, and all his body parts to create
as many new monsters as you like with the TOXIC MONSTER MAKER over on the revamped TOXIC WEBSITE.
I was recently commissioned to produce artwork for the Monster Maker and the online TOXIC JOKE MACHINE (also on the same
website) and you can see the results by clicking on the links below. (Colours by Lorna Miller.) Have fun!
Toxic Monster Maker
Toxic Joke Machine
IVY THE TERRIBLE
I've drawn a brand new IVY THE TERRIBLE strip which appears in THE BEANO No.3426 on sale April 2nd-8th. This is just a one
off fill-in, but it's always a buzz to be in Britain's most traditional comic.
Above: Part of the page during the pencil stage.
Below: The finished version in print.
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BRICKMAN BEGINS! is a 152 page trade paperback collection of the complete Brickman saga (1979 to 1996). Publisheed by Active
Images of California, this Batman-parody for people who hate parodies features Brickman and his assistant Trowel pitting their
Brickarangs against vile villains such as The Poker, Gnatwoman, The Mad Cobbler, and many more!
Also includes great BONUS FEATURES:
Full page guest artwork by:
Charlie Adlard; Ian Churchill; Mike Collins; Alan Davis; Richard Elson; Hunt Emerson; Mike Higgs; Dave Hine; Tim Sale;
Richard Starkings, and Dave Windett.
Classic Brickman strips by Dave Gibbons and Kevin O'Neill.
All-new intro strip.
All-new interview with me, illustrated with some of my other old strips.
Unpublished Brickman pages.
Introduction by Alan Moore.
NOW AVAILABLE FOR UK BUYERS ONLINE.
BUY NOW directly from me using PayPal for £8.00 including postage and packing. Click the PayPal button below to commit
to buy. UK ONLY. (I will sign the book on request at no extra charge.)
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NON-UK BUYERS: Buy your copy of BRICKMAN BEGINS by clicking the link below:
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NON-UK BUYERS: CLICK HERE to buy a copy from the publisher, Active Images
See a PREVIEW of the Brickman book at Active Image's NEW Brickman site:
www.activeimages.com/brickman/
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Visit the official BRICKMAN website at:
http://brickmancomics.tripod.com
COMICS SHOW REUNITES SONIC CONTRIBUTORS
The BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL COMICS SHOW (October 12th-14th) was another welcome opportunity to meet the readers and fellow
comics folk. Over 2,000 attendees this year, and amongst them four ex-SONIC THE COMIC contributors met up for the first time
in several years.
Left to right in the photo above: Lew Stringer, Nigel Kitching, Richard Elson, Nigel Dobbyn. Click on the pic to visit
my blog, where there's a photo gallery of the event.
WHAT COMBAT COLIN DID NEXT
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As readers of the final issue of Marvel UK's TRANSFORMERS may recall, back in 1990 COMBAT COLIN ended the strip with a bang,
- caught in the blast of a nuclear explosion. Those who live by the sword...
But Colin didn't die. Years later in 1996 I continued the story in a self-published small press comic, the COMBAT COLIN
SPECIAL. That is now log out of print but a reader has scanned in all of the pages onto his website (risking copyright infringement,
but I'll let him off ;-)).
For those of you who missed THE RETURN OF COMBAT COLIN you can now read it online by clicking on the page above.
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UPDATE: The BRISTOL COMIC EXPO went well. A few thousand people turned up, and although final figures have not been released
yet, attendance was actually up from last year. I've uploaded a photo-review on my blog, so click on the photo below to see
it:
TOXIC WEBSITE!
Egmont's top boy's magazine TOXIC now has its own official website! Profiles of Team Toxic are included plus jokes and other
features. Click on the link below to visit there.
http://www.toxicmag.co.uk/
NEW! Interview with TOXIC editor Matt Yeo at the Forbidden Planet International website. Click the link below to read it.
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=1275
ENTER THE ECCENTRIC WORLD OF BRITISH COMICS
An essential new book on the history and evolution of British comics has recently been published. GREAT BRITISH COMICS by
Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury is a lavishly illustrated 192 page softback priced £18.99 (available from Amazon.co.uk for
£12.53). An associated website is also in development. Click on the link below to visit.
http://www.greatbritishcomics.com/
The BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL COMICS SHOW (December 9th and 10th 2006, Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham)was the first
comics convention in the city for many years and was an enjoyable weekend. Good to meet up with friends old and new. Congratulations
to the organizers for staging such a friendly and upbeat convention. Here's to the next Birmingham event in October 2007!
Click HERE for David Baillie's report on the Birmigham Comics Show.
UPDATE: TRANSFORCE 2007, a one day event for fans of The Transformers on March 17th 2007 has been POSTPONED. No further news
at present as to whether it will be re-sceduled for later in 2007 or 2008.
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The photo reports on the 2005 and 2006 UK comic events can now be seen on the Convention Pics page. (Click Dalek photo to
go there.)
ONLINE INTERVIEWS
2006 interview for the FRACTAL MATTER website.
An earlier interview, by Paul Cannon for the Combat Colin website, can be read HERE.
OTHER NEWS:
The Suburban Satanists get a mention in Fredrik Strömberg's book "The Comics Go To Hell: A Visual History of the
Devil in Comics", a 360 page hardback from Fantagraphics Books, $18.95
BBC NEWS REPORT:
The BBC News website on cult tv/comics featured an item on one of my Suicidal Syd strips from Viz, as it featured a parody
of Doctor Who fans. (The new series of Doctor Who will be on BBC One in the Spring).
CAUTION: THE INTERNET MAY CONTAIN NUTS:
On occasions over the past four years an anonymous internet troll has been faking my identity with variations of my e-mail
address in order to post derogatory misinformation about me on some newsgroups. If that wasn't bad enough another loon accused
me online of being a Satanist! If you're suspicious of any such postings, please do not reply to them and report them to me
for investigation.
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All text on this site, and all images of Brickman, Combat Colin, Suburban Satanists, and convention photographs are Copyright
© Lew Stringer 2006 and should not be reproduced without permission. That also applies to lazy gits nicking the text and jpegs
to use in their descriptions on eBay. It's copyright theft. Don't do it.
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