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Vworp Vworp! Volume One

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

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

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

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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One more…

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Do Gareth a favour and vote here!

Back soon with some other stuff.

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Hello all, sorry things have been a bit quiet hereabouts. I’m hoping to get my act together and post some more nonsense soon, but in the meantime I thought I’d show you a job I’ve just completed. Gareth at The Lass O’Gowrie, a terrific pub in Manchester, required a new logo…
… some postcards to promote the Lass’s food, booze, events and function rooms…

Lass O'Gowrie flyers
… plus a mocked-up retro computer game cassette inlay…

Spectrum inlay
Paul Redfearn’s the clever sausage behind the Ena Sharples artwork used in the logo.

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