Lew Stringer Comics: Comicscene History of Comics

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

1966 - a SMASHing year!

1966 was a very good year. It gave us the Batman TV show, England won the World Cup, The Beatles released the timeless classic Eleanor Rigby, and Smash! comic made its debut!

The Kickstarter for the next set of Comic Scene's HISTORY OF COMICS partworks is live! If it reaches its target I'll be writing about the history of Odhams' Smash! comic for the 1966 volume. To find out more, and to make your pledge, visit this link...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/comicscene/comicscene-history-of-comics-books-9-to-12

Sunday, 21 March 2021

History of Comics!

I'm pleased to say that I'll be writing an article for an upcoming issue of the Comicscene History of Comics!

As you may recall, Comic Scene was a newsstand magazine of comics news and views that was published a few years ago and I wrote some articles for it then. In recent times it's been relaunched as a partwork, with each bookazine focusing on a particular year. The ambitious project plans to run for 100 issues, covering 100 years of comics from 1930 to 2030. The first four bookazines covered the years 1950, 1977, 1984 and 1986. The next four cover the years 1971, 1976, 1991, and 2020.

Four issues are already available, with the next four currently being funded on Kickstarter. I'll be writing a feature for the 1971 edition if the project reaches its Kickstarter target.

You can pledge to fund the next four issues at the following link that gives you all the details:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/comicscene/comicscene-history-of-comics-books-5-to-8

A brief history:

I've worked as a freelance professional humour comics artist and writer for over 40 years. I sold my first cartoon in 1983 and since then have created many characters such as TOM THUG, PETE AND HIS PIMPLE, COMBAT COLIN, BRICKMAN, ROBO-CAPERS, DEREK THE TROLL, TOUGH GUY AND SCRUFFY, SUBURBAN SATANISTS, SGT.SHOUTY and others.

My clients include IPC, Marvel Comics, Egmont, Panini, D.C. Thomson, Rebellion and many others, covering the comics field from originated characters to licensed properties, pre-school to adult on comics such as BUSTER, OINK!, BEANO, DANDY, TRANSFORMERS, SONIC THE COMIC, TOXIC, VIZ, CiTV TELLYTOTS, LEGO ADVENTURES, HERMAN HEDNING, SWEET FA, ACTION FORCE, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, RAMPAGE, LUCKY BAG COMIC, SWIFTSURE, WARLOCK, WHITE DWARF, ACES WEEKLY, THE DAREDEVILS, THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL, and many more.

My recent comics work includes:

'The Daft Dimension' for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 'Keyhole Kate' and 'Postman Prat' for THE DANDY ANNUAL and THE DANDY SUMMER SPECIAL 'Sgt.Shouty' for The77.

'Bad Pets' for ANIMAL PLANET Magazine.

'Short Sharp Shocks' for THIS COMIC IS HAUNTED

Now semi-retired to focus on my own comics and creator-owned characters.

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