Lawless interview from 2022

I'd forgotten about this until Joanne Alexander posted it on Facebook today. An interview she conducted with me at the Lawless Comic Con in Bristol back in 2022. Click on the link below to see the video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTCH_nMXA7Y 

 

Daleks: The Ultimate Guide!

Just in time for Christmas, Panini UK have published an impressive slipcased 224 page Doctor Who bookazine called Daleks: The Ultimate Guide which covers everything you need to know about 60 years of Dalek history on TV, in comics, toys, movies, books, and beyond. And there's even an interview with me in there regarding my regular Daft Dimension comic strip. 

 

As a lifelong fan of the Daleks it's a privilege to be a small part of this bumper volume of facts, features, and photos. Edited by Marcus Hearn, who certainly knows his stuff, this slipcased bookazine should soon be available in WH Smiths or you can order it directly from the pubishers at this link:
https://www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/doctor-who-daleks-the-ultimate-guide-gbdrwz036-uk02.html

 

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Interview on Soundcloud

If you missed our interview at Lawless Comic Con the other weekend you can now listen to it on Soundcloud. Leonard Sultana interviews editor/publisher Ben Cullis along with artist Andrw Sawyers, Steve MacManus, and myself as we talk about working for The77 comic! 

You can listen to it at this link:

https://soundcloud.com/englishman-in-san-diego/lawless-comic-con-bristol-2022-in-profile-the-77-comic-290522  

If you want to help The77 issue 8 become a reality, please pledge your support for the Kickstarter that's currently running at this link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the77comic/the77-comic-8

Meanwhile... an interview from September

When I was at the Meanwhile comics festival in Coventry on September 18th I was interviewed by students at Coventry University about my career. They've edited out all their questions so it's just me waffling on for ten minutes but if you'd like to watch it you'll find it on their YouTube channel at this link...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1viyeyUR_4Y

Lots of other comics people were interviewed that day too, including Rachael Smith, Marc Jackson, Sonia Leong and more. You can see them at this link...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmhgGLE_aJkCa7EU_KRN5dg/videos

New interview on YouTube

Screen grab ©Leonard Sultana.

 

I did three video interviews last Saturday at the Meanwhile in Coventry festival. Here's one of them on Leonard Sultana's YouTube channel. After 18 months of barely seeing anyone my voice was wearing a bit thin after talking all day but I hope it comes across ok....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ycQyt7RLs

Thanks to Leonard for the interview. Don't forget to like and subscribe to his channel to see more interviews he posts with other comics people in the future!

New video interview on YouTube

I enjoyed being interviewed by cartoonist / convention organiser Marc Jackson this afternoon for his Macc-Pow! channel and the full video is now on You Tube. See this link to view it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD816Dnej1c 

New interview about HAM DARE!

Art by Malcolm Douglas from a script by Lew Stringer.

I was recently interviewed for Spaceship Away magazine, the comic dedicated to Dan Dare and other space heroes of the 1950s. The reason being that back in 1986 I wrote a Dan Dare spoof serial for Oink! comic entitled Ham Dare, Pig of the Future. 

Ham Dare was illustrated by the brilliant Malcolm Douglas (using his alias J.T. Dogg) and he accomplished wonders with it. I was lucky to have him drawing my script.

You can find out more about the background to Ham Dare (and other Dan Dare parodies) in Spaceship Away No.53, available to buy from this link:

http://spaceshipaway.org/

The interview is part of a six page feature called The Fake Dan Dare Syndrome by Andrew Darlington which also includes other Dan Dare spoofs and related strips such as Danny Dare from Wham!. The article mentions that my Ham Dare plot bears a passing resemblance to the 1957 novel Wolfbane by Frederik Pohl.... which came as a surprise to me because I'd never even heard of that book until now! 

Spaceship Away features brand new stories of the original Dan Dare along with colour reprints of Jeff Hawke and other material. There's also a tribute to the marvellous artist Don Harley who passed away in January.

If you want to know more about Oink! comic, be sure to check out the Oink! Blog run by Phil Boyce: https://oink.blog/

Art by Malcolm Douglas, script by me.

New video interview for Air TV International

Back in August I was interviewed about my career by writer,editor, and broadcaster Tim Quinn for the online channel AirTV International. If you have a spare hour of your time and you want to see me waffling about comics then click on the following link and have a view...
https://www.airtv.international/videos/view/23530

 

Listen up! Here's a new podcast interview

In the unavoidable absence of comic cons we've seen an increase in comics podcasts about the world of comics. A few weeks ago I was interviewed via Zoom about my life and career by Shane Chebsey for his ICE-CAST and it's now uploaded onto his site if you want to listen to it. Runs for slightly over an hour...

https://icecast.podbean.com/e/the-ice-cast-episode-6-lew-stringer/

 

 

New interview in VWORP! VWORP!

It humbly calls itself a fanzine but this wonderful publication is easily on a par with High Street magazines in terms of design and its quality of writing. Vworp! Vworp! is devoted to covering the history of Doctor Who Magazine, and as the latter has been around for 41 years there's a lot of insider knowledge to unearth. Vworp! Vworp! manages that admirably by interviewing as many peopole involved with DWM as it can, including editors, artists, writers, and more. 

The latest edition is a combined and updated version of volumes 1 and 2 in a sumptous 196 page full colour softback book. Vworp! Vworp! isn't published very often (it's been three years since Vol.3 was released) but that's ok because there's so much in the books that they'll take you ages to read anyway! 

Vworp! Vworp! Volumes One and Two Collected includes interviews with Dave Gibbons, Mike McMahon, Adrian Salmon, Tim Quinn, Dez Skinn, the late Steve Dillon, and many more, plus a new interview with me. The interview also shows you one of my original Daft Dimension scripts and the inked and coloured version of the artwork. 

Even putting personal input aside, I can't reccommend Vworp! Vworp! enough. If you like Doctor Who comics, or comics history in general, this is for you!  It's a chunky publication and it comes at a chunkly price (£15.99) but for a 196 page A4 sized book on quality paper that's a good price. 

More info and ordering details at their website at this link:
https://www.vworpvworp.co.uk/ 

Macc-Pow! Podcast

Myself and several other comics people were interviewed at Macc-Pow! the other week, and the podcast is now up for you to listen to if you wish. Sound quality deviates in places as it took place in a crowded Town Hall. My bit starts about 40 minutes in, but listen to the whole programme to hear everyone else...
https://comicartpodcast.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/episode-31-macc-pow-2018/

New interview

There's a new interview online that I did a few weeks ago. It's now been uploaded and you can see it here:
http://downthetubes.net/?p=39731

It's in relation to the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, as I'll be a guest there this year when it takes place in October. Hope to see you there!

In the news

I was recently interviewed by The Independent on my thoughts about the current state of children's comics in newsagents. Fellow comics creator Jamie Smart was also interviewed, along with others, and the emphasis is most definitely on The Phoenix. I did manage to plug a few other titles too though for balance. You can read the article at The Independent's website here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/how-classic-childrens-comics-gave-way-to-garish-magazines-a7535736.html

New interview online

There's a new interview with me online at the Pipedream Comics website conducted by Olly MacNamee where I waffle on about comics. You'll find it here:
http://pipedreamcomics.co.uk/interview-lew-stringer/

New interview

John Freeman of Down the Tubes has interviewed me in advance of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival which I'll be attending this weekend. If you're interested in reading it you'll find it here:
http://downthetubes.net/?p=17702

Please excuse the huge close up photo! Hope it doesn't put you off your lunch. 

See you at the Lakes! Full details here:
http://www.comicartfestival.com/