Season's Greetings

It's Daft day again!

For 36 years, Doctor Who Magazine has featured strips by some of the top names in the UK comics industry... and me too, over the last 18 months. Today sees the publication of the whacking great 100 page Christmas issue and I have another of my Daft Dimension strips in there. (Preview clip above.) 

This issue comes bagged with a massive free poster. Here's what to look out for...

Don't miss out! DWM No.494 is in the shops now! £5.99.

Grab a Grindhouse for Christmas!

This Wednesday (9th December) sees Dark Horse publish the final Grindhouse graphic novel, Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight Double Feature Volume 4. It features Lady Danger by Alex de Campi and Muele Jarvis in one half of the book and the flipside features Nebulina by Alex de Campi and John Lucas. It'll also feature two of my most bizarre strips of this year.

The book includes the Sex Pest page I did for Grindhouse No.6. (shown above) and the Hell Hole page I did for issue 8...

Here's the cover by Muele Jarvis to look out for...

Also still available is the previous volume, featuring Slay Ride by Alex de Campi and R.M. Guéra, and Blood Lagoon by Alex de Campi and Chris Peterson...

That book also featured two pages by me. One being Kung-Fu Cheesecake...

...and the other being Snowmanic!

As you may have guessed, the books are for mature readers. I'm guessing most of you are mature so look out for them at a comic store near you. They're also available from Amazon, and Alex's site here (www.tfaw.com/alexdecampi) and digitally on ComiXology. 

Any questions or comments about these strips? Please post below. 

Have a Happy Brickmas!

With Christmas fast approaching, if you want a copy of my comic Brickman Returns for yourself or anyone else, now would be a good time to order it. The comic is in stock and will be sent out within a day of receiving your order. I'll sign every issue I sell, and will add a dedication if you wish, at no extra charge obviously. 

Brickman Returns has 32 pages featuring 20 pages of Brickman in full colour, plus Combat Colin and the Suburban Satanists! Professionally printed and on quality paper with excellent reproduction. 

To find out more, and how to buy your copy, see my website:

http://www.lewstringer.com/page7.htm

"Rollickingly Revolting"

Quoted from Olly MacNamee's review of my Suburban Satanists strips in the Bomb Scares anthology:

"Alongside truly spine chilling stories like Flesh of My Flesh sits the comedy stylings of Lew Stringer (The Beano) who brings the tradition of UK children’s comics and comic artwork and mashes it up with the conventions of horror to produce a set of devilishly delightful strips that are both reverential and rollickingly revolting. This ain’t for littluns, make no mistakes about that."

To read the rest of Olly's review, see here:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/11/29/macs-book-space-captain-no-2-blood-red-moon-no-1-and-bomb-scares/

To buy the Bomb Scares book, visit the Time Bomb Comics website:
http://timebombcomics.com/products.html

Season of the Slap-Up Feed

Here's an advance preview of my Team Toxic strip in the Christmas issue of Toxic, which will be on sale from this coming Wednesday, 2nd December. I always enjoy illustrating the Christmas strips and as you can see I've designed a special festive logo for this issue, snow on the lettering of course. (A tradition in comics since the 19th Century.) 

Another Christmas comics tradition is the 'slap-up feed' of course. This dates back to the early days of comics too. It might not be such a big deal these days but I still like to include it in my festive stories. 

What happens in this episode? Buy Toxic No.264 on Wednesday to find out! 

An Annual Treat

The 'Christmas' annuals have been out since July and seem to be selling fast. My local WH Smith and Sainsbury's sold out of The Dandy Annual 2016 weeks ago and haven't restocked. The Beano Annual 2016 is available in Sainsbury's for £3.49 so this is the time to grab them! Waiting until the last minute, or the January sales, may result in disappointment. Treat yourselves or a relative/friend to an annual for Christmas!

For The Dandy Annual 2016 I wrote and drew all the Keyhole Kate and Smasher pages. It was a pleasure to work on those classic characters again. I don't know if this book will feature Kate's last appearance but I haven't been commissioned to do any strips with her for the 2017 dated annual, which I'm working on now.  

For The Beano Annual 2016 I wrote and drew the three Lord Snooty pages. I haven't been asked to do anything for the 2017 dated book (on sale next summer) so I'm not sure what the future holds for Snooty.

Below is a panel from one of my Lord Snooty pages for the annual. First in pencil rough form, then the completed inked and coloured version... 

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