Tuesday 15 January 2019

A year of change

It looks like 2019 is going to be a challenging year. Due to publishers making cutbacks, I've suddenly lost all my regular mainstream comic work except for The Daft Dimension in Doctor Who Magazine. It's quite a blow but it's time to forge ahead and hopefully find new work in other publications.

This week I'm busy working on a one-off strip for a comic I can't talk about yet. You'll be hearing more about it in the weeks to come! 

Next week I'll be drawing the final episode of Hygiene High, as Epic magazine is being cancelled. 

I've already drawn my final Team Toxic, as Toxic is dropping all comic strips. 

I've nothing coming up in The Beano for the foreseeable future. (The comic is doing well though.)

It's a bad time for publications, with most comics, magazines, and newspapers losing sales, and it's always the creatives who suffer. Keep following this blog for updates... good or bad.



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8 comments:

  1. Mj17 January 2019 at 05:18

    Good luck Lew, here's hoping for an upturn

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  2. Lew Stringer18 January 2019 at 10:19

    Thanks, Mj.

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  3. Kal19 January 2019 at 00:08

    Ooh, that bites. Hope a creative gig turns up, be it with the Beano or elsewhere.

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  4. Lew Stringer19 January 2019 at 01:37

    Thanks, Kal. I'm busy until the end of January but after then I'll be pursuing new comics/illustration work. I've no idea if I'll succeed but... watch this space!

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  5. Ben Bernard-Smith23 January 2019 at 08:30

    Sorry to hear that Lew! Could you not submit something to the Phoenix? It would be worth a try?

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  6. Lew Stringer23 January 2019 at 17:56

    Hopefully, but as the strips are creator owned I need time to develop a new concept that I'm happy will work that is suitable for their readers. It's one thing I'll be pursuing though, but I don't want to rush something out and foul up my chances.

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  7. Ben Bernard-Smith24 January 2019 at 13:42

    That makes sense Lew. I look forward to hopefully seeing what you produce for them. :)

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  8. Lew Stringer24 January 2019 at 15:57

    That's assuming they accept what I send them of course. :)

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