Cor!! What a bargain!

Just a quick mention that the Cor!! Buster Bumper Fun Book that I contributed several pages to is currently discounted to a very reasonable £2.75 at the publisher's website. Classic characters revived in brand new stories!

Here's the link:

https://shop.treasuryofbritishcomics.com/catalogue/RCA-H0018

Mad as a March Hare!

Here's a sneak preview of part of my next Daft Dimension comic strip, plus the cover of the issue it appears in. You can see the full version plus 84 packed pages of interviews, articles, and reviews (and the Doctor Who main strip) in the March issue of Doctor Who Magazine No.614, in shops on Thursday 27th February! £7.99

https://www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/doctor-who-magazine-614-gbdrw614-uk02.html

Behold The Batman (and Mickey Mouse)

 

Here are two sketches I did last year, just for fun. A Mickey Mouse (Steamboat Willie) drawing I did on January 1st 2024, the day he became public domain, plus my version of the Batman that I drew last summer. 

They're both up for bids on my eBay page right now so if you're interested please take a look. Auction ends on Sunday 2nd March or you can use the Buy It Now option today.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=203554298786&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562&_ssn=graphite47

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Rare comic artwork up for auction this week

As promised, I'm continuing to use eBay for my art auctions and this week there are more pages of my original comic art plus two vintage ones by comic industry greats!

To clarify, these are all original hand drawn pages, not prints, not facsimiles, not pages torn from comics. (I need to emphasize that because some sellers sell items that aren't the real deal.)

To cover my pages first there's a complete Pete and His Pimple story that is two pages in length. Both pages up for bids in the same auction. They were drawn for Oink! No.65 in 1988.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205301009328?itmmeta=01JMJRZQ9EGN627G8AG945GMGG&hash=item2fcce4cbb0:g:nUgAAOSwYU1ntN00 

Next, a Combat Colin page that I did for Marvel UK's Transformers No.197 back in 1989 featuring the one and only appearance of Colin's stand in! 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205301127910?itmmeta=01JMJRZQ9E2BF5TFFGDPCSAWB4&hash=item2fcce69ae6:g:GjkAAOSwnOFntPBP

Then a Daft Dimension strip thart I drew for Doctor Who Magazine No.522 in 2018 featuring Daleks in their true form.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205301061788?itmmeta=01JMJRZQ9E8DJ770FMYP2W8VPP&hash=item2fcce5989c:g:oRsAAOSwsMFntOWa

 

Now we come to the pages by other artists. Here's a fantastic School Belle page by the great Tom Paterson that he drew for Buster in 1985. This is the last of Tom's pages that I'm selling.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205301049593?itmmeta=01JMJRZQ9EQEWH18YN6QEKSXM1&hash=item2fcce568f9:g:eX4AAOSwOQhntOQ8

And one from the classic age of comics, a Billy Bunter half pager by the legendary Eric Roberts (who later drew Winker Watson, Dirty Dick and others for The Dandy). This original Billy Bunter page is part of a longer story (which I don't have) but is a brilliant example of Eric Robert's artwork. He drew it for the Easter issue of Knockout comic way back in 1959!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205301026980?itmmeta=01JMJRZQ9EBFBQTT9Z8B7H7E5S&hash=item2fcce510a4:g:YFMAAOSwAeVntOBu

Please visit each link to see detailed photos of every item.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=203554298786&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562&_ssn=graphite47

Auctions on all of these pages end on Sunday 23rd February so only a short time to go! All bids appreciated!

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Latest Health Update

Good news for a change. The hospital consultants have had a meeting about my leukemia and as it seems stable at present there's no immediate need to start treatment just yet. (Having chemo too early would be less effective for CLL).

I won't post any more updates about it until there's any significant deterioration. At present I'm feeling good apart from some fatigue now and then. 

My thanks to those of you who sent me your good wishes. There's no cure, and I'll need treatment at some point, but at the moment I'm taking this as a win. (I won't say "positive news" as that's the last phrase anyone should use about cancer!)

If you want to learn more about the type of cancer I have, here's the info:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chronic-lymphocytic-leukaemia/ 

 

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More info about my new online shop

Going by some comments it appears that some of you aren't sure what Ko-Fi is, thinking it's a courier firm or warehouse. 

I'm sorry I didn't explain further in my previous posts. I'd forgotten that while most people are familiar with eBay they might not know of the alternatives. 

Ko-Fi is simply a company that allows artists to set up their own online shop. When you buy a comic from my shop, Ko-Fi sends me a notification and I post the comic to the buyer using Royal Mail just as I did on eBay. Simple as that. You're dealing directly with me, and on eBay I have a 100% rating so you know I'll send you the goods. 

In the case of digital comics, I've uploaded the files as PDFs to Ko-Fi and when you buy a digital comic they'll deal with that.

I hope that helps. Here's the link if there are any you've missed, or if you just want to show appreciation of my work you can just press the 'tip' button to donate £3:

https://ko-fi.com/lewstringer/shop

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A variety of comics from the Lewniverse now available!

 

Having found a few more comics that I thought were out of stock there are now nine items in my new online shop for you to purchase, including three digital comics. 

 

The physical comics will be signed inside by me and well will be well packaged for posting. Here's the link:

https://ko-fi.com/lewstringer/shop

 

 

DEREK THE TROLL available again - and this time he's digital!

The long sold out collection of my 1980s Derek the Troll / Rock Solid strips is now available to buy as a 32 page digital comic PDF. Some of my earliest published work in this!

Here's the link...

https://ko-fi.com/s/ab50c1ee81

 

Lucas Mucus, the villain in Rock Solid!

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It's KO-FI Time! My new online shop is active

As promised last week, I've now joined Ko-Fi and will be selling my comics there from now on instead of eBay. 

I'll also be selling some original art there at special Buy It Now prices from time to time. There's a Daft Dimension comic strip ready to buy already (if it hasn't already been snapped up).

I'll also be using it as a blog and news site for previews of what I'm up to. It's all a work in progess at the moment while I get used to the new site.

Items for sale so far are Combat Colin Nos.3 to 5, Fanzine Funnies, all as physical comics to post to you, plus two digital PDF comics you can download for a small fee, Barmy Comix and Tough Guy. (Both of which were previously available from my Google Drive but will now be exclusive to Ko-Fi.) 

One of the main focuses of Ko-Fi is that it's a platform where followers can donate a fee of any amount to the creators whose work they enjoy. I'm not earning a lot these days due to fatigue-related health issues so any donation would be very much appreciated. 

Anyway, here's the link if you want to check it out! Thanks in advance!

https://ko-fi.com/lewstringer 

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TOXIC reaches issue 400!

The long running Toxic magazine has reached the milestone of 400 issues today!

Launched by Egmont in September 2002 and originally edited by Matt Yeo, Toxic set out to be a new style magazine for boys, featuring news of the latest genre films, TV shows, game cheats, puzzles, jokes, and also brand new comic strips containing "gross humour" that always goes down well with schoolboys. Like a modern-day Oink! but with more features and activity pages.

From the outset the magazine featured the comic strip adventures of Team Toxic; Doc Shock, Kid Zombie, Krunk, Kid Zombie, and Bog! Initially visualised by the artist John Rushby I was assigned as the scriptwiter on the strip from issue one. Its popularity soon upgraded it from mini strips to two full pages and I became the artist (as well as continuing as the writer) with issue 15. Over my 16 years on the strip I created a multitude of super-villains to clash with the Team including Frankendrac, Sick Squid, The Sand-Witch, Buttface, Antimatter Hari and many more.

During the magazine's early years, more comic strip content was added including work by Jamie Smart, John F. Short and Laura Howell. Although very popular with its target audience of 7 to 11 year old boys, Toxic was mostly ignored by the adults of online comics fandom who assumed it was just a feature-based magazine with "plastic tat" (toy gifts). 

Nevertheless, 23 years later, Toxic became one of the most successful magazines of the 21st Century and is still thriving, now being read by a new generation of kids! Sadly, the strip content was diminished several years ago and now only features reprints of Team Toxic (which I don't get paid for) and sometimes imported strips such as Team Titans Go. 

How the mag appears in shops in its packaging.

The magazine itself.

Toxic No.400 is sub-titled a "Special Edition" although there's no mention inside of it reaching its landmark 400th issue. (Sometimes publishers think that revealing the age of a mag will make kids think it's "old".) However, for an eye watering £7.99 you get the regular 36 page magazine plus a bound in 8 page Gaming Guide, several plastic gifts including a "blaster" (or gun as comics used to call them), all inside card packaging that has a cut out mask of The Rock on the back. (Do kids want to run around pretending to be Dwayne Johnson? Perhaps so!) 

The Team Toxic story in this issue is a reprint I did several years ago called Snot Funny and features the Team against the super-villain Mr.Nostril! While I feel sad that I don't get paid for the reprints I knew what I signed up for, and I'm pleased that my work is reaching a new generation of readers.

Toxic No.400 is avaiable now from WH Smiths, Asda, Tesco and various other supermarkets and newsagents. £7.99 

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Thanks once again!

My thanks to all of you who placed bids on my eBay art actions and/or bought my comics. I'll be posting all the items over the next day or two. 

As I mentioned last week, from Feb 4th, changes in eBay's system will make it more expensive for both seller and buyer of small items like comics so I will be removing my self-published comics listings and selling them on a different platform. Possibly Ko Fi. Watch this space!