Sunday, 8 June 2025

Things To Come (and things still in limbo)

Here's a brand new one-off character I've created who will be appearing in the GOOF Summer Special that will be launched at the Macc-Pow comics festival on Saturday 28th May.

As with last year's festival, the latest GOOF will contain a mixture of new funnies by some of today's cartoonists and edited and designed by Marc Jackson who is also organising the event. More news on that soon!

So I'll see you at Macclesfield Town Hall on May 28th for Macc-Pow! 

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On to other news, or lack of it. Some additional health worries and tests have preoccupied me recently and set back plans to publish Combat Colin No.6 this summer. I really should learn not to announce plans until they're definite as there's always something to jinx it. I semi-retired in April to self-publish more comics but that's not working out so far due to stress and finances. Expect to see more comics from me... whenever. Your guess is as good as mine.

Meanwhile I'm still contributing my Daft Dimension strip to Doctor Who Magazine every month (my only ongoing mainstream strip now) and I'm doing a Sgt.Shouty page for The77 No.11. More on that when it's completed.

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4 comments:

JM said...

I knew you shouldn't of quit your job. Big mistake Lew. Too late to ask for your job back at Beano HQ?

Lew Stringer said...

The Beano hadn't given me work in two and half years, JM, and I'm a freelancer. I wasn't on staff at "Beano HQ". I've never even been to Dundee!

Also I haven't "quit my job". I'm semi-retired now that I'm a pensioner. Hope that clarifies things?

Anonymous said...

Kickstarter?

Lew Stringer said...

No, I don't want to go that route. Besides, the main drawback is I haven't started on issue 6 yet so there's no way I'd ask people to pledge to it when it's not ready.