More ORIGINAL ART up for sale!

I've put another lot of my original artwork on eBay today. Some key items here...

There's the very first appearance of The Giggly Sisters in the Combat Colin strip from Transformers No.196 (1988)...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204267969013?hash=item2f8f51d9f5:g:VZkAAOSw26dkCKyJ

 

A Christmas with Tom Thug page from Oink! (1987)...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204267974387?hash=item2f8f51eef3:g:XE8AAOSwsNNkCK1V

 

...and a Daft Dimension strip from Doctor Who Magazine No.515 (2017) featuring the 12th Doctor, a Cyberman, Dalek, Sontaran, and Ice Warrior, plus the 1st Doctor in a spoof of the cliffhanger to the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor Falls"... 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204267960429?hash=item2f8f51b86d:g:bbUAAOSwoZJkCKjk

 

The auctions on these three items ends next Wednesday, 15th March! 

The previous three items I listed will end their auctions this Sunday, 12th March. See here for info on those:

http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com/2023/03/original-art-from-viz-buster-and-marvel.html

Many thanks to everyone who bids. It's really appreciated. Sorry they're not available to overseas buyers but I will sort something out soon! 

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COMBAT COLIN returns in a brand new story!

Combat Colin, the bobble-hatted hero, (imagine if Nick Frost played a cross between Rambo and James Bond in a small English town) whose adventures ran in the pages of Marvel UK's Action Force and Transformers comics in the late 1980s returns to comics again this week in a brand new story.

The latest edition (Vol.8 No.7) of Aces Weekly, the successful digital comic anthology created by David Lloyd (artist of V for Vendetta), features an all-new full colour three page Combat Colin adventure that I created exclusively for the comic. 

The story begins where many British strips have ended, with a slap-up feed, (see preview above) but danger and daftness is just around the corner! Colin's co-stars Semi-Automatic Steve and The Giggly Sisters are also back... but so is Professor Madprof, the Mad Professor, one of the gang's oldest enemies!

This isn't the first time Combat Colin has returned since his exit from Marvel UK of course. As Marvel had returned the rights to me I reprinted some of his stories in self-published comics in the 1990s. Colin also guest starred in the Brickman series in Elephantmen comic a few years ago. He's also appeared in Aces Weekly before, in the very first issue back in 2012 (also a new story exclusive to the comic). 

David Lloyd has been asking me ever since if I'd contribute again, but with one thing and another I either didn't have the time or frame of mind to get back into combat mode, - until now. I thoroughly enjoyed indulging in my old comedy-action daftness again and I hope the readers will get a kick out of it too of course. My thanks to David for asking me to be part of Aces Weekly again.

What is Aces Weekly? Well, for all of you who have been glum because of the lack of new UK comics on the shelves, the Internet offers hope. Aces Weekly has now been running for eight volumes, each containing seven issues. Yes, a brand new comic that's now been around for 56 issues! Each issue features six stories from various creators who all own the rights to their material. They're mostly serials, but some (like Combat Colin) are complete self contained strips. Like the British weeklies of old, there's a variety of themes amongst the adventure and humour stories. 

Anyway, enough from me. Here's how David explained it himself on the website:

Aces Weekly is an exclusively digital comic art magazine featuring some of the world's finest creators of comic art!  The guy who brought you V FOR VENDETTA - David Lloyd - has gathered professionals from around the globe to bring you this revolutionary publishing project.  It appears every Monday with serials and short stories by some of the finest talent in comic art! 

ACES WEEKLY WAS VOTED TOP DIGITAL COMIC OF 2013 IN PIPEDREAM COMICS POLL OF THE BEST!  ALL AT ACES WEEKLY THANK PIPEDREAMCOMICS.CO.UK, AND ALL THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR US, FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT!

Just £6.99/$9.99/€7.99 for a SEVEN WEEK volume of some of the finest talent in comics storytelling.

AND BUY OUR BACK VOLUMES - all for just £6.99/$9.99/€7.99.

Keen to see more? Visit the Aces Weekly website to subscribe and start reading the comic right now! http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/home

  

The Giggly Sisters!

When I was doing the Combat Colin strip I started to introduce a few supporting characters who would occasionally turn up in the stories. Two of which were the Giggly Sisters, identical twins who became the regular girlfriends of Colin and Semi-Automatic Steve. (They also later became a bit more proactive than just being, well, giggly.)

This is their first appearance (I think) from The Transformers No.196, December 1988.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this anywhere before but the Giggly Sisters were originally inspired by the Pigeon Sisters in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple.