December 2011 - Season Finale

This is the last chapter of our first year of Comic Who, call it the season finale! We chose to dedicate all the strips of this month to one of the most favorite character in 2011, we are talking about Simmy! We published three different stories connected each other which ended with the Christmas Special.

The first one was an old script which gives Elisa inspiration for this image. We sent Simmy back in the past without a TARDIS and without a DeLorean, so he is going to be stuck in the 70s and it's all Yana's fault.

This is a clear reference to Life on Mars... Did I already said we love that series? Well, it's not a secret, John Simm is a great actor and Gene Hunt is a great character!!!!!

Anyway we are now in the 70s, one year after the accident and Simmy is still stuck in the past. But every ages has its own Doctor and in the 1974 a new Doctor came in town with a baby version of himself (sounds familiar?). Welcome back Bakey (the 4th Doctor) with his young child Bakey Jr (the 6th Doctor).

We loved to introduce old Doctors, so we are planning to use them even in the next season...how cute are Bakey Jr and Baby Yana in the last panel?

Anyway, Christmas is coming and Simmy has no friends in the 70s, but as I said it's Christmas time and miracles happen and sometimes even foes become friends. This is our great finale for a great year of strips!

The year is gone, a long and wonderful year, but a lot of new stuffs are coming in this 2012 but before to leave you, I want to show you the images sent by our followers and selected by us as the winners of the Christmas contest. If you want to see them all just hit this link!

Single Panel category:

Johanne (16)
from Norway

Cinzia (26)
from Italy

Multi Panel category:

Justine (18)
from France

Anyssa (14)
from USA 

Nicolas (21)
from Colombia

The countdown is going on! Two days to the Comic Who birthday and we are not short of surprises yet!

See you tomorrow!

November 2011

It's time for a new contest, a bit different from the last one. We invited people to send us any kind of images about the Comic Who Doctors at Christmas, we received about 40 images and it was very hard to pick up a winner (yep, in the end we chose 5 images).

The participants were great, they sent us strips, pinups and all sort of things. We loved it. But we're going to talk about the results on the next post. Infact we announced the winners on Christmas day (it was a Christmas contest after all).

The awards consist in a group of skatches made by Elisa with watercolors. We have just sent them to the winners and we are planning to publish them on the blog in the near future. We asked them which character is their favorite: two of them asked for a Tenny sketch, while the other three opted for a Smithy's sketch!

Another month, another birthday, this time we celebrated Karen Gillan, best known as Amy Pond. Elisa created one of the sweetest (in every way) illlustration she have ever made for Comic Who. Judge by yourself:

Ok, stop with celebrations, we didn't have much time for strips on November but  the two we published are a great piece of our history. In the first one we also introduced one of the most favourite classic Doctors, we are talking about Bakey (the 4th Doctor). He met one of the greatest character Doctor Who has ever had: Rory The Roman!

It was a lot of time that I wanted to do a strip set near the Pandorica with Rory, and I think we centered the goal right in the middle! Our followers loved the introduction of Bakey, so we chose to make him back in the next set of strips.

For the next strip I just want to copy and paste the introduction I wrote in the relative post because it  perfectly summarizes the meaning of the strip: "The first question. The oldest question in the Universe. The question that must never be answered. Hidden in plain sight. The question you're running from all of your life: Why bananas?"

That's all for this month. Tomorrow we'll se the end of this year with a full set of strips dedicated to Simmy.

See you!

Christmas Special

Back in the 70's Simmy is going to celebrate Christmas alone with baby Yana! But you know, at Christmas time miracles do happen and sometime even foes become friends! 

Simmy's going to leave the 70's, but I promise, next year we'll have more Classic Who. This is our last strip for 2011 and it's also the last strip for our first year... We're getting older; January 14, 2011 we start this wonderful journey and now, with 2000 followers on Facebook, 1000 followers on Tumblr and more then 300 regular followers on Blogger, we are going to celebrate our birthday with you all! Prepare yourself, because celebrations will start on New Year's day!

Merry Christmas to you and your families from the Comic Who Staff!

Christmas Contest Results

It was difficult to choose the winners, because the temptation to reward everyone for their efforts and for their excellent work has been strong. In the end we tried to evaluate the entries basing on the sympathy, the originality and also the age of the competitors. We have divided the entries into two categories, one composed by simple images, the other composed by multi-panel images and between these we selected those that we believe were the most beautiful, funny but above all, more Christmassy. I hope you enjoy our choices, in addition all competitors will receive shortly a little surprise.

Following the winners for the Single Panel category:

Johanne (16)
from Norway

Cinzia (26)
from Italy

And now the winners for the Multi Panel category:

Justine (18)
from France

Anyssa (14)
from USA 

Nicolas (21)
from Colombia

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Here is the gallery of entries for the Single Panel category:

Stella from Italy	Hattie from USA	Markéta from Czech Republic
Alexis from USA	Elisabetta from Italy	Nadia from UK
Roberta from Italy	Luca	Agostina from Argentina
Natalia from USA	Eloise from France	Milly from UK
Rebecca from USA	Alani from USA	Rita from Poland
Meghan from USA	Rachel from Georgia	Nell from USA
Moni from USA	Jessica from Italy	Angela from USA
Hannah from UK	Mike from New Zealand	Dina from Italy
Gaby from USA	Rebekah from Australia

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Here is the gallery of entries for the Multi Panel category:

Kristin from Japan	Renzo from Colombia	Nicole from Australia
Benedetta from Italy	Jeane from USA	Becky from UK
Riley from USA	Alanah from USA

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All winners will receive an email from us asking for some information on the award. The drawings will be sent via e-mail as soos as they are ready and then the originals will be mailed to your home address. Congratulation to all the participants and thanks for all the Christmas wishes we received.

Merry Christmas from the Comic Who Staff!