Special PinUps

From the beginning of this new year we retrace the history of our comic month by month, but we haven't shown yet all the amazing stuff we created. In this special post I want to show you all the PinUps realized during the 2011. 

Have you ever noticed tha we have different headers on the top of our website? They are loaded randomly and they are composed by a PinUp combined with a catchphrase taken from the TV series:

I'm going to die... in a dungeon... in Cardiff!

I'm definetly a mad man with a box

Things sometimes don't happen to me in the right order, especially weddings!

Do you want me to repeat the question?

One of the best catchphrases in the TV series is "Basically, Run!"; it summarize perfectly the character of the Doctor! Enemies must run away from him, but also companions have a lot of that "run thing" to deal with. We tried to portray this quote with our personal style:

We often use this image as a header for our posts or other stuff. It's basically the same but without the cathphrase and with our logo

When we introduced Limeykins, our tiny mascotte, we designed a new logo to include our lovely green teddy bear.

Apart from the logos and headers, we have made many illustrations during the last year in order to accompany our strips. The next group of PinUps is named Silent Nigths. While Eccly and Tenny are asleep, Smithy is frightened by a Silent perched on a ceiling fan, and he also stole his fez!

This is also the first appearance of the Rose Doll, a lot of people loved the fact that Tenny is holding it while sleeping. We chose to make the doll appear even into a couple of strips (this and this).

Some of the illustrations were made during a LiveStream session where Elisa has shown the making of a particular drawing. The following is a good example of how things go from the scratch.

One of the best illustration made by Elisa was dedicated to a great friend of us: Lady Soliloque.

These are her favourite characters from the Who-verse. To be more precise, we have Jack, Ianto, Tenny and Simmy.

Beside the illustrations and the strips, we promoted some events which required custum images. The followings were realized for our contests (The script contest and the Christmas contest) and for a project we're working on (The Rescue)

This is quite all for this year, but before leaving you, we want to remind you that the big day is arrived. Tomorrow is going to be our first birthday and we are working on something to make this day special. Anyway, just to help get you in the party, this is a special image dedicated to birthdays!

See you tomorrow!

PS: If you didn't notice, all the images are clickable ;-)

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!

October 2011

The Rose Doll made his first appearance in a PinUp and we received tons of messages of appreciation, so we inserted it in a strip, but it wasn't enough, so we decided to diedicate it a full strip, maybe with a Tenny puppet...

Poor Tenny, he can't tell his feeling for Rose even playing with puppets... maybe it's too late to play with dolls, there are so many games to play with the other Doctors, and maybe with some other friends

I love the way the Ood and the Sontaran looks in Comic Who style, anyway we have learned that it's always a problem to go to the park the same day as the Doctors...

October is Smithy's month and we wanted to celebrate his birthday with a Fish Finger Custard cake... well, at least in an illustration, but it seems he liked it...

But celebrations do not end here because October means also Halloween. We wanted to realize a special strip for the occasion. Some people didn't get the beens reference; I invite all of them to take a closer look to the beginning of series 5 and Torchwood series 3 ;-)

The apple reference is a self quote from this strip, and it's not the only one, this strip is full of cross-reference, it's up to you to catch them all.

That's all folks, see you tomorrow!

September 2011

We received a great gift on September. A great friend of us, Chiara Cavalli, created a tiny statue of Rory the Roman upon Elisa's Comic Who design. We were so proud of this wonderful gift we received that we made a complete photo shoot.

It's an amazing piece of art! It's perfect in every angle and we love it! It's actually on my desk and every time I need inspiration I look at it. If you want to see the full gallery of pictures, just hit this link!

I think it's too early to talk about this, but Chiara is working on something new... keep an eye on the blog!

Anyway, the moving is over and it's time to make some new strips! This time the inspiration came from the 2010 Christmas special... we know that the Doctor isn't good with moneys, but maybe the problem isn't with moneys, but with his wallet...

Another good point to join our Facebook page is becase sometimes we involve our followers in the creation process of a script: this time I asked on the page which characters they would like to see in a strip and the  most wanted were River and Jenny. This is what my mind has given birth:

The month is coming to an end, so it's time for a new Comic Who Confidential. This is my favorite one and explain why Russel T Davies chose Daleks and Cyberman to end the second series of Doctor Who. Take a look...

I think there's no need of explanations... see you tomorrow for a new post!

August 2011

This summer we moved to a new home, so the strips were discontinued and we published only two of them, plus a special cross over, but first things first.

Simmy want his Limeykins back. He knows he's living with the Doctors and he has a special weapon to achive his revenge

Look at Simmy's backpack, isn't it lovely? Anyway, this come from an old saying (stated in the last panel) but it works, the Doctors doesn't like apples very much (you're warned iPhone users ^_^).

We realized a strip to celebrate summer in Comic Who style, we took inspiration from one of the episodes of season 6 and we put togeher Limeykins with the Adiposes

As I told, we didn't have much time to realize a full set of strips this month, but we wanted to publish a sort of gift for our followers making a cross over with one of the greatest BBC series (besides Doctor Who, obviously)

We are talking about Life on Mars, where John Simm (Simmy) plays Sam Tyler, a police inspector sent back in time after an accident. The image is named Gene Hunt because, even if the story is based on the character of Sam Tyler, Gene Genie is unquestionably the true star!

See you space cowboy...

July 2011

Do you ever wondered what the Doctors eat? Well, I do, and which better occasion then a dinner with friends, and the last wash the dishes!

This time, in the third panel, we introduced every single companion in all the first 5 series, and what about the  TARDIS junkyard? Well, it's not the same seen in The Doctor's Wife, but when I wrote the script the episode hasn't aired yet ^_^
A little tease for the new year... the TARDIS Junkyard is coming back, and if you follow us on Facebook maybe you know what I'm talking about!

We've seen Limeykins a lot of times with the Doctors, but what about Simmy? He loose his freind and now he lives with a baby version of himself... we think he is going to miss his good old Limey...

A heart breaking strip for a great character... A lot of followers are loving him more then Eccly, Tenny or Smithy!

It's time for a new collaboration. Michela Magnani sent me a script, a very good script, so we decided to realize it! Let's see what came out...

If you want to send us a script, don't hesitate to write to comicwho@gmail.com. We read every submission, and if it's good maybe we'll create a strip from your idea! If I remember well, the first strip of the new year is from a follower who sent us her script.

Anyway, last strip of the month, so it's time for a new Comic Who Confidential, this time we show you a little joke made by Limeykins and Smithy during the shooting of the Valentine's Day Special.

We loved it ^_^

See you tomorrow!