Comic Who Confidential: Simmy's Prank

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It's always a great laugh on the Comic Who set, but sometimes our little friends exceed the limits and for the poor Simmy this means troubles! This is what happened while shooting "The Sound of Drums"

Stalking

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Being a father (or mother, in Tenny's case) is a hard work, but someone have to do it! But I think that Tenny is a bit exaggerated, and when the daughters are Jenny and River, problems are right around the corner!!!

Hell's Kitchen

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Hi guys! Today we want to cook you!!! Elisa and I are great fan on Chef Ramsay (I also booked a table to his London restaurant for our Honeymon)... I absolutely love the way he relates with his fellows/trainees and I always wondered how he could react to our tiny Doctors! Take a look!

Contest Prizes

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The followings are the sketches Elisa made as rewards for our Christmas contest (the subject for the skecthes were chosen by the winners)! We waited for a while before post them here because we wanted to be sure the winners received the originals, but now it's time to share! Hope you like them!


    

Character Files: Tenny

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Tenny - The 10th Doctor

Comic Who Confidential - An Ordinary Working Day

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It's time for a new Confidential, this time we want to share with you the complex process leading to the creation of a strip from the script. It consists in several important steps and in most cases it can be summarized as follows...

February 2011

February it's my month and the next strip I'm going to show you was published on my birthday. We're still joking with regenerations and this time we took in consideration the most tearful! When the 10th Doctor regenerated, a lot of people started to ask for him to come back! But it's just like a game, you have to go on and let the new player to take your role:

The idea was simple, they are kids, and what kids do when they have to leave their games? You've just read the result ^_^

The next one was our first special strip, it was Valentine's Day, so we choose to talk about love. One of the most loved companions, even by the Doctor, was Rose Tyler, but this time the idea didn't came from Doctor Who, but from "Diary of a Call Girl" where Matt Smith (formerly known as the 11th Doctor) did a cameo and had a very hot scene with Billie Piper (alias known as Rose Tyler). What if Eccly and Tenny caught Smithy with Rose?

February 16 is the Christopher Eccleston's birthday, so we wanted to celebrate that day in Comic Who style, but it wasn't Monday, so we choosed to dedicate him an illustration, a sort of PinUp as a gift for this amazing Doctor. Elisa tried a new way to color it and I must say it's very good:

This was also our first appearence on the comic. The guy on Eccly's left is me and the girl on the right is my beautiful girlfriend!

During the past months we bought the ticket of the Doctor Who Experience. It was an amazing trip and we decided to dedicate a strip to the event:

If you have been there you'll notice that the posters are directly taken from the experience (they are real pictures taken during the visit) and the texts in the first panel are taken from the original website... this particular strip was also posted on the Doctor Who Official Tumblr blog (I'm wondering why :P).
We loved the Experience and we also did a review of the event that you can find here with pictures and opinions.

It was a month full of new stuff and we also introduced a new [quite] regular character! The Doctor can't live without his greatest enemy: The Master! Actually we leave every companion with their real name (Rose, Jack, Amy, etc...) but we were planning to use more than one Master, so we choosed to call him Simmy (from John Simm,the actor who plays the role in the third series)

I think this one doesn't need any kind of explanation, so I just greet you and we'll see you tomorrow with a new month full of strips!

January 2011 - The Beginning

We want to celebrate the new year with you all, but we also want to celebrate the birthday of this blog! On January 14 our web comic will grow older and we want to retrace its first year with our followers! Expect one post every day until the 14th with a little surprise in the end!

As you may know, we're from Italy. Our country is not one of that blessed with real time Doctor Who episodes. From the 2005 to the 2007, a satellite broadcaster translated the first three seasons of the new series, so we had the honour to know Eccleston and Tennant, but then the channel went out of business and the Doctor didn't materialize with his TARDIS anymore in our tellies (well, internet is a big place to find what are you searching for). In the end of 2010, a TV trailer began to be transmitted on one of our national channels (Rai 4): the Doctor was travelling again through time and space with Donna Noble as his new companion... well, the trailer was about series 4, but actually they were planning a full rerun of all the series starting on January 14, 2011 (they broadcasted 5 series and all the Christmas special until 2010 and the sixth series is scheduled to start on January 12). 

This is the story so far of a dream of a couple of whovian who began their journey in the Doctor Who world! This is the story of how Comic Who was born!

Everything started from a joke, we were planning to watch the first episode with Eccleston and we wondered what would happen if the 10th and 11th Doctorwere going to be there with us watching the first adventure of the 9th... my girlfriend, during the day published on her blog the following two strips:

The first strip is about us watching the episode. In the third panel you can find us with our friends and animals (and a Dalek)... the musical notes are actually the original notes of the Doctor Who theme tune. The translation of the last panel is:

"Shhh... He is coming!"

"What do you mean by 'Who'?... The Doctor! Join us"

In the second image we can see the very first appearence of Tenny and Smithy and the translation of the text is:

"Us! We're going to join!"

"There is still room for us?"

"This way please"

When I saw these, I started to think of a thousand of adventure of this tiny Doctors and Elisa loved my ideas, so we decided to open a blog (in English, this time) where to publish our new strips working together as a team! I write the stories and she draw them!

But the first one, which is actually the last part of the previous two strips, was completely her idea and, let me say, it's pure genius:

We decided to schedule a new strip every Monday featuring all the three Doctors as three distinct character named Eccly (9th), Tenny (10th) and Smithy (11th) so, after a few days, we published our very first strip. We wanted it to be very childish, our Doctors are kids, so we wanted to introduce them (at least Smithy) playing a game... a very dangerous game:

It was a great success... well, at that time we didn't expect so many visits, actually we reach that amount of visits every hour, but for an unknown italian couple for the first time in the Doctor Who universe was an amazing moment. We received a lot of comments and a lot of appreciation! And this is what came next:

We introduced for the first time all the three Doctors and we faced our first "problem": the 9th and 10th Doctor shared the same Sonic Screwdriver in the TV series, but we needed to show them with three different Screwdrivers... the idea came from "Silence in the Library" where River Song used to have a different Screwdriver, a red one, so we decided to give it to Tenny and asked our followers to get the reference.

Things were going well for our comic, so we choose to get more into the TV series taking fool of the most tearjerker moments of the story... the moment of the Doctor's regeneration. The next strip I'm going to show you is actually the most loved and the most viewed of our first year:

We also introduced for the first time a companion (Rose), and the TARDIS... our first month ended with a lot of new regular followers and a lot of appreciation comments... we were tiny, but we were growing fast!

See you tomorrow for a new part of our history!

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!

Time Over

The contest is over right now, so no more entries will be accepted! We received 41 illustration and there are a lot of good works there! Thank you for being part of our Christmas!

We really would like to reward everyone, but this is a contest, so it is supposed to have a winner... well, actually two winners... we decided to create two categories:

• Single Panel
• Multi Panel

We're going to publish the results on Christmas day, so stay tuned!

TO ALL THE PARTICIPANTS:

I need to know your age and where are you from, so if still didn't answered to me, send me a mail at comicwho@gmail.com or a PM on the Facebook page.

Bananas Are Good

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?"
Rose will try to answer... check it out!

Bad Bad Beans

Did you have fun on Halloween? Let see how our little heroes have spent their evening. They surely had fun, they surely had sweets (Eccly and Smithy greased a couple of pounds), but they also were scared... by beans.

On The Train

It's a Comic Who Monday... well, we are no more regular as the beginning, but sometimes we are able to deliver a new strip on Monday and this is the case.

This time we found our little friends in a great danger, an epic battle is taking place on a train, but you know, this is Comic Who and you don't have to believe to the appearances!

The Rescue - Teaser

Hi guys,

this time we want to introduce you a new project! A big project (at least bigger on the inside)!

We are going out of the box... literally, we want to make a real comic, not a simple strip... well, it'll half a strip and half a comic! It's to early to talk about this stuff, but it's growing and it's becoming real!

You know, we're crazy, we're mad, and we want to meet a mad man with a box, so here is the idea: Comic Who is going to cross over the Doctor Who universe in an epic comicbook! It will be funny, very funny, very very funny ^_^

I'm actually writing the story (the greatest story never told ^_^)  and I can count on two great artist for the realization of this comic. The Comic Who universe and our tiny doctors will be drawn by the well known Elisa Moriconi, while the Doctor Who universe and its mad characters will be drawn by Jessica Palumbo

We made a little teaser for you and we really hope you like it and you will enjoy our new project. We will give you more information and we'll show you something more precise as soon as the project evolves.

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Puppet Show

I think this one doesn't need any comment from me!

I just noticed how much loved was the Rose Doll even if it appears briefly in a Pinup and in the last panel of a strip, so I thought... what the hell... just use it ^_^

Hope you like it!

Bad Feelings

A few months ago I asked on our Facebook Page what kind of subject they would like to see covered on our strips. A lot of fan asked us to introduce the character of Jenny (10th Doctor's daughter). It was quite hard to find a good way to introduce her, but then I thought about what would happen if Jenny had appeared during a date between the Doctor and River...and what if the Doctor wasn't Tenny? Check it out!

This was just an experiment, but if you like it, I will try to increasingly involve the Facebook community. One last thing, we added a little easter egg into the strip. It's quite easy to find it, but I think it's still funny ^_^

Life on Mars versus Doctor Who

It's a wibbly wobbly period for us... Moving to a new home, lot of work, no internet connection for nearly a month and the hottest summer I can remember... I really hope to go back to normality as soon as possible, but now you have to be patient and the Comic Who strips will not be released every monday as before until the end of moving (we're also planning some holidays :D). Anyway, we want to thanks all of you for your great support and love. We reached over 1000 fans on our Facebook page... whooo hooo!!!

Today we are not posting a new strip but a tribute to another british series we love so much: Life on Mars! We really hope you like this because it's our way to thank you for your appreciation in this months. Enjoy!

The Secret Weapon

Actually we are a little busy... we are moving into a new home... for the third time in 4 years... we really hope this is the last one ^_^

This is why in the last weeks the release of the new strips is a bit delayed! We hope you'll understand and don't worry, we are without a broadband connection, without our stuff (and still without a dish washer ç_ç)  but we'll never give up :D

And this is the new strip. In the past weeks we saw how much Simmy is missing his Limeykins and now it's time to revenge... well, sort of... Take a look :D

Comic Who Confidential - Valentine's Outtake

Today, with the new Comic Who Confidential, we go behind the scenes. Infact, not all strips are good at the first ciak, there is always someone who wants a little fun and in the end everyone laughs and the work has to be redone. On Valentine's Day our heroes had to reshoot the scene 42 times because Limeykins absolutely wanted to play the Smithy's role.