Monday 30 May 2011

Comic Who Confidentials: Sherlock

We love new adventures and we want Comic Who to never get old,  so, as we announced, today we are going to introduce a new series of strip. 
Every Doctor Who episode is always accompanied by a Doctor Who Confidential, a sort of documentary with the making of the episode and some other cool stuff. We would like to do a very similar thing. Once a month (the last monday) we will release a special strip with backstages, making of, interviews, outtakes and many more. A joke in the joke, let me say.
So please welcome the Comic Who Confidentials! This first strip is also my first collaboration, infact this story is based on an idea of Michela Magnani, a friend of us who wrote the script with me. It is also our first cross over and my little tribute to the recently closed contest (yes, we still have Jack in this strip :D).

As I told the Comic Who Confidentials are inspired by backstages and who is the man behind the stages? Obviously we are talking about Steven Moffat who recently (well, last year) started to produce a new series with Mark Gatiss: Sherlock. But how the 3 doctors react to the new Moffat's pupil? Let's see!



Sunday 29 May 2011

Contest 2011 - The Complete Script Collection

And here we are with the last appointment with our contest. If you click on the image you can download the complete collection of scripts from our contest with the classifics and the two special strips realized for the winners. This is our last thank you and we really hope to repeat this wonderful experience, so, see you next year ;-)
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Friday 27 May 2011

Silent Nights


A little update from our gadget shop. Just to help you to have a nice sleep we have added this set of pijamas (and T-Shirst)... uhm, I think I'm forgetting something... Have you seen my fez?  can't find it this morning and I can't remember where I've left it...



And this are some examples... hope you like it... but don't stop watching, otherwise you'll forget about it :D







Monday 23 May 2011

Looking for Answers

Last week we celebrated the winner of our contest Jonathan Hodges with his The 12th Doctor, instead this week we have realized the strip for the Fan Choice Award. Our friends on Facebook voted for their favorite script and here is the result. Congratulation to Faith Marie Vinnicombe!!!

Now we can finally say that the contest is really over, but there is still another little surprise for you, also don't forget that next week we will have our first Comic Who Confidential, with a guest writer and a little cross over! Stay tuned!!!



Saturday 21 May 2011

The Truth Behind Limeykins

Hi ComicWhovians!
The today's post is meant for a different reason, I want to tell about a little and extremely cute and green Teddy Bear which is becoming our mascotte!
In the recent strips we introduced a little bear that lives with the three Doctors and some readers asked us who he is (yes, he, not it :D) and where he come from... The answer is simple, he is just a mistake!!! :D
Just take a look to the following strip, the first featuring Limeykins:

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We wanted to add some cute staff to make Simmy more funny, so Elisa sorted out a green teddy bear, but in the last panel she forgot to draw it. As you can see, in the third panel Simmy left the bear that falls down, but in the forth panel it isn't still there because the Simmy's baloon covered all that area. When I noticed it I just said "Hey, make him run away like the others", so you can find the little bear in the right angle running away from Simmy (or maybe from Yana, who knows).
Anyway, this simple idea makes someone laugh (well, me for example :D) and a girl from deviantArt also named the bear. And when you give a name to something, you start to love it, and now we love Limeykins!
It was a funny thing but it could end there... At that moment we had already written  scripts until July (at this moment we have script scheduled until the end of October and, yes, this year Halloween falls on Monday :D), so we couldn't simply add a new character in every strip... But mistakes are always helpful and another one leads the way to the full integration of Limeykins in our stories. Just take a look to the following strip:

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This strip was supposed to take fool of the Stonehenge speech. As you can see, the Doctor is standing on a stone, right in the middle of a stone to be more precise. This time Smithy is a bit decentralized on his stone leaving a good amount of free space on the right... and there comes the idea... we decide to fill that space with Limeykins shaking his hand like Smithy.
We received good comments and people liked the idea. For some unknown reasons, Limeykins decided to leave Simmy and went to live with the three Doctors. Adding him in every strip is quite easy... sometimes he just do a little cameo, but sometimes he also "do stuff". For instance, in Carnival Party, when Smithy proposes to go the Simmy's party, Limeykins is scared and in the following panel he goes away on tiptoe, just like he doesn't love the idea to meet his old "friend" (well, I don't think he has anything against Simmy, I think that he doesn't have a good feeling with little Yana... but it's just an idea, maybe we will ask him in a future Comic Who Confidential). Just a last word about the Stonehenge strip... did anybody noticed Rory? ;-)

Anyway, this is how the idea cames out and I hope you like this new character. I'm quite sure that we will see more about him in the near future! Following all the strips featuring our new mascotte:

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Monday 16 May 2011

The 12th Doctor

And here it is the strip from the script of Jonathan Hodges, the Comic Who Contest winner!

Don't forget to take a look to our new Gadget Shop.



Sunday 15 May 2011

Something has come!

Hi all!
Long time from the last post, but my lovely girlfriend was sick and needed some rest!
Actually the Fan Choice Award is over and the winner is Faith Marie Vinnicombe with her Looking For Answers! Congratulation to you Faith, the Comic Who Fans choosed you ^_^

Because of the delay, the new strips have to be re-scheduled. Tomorrow we will see the contest winning strip: The 12th Doctor by Jonathan Hodges. We just sent him the strip as a preview and it seems he liked it. On May, 23 we will see the Faith's one and we really hope you will enjoy both of them.
Prizes are on their way and the winners are going to receive them within a week (business week... whatever it meens)

Now, why write this post if there is no new strip around? The answer is simple, because something was coming and now has finally come! You asked for it and we heard you!

Ladies and gentlemen, we are really proud to introduce you our brand new Gadget Shop! It's called... Comic Who... you would never expect it, would you? Anyway it's hosted by CafePress and we are planning to release new gadgets quite frequently! You can find there t-shirts, mugs and a lot of other cool stuff... stuff is cool!
You can reach it by clicking the below image or by following the new widget on the rigth bar of this site! We hope you like it and if you want something new, just suggest us and we will try to satisfy you!



Monday 2 May 2011

Carnival Party

Did you loose the greatest carnival party ever? Well, maybe a TARDIS would fix this, but before leave you to the strip, I've something to share with you!

As you may know, yesterday we published the results of our contest! The winner is Jonathan Hodges with his script titled "The 12th Doctor". Next week we will see this script transformed in a real strip, but now we have something else to do: The Fan Choice Award

It's your turn to choose your favorite script between the first 10 classified. You can do it going to our Facebook Page (and only on our page) and putting a Like to the script which you prefer. The voting will take place until May, 13 at 11:59 PM UK time and the most liked one will be drawed and published on May, 16. Here is the list of the available scripts:

02 - Hello (Stephanie Millar)
03 - Looking For Answers (Faith Marie Vinnicombe)
04 - Jack looks for Lurv (Holley Drye)
05 - Welcome Back, Jack (Rebecca Hill)
06 - Pears? (Stephanie Osczepinski)
07 - Good Advice (James P. Henderson)
08 - Tenny's House (Julie Damm)
09 - Jack and the power of Ianto's Coffee (Gabriella Serratrice)
10 - Jack And The TARDIS (Jonathan Ross Lusby)

Good voting to you all!!! ^_^

A Little News
Ok, now the contest is over, but there is a lot of stuff we want to share with you! There is no rest for the Comic Who Staff and we are going to introduce a new series of strip this month: it is my pleasure to announce you the beginning of the Comic Who Confidentials! Every last Monday of the month we will release a special strip with interviews to the characters, outtakes, errors, pranks, auditions and much more...
There's another surprise for you this month... Something is coming... on May, 15!

And now... the strip!!!!



Sunday 1 May 2011

Contest Results!

Ok, here we are!
The contest is over and now we have a winner!!! I know that you have already skip to the end of post to view the top ten, but I have some words for you all and I hope you will read them.

Special Thanks
When I had the idea to put up a contest it was just... an idea... If we are at this point is because a lot of people joined us, helped us and supported us. I want to personally thank all of them! First of all, the judges! They were external to Comic Who stuff, but they dedicated to us a lot of their time, spreading the word, answering questions and reading all of your scripts. They absolutely made this contest possible. Thank you Lady Soliloque, thank you Gabriella Cordone, thank you Luke Williams, thank you Francesco Spreafico and, least but not last, thank you Craig Hurle. Then I want to thank Elisa Moriconi, I know, she is part of the Comic Who staff, but she worked so hard for this making banners, working on the prizes and she will now try her best realizing the strip from the winning script.
There is no contest without participants, and it was amazing how many people joined the competition! Great scripts, great stories! We had 21 entries, more then we can even imagine, so thanks to all of you and I really hope you enjoyed the game!

Prizes
In the next few days we will contact the top 3 to request the shipping address for the prizes and we have a little surprise for you, hope you like it! All the prizes will be sent on May, 16 and hopefully you will receive it before the end of May.

Fan Choice Award (aka Facebook Award)
Tomorrow, after the new weekly strip, we will publish on Facebook all the scripts from the #2 to the #10 position as Notes. All the Facebook fan can choose their favoirite by clicking on the Like button. Voting will end on May, 13 at 11:59 UK time. The most voted will be drawn and published on May, 16.


And now... The TOP 10!

01 - The 12th Doctor (Jonathan Hodges)
02 - Hello (Stephanie Millar)
03 - Looking For Answers (Faith Marie Vinnicombe)
04 - Jack looks for Lurv (Holley Drye)
05 - Welcome Back, Jack (Rebecca Hill)
06 - Pears? (Stephanie Osczepinski)
07 - Good Advice (James P. Henderson)
08 - Tenny's House (Julie Damm)
09 - Jack and the power of Ianto's Coffee (Gabriella Serratrice)
10 - Jack And The TARDIS (Jonathan Ross Lusby)

Congratulations to all of you!!!



A Little News
Ok, now the contest is over, but there is a lot of stuff we want to share with you! There is no rest for the Comic Who Staff and we are going to introduce a new series of strip this month: it is my pleasure to announce you the beginning of the Comic Who Confidentials! Every last Monday of the month we will release a special strip with interviews to the characters, outtakes, errors, pranks, auditions and much more...
There's another surprise for you this month... Something is coming... on May, 15!