The second issue of the Doctor Who fanzine Vworp Vworp! has finally been published. There’s a lot of good stuff about Gibbons, Bakers and sundry others, as well as an interview with yours truly about my all too brief sojourn at Doctor Who Monthly.
This Junkyard Demon strip, my only contribution to the Doctor Who canon, was beautifully written by Steve Parkhouse and ‘Mickily’ inked by the talented Adolfo Bullya. It was the first time I had worked from a plot, as opposed to a full script, and also the only occasion that my pencils were inked by another artist.
I am still more than happy with the storytelling/layouts, and the drawing, although a long way from any sort of apex, is still me on top form for those days, though I do still cringe at my clumsy attempt at a likeness for the unfortunate Mr Baker – Harpo Marx, anyone?
All around though, a thoroughly enjoyable experience, and one of the few things from the seventies/early eighties that I can still bear to look at.
13 November 2011 at 11:40
Looks a helluva lot like Tom Baker to me!
Brilliant!
13 November 2011 at 11:55
Thanks for uploading all pages .Great layouts and contrasts all round. Magic.
13 November 2011 at 13:25
Great stuff!
13 November 2011 at 13:52
This was the strip that make me wanna draw – thanks, Mick!
13 November 2011 at 14:56
Hello Sir – we met briefly at 2D in Derry (my partner and I were sitting in front of you and your wife when you were resting by a window before the interview with Rufus). This strip was the very first thing that got me from Topper and Beano into 2000AD and Warrior. It remains the only Dr Who comic I ever bought, can even remember where and when I got it (summer at an Aunts house, local newsagent). Its crazy the detail I can remember about it while having very little memory about anything else going on that summer. The very tatty original sits in a box to this day. Frankly it is just gorgeous. As ever you are being far far too modest about your own ability. Thank you very much for posting this up.
13 November 2011 at 16:26
Ah yes, ‘resting’ by the window in the upstairs bar. I seem to recall doing quite a bit of ‘resting’ that weekend…
13 November 2011 at 16:57
I like this.
13 November 2011 at 17:49
Hi Mick, thanks for the plug! Did you get your copy of Vworp Vworp! 2? I sent you an email asking for your address but didn’t hear back…
13 November 2011 at 22:14
Awesome…makes you wish comics were still black and white…
14 November 2011 at 09:21
Thanks for posting, now I get to see it! Looks amazing.
14 November 2011 at 14:57
blew my head off when i saw it in print and it’s just blown my head off again. it’s a master class on how to draw comics.
this, along with the fink angel work inspired/influenced me profoundly, helped make me run with my own style.
god bless your might pen!
15 November 2011 at 00:27
Just wonderful Mr McMahon. Have just been overtly gushing about your Tank Girl Carioca over at http://www.comicbitsonline.com, in my role as roving rubbish reviewer.
16 November 2011 at 09:57
Apologies for the gushing article I wrote that accompanied the Vworp Vworp interview, and double apologies for the cod-McMahon image. In case you haven’t guessed we all loved this strip back then and still do. ;-)
16 November 2011 at 09:59
Don’t worry, I can cope with gushing!
18 November 2011 at 09:15
amazing Mick, love it!
19 November 2011 at 14:30
I have a rather yellowed and grubby copy of the original publication. Sometimes if I’m feeling a bit jaded about drawing for a living, it’s one of the things I revisit; it instantly takes me back to the youthful excitement and awe I felt when I first clapped eyes on it. Chunky, imaginative brilliance.
6 December 2011 at 23:11
A bit late on the comments here, but I still love the panel with the slumped back Cyberman. I never read the original comic, and I can’t recall where I saw the excerpted panel first time, but it’s a great image!