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COVENTRY BASED comic book artist Al Davison has been drawing issues of the Dr Who comic book series published by IDW in America.

An exhibition of Al's art from the Dr Who comics he has worked on is running at the Lock Gallery until 3rd October.

The creator is also responsible for Trinity, a new film that is premiering as part of A Thing About Machines. This is an electronic arts festival, dedicated to Delia Derbyshire who composed the Doctor Who theme tune. It takes place at The Tin Angel in Coventry where several other films by local film-makers will also be screened.

The Birmingham Mail's sister newspaper, The Coventry Telegraph , ran a feature on Davison, and an internet link for it can still be found at: www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2009/05/25/artist-al-davison-chosen-for-new-doctor-who-comic-book-92746-23701845/2/

Speech Balloons intends to feature an interview with the comic book creator in the future.

For more information on Al Davison visit: www.astralgypsy.com

BIRMINGHAM BASED writer Tony Lee is the man behind a new ongoing series based on the popular BBC TV series for American comics publisher IDW.

Tony was the writer of last year's Dr Who: The Forgotten maxi-series, also published by IDW, and has similarly contributed to Britain's Dr Who Magazine.

While intended as an ongoing series, it is believed various artists will be drawing individual story arcs.

Coventry based Al Davison is pencilled in as the series' debut artist, with the likes of Paul Grist scheduled to follow.

The writer also has a graphic novel collection of his Eagle Award-nominated Hope Falls series. Co-created with artist Dan Boultwood, and again to be published by Markosia, it is due in May and will feature an introduction by Ben Templesmith. If ordering through Diamond Distributors, your favourite comics emporium needs to ask for MAR094036: HOPE FALLS TP.

For further information on Tony Lee visit: www.tonylee.co.uk

For further information on IDW visit: www.idwpublishing.com

For further information on Markosia visit: www.markosia.com

WHEN PAUL Cornell is not busy writing episodes of hit British television drama series and authoring popular novels he is making a name for himself in the comic book world, as noted on this site when he was featured on Speech Balloons regarding events in Captain Britain and MI: 13 taking place in Birmingham.

After contributing to British fanzines, Paul Cornell entered and won a Young Writers' competition that saw his Kingdom Come screened on BBC2. He then focussed on children's television, before branching out to contribute to the supernatural series Springhill and briefly contributed to the classic award-winning British soap opera series Coronation Street.

Cornell appears to have a predisposition for writing about doctors having established his early career on Children's Ward and in recent years writing episodes for three BBC medical dramas: Casualty, Holby City and Doctors. However, the character his name has been most associated with - albeit linked to the medical profession by only one word- is Doctor Who.

To date he has written six Doctor Who novels, three audio books and the animated internet adventure Scream of the Shalka, comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine, plus novels and audio books featuring Bernice Summerfield, a spin-off character from one of his Who books.
He was also involved in the overwhelmingly positive revival of Dr Who to the small screen, and was responsible for scripting Father's Day; the episode was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2006, and reached third place.

The scriptwriter contributed to BBC1's new Robin Hood series and ITV's science fiction series Primeval . Aside from two mainstream science-fiction novels published so far, he has also written non-fiction books about television, and seen a career in comics slowly begin to bloom.

In the UK, aside from the aforementioned, and perhaps obligatory, Dr Who Magazine, Cornell has contributed stories to the Judge Dredd Megazine. While for America's Marvel Comics he wrote the six issue Wisdom series, and is scripting the aforementioned Captain Britain and MI:13 as an ongoing title whose next story arc is titled Vampire State and will feature no less than Dracula as the major foe. At BICS events he has also hinted at yet another comic book title from Marvel, but as yet which one remains a pretty close-guarded secret.

For more information on Paul Cornell visit: www.paulcornell.blogspot.com

Comic creators John Freeman and Mike Nicoll are pleased to announce that their all-new comic strip Secrets of Ceres debuts in the latest issue of British science fiction comic Spaceship Away.

Written by comic writer and editor Freeman and drawn as 3D computer art by Perth-based Nicoll, Secrets of Ceres delivers an action-packed SF adventure set in a future world of shady corporations, killer robots and stars Sarah Blake as a space-faring female private investigator who supplements her bounty hunting with a webcam-style broadcast of her adventures... when she can get a connection!

Secrets of Ceres is part of the creators' Ex Astris saga where stories have now appeared in print in both Spaceship Away and Bulletproof Comics, as a web comic on the internet and in a mobile comic format via www.rokcomics.com.

"Ex Astris reflects my love of the kind of SF space adventures I grew up reading," explains John Freeman, who lives in Lancaster England, currently edits ROK Comics, and has previously been an editor of Doctor Who Magazine and a director of the Lancaster Literature Festival. "I was a sucker for the work of Asimov, EE Doc Smith, Robert Heinlein and others, the kind of SF I'd say Charles Stross and others are continuing to this day."

Spaceship Away is a Dan Dare-inspired SF magazine featuring new adventures of the original 1950s comics space hero alongside a mix of new and other classic comics featuring the art of such creative talents as Don Harley, Keith Page, John Ridgway, Ron Turner and Keith Watson.

Spaceship Away editor Rod Barzilay sees the issue as a "jumping on point" for new readers, with Ian McLumpha's Space Girls and Eric Chilton's Journey into Space (drawn by Tacconi) just two more strips in the jam-packed line up, complemented by a range of features on the making of the original Dan Dare stories.

The three times a year, full colour glossy magazine started out as a way to get a newly created 1950s "old Eagle" style Dan Dare strip story (Drawn by Keith Watson and Don Harley) in print, and now has a loyal and growing following worldwide, delivering high quality SF strips to an eager audience who love the kind of classic space adventure now being rekindled by TV shows such as Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica.

Further information:

• Spaceship Away is available from all good comic shops and via mail order from www.spaceshipaway.org.uk

• For more information about Ex Astris visit: www.exastris.co.uk