Doctor Who - Season Twelve on Target

I've done some more retro Target book covers. Actually, I've done quite a lot more retro Target book covers. 

As you can see from my earlier ones for Flux, I'm quite taken with the second redesign that debuted with Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons. It features a cutdown version of the then series logo and a (usually) white border that the artwork occasionally bled out of - building on the pop art/Frank Bellamy style of the previous ones.

I did the 80s stories first but in the interests of some semblance of continuity, I'll begin with Tom Baker's first season which I only completed a month or so ago.

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Lockdown Doctor Who Posters

There was a global re-watch of the very first nu-Who episode 'Rose' a week or two back. It followed on from an equally popular one for 'Day of the Doctor'. Loads of folk took part. Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies even joined Twitter to take part. Both of them supplied some new short stories to complement the episodes. The two events even made the BBC news showcasing the diverse fans from around the world - Brazil, Japan, Moscow, Italy, Australia - who joined in with the love.

I did my little bit and produced a cinema poster for 'Rose' in the style of the 1950s sci-fi film 'Invaders from Mars' (like those Supermarionation ones I did a few posts ago). I quite enjoyed doing it. So I did one for 'The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky' based on the famous poster for 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'. I've no idea how the two connect up but the end result is quite pretty. 

I might do some more. 

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Dr Who Activity Books for Christmas 1974!

Since Doctor Who returned in 2005, there have been a plethora of children's activity books. From the usual colouring books to the more specific 'Regeneration Activity & Sticker Book', there seems to be no end of them.

Back in the 70s, World Distributors came up with a handful of colouring books - particularly later into Tom Baker's run as the Doctor.

With my interest in creating new vintage Target covers for the classic series waning a little, I thought it would be fun to adapt Tom's first season into a series of World Distributors 70s-style activity books. 

In an alternate timeline, these were hastily created for the 1974 Christmas marker and to tie-in with the new Doctor's debut over the festive period. As such, precious little photographic material was available and the compilers of these gems had to use what little was freely available... 

They did try though...

(...despite Terry Nation's agent not playing ball again!)