New Annuals for 2021

As has been custom for the past few years, I've done some annuals for the forthcoming festive season. Having in the past based several on old Doctor Who annuals, this year I've opted to use more recent ones as the inspiration. Most of these are either ones for Peter Capaldi or Jodie Whittaker. 

The choice of subjects has been a little more difficult than usual given the dearth of new content from the main TV channels. As such, there's a little bit of repetition in this year's subject matter - with a gentle nod to the current national situation. 

I hope you like them. You don't have to work out which annuals are from which year... 

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Jackie!

 How come there are so many Jackies in the world of Doctor Who? How come they've never been cover stars of the popular junior magazine for girls of the same name? Probably because it's no longer published and I'm not the editor... but that's not the point.

I did one for Jackie Lane way back when I started producing this tat. I had a look at it before I started these. A bit crude and to be honest, not that authentic looking.

Anyhow, here's a selection of Jackies - all of them icons of coolness! 

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More Monster Annuals

Yes, I might be a little late with the updates but I'm still knocking out the annuals. The next few blog additions will be mostly those. 

This is a selection of annuals based around Doctor Who monsters. I'd already done a Mandrel annual and have made it available via my RedBubble shop as a journal/notebook (see pic). That one and two of these newer ones are based on World Distributors' 70s Dalek annuals. The Cheetah people one has its roots in a 'Land of the Giants' annual. Not the one that briefly appears in the first episode of 'Survival' (next to a Gary Glitter annual on a table outside a junk shop!). 

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Classic Doctor Who Film Posters

Here's a final selection of Doctor Who cinema posters created during lockdown. No logic to the choice of titles. I just had an idea and went with it. 

Particularly pleased with the one for The Daleks - so pleased I used Japanese text on it. The upper line is the title of the series - taken from the official logo - whilst the lower line is the title taken from the Japanese printing of the novelisation which is loosely translated as "Space-Time great Blood War" or something like that.

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Three Blu-ray Collector's Edition Things...

I had to leave this post for a few days whilst I did another cover. I like things in threes - so I needed a further cover to add to the two I had planned for this post.

But what to do? 

I seem to have done everything I wanted to do with these designs. Then I thought, how about a steelbook Blu-ray for something that is missing from the archives that isn't Doctor Who? So I set to work on creating a quick and dirty design for Nigel Kneale's long lost teleplay The Creature from 1955. It tends to get forgotten about what with being surrounded by Quatermass serials and Nineteen Eighty-four. But it did have the honour of a Hammer movie version (which is actually superior and better known that that awful film of Nineteen Eighty-four starring Edmond O'Brien.).

I might do a steelbook cover for Nigel Kneale's Nineteen Eighty-four at some point. Though I'd better hurry as 2021 marks the year that Orwell's works enter the public domain and we stand a chance of having the play finally released on DVD/Blu-ray. 



Anyhow, here's some Blu-ray covers what I did over the course of a few weeks. 

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