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Simmy's Tales: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Part 1

2012-03-05T18:45:00.001+01:00

It's time to do something new! We had a lot of requests to introduce some old characters like classic Doctors and/or classic enemies, but it's actually very hard to do this with "our" timeline! Hey, but we have a character who was sent back in the Seventies for a few strips! Yes, we are talking about Simmy and his time leap occurred in this strip. Oh well, we know that our Eccly, Tenny and Smithy came back to "rescue" him on last year Christmas Special, but what happened in the meantime? We don't know exactly in which year the Doctors came back for him, so we don't know how many adventure he lived with baby Yana and his new friends (yes, he is going to meet some new "unexpected" friends) but I'm sure we are going to find out!

With great proud let me to introduce you the "Simmy's Tales": Our new series of strips which starts with a three part story, we really hope you will enjoy it!

Script Contest 2012

2012-03-01T01:00:00.000+01:00

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Introduction

This contest is designed to engage Comic Who readers and make them part of the creative process behind the realization of the strip. Participants will be asked to write the script of a strip that will be brought to the attention of an international jury. The best one will be turned into a real strip and published on the Comic Who blog page.

The Subject

Each year we will propose a different subject on which the participants must rely to carry out their script. The subject this year is Smithy!

Every script must use our Eleventh Doctor as the main character; you can also include Tenny, Eccly and any other Comic Who character you want, but Smithy must be the protagonist. You can create parodies of events which occurred in the TV series Doctor Who, but original stories will be much appreciated.

The Jury

The jury will be composed by the following people:

- Elisa Moriconi (Comic Who Illustrator)

- Chiara Cavalli (The artist who realized the main price)

- Francesco Spreafico (Doctor-Who.it webmaster)

- Lady Soliloque (Writer and Video Editor)

- Luke Williams (The Doctor Who Site webmaster)

- Michael David Key (Artist)

Contest Rules

- The contest will begin at 0:00 AM (GMT) on March 1, 2012 and will end at 11:59 PM (GMT) on March 31, 2012.

- Scripts must be uploaded through the automatic submit page at this link.

- All scripts sent outside of the validity period of the contest will be ignored.

- All scripts must be written in proper English (no slang will be accepted).

- It will be accepted only one script per person.

- The Comic Who staff will answer with an email by communicating the acceptance of the script or the reasons for which have been refused.

- Winners will be announced on April 8, 2012.

- The jury's decision is final!

Script Rules

- No obscenity and/or vulgarity and/or violence will be accepted.

- Every script must be divided into 4 (four) vignettes.

- You have to describe all the backgroungs as you are describing a picture.

- You have to describe exactly the laying and the facial expression of each character in the vignette.

- No more than 4 (four) characters are allowed into a single vignette.

- No more then 3 (three) balloons are allowed into a single vignette.

- No more then 30 (thirty) words are allowed into a single vignette (this includes onomatopoeia). Example: if you have two ballons into a vignette, you can write 15 words in the first one, 14 in the secont and use 1 onomatopoeia.

Tips & Tricks

- Strips are like puns, should make people laugh by saying a few things, basing mainly on the expressions and comic absurdities.

- Don't waste time creating complex stories, usually a simple situation is much more fun. Sometimes you do not even need words to make people laugh (think of the Valentine's Day spcial).

- Too many characters and dialogues are often synonymous with confusion and risk of boring the reader. Try to be as concise as possible.

- Remember that vignettes provide a limited space, so do not overdo the details, otherwise you may not have enough space available for carrying out the scene.

- Read this Facebook Note to understand how to create a script.

- If you have doubts or concerns, please send an email to comicwho@gmail.com. The Comic Who staff will answer soon as possible.

Contest Winner Award & Prizes

- The winning story will be drawn by Elisa Moriconi (the Comic Who Illustrator) and published on our comic blog (with all the credits to the original author).

- The winner will receive a figurine of Smithy made in Polymer Clay (The one you can see on the flyer).

- The second place will win a Commission of a digital color illustration of a single character on white backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.

- The third place will win a Commission of a pencil sketch of a single character on simple backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.

The Fan Choice Award

After the contest scripts of stories that are classified by the # 2 to # 10 will also be published as Notes on the Comic Who Facebook Fanpage. The public will choose the best by putting the "like" on the favorite script.

- The vote will take place from April 8, 2012 to April 14, 2012.

- The winning story will be drawn by Elisa Moriconi (the Comic Who Illustrator) and published on our comic blog.

- The author will win a Commission of a digital color illustration of a single character on white backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.

Detailed picture of the figurine you can win!

Good Luck & Have Fun

Comic Who Staff

Comic Who Confidential: Simmy's Prank

2012-02-27T14:22:00.002+01:00

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It's always a great laugh on the Comic Who set, but sometimes our little friends exceed the limits and for the poor Simmy this means troubles! This is what happened while shooting "The Sound of Drums"

Opening for Commissions!

2012-02-23T20:32:00.000+01:00

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Because of the large amount of mails we are receiving, we confirm that we accept Commissions (not Requests)! If you want to know more about our Commissions service, just hit this link (http://comic-who.blogspot.com/p/commissions.html) and read carefully the instructions! We are waiting for your messages and we'd love to work for you!

The Doctor is Back!

2012-02-22T14:07:00.001+01:00

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As you can see in the picture above, the Doctor is back in action and yesterday they started shooting series 7. The Official Facebook Page posted this picture so we made a little Comic Who sketch as a tribute to this wonderful news!

Shenanigans - #1

2012-02-20T21:04:00.001+01:00

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Rory The Romans and the mistery of the Silent's tongue...
This happens when I get bored!

Stalking

2012-02-20T12:30:00.000+01:00

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Being a father (or mother, in Tenny's case) is a hard work, but someone have to do it! But I think that Tenny is a bit exaggerated, and when the daughters are Jenny and River, problems are right around the corner!!!

Work in Progress

2012-02-18T23:59:00.000+01:00

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We are building a brand new website, take a look: http://www.comicwho.com

Hell's Kitchen

2012-02-13T12:36:00.003+01:00

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Hi guys! Today we want to cook you!!! Elisa and I are great fan on Chef Ramsay (I also booked a table to his London restaurant for our Honeymon)... I absolutely love the way he relates with his fellows/trainees and I always wondered how he could react to our tiny Doctors! Take a look!

Contest Prizes

2012-02-11T20:52:00.000+01:00

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The followings are the sketches Elisa made as rewards for our Christmas contest (the subject for the skecthes were chosen by the winners)! We waited for a while before post them here because we wanted to be sure the winners received the originals, but now it's time to share! Hope you like them!

Character Files: Amy & Rory

2012-02-10T20:21:00.001+01:00

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Amelia Pond, Rory The Roman and a spiteful Silent

Character Files: River & Jenny

2012-02-09T20:25:00.000+01:00

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River Song with her stepdaughter Jenny

Smithy Cross-Stitch

2012-02-08T11:43:00.000+01:00

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Today we have a great gift form one of our followers! A Cross-Stitch diagram of our beloved Smithy! If you want to try and realize your own cross-stitch Smithy, just say "Thank you" to Flavia Fraschetti!

It took inspiration from this:

Crying Smithy

2012-02-06T12:58:00.000+01:00

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We are going to show you an alternative scene then removed from the final version of the episode: "The Doctor's Wife". Having regard to the confidentiality of this contents, we ask you not to disclose this information! Enjoy...

Character Files: The Master

2012-02-05T19:10:00.001+01:00

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Simmy & Baby Yana

Character Files: Bakey and Bakey Jr.

2012-02-04T19:38:00.000+01:00

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Bakey (The 4th Doctor) and Bakey Jr. (The 6th Doctor)

Character Files: Smithy

2012-02-03T20:49:00.002+01:00

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Smithy - The 11th Doctor (with Limeykins)

Character Files: Tenny

2012-02-02T20:58:00.000+01:00

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Tenny - The 10th Doctor

Matt Smith

2012-02-01T19:43:00.001+01:00

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A beautiful portrait of the well known Eleventh Doctor (or, as a friend of us said once, the Big Smithy) made by Elisa, our great illustrator!

Character Files: Eccly

2012-01-31T17:31:00.001+01:00

Eccly - The 9th Doctor

Comic Who Confidential - An Ordinary Working Day

2012-01-30T18:00:00.000+01:00

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It's time for a new Confidential, this time we want to share with you the complex process leading to the creation of a strip from the script. It consists in several important steps and in most cases it can be summarized as follows...

Banana In The Pocket

2012-01-23T18:00:00.000+01:00

Strips are back, no more celebrations, just new adventures for our heroes.

This is our first strip of 2012 and it's also a collaboration with one of our followers: Nicole Bowman! If you liked this strip, show her your appreciation and if you have a story you want it to become a Comic Who strip, just send us your script at comicwho@gmail.com We always read every script and if it's good we are going to realize your own strip ;-)

Top 10 - 2011

2012-01-16T11:02:00.000+01:00

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Our birthday is gone and celebrations are over so it's time to summarize this first year; and what's better then a good old chart with the 2011 top 10 strips to achive this?

This is also a good way to welcome our new followers, but I promise, from the next post we'll going to post new strips ^_^

We are going to use the Blogger stats to get the chart, so we are talking about the most viewed strips (not necessarily the most loved). Let see:

#10 - Bananas Are Good

#9 - Bad Bad Beans

#8 - Timey Wimey

#7 - The Secret Weapon

#6 - Doctor Who Experience

#5 - Regeneration (Part 2)

#4 - Green Light/Red Light (Part 1)

#3 - Green Light/Red Light (Part 2)

#2 - Valentine's Day

#1 - Regeneration (Part 1)

I find very interesting the bottom of the chart where we can find very recent strips, which means they received a lot of views during a short time period.

Which is your Top 10? Share it with us ^_^

Happy Birthday Comic Who

2012-01-15T01:24:00.002+01:00

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Here we are, a full year is past and we have had a lot of fun making our strips! We met a lot of friends and we had a lot of loyal followers! We have a new big family here on internet and we want to celebrate our birthday with a little surprise for you all!

This is going to be the front cover (Benny Hill style ^_^) of our first annual book with the collection of our strips, confidentials and much more... but we're going to talk about this in a future post where we are going to share even the back cover with other characters from our first year (we want to include every Comic Who character, but they will be split between front cover and back cover... and trust me, the back cover is going to be very funny :D).

And now it's the moment of thanks! First of all we want to show you a video! It was made by Lady Soliloque a long time ago, but I was waiting for a very special occasion to share it on the blog. Which better occasion of our birthday?

This was one of the greatest gift a Doctor Who comic could receive and we wanted to thank her in our style with a little PinUp of her favorite characters!

From left to right: Jack, Ianto, Gene Genie, Tenny and Simmy

There's another man who gifted us all his support and friendship. A men who made Comic Who one of the most famous Doctor Who web-comic on internet! He was (and I'm sure he will be) always on our side! We really want to give big thank to Craig Hurle, and we know only one way to say "Thank you!"

A great year is finished but a new one is starting and I can assure you it will be great, so please, stay with us and follow our adventures! In the meantime, it's time to celebrate so HAPPY BIRTHDAY COMIC WHO!

Special PinUps

2012-01-13T18:00:00.000+01:00

From the beginning of this new year we retrace the history of our comic month by month, but we haven't shown yet all the amazing stuff we created. In this special post I want to show you all the PinUps realized during the 2011.

Have you ever noticed tha we have different headers on the top of our website? They are loaded randomly and they are composed by a PinUp combined with a catchphrase taken from the TV series:

I'm going to die... in a dungeon... in Cardiff!

I'm definetly a mad man with a box

Things sometimes don't happen to me in the right order, especially weddings!

Do you want me to repeat the question?

One of the best catchphrases in the TV series is "Basically, Run!"; it summarize perfectly the character of the Doctor! Enemies must run away from him, but also companions have a lot of that "run thing" to deal with. We tried to portray this quote with our personal style:

We often use this image as a header for our posts or other stuff. It's basically the same but without the cathphrase and with our logo

When we introduced Limeykins, our tiny mascotte, we designed a new logo to include our lovely green teddy bear.

Apart from the logos and headers, we have made many illustrations during the last year in order to accompany our strips. The next group of PinUps is named Silent Nigths. While Eccly and Tenny are asleep, Smithy is frightened by a Silent perched on a ceiling fan, and he also stole his fez!

This is also the first appearance of the Rose Doll, a lot of people loved the fact that Tenny is holding it while sleeping. We chose to make the doll appear even into a couple of strips (this and this).

Some of the illustrations were made during a LiveStream session where Elisa has shown the making of a particular drawing. The following is a good example of how things go from the scratch.

One of the best illustration made by Elisa was dedicated to a great friend of us: Lady Soliloque.

These are her favourite characters from the Who-verse. To be more precise, we have Jack, Ianto, Tenny and Simmy.

Beside the illustrations and the strips, we promoted some events which required custum images. The followings were realized for our contests (The script contest and the Christmas contest) and for a project we're working on (The Rescue)

This is quite all for this year, but before leaving you, we want to remind you that the big day is arrived. Tomorrow is going to be our first birthday and we are working on something to make this day special. Anyway, just to help get you in the party, this is a special image dedicated to birthdays!

See you tomorrow!

PS: If you didn't notice, all the images are clickable ;-)