Lew Stringer
Lew Stringer | |
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Born | England, United Kingdom | 22 March 1959
Nationality | British |
Area(s) | Artist, writer |
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com/ |
Lew Stringer (born 22 March 1959 in England) is a freelance comic artist and scriptwriter.
Biography
Stringer began his career from the late 1970s with a series of fanzines, many featuring his popular Brickman character; these were read by several professional creators (including Kevin O'Neill, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) who encouraged Stringer to try comics as a profession[1] and Stringer recalls that "Alan Moore actually introduced me to one of the editors at Marvel UK – Bernie Jaye who was editor on The Daredevils".[2]
He sold his first professional cartoon to Marvel UK (the British branch of Marvel Comics) in 1983 where it appeared in The Daredevils comic, after which he worked for a short time as art assistant to the cartoonist Mike Higgs (creator of Moonbird and The Cloak). Since then Stringer has freelanced for numerous British comics for various companies and audiences.
His best remembered creations are
Stringer has also worked as a writer on
He broke into the international market in 1997 creating the Suburban Satanists for the Norwegian comic Geek. From 1999 to 2007 those characters appeared in the Swedish comic book Herman Hedning.
In April 2005,
He began freelancing for
In 2014 Lew announced that he would be contributing a regular new cartoon strip to Doctor Who Magazine.[6]
In recent years Lew has scripted and illustrated
for that comic. He also created Sgt.Shouty of the Moon Force for independent comic The77, and Short Sharp Shocks for horror comic This Comic Is Haunted.Bibliography
- Brickman
- Robocapers (in Transformers UK)
- Combat Colin (in Action Force #5-, 1987)
- Derek the Troll for Warlock Magazine. After the magazine's demise, the strip continued in Games Workshop's White Dwarf.
References
- ^ "Blimey! It's The Brickman Man!". Comic World News.
- ^ "Lew Stringer interview". fractalmatter.com. 10 July 2006. Archived from the original on 14 February 2009.
- ^ "Lew's News". lewcomix.tripod.com. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ Freeman, John (31 August 2005). "Toxic Turns 50!". Down the Tubes.net. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ "Brickman: The Dim Knight!". brickmancomics.tripod.com. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ "New strip for Doctor Who Magazine!". lewstringercomics.blogspot.co.uk. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
External links
- Lew Stringer's blog
- Lew Stringer at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Lew Stringer at Lambiek's Comiclopedia