Torchwood First Peek

Captain Jack, Gwen, and Gav the security guard from Torchwood: Rift War part 6 Torchwood ™ and © BBC 2008.
Created by Russell T Davies. Torchwood Magazine published monthly by Titan magazines.

I've just finished the first part of a two-episode story with Ian Edginton for Torchwood magazine; it's a bit of an adventure as I've never seriously had to do likenesses before. Titan have taken the very sensible step of using what I call the "Saturday Morning Cartoon" approach - instead of trying to do exact likenesses of the characters, they got me to do stylized character designs based on the actors, then work from those. The idea is that to be able to tell who's who without losing fluidity in the drawing, which tends to happen if you're trying to draw portraits all the time. I'm not sure I've quite got the hang of it (I have to fight hard to stop my version of Gwen turning into Marge Simpson), but I've not been fired yet… what the actors must make of it all, I don't know.

Meanwhile Ian's script for this story contains more familiar material, such as a neat little tribute to Jack Kirby's "cosmic" stuff. On top of that I get to do another tip of the hat to Henshin Cyborg, and work with my old mate Steve White for the first time since 1993, when he edited Kingdom of the Wicked for Tundra UK.

Part one of our story should, I think, be out sometime in September, so keep an eye open.