Nov 12, 2024
Rachael Smith | House & Garden UK
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Rachael Smith | House & Garden UK
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor "The Arts In Space"
Writer: Verity Glass, Nick Abadzis, AJ, Rachael Smith
Artist: Rachael Smith, Elena Casagrande
Inker: Michele Pasta
Colorist: Arianna Florean, Azzurra Florean
Letterer: Jimmy Betancourt, Richard Starkings
This is out in comic shops today. It's an anthology comic to aid the PTSD needs of the survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire. I think it's well worth supporting.
Last year there was an anthology of prose shorts performing a similar function, called 24 Stories. This is twenty-four comics, half drawn from professionals we curated, and half from open submissions. Each features no more than 24 panels.
There's a lot more information on the site, but it's in all your comic shops now. It's in book shops shortly – Amazon has it for a week's time, so you can pre-order from a standard book shop. All proceeds goes to Trauma Response Network.
Contributors? They include... Al Ewing, Alan Moore, Alex de Campi, Antony Johnston, Caspar Wijngaard, Dan Watters, Dilraj Mann, Doug Braithwaite, Gavin Mitchell, Laurie Penny, Leigh Alexander, Lizz Lunney, Melinda Gebbie, Paul Cornell, Rachael Smith, Ram V, Robin Hoelzemann, Ro Stein, Sara Kenney, Sarah Gordon, Ted Brandt, Tom Humberstone and more. Tula Lotay provided the cover. Dee Cunniffe did the design.As well as the 24 comics, I provide an introduction, in a collaboration with my old friend Sean Azzopardi.
There's a launch party on December 6th, betwee 7 and 9pm, at GOSH in London. Yes, that's the same evening as my DIE signing at Forbidden Planet. I'm having a busy night.
It's tricky to write about. I write about what it means to me, I make it about me. I write about Grenfell, and anger overpowers everything, and while that's correct, this is not a book that's primarily about anger. It's about hope and helping one another. Choosing the material was definitely one of the hardest things about it – it's for a PTSD charity. By definition, we don't want material that can be triggering. That isn't to say it doesn't include some material that's powerful and angry – but it's precisely aimed. It's also a true anthology, with us trying to capture the variety in the comics community in style and approach.
Everyone has done amazing work in it, and I hope you support it. It's a hell of a thing.
Rose-the-Cat piloted the TARDIS to random spots in time in order to chase and kill small creatures (including a mouse) as a gift for the Doctor. Because, you know, cats (Rachael Smith, "A Rose by Any Other Name", Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6, January 2015, Titan Comics).
Adoption, Racism, and Finding My Identity
Of the Doctor Who comics, the one I'm enjoying the most is definitely the 10th doctor. I love how issue 4 blends the comic with panels from Gabby's diary, how we get to learn more about her through the assumptions she makes about the doctor, and Gabby herself is a wonderful companion
The team behind the Small Press Expo, returning Rockville, Maryland in September, have revealed this year’s poster, created by the recipient of the 2025 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series, Sanika Phawde
Sanika Phawde’s SPX 2026 poster revealed, ILYA joins guest lineup
Who Killed Nessie? - Summer 2025, cover by Rachael Smith.