When an IDW Doctor Who Comic Had To Cut And Paste David Tennant

At the London Comic Con Spring 2023 held by Showmasters at London Olympia over the weekend, the Characters In Media panel noticed Tony Lee, JL Straw, Lee Bradley and Stephen Baskerville speaking about shifting characters from one medium to a different. Licensing points have been touched upon, resulting in Tony Lee to speak about issues with the BBC with one of many first IDW problems with the Doctor Who comedian ebook from 2009, starring David Tennant and the Tenth Doctor and Freyma Agumen as Martha Jones.

Three points into the sequence, evidently even with Gary Russell writing the comedian, BBC Licensing abruptly took difficulty with the best way that David Tennant’s Doctor was being portrayed within the comedian ebook, and demanded modifications, on the Friday earlier than the Monday that the comedian ebook can be going to print. Without time to make the modifications manually, they needed to be finished digitally. The BBC informed IDW that they have been proud of the best way the Doctor appeared in 5 panels within the comedian ebook. IDW requested which panels? After figuring out the 5 panels in query, manufacturing artists took to chopping and pasting these 5 faces throughout the ebook, with some digital warping, and eyeline altering all through the ebook. Here are just a few examples…

But what induced higher problem was a equally timed authorized intervention for one more difficulty with Charlie Chaplin, the place it was revealed that The Little Tramp look was nonetheless beneath copyright, which led Al Davison to spend an evening redrawing bowler hats into prime hats and toothbrush moustaches into one thing extra handlebarlike…

The London Film and Comic Con and the London Comic Con concentrate on movies, cult tv, gaming, anime, cosplay, and comics, and are organised by Showmasters Ltd and presently held at Olympia London close to Hammersmith and Earl’s Court. They started in 2004 from the identical firm that organises the Autographica and Collectormania occasions. The conference holds a big sellers corridor promoting film, comedian, and science fiction-related memorabilia, and unique movie props, together with visitor talks, skilled photoshoots, autograph classes, cosplay occasions, and shows. It can also be the present that it’s quickest for me to get to, and there is a Boris bike stand, subsequent to the Olympia tube station, proper there!