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Swipe File: Doctor Who – The Doctor's Wife and Dirtbag

Published Fri, 13 May 2011 17:12:32 -0500

Last updated Fri, 13 May 2011 18:12:25 -0500

It's very exciting. Tomorrow, we get to see Neil Gaiman's episode of Doctor Who, The Doctor's Wife, set on a junkyard asteroid. Looking like this.

Now, in the mid nineties, I wrote, drew and published a comic book called Dirtbag, set on a junkyard asteroid. Looking like this.

It was very silly. Not actually good or anything, but there are one or two ideas I may, and have, revisited since. And Neil Gaiman? He, along with Bryan Talbot, most generously added sketches to the third issue's cover.

Oh, obviously it's all some coincidence, if that. But a fun one. And let's be honest, Dirtbag was a time-travelling, space-travelling ship with an enigmatic, mysterious but strangely humanish in charge, picking up companions all over the place and getting into trouble across the universe. So since I was just quite consciously ripping off Doctor Who anyway, I consider this just and fair karma…

Damn, I suddenly want to revive Dirtbag. Stop me, someone.

And here's the Doctor Who Reprint Society's take on the upcoming episode.,.

And Neil's intro;

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4-7N9jtN8[/youtube]

In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself. If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website.

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