Alan Barnes
@senrabnala.bsky.social
Post boom, second doom. Stealing cake to eat the moon. Writes and edits - Doctor Who, Hammer horror, Sherlock Holmes, Judge Dredd (etc). Available for hire.
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Comic book artist Frazer Irving is having a tough time. He’s asking people to help by making a purchase from his shop.
It’s gorgeous stuff! I see original pages from Klarion the Witch Boy that are far too cheap…
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
It’s gorgeous stuff! I see original pages from Klarion the Witch Boy that are far too cheap…
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
Frazer Irving
Frazer Irving art, prints, comics.
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Comic book artist Frazer Irving is having a tough time. He’s asking people to help by making a purchase from his shop.
It’s gorgeous stuff! I see original pages from Klarion the Witch Boy that are far too cheap…
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
It’s gorgeous stuff! I see original pages from Klarion the Witch Boy that are far too cheap…
frazerirving.bigcartel.com
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Coming 12th February
Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984
From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine comes the latest in the series focusing on an iconic year in the history of the show
Ordering details to follow, but will be available from all the usual outlets including Panini online
Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984
From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine comes the latest in the series focusing on an iconic year in the history of the show
Ordering details to follow, but will be available from all the usual outlets including Panini online
January 28, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Coming 12th February
Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984
From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine comes the latest in the series focusing on an iconic year in the history of the show
Ordering details to follow, but will be available from all the usual outlets including Panini online
Doctor Who Chronicles: 1984
From the makers of Doctor Who Magazine comes the latest in the series focusing on an iconic year in the history of the show
Ordering details to follow, but will be available from all the usual outlets including Panini online
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Look at this absolute beauty! Doctor Who Magazine spotlights current comic strip Corruption of the Daleks on the cover of Issue 626...! #DoctorWho #DWM #DoctorWhoMagazine
February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Look at this absolute beauty! Doctor Who Magazine spotlights current comic strip Corruption of the Daleks on the cover of Issue 626...! #DoctorWho #DWM #DoctorWhoMagazine
LOOK AT THAT COVER
Out Thursday 5th February
Doctor Who Magazine #626
15th Doctor comic strip “Corruption of the Daleks”
Season 21 Blu-ray
Pete McTighe & Dylan Holmes Williams on TWBTLATS
This month in 1980
Liverpool and Who
The Rings of Akhaten
+ all the regulars & more!
www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/d...
Doctor Who Magazine #626
15th Doctor comic strip “Corruption of the Daleks”
Season 21 Blu-ray
Pete McTighe & Dylan Holmes Williams on TWBTLATS
This month in 1980
Liverpool and Who
The Rings of Akhaten
+ all the regulars & more!
www.panini.co.uk/shp_gbr_en/d...
February 2, 2026 at 5:46 PM
LOOK AT THAT COVER
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Just heard that my latest @barringtonstoke.bsky.social novella got Children's Book of the Week in The Times! Blimey.
January 27, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Just heard that my latest @barringtonstoke.bsky.social novella got Children's Book of the Week in The Times! Blimey.
Just watched ST:TOS - Journey to Babel, and only now I realise the Babel bit is about father, mother and son speaking different languages. Dorothy Fontana was so smart, easily the best writer ST ever had.
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Just watched ST:TOS - Journey to Babel, and only now I realise the Babel bit is about father, mother and son speaking different languages. Dorothy Fontana was so smart, easily the best writer ST ever had.
Getting Invasion of Time flashbacks from all the corridor chasing in this. Group Marshal Booga.
Grange Hill (16th January 1981). Flippin' eck! Tucker saves the school dance by grassing up arch nutjob Booga Benson. But then Booga suddenly appears - demanding vengeance ...
January 16, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Getting Invasion of Time flashbacks from all the corridor chasing in this. Group Marshal Booga.
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SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
January 16, 2026 at 11:35 AM
SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT
The cat has already been fed.
The cat has already been fed.
I don't suppose anyone has easy access to any fanzines that covered Blake's 7, published earlier than 1983? (Later than that is no good, and I've got all issues of the Marvel monthly.) It's for a thing.
January 15, 2026 at 6:06 PM
I don't suppose anyone has easy access to any fanzines that covered Blake's 7, published earlier than 1983? (Later than that is no good, and I've got all issues of the Marvel monthly.) It's for a thing.
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Big fan of the new comic strip from @senrabnala.bsky.social and John Ross that begins in this month’s new Doctor Who Magazine. The end-of-episode cliffhanger is a perfectly executed fusion of writing and art. Hurrah! #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoMagazine #DWM
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Big fan of the new comic strip from @senrabnala.bsky.social and John Ross that begins in this month’s new Doctor Who Magazine. The end-of-episode cliffhanger is a perfectly executed fusion of writing and art. Hurrah! #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoMagazine #DWM
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The new Fifteenth Doctor and Mel comic in Doctor Who Magazine is quite mad and a lot of fun.
January 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
The new Fifteenth Doctor and Mel comic in Doctor Who Magazine is quite mad and a lot of fun.
Introducing the Fifteenth's new comic strip companion...
Thursday's Doctor Who Magazine will feature a new Fifteenth Doctor and Mel comic.
The magazine will will also celebrate Tom Baker's 92nd birthday – join his family, friends and dignitaries on the day he was awarded an MBE for his services to television.
cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-...
The magazine will will also celebrate Tom Baker's 92nd birthday – join his family, friends and dignitaries on the day he was awarded an MBE for his services to television.
cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-...
Doctor Who Magazine comic features new Fifteenth Doctor and Mel adventure
The upcoming Doctor Who Magazine features a new comic strip adventure featuring the Fifteenth Doctor and Melanie Bush.
cultbox.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Introducing the Fifteenth's new comic strip companion...
I was going to post this last week, but I completely forgot, so it's pretty much pointless now. Still: you used to get a much better calibre of New Year's Honours, HO HO.
My take on today's hot news coming next Thursday, sudden invasions notwithstanding.
My take on today's hot news coming next Thursday, sudden invasions notwithstanding.
January 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
I was going to post this last week, but I completely forgot, so it's pretty much pointless now. Still: you used to get a much better calibre of New Year's Honours, HO HO.
My take on today's hot news coming next Thursday, sudden invasions notwithstanding.
My take on today's hot news coming next Thursday, sudden invasions notwithstanding.
Quite relieved to see that I only got one thing wrong in the book: it turns out that Irene Adler was renamed Irene Adair (why, I have no idea).
Massive thrill to see three Eille Norwood Sherlocks on a big screen. 105 years old!
January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Quite relieved to see that I only got one thing wrong in the book: it turns out that Irene Adler was renamed Irene Adair (why, I have no idea).
Massive thrill to see three Eille Norwood Sherlocks on a big screen. 105 years old!
January 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Massive thrill to see three Eille Norwood Sherlocks on a big screen. 105 years old!
New bio just dropped.
Barnes has his own crew and regulates them with his fists, dropping them in water holes if need be. Barnes is surly and enjoys a fight. Just before a fight he has a bland smile and his blue eyes glow with a disarming good humor. He will customarily take on four or five men at once, and win.
January 1, 2026 at 5:47 PM
New bio just dropped.
I give you the Headington Quarry Morris Men (of Daemons fame) doing their Boxing Day mummers play and sword dance. Wassail.
December 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I give you the Headington Quarry Morris Men (of Daemons fame) doing their Boxing Day mummers play and sword dance. Wassail.
Such a great cover. I had it blu-tacked to my bedroom wall.
1984:
smash hits 16 29 february 1984, page cover
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-16-29-february-1984#page/n0
smash hits 16 29 february 1984, page cover
Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-16-29-february-1984#page/n0
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Such a great cover. I had it blu-tacked to my bedroom wall.
I think I'm just about done with all social media now. Every platform gets co-opted into the endless culture wars. Every "political" post or repost just makes everything worse, and yes, I do mean yours. Sorry, but I refuse to be conscripted. There is so much more to life.
December 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I think I'm just about done with all social media now. Every platform gets co-opted into the endless culture wars. Every "political" post or repost just makes everything worse, and yes, I do mean yours. Sorry, but I refuse to be conscripted. There is so much more to life.
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A rather lovely thing: I met script editor Gerry Davis when I was a student. Unlikely as it sounds, he came to visit me in my room in the halls of residence with his daughter, Felicity, who was at the same college. He gave me this, which I will treasure forever.
December 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A rather lovely thing: I met script editor Gerry Davis when I was a student. Unlikely as it sounds, he came to visit me in my room in the halls of residence with his daughter, Felicity, who was at the same college. He gave me this, which I will treasure forever.
At risk of sounding needy, or opening myself up for ridicule... I can't believe I'm the only so-called 'creative' struggling with an almost total lack of response to their work, post-Twitter? I was never in it for ego reasons, but it mattered, knowing your stuff was being *noticed*, at least... /1
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
At risk of sounding needy, or opening myself up for ridicule... I can't believe I'm the only so-called 'creative' struggling with an almost total lack of response to their work, post-Twitter? I was never in it for ego reasons, but it mattered, knowing your stuff was being *noticed*, at least... /1
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without unexpected surprise guests popping in...
New Fifteenth Doctor comic strip adventure in Doctor Who Magazine
New creepy Christmas Fifteenth Doctor comic strip adventure in Doctor Who Magazine
Creepy comic goodness in the latest Doctor Who Magazine!
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December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without unexpected surprise guests popping in...
I tell you what really pisses me off. I BUY NEW CDS ALL THE TIME, because they're BETTER. I use Spotify for running and for background noise in the office, because it's more convenient. Hundreds of thousands of people do exactly the same. We pay the artist AND use Spotify. It's not one or the other.
Yes, Spotify isn't great, but it's still better than HOLIER THAN THOU TYPES WHO JUST LOVE SCOLDING. I mean FFS
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I tell you what really pisses me off. I BUY NEW CDS ALL THE TIME, because they're BETTER. I use Spotify for running and for background noise in the office, because it's more convenient. Hundreds of thousands of people do exactly the same. We pay the artist AND use Spotify. It's not one or the other.
Yes, Spotify isn't great, but it's still better than HOLIER THAN THOU TYPES WHO JUST LOVE SCOLDING. I mean FFS
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Yes, Spotify isn't great, but it's still better than HOLIER THAN THOU TYPES WHO JUST LOVE SCOLDING. I mean FFS