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| - Lew Stringer (born March 22, 1959) is a British comics writer and artist. He produced many humour strips for Marvel UK including Combat Colin which ran in the weekly Action Force from issue #5 onwards and carried over when the title merged into Transformers. As part of this he contributed to one cover for the weekly Action Force title. Amongst his other well known strips are Brickman, Robo-Capers, Macho Man and Tom Thug, alongside work for many different titles.
- Lew Stringer had been doing freelance work for Fleetway/Egmont for several years, writing and drawing humour comics such as Buster. He was approached by then-editor of Sonic the Comic, Richard Burton, who had seen his work and wanted to put more humour into the comic. Lew's first story was "Metamorphia" in Sonic the Comic #30 (in which he introduced Metamorphia the shape-shifter), and he wrote several other one-off and short stories. Despite being hired to introduce humour, he avoided outright slapstick, and some of his stories soon became closer to the action-drama mix favoured by Nigel Kitching, the lead writer at the time, especially in his 4-part "Project Brutus" story that ran from Sonic the Comic #63 to #66. Lew also became the main writer on backup strips, particularly those featuri
- Stringer began his career from the late 1970s with a series of fanzines, many featuring his popular Brickman character; these were read by several pro creators (including Kevin O'Neill, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) who encouraged Stringer to try comics as a profession and Stringer recalls that "Alan Moore actually introduced me to one of the editors at Marvel UK - Bernie Jaye who was editor on The Daredevils". He currently draws Rasher for The Beano's Funsize Funnies.
- Stringer was brought in , in Issue 30, to provide shorter, more humourous stories to contrast with Kitching's serious stories, due to Stringer's previous work in children's humour comics. As he himself has put it: "I was brought in to provide a lighter tone to the stories I wrote. Hence the "childish puns". They were puns aimed at children." By the end of his employment, he was the only writer still working for STC, his final story finishing in Issue 174. As well as Sonic, Lew wrote Marko's Magic Football.
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| - Stringer was brought in , in Issue 30, to provide shorter, more humourous stories to contrast with Kitching's serious stories, due to Stringer's previous work in children's humour comics. As he himself has put it: "I was brought in to provide a lighter tone to the stories I wrote. Hence the "childish puns". They were puns aimed at children." By the end of his employment, he was the only writer still working for STC, his final story finishing in Issue 174. Lew is known for introducing many popular characters such as Shortfuse the Cybernik, Tekno the Canary, Metamorphia and Commander Brutus, as well as an army of comedic characters like Norris Wimple, Windy Wallis, and Fabian Vane. His stories aren't always so well-remembered, but some have found themselves into readers' "best of" lists; the likes of Project Brutus and Game Over came across well. However, the opposite is also true for strips in the vein of Amy's Secret Past and Bravehog which have been almost-universally panned. As well as Sonic, Lew wrote Marko's Magic Football.
- Stringer began his career from the late 1970s with a series of fanzines, many featuring his popular Brickman character; these were read by several pro creators (including Kevin O'Neill, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons) who encouraged Stringer to try comics as a profession and Stringer recalls that "Alan Moore actually introduced me to one of the editors at Marvel UK - Bernie Jaye who was editor on The Daredevils". He sold his first professional cartoon to Marvel UK (the British branch of Marvel Comics) in 1983 where it appeared in The Daredevils comic, after which he worked for a short time as art assistant to the cartoonist Mike Higgs (creator of Moonbird and The Cloak). Since then Stringer has freelanced for numerous British comics for various companies and audiences. His best remembered creations are Tom Thug and Pete and His Pimple for Oink! comic (1986), which outlasted that comic and continued into Buster comic, and Combat Colin the halfwit hero who featured in Action Force and The Transformers comics. Prior to Colin joining Transformers, Stringer had written another, similarly slapstick, strip Robo-Capers for that title. Robo-Capers was replaced by Combat Colin when the reprints of American G.I. Joe strips were added to the Transformers comic. Robo-Capers returned for a single story, which featured Colin and his sidekick, in Issue #200. After a change of editorial direction in 1991, Marvel UK handed the rights of Combat Colin to Stringer and he has used him in small-press titles, such as the Combat Colin Special and Yampy Tales. On September 30, 2012, Combat Colin returned in an all new story for the launch of new David Lloyd's new online comic Aces Weekly. Stringer has also worked as a writer on CiTV Tellytots; was one of the main writers on Sonic the Comic, where he created several fan-favourite characters and stories; and has been a long time artist/writer for Viz comic and many other publications. He has written Toxic!'s Team TOXIC! strip since the first issue (and drawn it since issue 15); this proved popular enough with the readers to gain two pages an issue and lead to other comic strips being brought in. In October 2012 reprints of Team Toxic began to appear in the magazine but brand new stories are set to appear from January 2014. He broke into the international market in 1997 creating the Suburban Satanists for the Norwegian comic geek. From 1999 to 2007 those characters appeared in the Swedish comic book Herman Hedning. In April 2005, Active Images published a collection - Brickman Begins - of all of Stringer's Brickman strips since 1979. In 2006, a brand new Brickman series began in the American comic book Elephantmen, published by Image Comics, and in 2007, Combat Colin became a guest star in the strip. Brickman seems to be Stringer's most enduring character. The series concluded in Elephantmen No.24 in 2009. Stringer is considering reprinting all 20 episodes in a self-published comic entitled Brickman Returns. He began freelancing for The Beano in 2007, drawing a Fred's Bed story for the Christmas issue and a one-off Ivy the Terrible strip for an issue in 2008. In October 2008 Stringer became the artist on a new strip, Super School which is about five superhero children and their non-superpowered teacher. He started drawing for The Dandy after its revamp in October 2010, providing the illustrations for Postman Prat and Kid Cops and writing and drawing The Dark Newt. He currently draws Rasher for The Beano's Funsize Funnies.
- Lew Stringer (born March 22, 1959) is a British comics writer and artist. He produced many humour strips for Marvel UK including Combat Colin which ran in the weekly Action Force from issue #5 onwards and carried over when the title merged into Transformers. As part of this he contributed to one cover for the weekly Action Force title. Amongst his other well known strips are Brickman, Robo-Capers, Macho Man and Tom Thug, alongside work for many different titles.
- Lew Stringer had been doing freelance work for Fleetway/Egmont for several years, writing and drawing humour comics such as Buster. He was approached by then-editor of Sonic the Comic, Richard Burton, who had seen his work and wanted to put more humour into the comic. Lew's first story was "Metamorphia" in Sonic the Comic #30 (in which he introduced Metamorphia the shape-shifter), and he wrote several other one-off and short stories. Despite being hired to introduce humour, he avoided outright slapstick, and some of his stories soon became closer to the action-drama mix favoured by Nigel Kitching, the lead writer at the time, especially in his 4-part "Project Brutus" story that ran from Sonic the Comic #63 to #66. Lew also became the main writer on backup strips, particularly those featuring Tails and Amy Rose. Between Sonic the Comic #158 and and #174, Lew Stringer was the only writer on the comic (three of the four strips having been given over to reprints), and in this time he concluded the Shanazar story arc and wrote popular stories, such as "Worlds Collide", "Planet in Peril", and "Game Over". After this, Nigel Kitching returned as sole writer for the final 10 issues before the series was made wholly reprint.
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