Lew Stringer

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Lew Stringer (born March 22, 1959, England) is a freelance comic artist and scriptwriter. 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 humour comics. 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.

Stringer has also worked as a writer on Sonic the Comic and CiTV Tellytots magazine, and as an artist/writer for Viz comic, Toxic magazine and many other publications. He broke into the international market in 1997 creating the Suburban Satanists for the Norwegian comic Geek. Since 1999 those characters have appeared in the Swedish/Norwegian comic Herman Hedning. In April 2005 a collection of Stringer's Brickman strips was released as Brickman Begins published by Active Images. Created for a fanzine in 1979, Brickman seems to be Stringer's most enduring character. In 2006 a brand new Brickman series began in the American comic book Elephantmen, published by Image Comics.