Martin Geraghty is an exceptionally prolific penciller in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine, active since 1994. He can also claim to be its most versatile artist since he has drawn non-parodic stories featuring eleven different incarnations of the Doctor and nearly thirty companions. Only Mike Collins rivals him for the crown of "most Doctors featured in proper, non-parodic stories" — but Collins has only drawn stories featuring the Seventh to Thirteenth and Fifteenth Doctors.
Drawing unusual combinations[[edit] | [edit source]]
Because he began his career with DWM at a time when the magazine was featuring comic strips of past Doctors, his portfolio includes serious, non-parodic interpretations of TARDIS crews that were rarely seen in comics. He's one of the few artists to depict the First Doctor and Susan; (COMIC: Operation Proteus [+]Loading...["Operation Proteus (comic story)"]) the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria; (COMIC: Bringer of Darkness [+]Loading...["Bringer of Darkness (comic story)"]) the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry; (Black Destiny [+]Loading...["Black Destiny (comic story)"]) the Fifth Doctor and Peri; (The Curse of the Scarab [+]Loading...["The Curse of the Scarab (comic story)"]) the Fifth Doctor, Turlough and Tegan; (COMIC: The Lunar Strangers [+]Loading...["The Lunar Strangers (comic story)"]) and the Seventh Doctor and Mel. (COMIC: Plastic Millenium [+]Loading...["Plastic Millenium (comic story)"])
In each of these cases, he was the first artist to portray in comics the particular TARDIS crew in question. Indeed, he handled the comic debuts of Mel and Susan. He was the first person to use Harry, Victoria, Turlough, and Tegan outside of annuals or parodic comics.
Eighth Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]
Geraghty became practically the house artist during the Eighth Doctor's run. Beginning in earnest with the last of the more-or-less regular Seventh Doctor stories, in which Ace controversially died, (COMIC: Ground Zero [+]Loading...["Ground Zero (comic story)"]) Geraghty was in place for the vast majority of Eighth Doctor stories. He was the first artist since Dave Gibbons to completely dominate a Doctor's era in the pages of DWM, and, indeed, the first to do a Doctor's first and last strips.
The BBC Wales Doctors[[edit] | [edit source]]
Doctor Who Magazine chose to go with Mike Collins as their principal artist during the "Rose Tyler run", but Geraghty returned with a vengeance for the story immediately after Rose departed from the pages of DWM. His first story back, The Warkeeper's Crown [+]Loading...["The Warkeeper's Crown (comic story)"], gave him the unique opportunity of depicting an encounter between the Tenth Doctor and the Brigadier. It was the first time that an older, post-Third Doctor (and almost certainly post-Battlefield [+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"]) Brigadier had been seen in comics, DWM or otherwise. He went on to draw The First [+]Loading...["The First (comic story)"], The Widow's Curse [+]Loading...["The Widow's Curse (comic story)"], and the Tenth Doctor's final story, The Crimson Hand [+]Loading...["The Crimson Hand (comic story)"]. He continued for the Eleventh Doctor's run, including the 50th-anniversary story, Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"], featuring a meeting between the Eleventh Doctor, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. He has since drawn the Twelfth Doctor, including the commemorative story The Stockbridge Showdown [+]Loading...["The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story)"] (alongside Dave Gibbons, Roger Langridge, Adrian Salmon, Dan McDaid, John Ross, Mike Collins, John Ridgway and David A Roach), and the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Doctors.
Not really an inker[[edit] | [edit source]]
Geraghty was, in a sense, the first of the modern pencillers for DWM. As technology improved in the comics industry, and inking has become a more specialised skill, there has been a general trend away from pencillers being their own inkers. Inking, as a profession, began to rise in importance, and Geraghty's portfolio demonstrates this. Despite his unusually long list of stories pencilled, he has only inked six relatively short stories — most of them his very earliest work: Operation Proteus [+]Loading...["Operation Proteus (comic story)"], Black Destiny [+]Loading...["Black Destiny (comic story)"], Bringer of Darkness [+]Loading...["Bringer of Darkness (comic story)"], Plastic Millenium [+]Loading...["Plastic Millenium (comic story)"], and A Life of Matter and Death [+]Loading...["A Life of Matter and Death (comic story)"], whose credits are vague enough to allow for the possibility that the inks were actually done by Sean Longcroft. The only modern colour story Geraghty inked was The Widow's Curse [+]Loading...["The Widow's Curse (comic story)"].
Most companions, most Doctors[[edit] | [edit source]]
Geraghty far and away holds the record of "most companions drawn" — discounting, perhaps, the artists on The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"], who were just drawing different companions in cameos. Geraghty has drawn real, proper stories featuring: Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, John Who, Gillian Who, Victoria Waterfield, Jamie McCrimmon, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Peri Brown, Melanie Bush, Ace, Izzy Sinclair, Dr. Grace Holloway, Destrii, the Brigadier, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Majenta Pryce, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, Clara Oswald, Bill Potts, Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien, and Belinda Chandra.
He's also drawn the most incarnations of the Doctors in full, non-parodic stories. This record would discount "multi-Doctor" stories like The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"], where there's a two-page splash that shows ten incarnations in a single portrait, or parodies like Happy Deathday [+]Loading...["Happy Deathday (comic story)"]. Geraghty has drawn at least one "serious" story involving the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fifteenth Doctors. He has also been the final artist for the most number of Doctors, having drawn the DWM swansong for the Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Doctors.
Big Finish previews[[edit] | [edit source]]
Geraghty has also been employed by DWM to draw "comic previews" for Big Finish stories. These illustrations have accompanied reviews and/or announcements of particular Big Finish releases.
Credits[[edit] | [edit source]]
Animations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Power of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Power of the Daleks (TV story)"] - Character Art
- The Macra Terror [+]Loading...["The Macra Terror (TV story)"] - Character Artist / Storyboards and animation clean-up
- The Faceless Ones [+]Loading...["The Faceless Ones (TV story)"] - Character Artist
- The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"] - Character Design and Skaro Concept & Design (with AnneMarie Walsh)
- The Underwater Menace [+]Loading...["The Underwater Menace (TV story)"] - Character Design
Doctor Who Magazine[[edit] | [edit source]]
First Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Operation Proteus [+]Loading...["Operation Proteus (comic story)"]
Second Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Bringer of Darkness [+]Loading...["Bringer of Darkness (comic story)"]
Fourth Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Black Destiny [+]Loading...["Black Destiny (comic story)"] (with Bambos Georgiou and Elitta Fell)
Fifth Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Lunar Strangers [+]Loading...["The Lunar Strangers (comic story)"]
- The Curse of the Scarab [+]Loading...["The Curse of the Scarab (comic story)"]
Seventh Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Plastic Millenium [+]Loading...["Plastic Millenium (comic story)"]
- Ground Zero [+]Loading...["Ground Zero (comic story)"] (with Bambos Georgiou)
Eighth Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (DWM comic story)"]
- The Keep [+]Loading...["The Keep (comic story)"]
- A Life of Matter and Death [+]Loading...["A Life of Matter and Death (comic story)"]
- Fire and Brimstone [+]Loading...["Fire and Brimstone (comic story)"]
- Tooth and Claw [+]Loading...["Tooth and Claw (comic story)"]
- The Final Chapter [+]Loading...["The Final Chapter (comic story)"]
- Wormwood [+]Loading...["Wormwood (comic story)"]
- The Fallen [+]Loading...["The Fallen (comic story)"]
- The Road to Hell [+]Loading...["The Road to Hell (comic story)"]
- The Glorious Dead [+]Loading...["The Glorious Dead (comic story)"]
- Ophidius [+]Loading...["Ophidius (comic story)"]
- Beautiful Freak [+]Loading...["Beautiful Freak (comic story)"]
- The Way of All Flesh [+]Loading...["The Way of All Flesh (comic story)"]
- Oblivion [+]Loading...["Oblivion (comic story)"]
- The Land of Happy Endings [+]Loading...["The Land of Happy Endings (comic story)"]
- Bad Blood [+]Loading...["Bad Blood (comic story)"]
- The Flood [+]Loading...["The Flood (comic story)"]
Tenth Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The First [+]Loading...["The First (comic story)"]
- The Widow's Curse [+]Loading...["The Widow's Curse (comic story)"]
- Thinktwice [+]Loading...["Thinktwice (comic story)"]
- The Age of Ice [+]Loading...["The Age of Ice (comic story)"]
- The Crimson Hand [+]Loading...["The Crimson Hand (comic story)"] (with David A. Roach)
Eleventh Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Golden Ones [+]Loading...["The Golden Ones (comic story)"] (with David A. Roach)
- The Child of Time [+]Loading...["The Child of Time (comic story)"]
- Sticks & Stones [+]Loading...["Sticks & Stones (comic story)"]
- The Broken Man [+]Loading...["The Broken Man (comic story)"]
- Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"]
Twelfth Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Eye of Torment [+]Loading...["The Eye of Torment (comic story)"]
- Blood and Ice [+]Loading...["Blood and Ice (comic story)"]
- Witch Hunt [+]Loading...["Witch Hunt (comic story)"]
- The Stockbridge Showdown [+]Loading...["The Stockbridge Showdown (comic story)"] (with Dave Gibbons, Roger Langridge, Adrian Salmon, Dan McDaid, John Ross, Mike Collins, John Ridgway and David A Roach)
- The Soul Garden [+]Loading...["The Soul Garden (comic story)"]
- The Phantom Piper [+]Loading...["The Phantom Piper (comic story)"]
Thirteenth Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Piggybackers [+]Loading...["The Piggybackers (comic story)"]
Fifteenth Doctor comic stories[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Run [+]Loading...["Run (comic story)"]
- No Signs of Life [+]Loading...["No Signs of Life (comic story)"]
- His Mad Pranks [+]Loading...["His Mad Pranks (comic story)"]
- A Ghost Story for Christmas [+]Loading...["A Ghost Story for Christmas (comic story)"]
Cutaway Comics[[edit] | [edit source]]
Backup[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Demons of Eden [+]Loading...["The Demons of Eden (comic story)"]