Lee Sullivan Lee Sullivan is an illustrator and comic artist who has been associated with " Doctor Who " in various capacities since his first work for " Doctor Who Magazine " in the late 1980s . Generally , though , his work on " Doctor Who " comics has been confined to a few stories in the Seventh Doctor ' s run , the " Radio Times " strips that introduced the comic version of the Eighth Doctor , and the " Battles in Time " comic strips involving the Tenth Doctor . He ' s also provided illustrations that served as the backgrounds for the webcasts , " Shada " , " Real Time " and " Death Comes to Time " . Furthermore , he ' s been a prolific provider of comic previews of Big Finish audios for " Doctor Who Magazine " . Outside " Doctor Who " , Sullivan amassed a reasonably large resumé of comic work in the British comics industry , particularly during the 1990s . However , he had , by his own admission , a considerable — and unwanted — lack of work in the industry during the latter part of that decade and the first half of the 2000s . Moreover , unlike most prominent " Doctor Who Magazine " artists , he never really " cracked " the American market to any significant degree — though it ' s unclear whether he has ever harboured ambitions in this direction . Early career . Sullivan trained as a wildlife and technical illustrator at Barnfield College . He went on to work as a graphic artist for British Aerospace and spent some time in the advertising industry working freelance . In 1988 . with John Higgins ' support and encouragement , he entered the world of comic books . He began with cover artwork for Marvel UK ' s " Transformers " comic title . Interior work for the " Transformers 1989 Annual " and other " Transformers " publications swiftly followed . Even at this early stage of his career , he displayed an affinity for drawing the Dalek s , since he once illustrated a 1989 " Transformers " in such a way as to imply that could change into a Dalek . Soon , he began to build a comic resumé which included titles like " Thundercats " , " Death ' s Head " , " RoboCop " , " Wildcards " , " William Shatner ' s TekWorld " , " 2000AD " ( " Judge Dredd " , " Mercy Heights " , " Futureshocks " , " Vector 13 " ) , " Action Man " , and " Thunderbirds " . " Doctor Who " comics work . Sullivan ' s first " Doctor Who " comic strip was " Planet of the Dead " , which gave him the opportunity to draw all the Doctor s that existed at that time . While drawing this strip , he came to hold the opinion that the Second Doctor was his favourite to draw . Thematically , however , he is strongly associated with stories involving the Daleks . He regards " Nemesis of the Daleks " as his favourite " Doctor Who " strip . " Children of the Revolution " , a sequel to " Evil of the Daleks " , gave him the opportunity to combine his love of Daleks with his enjoyment of the Second Doctor , who appears in flashbacks . His long - term artistic study of the Daleks has given him some authority to opine on what makes them work . He is an avid admirer of the " TV Century 21 " work , and has claimed a dislike for Davros , at least as seen in the original series . Sullivan ' s expertise with drawing Daleks eventually led him to an unusual assignment based on the 1960s Dalek movies " Dr . Who and the Daleks " and " Daleks ' Invasion Earth 2150 A . D . " His artwork on " Daleks Versus the Martians " remains the only original story to use characters and situations from that movie duology . He also has a couple of other " firsts " under his belt . He drew the comic strip debut of the Eighth Doctor . His partnership with writer Gary Russell in the " Radio Times " beat out " Doctor Who Magazine " s Eighth Doctor debut by a wide margin . Much later , his view of Donna Noble hit newsstands narrowly before her " DWM " debut . Details . Sullivan has typically been his own inker , and in terms of " Doctor Who " work , at least , has almost never been his own colourist . Exceptions will be noted in the following list . Outside " DWM " . Sullivan has actually done more " Doctor Who " work outside of " DWM " . He was the sole penciller and inker for the " Radio Times " comic strips , which were the global debut of the comic Eighth Doctor . In these strips , he also co - created the characters of Stacy Townsend and Ssard , the first companion s of the Eighth Doctor outside the television movie . These strips were further unique for their format . Sullivan is the only artist to draw for what could comfortably be classed as a " " Doctor Who " " . Years later , he would be called back into " Doctor Who " ( after a brief return to " DWM " to draw " Children of the Revolution " , his only colour " DWM " story ) to be the resident artist for " " . There , he provided each issue ' s artwork , beginning with DWBIT 7 . He coloured that issue ' s " The Glutonoid Menace " , but thereafter relinquished colouring duties to Alan Craddock , his former " Radio Times " colourist . In 2013 he illustrated " Bazaar Adventures " Illustrative work . Sullivan ' s illustrative " Doctor Who " output rivals his comic strip portfolio . He was cover artist for DWM 182 and 183 as well as DWMS Summer 1991 He has provided technical schematics of several fan - favourite items , including the Whomobile , ( DWMS Winter 1991 ) the " Kill - Wagon " , and the Dalek Death Wheel . ( " Abslom Daak " collected edition ) He ' s also illustrated some text stories or provided splash pages for DWMS Tenth Anniversary Special and the " Ablslom Daak " collected edition . Sullivan ' s most consistent run of illustrative work , however , came when " DWM " began their so - called " comic previews " of newly - released Big Finish audios . Existing somewhere between actual comic strip and simple illustration , this artwork attempted to give a flavour of an important moment within the audio . All told , Sullivan did about 23 of these , starting with 2000 ' s " The Fearmonger " and continuing consecutively through the Big Finish release order to 2001 ' s " The One Doctor " . He only occasionally did " Doctor Who " print work outside of magazines . For instance , he did some work for the 1993 " Doctor Who " calendar , the cover for " Love and War " , the fontispiece art for " Citadel of Dreams " . And he was also known to have helped Peter Darvill - Evans and Paul Cornell come up with a basic visual design for Bernice Summerfield during the early days of that character ' s existence . His image of Benny was used in Paul Cornell ' s interview about the character in " Doctor Who Magazine " and on the original covers of the first two releases in the Big Finish " Bernice Summerfield " series , as well as on the special release " Buried Treasures " . These exceptions aside , though , most of Sullivan ' s " Doctor Who " work outside the pages of magazines has been in online content . During the late 1990s and early 2000s , when his " Doctor Who " comic strip work had all but disappeared , he was actively illustrating some of the BBC ' s most prominent " Doctor Who " web content . He was responsible for much of the artwork in the webcasts , " Death Comes to Time " , " Real Time " , and " Shada " . At the start of the BBC Wales version of the programme , when the official " Doctor Who " website gave new front page illustrations for each week ' s new episode , he did the artwork for the premiere weeks of " The Empty Child " and " The Doctor Dances " . Other information . Sullivan is a saxophonist who for over a decade regularly toured the UK as part of a Roxy Music tribute band before quitting in 2015 .