10 Things You May Not Have Known About Kasterborous

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

As you may have noticed, as well as it being 10 years since Doctor Who‘s return to TV, it’s also a decade since this site launched, on New Year’s Day 2005. You may have seen some posts earlier this year celebrating this fact, and at times it really is hard to believe.

Looking back over the decade, it’s strange to see some of the things that we’ve done, places we’ve been, and extra-website activities that we’ve started and, in some cases, continued to date.

Work on the site started in 2004, after graphic artist Anthony Dry and writer Christian Cawley got chatting on Outpost Gallifrey (insane prop collector Brian A. Terranova joined us in early 2005), but we didn’t get our act together for six months or so. Christian Cawley thought of “Kasterborous” as a site name. Let’s face it, it’s the best of the lot, isn’t it? (We were arrogant, noisy, and pissed off established Doctor Who fansites. Sorry about that.)
Anthony Dry eventually moved on, finding himself working on Doctor Who DVD packaging, and more recently on Iron Maiden album art.
In 2007, Anthony and Christian were invited to work on an unofficial Doctor Who bookazine, which was subsequently downgraded to a calendar. We were promised riches, but never heard from the publishers again… (although we did later read that they weren’t keen on paying their contributors, so lucky escape there!)
In 2008 we launched our Time Leech comic strip, a three part timey-wimey adventure that featured Silurians, Churchill and airships (but is nothing like 2010’s The Wedding of River Song) by Christian Cawley and Brian Terranova. We’re pleased to say that the first part was script edited by former DWM editor John Freeman! Time Leech part one also appeared in issue one of Vworp Vworp!
Various members of the Kasterborous team past and present are professional writers (including assistant editor Philip Bates).
We’ve produced two full copies of Kasterborous Magazine, which you can read online free forever.
Until 2008 Christian wrote EVERY SINGLE NEWS ITEM. It made him  quite insane . (Incidentally, Andrew Reynolds is our longest running news & reviews contributor, with a massive 1417 articles to his name – praise him!)
In 2010, we published Ultimate Regeneration Volume 1, a compendium of reviews and essays about the Russell T Davies era of Doctor Who. We will be following it up with volume 2 just as soon as Steven Moffat moves on…
The podKast began in 2007, and was mired in flights of fancy until James McLean got involved in 2011. Is it better now? We leave that to our listener to decide, but over the years we’ve had featured interviews with Colin Baker, John Guilor, Terrance Dicks and many more.
We’ve also produced – with Rick Lundeen – a graphic novel adaptation of The Daleks’ Master Plan for Children in Need. And the remaining copies will be available to purchase later this year…

(If all of that was a  little too celebratory for your tastes, Philip Bates produced a more mocking version last year.)

Again, we’d like to thank you, our readers and listeners, for making the ten years seem worthwhile. I honestly had no idea what I was getting into when I launched Kasterborous. I think it’s fair to say that I would never have done it if I’d known just how intensive and heartbreaking it can be at times. But without this website, I’m certain I would still be fixing PCs for a living, rather than explaining to people how to do that and more. This website has given me and many others the chance to develop and showcase skills, and most importantly (the evidence is strong for this) entertained and informed all of you out there.

Thank you!

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