Fife College lecturer's stories published in Commando comic

Colin Maxwell has had his first story included in the long-running Commando comic series.
Fife College lecturer Colin Maxwell has had his first story included in the long-running Commando comic series.Fife College lecturer Colin Maxwell has had his first story included in the long-running Commando comic series.
Fife College lecturer Colin Maxwell has had his first story included in the long-running Commando comic series.

Animation and Computer Games lecturer Colin’s ‘Five Little Soldier Boys’ story has been included in the latest issue of the famous military comic series which has been running since 1961.

A murder-mystery set during wartime, Colin’s Five Little Soldier Boys story tells the tale of five soldiers taking refuge from a storm in an old French chateau but are unaware that a killer is lurking.

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Colin, who is based at the Dunfermline campus, has been writing comic book stories in his spare time for a number of years and has been published in various titles, but this is the first time his stories have been published in the Commando series.

He will also have a number of further stories published in the popular series over the next 12 months.

Commando Comics celebrates its 60th anniversary next year and is Britain’s longest serving war comic.

Colin said: “It's very exciting to be published in such a long-running series like Commando.

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"They’ve commissioned four stories which all have quite a mixture of different characters and locations.

“One was inspired by the fortified islands in the River Forth, and the story begins and ends in Scotland, with the characters going to war in the North African desert in-between.”

Colin started to write his comic stories after being inspired by a project with students in 2013.

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One of the students involved, Michael Philp, has also worked on several comics with Colin since he left college, and has gone on to develop his own a part-time career in comic book illustration.

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