Alister Pearson

Alister Pearson
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Artist
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1988-96, 2005-08
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Star Trek Adventures, The English Quiz Book

Born on the Isle of Wight, Alister Pearson created the covers for a large number of science fiction works including twenty-two out of thirty-three covers of the Virgin Missing Adventures, a series of Doctor Who spin-off novels and the covers for sixteen VHS releases of Doctor Who serials.

Career

Pearson's first two published pieces were actually among the many fan artwork illustrations which appeared in The Key to Time: A Year by Year Record, a day-by-day history of the original series published to commemorate its twenty-first anniversary in 1985.

Pearson's first commissioned Doctor Who-related work were cover illustrations for Doctor Who Magazine. He next created the cover for the Target novelisation of The Underwater Menace. He later worked on several covers for the Missing Adventures published by Virgin in the 1990s. Most recently, he designed the cover for the Doctor Who Annual 2010.

Pearson is known for inserting initials into his artwork; his own ("AP" or "AJP") as well as those of his friends and colleagues in fandom.

Covers

Target Novelisations

• The Underwater Menace
• The Ultimate Foe
• The Edge of Destruction
• The Smugglers
• Paradise Towers
• Delta and the Bannermen
• The War Machines
• Dragonfire
• The Nightmare Fair (with Graeme Way)
• Mindwarp
• The Chase
• The Ultimate Evil
• Mission to the Unknown
• The Mutation of Time
• Silver Nemesis (first edition)
• The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Planet of Giants
• The War Games
• An Unearthly Child
• The Happiness Patrol
• Remembrance of the Daleks
• Mission to Magnus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• The Mind Robber
• Ghost Light
• Survival
• The Curse of Fenric
• The Web Planet
• The Brain of Morbius
• The Five Doctors
• The Dominators
• The Auton Invasion
• The Ambassadors of Death
• The Day of the Daleks
• Death to the Daleks
• The Ark in Space
• Revenge of the Cybermen
• Castrovalva
• Four to Doomsday
• The Krotons
• Battlefield
• Planet of the Spiders
• The Three Doctors
• Genesis of the Daleks
• The Masque of Mandragora
• Time and the Rani
• Logopolis
• The Daleks
• The Visitation
• Kinda
• Arc of Infinity
• Mawdryn Undead
• Earthshock
• The Awakening
• Robot
• The Curse of Peladon
• the Monster of Peladon
• Planet of the Daleks
• Destiny of the Daleks
• The Silurians
• Warriors of the Deep
• The Aztecs
• The Tomb of the Cybermen
• The Massacre
• Attack of the Cybermen
• The Savages
• The Celestial Toymaker
• The Ark
• Vengeance on Varos
• The Tenth Planet
• Terror of the Zygons
• Pyramids of Mars
• The Face of Evil
• Meglos
• Carnival of Monsters
• The Enemy of the World
• The Time Warrior
• The Keeper of Traken
• The Power of the Daleks
• The Evil of the Daleks
• The Invasion
• Silver Nemesis (second edition)
• The Dæmons
• The Leisure Hive
• Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• The Web of Fear
• The Robots of Death
• The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• The Paradise of Death

Virgin Missing Adventures

• Goth Opera
• Evolution
• Venusian Lullaby
• The Crystal Bucephalus
• State of Change
• The Romance of Crime
• The Ghosts of N-Space
• Millennial Rites
• Lords of the Storm
• The Man in the Velvet Mask
• The English Way of Death
• The Sands of Time
• Killing Time
• The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
• Twilight of the Gods
• Speed of Flight
• The Plotters
• Cold Fusion
• Burning Heart
• A Device of Death
• The Dark Path
• The Well-Mannered War

BBC Video

• An Unearthly Child
• The War Games
• The Mind Robber
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• The Web Planet
• The Krotons
• The Curse of Fenric
• The Masque of Mandragora
• The Three Doctors
• Robot
• The Tomb of the Cybermen
• The Dæmons
• Terror of the Autons
• Remembrance of the Daleks
• The Trial of a Time Lord

Doctor Who The Scripts

• The Masters of Luxor
• The Dæmons
• The Power of the Daleks
• Ghost Light
• The Crusade
• Galaxy Four

Marvel UK

• DWM 111
• DWM 123
• DWM 130
• DWM 160
• DWM 180
• DWM 185
• DWMS Winter 1986
• DWCC 1
• The Mark of Mandragora graphic novel

External links

• Alister Pearson at comicbookdb.com