More FOUR LETTER WORLDS news: Eric Stephenson has posted Steven Griffin’s lovely cover design, and the full details of the book (including ordering details) on his website. It’ll be solicited in next month’s PREVIEWS, due out January 2005, so I’ll repeat the solicitation info here closer to the time.
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THE HYPOTHETICAL LIZARD, an adaptation of Alan Moore’s award-winning novella of love and betrayal, starts in December. It’s solicited for preorder in this month’s PREVIEWS catalogue on page 241. Give your comic retailer order code OCT042444.
That’s the cover over there on the right, beautifully illustrated by Sebastian Fiumara, whose work you may have already seen in the ‘Through Dreams Of R’lyeh’ story in YUGGOTH CREATURES #1. (The first issue is drawn by Lorenzo Lorente, then Sebastian takes over for #2-#4.) Seba also drew the cover for the Comic-Con preview issue, which you can see in the HYPOTHETICAL LIZARD gallery and is solicited on the same page of PREVIEWS, order code OCT042447.
Finally, the collected edition of YUGGOTH CULTURES is also now available for preorder, featuring an extra fifty pages (!) of bonus material, including an essay from Alan himself, new artwork and interviews with the man. The order code for that is OCT042441, or OCT042442 for the hardcover edition.
You can see all of these products in more detail on Avatar’s December solicitations page.
Meanwhile, I’m finally on the home stretch of that Big Avatar Job I’ve mentioned before, and I hope to have some very interesting/exciting news from the Oni camp very soon. Hang on to your hats.
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Thanks to the efforts of OPi8.com’s new editor Travis Anderson, AFTER DAYS OF PASSION is back online after a rather long hiatus. I’m still quietly proud of this work - even three years on, it remains one of the few medium-specific webcomics out there. The direct link is here.
(If you need any more incentive to read it, I should probably mention that it was drawn by Ben Templesmith, back before he became a Comic Book Horror Rockstar Type Person.)
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The bad news: JULIUS artist Brett Weldele definitely won’t be at the Muse Comics event on September 26th, as mentioned yesterday.
The good news: He won’t be there because in three weeks’ time he’s moving to Portland, OR like the rest of the indie comics world, and finally getting out of the small Montana town he currently hates. So, yay Brett.
More good news: I just finished a miniseries pitch that I’m really happy with (trust me, that’s unusual). And it looks like I’m doing some kind of signing/appearance for Halloween. More on that as and when, etc etc.
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Every month, Muse Comics in Montana select a Book Of The Month and hold a reading group to discuss the book. Well, for September they’ve selected JULIUS, and here’s a nifty idea; they’re also selling cheap Dover editions of Shakespeare’s JULIUS CAESAR along with them.
Amanda from Muse tells me it’s already garnered quite a bit of interest from parents and casual shoppers, thanks in no small part to the excellent display right at the front of the store (pictured right; click image for a larger version).
I’ve been asked to suggest a few discussion topics of my own for the reading group, which is open to all and meets in the store on Sunday 26th September at 1pm. Artist Brett Weldele is local to the store (as local as you get in Montana, anyway), so there’s a chance he might turn up as well. If you’re in the area, pop along on the 26th and say “hi” from me - the store is also giving away a signed copy of CLOSER as part of a competition, so you might even come out quids in.
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Seeing as a few people have asked me about this, and I don’t think I’ve explicitly mentioned it yet: Eric Stephenson of Image Comics recently let the cat out of the bag regarding FOUR LETTER WORLDS, to be published in January 2005, and to which I contributed a story.
My story’s called AN APPOINTMENT WITH FATE, and sees me back in the saddle, if you’ll pardon the expression, with THREE DAYS IN EUROPE artist Mike Hawthorne. Nice.
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