29th May 2009 / Alex Rider
Walker Books have announced a publication date for SKELETON KEY, the third Alex Rider graphic novel. It’s scheduled for release in the UK on September 7th.
As with the previous books in the series, SKELETON KEY is ably illustrated by sisters Kanako and Yuzuru, it’s 176pp, and will be available in bookstores everywhere. If events follow past form, readers in the US should be able to get hold of an edition a few months afterward.
Like POINT BLANC, this book is based directly on the novel, and is very faithful. I had to do a bit of jiggering with “The Sabina Situation” again, and anyone familiar with the novel will notice those changes, but they were unavoidable and I think it worked out well. It also sets us up nicely for EAGLE STRIKE, the fourth graphic novel, which I finished writing at the end of last year and will hopefully be out in 2010.
28th May 2009 / Appearances / Interviews
I’ll be appearing on Strip!, the comics show on Resonance 104.4 FM (the UK Arts Council radio station) with Alex Fitch at 5pm GMT today. Strip! is the only weekly comics show on UK broadcast radio, so it’s well worth supporting.
Alex recorded an interview with me yesterday, ostensibly as part of the show’s “Adapting the Classics” series, but we ended up talking about pretty much everything else too. It was a good interview, with some very insightful questions about my work that even I hadn’t considered before.
If you’re in London, you can tune in on 104.4 FM. Outside the M25 (or, indeed, outside the UK) you can catch the live stream at the Resonance website. The show is also repeated, both broadcast and stream, at 11.30pm GMT on Sunday.
Finally, an unedited version will be made available as a Panel Borders podcast, which you can of course download and listen to whenever you like. All hail the Internet.
5th May 2009 / Wasteland / Wolverine / Pre-order
I’m in the middle of lots of WASTELAND stuff, so here’s a quick round-up of related news:
— You may have seen the solicitation for WASTELAND: The Apocalyptic Edition, Volume 1 in this month’s PREVIEWS catalogue. This is a deluxe hardback edition collecting issues #1-13 in their entirety, including the Walking The Dust text pieces and a colour gallery of Ben Templesmith’s gorgeous covers. It’s 384 pages (!) and will be on sale in July.
— WASTELAND #25, meanwhile, isn’t out yet, sorry. Turns out painting a double-length issue in full colour can take a while. Who knew? Shouldn’t be long now, though, and it’s going to look awesome.
— Renoir Comics are publishing an Italian version of WASTELAND, starting with Book 1 on sale soon (Copies are apparently on their way to me right now, so it may even launch before we get #25 out).
Finally, there’s a new WOLVERINE: PRODIGAL SON interview available to read online, this time by Matt Price for The Oklahoman. (And the unexpurgated version is on Matt’s associated blog, Nerdage.)
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