30th September 2004 / Pre-order / Links / Anthologies
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.
29th September 2004 / Alan Moore / Pre-order
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.
25th August 2004 / The Long Haul / Pre-order
I just finished the last chunk of the script for THE LONG HAUL today. I’m not sure if writers’ own pulses are supposed to race as we near the end of a book, considering we know exactly what’s going to happen and all, but mine certainly was.
Anyway, comic retailers are about to place their preorders for August, and I’m about to go away for a few days to celebrate surviving another year, so it’s about time I suggested you get your order for the book in as soon as possible. The order code for comics stores is AUG042895. If you’re on the fence, I recommend you go here to take a look at Eduardo Baretto’s amazing artwork. It doesn’t get much better than that.
6th May 2004 / Alan Moore / Interviews / Pre-order
And following on from yesterday’s LONG HAUL piece, there’s another interview with me up at Newsarama today, this time talking about YUGGOTH CREATURES and Lovecraft.
(Originally, Matt’s last question also asked if we had any more planned after this 3-issue miniseries. My last answer makes a lot more sense if you bear that in mind…)
Issue #1 of YUGGOTH CREATURES is now available for pre-order from comic stores: the order code is MAY042363.
14th April 2004 / Pre-order / Anthologies
I was wondering when this would finally break… Over on Newsarama, there’s an interview with Jay Faerber about NOBLE CAUSES: EXTENDED FAMILY Vol 2, for which I was asked to write a story. I did a piece called SWEEPS WEEK, a (hopefully) funny piece that asks, “What if NOBLE CAUSES was a TV soap?” It’s beautifully illustrated by CLOSER artist Mike Norton, and the book comes out in June.
18th March 2004 / Closer / Pre-order
A quick reminder that CLOSER is now available for pre-order, and will be on shelves in May - give your comics retailer order code MAR042734, or point them to page 314 of the March Diamond PREVIEWS catalogue.
5th March 2004 / Closer / Pre-order
Randy Lander has some very nice things to say about CLOSER in this month’s DOWN THE LINE feature at The Fourth Rail. Cheers, Randy.
7th February 2004 / Alan Moore / Nightjar / Pre-order
I have two books avilable for pre-order in this month’s catalogue, both from Avatar Press:
In NIGHTJAR #2 (order code FEB042136), Mirrigan tries to have a normal Halloween celebration on Pendle Hill with an old friend, before setting off on her quest for revenge. But one of Blason’s agents is already on Mirri’s tail, and when the fanatical Reverend Brown hears there’s a Demdike on the hill things go from bad to worse…
Also solicited is a preview book for THE HYPOTHETICAL LIZARD (order code FEB042134), another adaptation of an Alan Moore novella. Contrasting the reality of human love and emotion with the fantasy world of Liavek, LIZARD is one of Moore’s best-loved prose works and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 1998.
11th January 2004 / Julius / Nightjar / Pre-order
I have two books in the new PREVIEWS catalogue for pre-order, both for publication in March (and both featured on the Diamond Previews website, which is nice)…
JULIUS is on page 312 of the catalogue, listed under Oni Press. It’s a 160pp digest-sized book costing $14.95 (i.e. the same format as SPOOKED), and the order code for comic shops is JAN042612.
NIGHTJAR #1 (of 4), meanwhile, is on page 217, listed under Avatar Press. It’s a regular-sized, 32-page comic costing $3.50, and the order code for comic shops is JAN042157.
27th November 2003 / Spooked / Pre-order
SPOOKED is solicited in the new PREVIEWS catalogue, for release in February. It’s on p316, and while I haven’t seen it myself yet I’m told it’s a ‘Spotlight’ book, and therefore quite prominent.
SPOOKED, for those of you new to the site, is a 168-page original graphic novel, illustrated by Ross Campbell and published by Oni Press, about a girl who has a ghost living in her head. It’ll cost $14.95 of your American dollars (which normally translates to around a tenner in the UK). You can pre-order a copy right now from your comics retailer by giving them the Diamond order code DEC032598.
…Actually, probably best to wait till Thanksgiving is over if you’re in the US. I doubt they’d take kindly to having their family turkey interrupted by a zealous shopper…
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