28th February 2005 / The Long Haul
“The Long Haul is the best western graphic novel I’ve read in a long time […] It’s difficult to imagine a reader who wouldn’t be entertained by this classic, exciting and well-told tale.”
Alan David Doane reviews an advance copy of THE LONG HAUL, and gives it a hearty thumbs-up.
9th February 2005 / The Long Haul
“Antony Johnston, aided and abetted by the wonderfully skilled hands of Eduardo Barreto, pulls off a classic caper story with an old West setting. The elements fall together as they should, and Barreto’s art perfectly draws the reader through the twists and turns of Johnston’s clockwork plot. A new Western is occasion to cheer - a good new Western is occasion to hit the saloon and celebrate!”
- Jeff Mariotte, creator of DESPERADOES, on THE LONG HAUL
The book is now at the printers, with a revised shipping date of March 9th. Between now and then we’re going to organise a sneak preview, and hopefully get some advance review copies out to people.
24th January 2005 / The Long Haul
Good news! Eduardo has finished the artwork for THE LONG HAUL, and post-production is underway even as I write. We’re now shooting for a mid-February release - I’ll give a more specific date in the next couple of weeks.
I’ve already seen over half the art for the book, and in my opinion this is the best work Eduardo’s yet done. I’ll see if we can get a preview up online in time for the book’s release, because you really need to see these pages.
24th November 2004 / F-Stop / The Long Haul / Nightjar / Interviews
There’s a new interview with me today on Broken Frontier, conducted by James Powell. It’s quite an interesting one - James asked some very good questions, and although the chat was ostensibly about F-STOP and THE LONG HAUL, he also encouraged me to talk a little about my work habits and how I approach this wacky business of writing the comics. Good stuff.
In other news, I wrote a three-issue miniseries last week, and now I’m piling into another six issues of NIGHTJAR. I do wish they’d hurry up and perfect cloning.
8th November 2004 / F-Stop / The Long Haul / Nightjar
The last couple of weeks have been a time of finishing. The F-STOP script is finished, the Big Secret Avatar Project is finally done, and the LONG HAUL book design is finalised in anticipation of the final art.
But, as with all endings, it’s really just a new beginning - or rather, a batch of new beginnings. I’m starting Book Two of NIGHTJAR (tentatively titled Inferno), there’s a hush-hush miniseries for Oni, and a one-off for a Rather Large Publisher which I’m hoping will lead to bigger things. Not to mention a couple of pitches I need to get finished soon. Ideally, all of this should be written by the end of December…
I suppose I should start thinking about Christmas shopping, too. Gah.
26th October 2004 / The Long Haul / Free Stuff
There’s some new desktop wallpaper for THE LONG HAUL in the downloads section, for anyone who wants to gaze at Eduardo’s linework all day. And who wouldn’t?
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.
13th August 2004 / The Long Haul / Free Stuff / Links
Here it is - a four-page preview of THE LONG HAUL which first appeared in the Oni “preview ashcan” at San Diego this year, now online at CBR. This is going to be a beautiful-looking book.
29th July 2004 / F-Stop / The Long Haul / Closer / Nightjar
Well, the house move is finally done and over with. In truth we moved almost a fortnight ago, but the weeks surrounding that move were filled with renovation, decoration and other boring real life things ending with “-ion”, so the Electric Space Interweb took somewhat of a back seat. Now that we’re in and (mostly) finished, though, it’s back to work.
First up is a rather nice post-San Diego review of CLOSER at Ain’t It Cool News, by someone who definitely seems to have ‘got it’. (I do wish people would stop using the advance cover design, though.)
[Edit: it seems the AICN review actually links to the image on Oni’s website, which is also still the advance cover. Which it’s hardly unfair to expect would be the correct version. So, my apologies to AICN.)
NIGHTJAR #2 came out somewhere in June, though you’ll only have seen the wraparound cover featured on the Diamond shipping lists for some reason. I haven’t seen any reviews of it yet, but I was very happy with it myself. Max did a great job of bringing the rather bleak setting of Pendle hill to life. I believe the NIGHTJAR: HOLLOW BONES one-shot should be in stores very soon, and I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of reaction the “flashback story” gets.
YUGGOTH CREATURES #1 should also be in stores any day now, though scheduling always becomes a bit chaotic when American convention season rolls around, so I’ll be double-checking that with Avatar.
So, what next? Well, I’m still ploughing through the Big Avatar Thing that I returned to working on back in June, and I have scripts to finish for F-STOP and THE LONG HAUL. Besides that, though, a few new things have come up over the last few weeks which - now that San Diego is over and I finally have a study I can work in without worrying the walls are going to collapse on me - I can start cracking on with. I should hopefully have at least two pieces of very good news before Autumn.
8th July 2004 / The Long Haul / Free Stuff
Sadly, I’m not attending the San Diego Comic-Con this year. But if you are, look out for the Oni Press ‘convention ashcan’, which will contain a small preview of THE LONG HAUL.
It’s a completed, fully inked and lettered sequence from the first chapter, and Eduardo’s artwork looks amazing. But it won’t be available anywhere online until after the convention, so be sure to drop by the Oni booth and pick up a copy to see for yourself.
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