FRONTIER: Dealing with Demons

Thanks to those fabulous guys at PRINTMEDIA the entire run of the Frontier strips that appeared in the DFC is now being presented as a Graphic Novel. The book will contain never before seen pages of comic strip art as well as the contents of Daisy's Diary and an article by artist Andrew Wildman about how the art for Frontier was produced.

The book can be ordered on Amazon and will be available on the 1st November.

Mirabilis in da house

...in the Print Media Productions warehouse in Lancaster, to be precise. I don't know exactly how many copies are there - but a lot. Good job it's got a reinforced floor, coz those hardbacks are heavy. And that's not even all of the Volume 1 batch. Volume 2 is on the way in time for the autumn and here's a sneaky peek at Volume 3, due out next spring.

The dragon has landed!

Finally! The first Mirabilis hardcover that I mentioned a while back was starting to look like a mythical beast itself, thanks to a banking snafu that left several thousand copies stuck in a Customs warehouse near Heathrow. But that's all sorted and the books are now at large in the UK. There's been a sighting in SFX magazine and now, at long last, a listing on Amazon. (Don't be put off by the "out of stock" notice; you can pre-order now and they will have copies by the end of the week.)

Volume two will be out before the end of the year, with volumes three and four following in March and September next year. Leo and Nikos and I better get our skates on!

TAKE COVER!!

The soon to appear FRONTIER book has now had all the pages reformatted. this is due to the fact that the page size and proportion is different to that of the DFC. Writer Jason Cobley and myself have also decided to remove all the episode headings so that it reads as one long story. Not only that but there are three, count 'em, three pages of additional art. All this plus background information and supporting material and it should be a very satisfying read.

And here.... is the cover to the book. All being well and with a good tail wind it should be on sale at ThoughtBubble

The green album

I took advantage of the sunny weather to get a few shots of my wife looking at the Mirabilis Volume One hardback, now just weeks away from UK release. These photos don't really do justice to the quality of the colour printing, which is the best I've seen. And look at the size of it - this is a real whopping great European album! More pics over on our blog. (And by the way, did you notice that t-shirt?)