Merry Christmas and a Work in Progress

Routine is going out the window, so I thought I'd wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year and invite you over to The Cloud 109 Blog to have a look at some work in progress.

We have a self imposed embargo on posting any extra material from Cloud 109 until we're ready to publish but in the interim here's a project that isn't a million miles away from Gina, Cary and Rabby's adventures.

Cloud 109 - Working Up A Page Part 2

Just a brief hello to let you know that we've put up the second installment of working up a Cloud 109 page on our blog. Nine days out of seven we tend to contextualize what inspires writer David Orme and myself by posting work which we love and which we hope you will love.

The rationale is really that when we first launched our Cloud 109 blog last October it was just to promote a comic which no mainstream UK publisher would want to touch. Our agenda was simple, we were looking for a publisher of vision and drive who was committed to the same kind of comics that we are committed to, failing that we would just complete the fershlugginer thing, beholden to no committees and free from the kind of contractual shackles that have become the norm over the last twenty years.

That being said, we rapidly concluded that running a blog on a comic that was still in production on a daily basis was going to be nigh on impossible - but what if we regarded the blog as a virtual comic shop?

You know the kind of place you wander in because you're looking for a back issue of Hellboy that eluded you a year or so ago and you like browsing anyway. So you step into this promising looking place and suddenly it's not just Hellboy but there's all this other stuff some of which you've never really checked out before and there's some new titles including (yup you guessed it!) Cloud 109.

Now you might not be into Cloud 109, you're really into Jordi Bernet, or perhaps Al Williamson's EC work, or perhaps Alex Sheikman's 'Robotika' is what you're keenest to check out. It really doesn't matter, we just want you to enjoy yourselves and we have in the process at least flagged up our existence to you a bit like the way that Derren Brown plants subconscious triggers in the minds of his audiences.

So that's the intent that drives the blog but today as I've mentioned we are picking up on the second and final installment of the production process behind each page of Cloud 109.

Cloud 109 - Working Up A Page Part 1

Just to let you know that we've opened the kitchen door to let you see, smell and taste all the rare herbs and spices, not to mention the meat of the creative process involved in getting the story of three real teenagers and their ongoing dalliance with the cybernetic Babylon that is "Cloud 109" heading towards completion.

Over half way there now.

Earlier episodes can be viewed here and here.