Once Upon A Time Machine

I thought you fine people might be interested in this lovely looking comics anthology, a selection of classic folk and fairytales re-routed through a sci-fi filter, all wrapped up in packaging by the great Farel Dalrymple - see title page above. I did my own bit for it (artwork for a delightful re-telling of 1001 Nights by Tara Alexander) a good eighteen months back, so it's great to now see the entire collection very nearly finished and officially on the lookout for a potential publisher.

Naturally there's a big online promotional push going on, via the likes of Bleeding Cool and Facebook; do please stop by and have a peek for further info and artwork previews.

AKADEMIA

Dundee University are launching a new programme in comic studies. You might know folk who'd find it interesting...

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Interviewed on We Do Write

Flattered this week to be let out of my usual box and interviewed by Dorothy Dreyer on her really cool writing site. Goodness knows what the respectable literary aficionados there will make of all the stuff about comics!

Sneak peeks

Leo, Martin and I have just been finalizing how to divide the first Mirabilis book into eight chapters - or issues, I guess is another way to look at it.

Without any forward planning at all, the whole thing breaks up very nicely into comic-book-sized chunks of around 20-25 pages each, and here are the individual covers.

We got so carried away with the idea of each chapter being a comic book in its own right that we've even added a letters column edited by the chaps at the Royal Mythological Society.

The first issue is already up as a flipbook on the Mirabilis website as a preview of goodies in store. As for the rest of the series - more news very soon!