We emailed the document over to Wildstorm at about 9 o'clock last night.
Ah, that feels good.
J.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Albion Six almost half done...again!
We sat and scanned in the printout we had last night and for the first half it was fine worked a charm, the recognition software made it all into text really easily and we were happy bunnies. The other half was printed out badly and then badly written on with notes for dialogue, so what the software did was guess at what it might have been. The result looks like an alien race is trying to contact us, or the partially obscured heiroglyphyics on a tomb somewhere. You can make out the odd word but the rest is a bowl of alphabet soup. While i was wrangling with margins and making sure the dialogue was all spread out neatly, John sat and started typing the rest which we hadnt done yet when the laptop went walkies. this means we are approximately halfway through again now.
We have my lovely sister and brother in law to thank for the speed with which we have got back to work, they have happily built us a giant PC (not stealable now!) which runs faster than anything i've seen and we are very happy with. thank god for computer geeks! ;)
The only other hiccough in our life was putting a hole in the fuel tank of our car while driving across a field on saturday. The plus side of this is that we have to stay home and work work work, the bad side is that we are rapidly running out of food! (dont ask about the field incident, its a whole other story).
The very lovely thing about this week has been that we got to attend two weddings and a 50th birthday (congrats to Lindsay, Rachel, Paola Danny & Desi!) so that balanced the disasters nicely for us. Hopefully this week will be more level, just ordinary would be nice.
L
We have my lovely sister and brother in law to thank for the speed with which we have got back to work, they have happily built us a giant PC (not stealable now!) which runs faster than anything i've seen and we are very happy with. thank god for computer geeks! ;)
The only other hiccough in our life was putting a hole in the fuel tank of our car while driving across a field on saturday. The plus side of this is that we have to stay home and work work work, the bad side is that we are rapidly running out of food! (dont ask about the field incident, its a whole other story).
The very lovely thing about this week has been that we got to attend two weddings and a 50th birthday (congrats to Lindsay, Rachel, Paola Danny & Desi!) so that balanced the disasters nicely for us. Hopefully this week will be more level, just ordinary would be nice.
L
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Moore & Reppion Signing At Travelling Man Manchester Saturday 27th August
We'll be signing at Travelling Man in Manchester from 12 noon on Saturday the 27th of August as part of the UK Comics Nation 365 Day Event.
Be there or be square.
http://www.comicsnation.blogspot.com/
http://www.cosmic-apple.com/comicsnation/
J.
Be there or be square.
http://www.comicsnation.blogspot.com/
http://www.cosmic-apple.com/comicsnation/
J.
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Albion Six Stolen!!!
Last Friday our laptop computer was stolen from our home, it contained ALL of our work and ALL of our contacts.
Issue six was, literally, hours away from completion.
We are absolutely gutted.
On the bright side, we luckily had a printout of the issue so far which we have been able to scan and use character recognition on. It still means that about 1 in every 20 words are incorrect and seeing as the script for 6 is over 60 pages long we've still got a hell of a lot of work to do before we get back to where we were.
Burglars: I will catch you and twat you!
J.
Issue six was, literally, hours away from completion.
We are absolutely gutted.
On the bright side, we luckily had a printout of the issue so far which we have been able to scan and use character recognition on. It still means that about 1 in every 20 words are incorrect and seeing as the script for 6 is over 60 pages long we've still got a hell of a lot of work to do before we get back to where we were.
Burglars: I will catch you and twat you!
J.
Monday, July 25, 2005
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
A Little Bit Of Politics.
Last weeks bombings in London were horrific and awful. Our best wishes and deepest sympathies go out to everyone affected by the events.
However, I appeal to you not to allow the government to use these tragic events as an excuse to further infringe on our right to privacy.
Compulsory ID cards could not have prevented the bombings, anyone who says differently is simply not telling the truth.
Don't let compulsory fingerprinting and fees of £300 per person become the law.
Visit www.no2id.net and register your refusal to allow the ID card scheme to go ahead.
However, I appeal to you not to allow the government to use these tragic events as an excuse to further infringe on our right to privacy.
Compulsory ID cards could not have prevented the bombings, anyone who says differently is simply not telling the truth.
Don't let compulsory fingerprinting and fees of £300 per person become the law.
Visit www.no2id.net and register your refusal to allow the ID card scheme to go ahead.
J.
www.MooreReppion.com
That's right, we've finally got ourselves a nice, short, snazzy and easy to remember URL: www.MooreReppion.com
Please feel free to use this image to link to us (visit our "Links" page to get the HTML)
J.
Please feel free to use this image to link to us (visit our "Links" page to get the HTML)
J.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Albion # 6 On It's Way.
It's been rather too long coming but we are now ready to start on the script for issue 6.
We had to ensure that all the corrections were...erm, correct for issue 5 and then painstakingly go through all of the past scripts to make sure that we weren't going to miss any loose ends (we've got more than 30 named characters in Albion, all of them with their own already established histories, character traits, allies, enemies, etc).
We wrote a very detailed 3 page breakdown which we then posted to Alan.
From our breakdown Alan wrote an 11 page version which he then tried to post to us. Unfortunately, the lady at the post office told Alan that there was a strike on so he ended up faxing the manuscript to a friend of ours at his work place.
Today we went to see our mate Dave and got the manuscript so now we can start work.
Phew!
J.
We had to ensure that all the corrections were...erm, correct for issue 5 and then painstakingly go through all of the past scripts to make sure that we weren't going to miss any loose ends (we've got more than 30 named characters in Albion, all of them with their own already established histories, character traits, allies, enemies, etc).
We wrote a very detailed 3 page breakdown which we then posted to Alan.
From our breakdown Alan wrote an 11 page version which he then tried to post to us. Unfortunately, the lady at the post office told Alan that there was a strike on so he ended up faxing the manuscript to a friend of ours at his work place.
Today we went to see our mate Dave and got the manuscript so now we can start work.
Phew!
J.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Albion #1 selling out!!! panic buy now!! ;-)
yes it's true. we have had several reports of Albion #1 selling out in major retailers across the country. One intrepid man was forced to drive 40 miles to buy a copy, another was forced to swim the channel. (okay so i made that last bit up...exciting wasn't it!)
in any case, to ensure you get your greasy mitts on a copy run like the proverbial wind to your local comic outlet and grab as many copies as you can in a crazed frenzy. This panic buying will clear the shelves of all remaining copies perpetuating the tide of consumer delight. do it now without delay! quick! i hear the last ones being sold right now!!!
L
in any case, to ensure you get your greasy mitts on a copy run like the proverbial wind to your local comic outlet and grab as many copies as you can in a crazed frenzy. This panic buying will clear the shelves of all remaining copies perpetuating the tide of consumer delight. do it now without delay! quick! i hear the last ones being sold right now!!!
L
Thursday, June 30, 2005
London Film And Comic Con Photos
We had a fantastic time at the con and bumped into loads and loads of interesting and lovely people including Boo Cook, Pat Mills, Brendan McCarthy and far too many others to mention.
Thanks to everyone who made the whole thing possible (especially Stuart AKA Loki). Looking forward to next year's already.
J.
Thanks to everyone who made the whole thing possible (especially Stuart AKA Loki). Looking forward to next year's already.
J.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
LF&CC Latest Comics Guests Announced
Click on the image (above) to visit the site.
Pat Mills
Shane Oakley (told you!)
Phil Winslade
Geoff Senior
Ian Edgington
Duncan Fegrado
David Hine
Al Davison
We're off to pack right now. See you there or when we get back. ;)
J.
Wild Girl Artwork On eBay
By Shawn McManus and Andrew Pepoy.
Andrew Pepoy (who did a brilliant job on the inks for issues 2, 5 and 6) is selling his artwork on eBay at the moment.
So far he's sold page 17 from issue 2 (HERE) and page 3 from issue 6 (HERE) for $20 each.
Keep an eye out for items being sold by maxkafka on the site by following this link: maxkafka
Happy bidding!!!
J.
Monday, June 20, 2005
A Box Of Albions Arrived Today.
Albion #1: "No Future In England's Dreaming"
Our boxes arrived unexpectedly today (more than a week before the issue hits the stands) and we were both blown away by our first viewing of the full colour, full length versions.
Dave Gibbons dropped us an email to say he'd received his copies and that he was very impressed.
Leah has just finished typing Alan's corrections for #5 so we're going to email those to Wildstorm and then sort out our mini plan for #6 in time for visiting Northampton before the con on Saturday.
Busy? Well, for comic writers I suppose...
J.
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