See you soon?

This coming Saturday (the 27th of September) we will be appearing at the Golden Orbit sci-fi, comic and card fair in Manchester.

The fair is being held at the SACHAS HOTEL - Tib Street , Piccadilly, Manchester M4 1SH between noon and 4:30 pm.

Also appearing DC & Marvel artist James Hodgkins, promoting his new book Civilians NIL, and the Accent UK guys will be plying their trade their also.

If you're in the neighbourhood please do stop by, we'll be signing and selling Raise the Dead hardbacks (11 page preview HERE) and we'll be only too happy to sign any other stuff (such as Accent UK anthologies) or just have a bit of a gab.

For more info visit http://www.goldenorbit.co.uk/

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The weekend after that (4th & 5th of October) we'll be at the Birmingham International Comics Show along with the likes of Dave Gibbons, D'Israeli, Mark Buckingham and pretty much everyone else from the comics world you can think of.

We will be signing on Saturday from noon until 1pm accompanied by our old chum and Albion artist/co-creator Shane Oakley.

After that we'll most likely be hanging round the Accent UK table and generally mooching around (somewhere near a bar in all probability).

Of course there's the big launch party on Friday night which we'll definitley be at so maybe we'll see you there first, yeah? Just don't let us get too drunk.

More info at http://www.thecomicsshow.co.uk

Unseen Albion from Shane Oakley

To coincide with the release of Titan's Albion Origins Shane Oakley will be posting (and selling) some as yet unseen character designs for Albion.

Make sure you keep an eye on shaneoakley.blogspot.com, 'cause you don't want to miss out, do you?

Albion Origins winners

The winners of our Albion Origins competition are...

raymond

&

Ms. Darrk

The answers we were looking for were

Fred = Faceache AKA Ricky Rubberneck
Martina = Martha from Martha's Monster Makeup

Thanks to everyone who entered and, if you didn't win, don't worry; you can now buy a copy from Amazon. ;)

Buy Albion Origins.

Win Albion Origins!

We're very pleased to announce that we have two copies of Titan's Albion Origins to give away.

The blurb:

Now starring in Albion, the critically acclaimed graphic novel plotted by the legendary Alan Moore, come four of British comics' most loved - and most bizarre - characters! There's Tim Kelly, a boy who finds the Eye of Zoltec, a jewel which grants him fantastic power; Dolmann, a genius inventor with a legion of crime-fighting toys; occult troubleshooter Cursitor Doom; and victorian escaplogoist Janus Stark! Never-before-collected, boasting a stunning new cover by comics legend Brian Bolland ("Batman: The Killing Joke"), and featuring exclusive new articles exploring the history of these characters' comics, this is another amazing trip into the past!

We're not making it easy this time.

The question is: Which two Ken Reid characters did we base Fred and Martina on in Albion?

Email your answer to moore_reppion@btinternet.com (subject: Albion Origins competition) along with your message board pseudonym.
We'll put all the correct answers in a hat and draw the winner out at random.
Competition closes on the 14th of October 2007.

Only registered board members may enter (register HERE).

Best of British!

EDIT: there was rather a big clue in there accidentally. Did you miss it? Too bad.

Yippee Ki Yay Albion

We received an email a few days ago from Mr. Kim Newman in which he congratulated us on the "product placement" of Albion in Die Hard 4.0. Naturally, we assumed that he was either joking or that his super developed film critic skills had enabled him to spot the comic despite the fact that it had only appeared on screen for a nano second. However, in the days that have followed others have commented on the the fact that they too have noticed our book in Die Hard 4.0 and offered us their congratulations. Basically, we're stunned... at least we have a really good excuse for going to see the film now. I'll do my best not to stand up shouting and pointing when the comic comes on screen, I promise.

J.

Thunderbolt Jaxon TPB out now!

"From the world of Albion"...

Written by Dave Gibbons; Art by John Higgins; Cover by Gibbons

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Wildstorm Signature Series | 128pg. | Color | Softcover |

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