Dave Lloyd and Leah.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
The End Is Nigh Website Online
"THE END IS NIGH examines the latest predictions, the facts, the
figures, the myths and the magic of the end of the world. From
Biblical tales of the final battle at Armageddon, to modern fears of
asteroid strike, lethal plague or nuclear holocaust, THE END IS NIGH
is your guide through the Final Days ...
The website is regularly updated with the latest apocalyptic news and
will include more features and information as time goes on. Click on
the red headline on the main page for a special feature (IE only)."
Click on screenshot to visit the site.
J.
figures, the myths and the magic of the end of the world. From
Biblical tales of the final battle at Armageddon, to modern fears of
asteroid strike, lethal plague or nuclear holocaust, THE END IS NIGH
is your guide through the Final Days ...
The website is regularly updated with the latest apocalyptic news and
will include more features and information as time goes on. Click on
the red headline on the main page for a special feature (IE only)."
Click on screenshot to visit the site.
J.
Shane Oakley's Albion.
We got another package of photocopied pages through from Shane the other day and he continues to astound and amaze us. There are so many rich visual references and so much detail, it's going to keep any self respecting UK comics fanboy drooling for many a happy hour.
It's no exaggeration to say that without Shane Albion would not exist.
Oakley was supposed to be doing a strip with Alan in Tomorrow Stories but that fell through so the pair we're looking for a project to collaborate on.
Shane had been sniffing round trying to find who owned the rights to all the old UK comic characters but thought he'd hit a dead end when he found out that IPC retains copywrite and is now a member of the AOL Time Warner corporation.
However, DC are also a part of AOL TW and so Alan had a word with Scott Dunbier and wrote a proposal for Albion. The proposal was accepted and we were offered the job of writing the whole thing.
So you see; without Shane Alan Moore wouldn't be involved and without Alan we wouldn't be involved.
I suppose it's possible that DC and IPC would have done the deal anyway and we might still be having a British Comics Revival plotted, written and drawn by different people...What a scary thought though eh?
Therefore: since he will be unable to attend this coming weekends Bristol Comics Expo due to his torturous work schedule, I propose we raise a glass to Shane Oakley the man who made Albion possible.
For more news about the Albion pre launch stuff happening this weekend check out:
http://www.thealienonline.net/ao_030.asp?tid=1&scid=5&iid=2846
J.
It's no exaggeration to say that without Shane Albion would not exist.
Oakley was supposed to be doing a strip with Alan in Tomorrow Stories but that fell through so the pair we're looking for a project to collaborate on.
Shane had been sniffing round trying to find who owned the rights to all the old UK comic characters but thought he'd hit a dead end when he found out that IPC retains copywrite and is now a member of the AOL Time Warner corporation.
However, DC are also a part of AOL TW and so Alan had a word with Scott Dunbier and wrote a proposal for Albion. The proposal was accepted and we were offered the job of writing the whole thing.
So you see; without Shane Alan Moore wouldn't be involved and without Alan we wouldn't be involved.
I suppose it's possible that DC and IPC would have done the deal anyway and we might still be having a British Comics Revival plotted, written and drawn by different people...What a scary thought though eh?
Therefore: since he will be unable to attend this coming weekends Bristol Comics Expo due to his torturous work schedule, I propose we raise a glass to Shane Oakley the man who made Albion possible.
For more news about the Albion pre launch stuff happening this weekend check out:
http://www.thealienonline.net/ao_030.asp?tid=1&scid=5&iid=2846
J.
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Absolute Promethea Petition
From furioso2012 on the Moore & Reppion messageboard (originally posted eslewhere):
"Hello All,
Me & my online co-conspirator Guido have set up a petition as a show of support for an Absolute Edition of Alan Moore & JH Williams III’s PROMETHEA. If we can get enough signatories, we’re hoping that the book will arrive sooner rather than (years) later. We have JHW3’s blessing in this venture.
So in the interest of summoning into existence such a fine and wonderful and possibly useful grimoire, here as follows is the petition link: Absolute Promethea Edition Petition if need be you can both support the project and state that you can’t buy it.
There are many cool Promethea-related links (NEW as of two days ago, for those of you who have already voted) on the petition site too!"
Click on the above image to visit the site and sign the petition.
J.
"Hello All,
Me & my online co-conspirator Guido have set up a petition as a show of support for an Absolute Edition of Alan Moore & JH Williams III’s PROMETHEA. If we can get enough signatories, we’re hoping that the book will arrive sooner rather than (years) later. We have JHW3’s blessing in this venture.
So in the interest of summoning into existence such a fine and wonderful and possibly useful grimoire, here as follows is the petition link: Absolute Promethea Edition Petition if need be you can both support the project and state that you can’t buy it.
There are many cool Promethea-related links (NEW as of two days ago, for those of you who have already voted) on the petition site too!"
Click on the above image to visit the site and sign the petition.
J.
Friday, May 06, 2005
Bristol Comic Expo Albion Exclusives!!!
"EXpo EXclusive: Just-for-the-UK 24 page B&W ashcan of Albion #1 which will be given away at the close of the Albion panel.They won't be available at any other time or anywhere else.
Plus:1000 signature cards sporting Dave's cover for issue one to give
away throughout the show!"
Click on the screenshot for more info.
Also, general good eggs Paul Scott & Michael Molcher have generously agreed to devote a small space on the Solar Wind/The End Is Nigh tables to flogging the Builth Balkan Crew CDs (featuring Alan Moore). Expo exclusives ahoy!
See you at Bristol! ;)
J.
Plus:1000 signature cards sporting Dave's cover for issue one to give
away throughout the show!"
Click on the screenshot for more info.
Also, general good eggs Paul Scott & Michael Molcher have generously agreed to devote a small space on the Solar Wind/The End Is Nigh tables to flogging the Builth Balkan Crew CDs (featuring Alan Moore). Expo exclusives ahoy!
See you at Bristol! ;)
J.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Builth Balkan Crew CD Competition Winners.
"Who is Alan Moore's most common musical collaborator?"
The answer is Tim Perkins.
How do we decide who wins?
First we got a hat...
The Hat of Fate!!!
The answer is Tim Perkins.
How do we decide who wins?
First we got a hat...
The Hat of Fate!!!
Saturday, April 23, 2005
Friday, April 22, 2005
Lew Stringer's 'Brickman Begins!'
ISBN: 0-974056-8-2
Brickman by Lew Stringer.
We received this little gem in the post today from Mr Stringer, and it is a smashing little book! how this many chuckles can fit so neatly into a pocket is beyond me!
Features lots of strips and guest artist bits and is fantastic!
only $9.99 (a fiver) so what are you waiting for?
L.
Brickman by Lew Stringer.
We received this little gem in the post today from Mr Stringer, and it is a smashing little book! how this many chuckles can fit so neatly into a pocket is beyond me!
Features lots of strips and guest artist bits and is fantastic!
only $9.99 (a fiver) so what are you waiting for?
L.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Wild Girl #6 Out 27th April 2005.
We got our boxes of issue 6 yesterday and it was a weird feeling. It's pretty much two years since we started work on the series and practically a year since we finished writing it, but seeing it finished at last is both wonderful and kind of upsetting.
We're both agreed that we still really like the series. The pacing was very different to other comics and that was something that people seemed to really have a problem with, but we feel that read as a whole it all makes sense.
We've learned a lot about writing and working in the comics industry through doing the series and we really hope that people have enjoyed reading it.
Big thanks to Shawn McManus, J H Williams III, Andrew Pepoy and everyone else who worked on Wild Girl.
J.
We're both agreed that we still really like the series. The pacing was very different to other comics and that was something that people seemed to really have a problem with, but we feel that read as a whole it all makes sense.
We've learned a lot about writing and working in the comics industry through doing the series and we really hope that people have enjoyed reading it.
Big thanks to Shawn McManus, J H Williams III, Andrew Pepoy and everyone else who worked on Wild Girl.
J.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Albion #2 Cover By Dave Gibbons
Dave Gibbons.
Issue #1 is out 29th of June 2005 and #2 is on sale 9th of July.
J.
Sunday, April 10, 2005
The Spider - King of Crooks, Titan Hardback
THE SPIDER - KING OF CROOKS
Released 24th June 2005 • Hardback • £14.99 • ISBN: 1-84576-000-X
Cover by Garry Leach
"Fresh from the Silver Age vault of classic British comics, and perfectly timed for his fortieth birthday, comes arch-criminal and twisted mastermind THE SPIDER! Bursting onto the pages of Lion back in the 60s, The Spider was a breath of foul air in a world of four-color good guys and square-jawed heroics. Imagine a villain equipped with an amazingly versatile exoskeleton and the brains to match… one with ambitions to become the Kingpin of Crime. Now meet the Spider!"
Read the Titan press release in full here: http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/news/111229272796717.htm
(We might have a few advance copies of this splendid book to give away soon. Watch this space.)
J.
Released 24th June 2005 • Hardback • £14.99 • ISBN: 1-84576-000-X
Cover by Garry Leach
"Fresh from the Silver Age vault of classic British comics, and perfectly timed for his fortieth birthday, comes arch-criminal and twisted mastermind THE SPIDER! Bursting onto the pages of Lion back in the 60s, The Spider was a breath of foul air in a world of four-color good guys and square-jawed heroics. Imagine a villain equipped with an amazingly versatile exoskeleton and the brains to match… one with ambitions to become the Kingpin of Crime. Now meet the Spider!"
Read the Titan press release in full here: http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/news/111229272796717.htm
(We might have a few advance copies of this splendid book to give away soon. Watch this space.)
J.
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Albion Pages Online!!!
Yup, there's a PDF on the Wildstorm site here: http://www.dccomics.com/media/excerpts/3696_x.pdf
You'll need Adobe Reader to view the pages. Download it for free here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html
Or... just look below.
J.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Win Builth Balkan Crew CDs On The Board
We are running a competition on the board for two lucky members to win a copy of the Builth Balkan Crew CD.
Visit: http://johnreppion.proboards33.com/
Also, you can now order CDs from us (by clicking "Contact") as well as
mandy_hot_girl@hotmail.com
J.
Visit: http://johnreppion.proboards33.com/
Also, you can now order CDs from us (by clicking "Contact") as well as
mandy_hot_girl@hotmail.com
J.
Albion Artwork
Shane has now finished work on the pencils for #1 and we got a big fat PDF from Wildstorm so we could see them in all their glory.
Also, Mr. Oakley passed on three coloured and inked pages which have been done for Previews. It's all looking beautiful. Take our word for it.
J.
Also, Mr. Oakley passed on three coloured and inked pages which have been done for Previews. It's all looking beautiful. Take our word for it.
J.
Zippy T-shirts!
yow!
just got 2 of these beauties...so retro yet so now!
do i get the Zippy for president ones now or what?
L
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Albion #4 Done And A Short Story Online.
Yeah, we only over ran our deadline by a couple of days despite numerous tedious set backs. We're off to Northampton tomorrow, so we'll find out what Alan thinks of the script then.
After having it rejected by two separate magazines, I have now put my appallingly badly punctuated short story "Anthony Clarke Is Sick" online to punish you all.
Visit: http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/board/index.php?act=ST&f=24&t=3468&s=1bc73fd7a5da2e440013c3fb25218fdf
J.
After having it rejected by two separate magazines, I have now put my appallingly badly punctuated short story "Anthony Clarke Is Sick" online to punish you all.
Visit: http://www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk/board/index.php?act=ST&f=24&t=3468&s=1bc73fd7a5da2e440013c3fb25218fdf
J.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Romania Charity CD Track List.
A House By The River - Tom Hall
Sorry - Big Bang
Critters - Wilson
Nadine - Dr. Brown's Rhythm Method
Throw It Away - Good Cop Bad Cop
Iron Man - Dirty Macs
Hello c*nty - P-Hex
Madame October - Tom Hall & Alan Moore
Freedom To Smoke - A Fat Dog Sound
Quality People - Wilson
Possibly Beautiful - Big Bang
Bombtrack - Dirty Macs
Death Angels And Dust - Good Cop Bad Cop
Snatching It Back - Dr. Brown's Rhythm Method
Treacle And Raymond Makes Me Feel Sick - A Fat Dog Sound
Good Ganja Weed - P-Hex
J.
Sorry - Big Bang
Critters - Wilson
Nadine - Dr. Brown's Rhythm Method
Throw It Away - Good Cop Bad Cop
Iron Man - Dirty Macs
Hello c*nty - P-Hex
Madame October - Tom Hall & Alan Moore
Freedom To Smoke - A Fat Dog Sound
Quality People - Wilson
Possibly Beautiful - Big Bang
Bombtrack - Dirty Macs
Death Angels And Dust - Good Cop Bad Cop
Snatching It Back - Dr. Brown's Rhythm Method
Treacle And Raymond Makes Me Feel Sick - A Fat Dog Sound
Good Ganja Weed - P-Hex
J.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Builth Balkan Crew Benefit CD OUT NOW!
CD cover design by Leah Moore.
The CD features contributions from:
Alan Moore
Tom Hall
Good Cop Bad Cop
Wilson
P-Hex
And more...(Full track list)
The CD costs £7 UK pounds sterling + P&P (that's $13.50 in US dollars) and 100% of the proceeds go towards rebuilding an orphanage in Romania for children with HIV and AIDS.
To purchase your copy email Mandy
mandy_hot_girl@hotmail.com
Get your copies now!!!
J.
Monday, March 14, 2005
Comic Book Legal Defense Fund 2005 Memberships.
Eisner's CBLDF membership card.
We got our 2005 Comic Book Legal Defense Fund membership cards through today.
Just as well since we've just written that strip with ****** * **** being ****** up the **** by *** *****.
J.
Saturday, March 05, 2005
George Freeman To Ink Albion.
Canadian born comics veteran George Freeman is now set to be the inker on Albion.
To learn more about Mr. Freeman's extensive works visit http://www.marsimport.com/display_creator?ID=1325
or
http://www.lambiek.net/freeman_george.htm
(For starters).
J.
To learn more about Mr. Freeman's extensive works visit http://www.marsimport.com/display_creator?ID=1325
or
http://www.lambiek.net/freeman_george.htm
(For starters).
J.
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