Showing posts with label comic book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic book. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 August 2017

Proscenium


The sun is shining and the birds are singing. The doors to the dungeon boom to a close behind me; and in my hands are the fruits of the last...pffft....eight months...?

Introducing: Proscenium. It's a comic book. Sort of.

For those of you who perhaps aren't aware (and I'm sure that's most of you) my last few original comic books have been ghost stories. While Proscenium continues this trend with supernatural strands and an atmosphere of ghostliness, (yes I believe there is a difference) it cannot be described strictly as a ghost story. But neither is it a "horror" comic. Confused? Fair enough...

Proscenium is an anthology of daydreams and intrusions. At best it fits within the genre of the Strange Story: where perhaps there are usually supernatural, or psychological explanations to the goings on. Often, in fact, it is a little of both.

Here's a preview of select pages from the book:











There are five stories, or episodes, to the book: a poem, an illustrated story, and three comics.

Proscenium is 68 pages; colour and black and white throughout - and will be available at my table at London Super Comic Con on August 25th - 27th. Shortly afterwards it will be available elsewhere. Hopefully.

Watch this space for more updates closer to the event.

Friday, 23 January 2015

In Tooth and Claw

 
Remember that new comic that I said was almost-sort-of-nearly here? Well, now it is. Really.
 
Nature, Red; the second of my stand-alone ghost stories is now available online and in select comic book retailers across the UK, including:
 
Foyles (Charing Cross Road, London and Cabot Circus, Bristol)
 
Online it is available direct from myself through my shiny new Down In The Dark store. Also available there are limited quantities of The Grinning Man, Illustration and Such from Popular Culture Vol. 1, and a special 'double pack' allowing you to get both ghost story comics at a reduced cost. You're welcome.
 
Nature, Red is limited to 75 signed and numbered copies.
 

 





 
Nature, Red



 
The Grinning Man





 
 
Mike Read Has Beautiful Breath: Illustration and Such from Popular Culture Vol. 1