 |
| When duende attack! |
It's been quiet on the ol' blogging front, but that's in
part 'cos I've been busy working on an extended project which will see me
venturing into self-publishing for the first time. I've been both inspired and impressed by the great comics various fellow small-pressers are putting together - Lizzie and Conor Boyle's Disconnected Press, Davey Candlish's Paragon, Dirk Van Dom's cracking Vanguard and Owen Watts's Dr. WTF?! and Psychedelic Journal of Time Travel, to name but a few - and so intend to give it a go myself. The project is a collection
of 'Martillo' stories - my 1940s Spanish exorcist character who first saw light
in a four-pager in Temple APA #10. Myself and unstoppable artist David Broughton,
Martillo's co-creator, are joining forces once more to put together a
collection that will see over 40 pages of new Martillo strip material (most
likely 6 new 7-8 page stories), in addition to the aforementioned four-pager as
a prologue, and hopefully a few little prose stories as bonus excerpts from
Martillo's case files. The aim (fingers crossed) is to have this come out early
next year and to try and get it on sale at a few conventions as well as online.
 |
| Gallo investigates... |
To set the scene: the year is 1948, and, nearly a decade
after the Spanish Civil War, General Franco holds power. But there is still unrest
in Madrid, city of Lucifer - unrest of the supernatural kind! Only one man is
capable of dealing with this strange eruption of devilish danger - Martillo, ex-member
of the Civil Guard, now ordained as Spain's least subtle priest. His mission -
to crack some diabolic nuts with a literal sledgehammer, and woe betide those
who get in his way!
For now, allow me to present a few preview images from the already-completed
first proper story in the collection. We kick off with 'Que Viene El Coco' (or 'Here Comes the Bogeyman'),
in which Martillo must deal with a ravenous threat to the city's youth, with the help of his sometime-foil, Detective Gallo of the Higher National Police Corps.
Hope you like 'em!
 |
| El Coco comes calling... be afraid! |
Nice one Greg! Sounds interesting and like the look of that art. Best of luck with this! :)
ReplyDeleteCheers, mate and thanks once again for the encouragement: seeing what a brilliant, professional job you and your fellow Vanguardians have done to date on your comic has definitely made me want to try and produce something of similar quality. Hopefully folk will enjoy it - it's certainly fun writing it. David B.'s producing some (frequently literally) smashing art for this - irrespective of the relative merits (or not) of my storytelling, I can confidently say it's going to look great!
Delete