As I've previously mentioned, I'm currently putting together Brickman Returns!, a full colour comic which collects all the Brickman strips that were published in Image's Elephantmen in the USA in 2006 to 2009.
Well, all but one strip that is. The page shown above was an old unpublished one I did in 1996 that was eventually used as a filler in Elephantmen No.14 when I was running a little late. While it was nice to see it in print at last it didn't really fit into the continuity of the rest of the series, and it repeated a punchline from another episode, so... I've made the decision to leave it out of Brickman Returns! but instead feature it here as a free bonus. Hope you like it!
I've now practically completed Brickman Returns! and will be sending it to the printers this week. Stay tuned for more news soon!
Here's another preview of my Team Toxic story in this week's Toxic magazine, which will be in newsagents and supermarkets across the UK on Wednesday 19th August.
Team Toxic may be plunging to their doom in this panel but it's certainly not a reflection of Toxic's fortunes. The mag has seen a sales rise to 55,000 copies an issue, making it one of the most popular comics on the stands. Not bad for a publication that has been around for 13 years.
You can read more about the latest UK comic/mag sales figures at the Down the Tubes blog:
http://downthetubes.net/?p=24692
Also out this week is Doctor Who Magazine No.490, featuring another of my Daft Dimension strips! On sale Thursday 20th August.
A quick last reminder that I'm one of the many guests at the Sheffield Film and Comic Con tomorrow, Saturday 15th August, at the Motorpoint Arena. The event runs for two days but I'll only be there on Saturday.
If you're attending, look out for the Comics Zone, which may not be on the same level as the comic dealers, so ask one of the assistants in the blue or red shirts if you're not sure.
If you can, please drop by my table for a chat, or to commission me to draw a sketch for you, or buy a copy of Brickman Begins! I'll also be revealing the front cover to my new comic, Brickman Returns! which will be published in a few weeks.
Hope to see you there!
Full guest list and event details:
http://www.sheffieldfilmandcomiccon.com/
Here's an exclusive sneak preview of my Team Toxic strip for the next issue of Toxic, on sale from August 19th. The Team go on a quest into the jungle in another two page adventure. I'll show another panel from this strip closer to the publication date.
Toxic has been published by Egmont since 2002 and is the leading boys comic magazine in the UK. A new issue is on sale every three weeks from newsagents and supermarkets. Support the British comics industry!
Here's some more information on the self-publishing project I said I was working on the other day. Yes, I'm bringing my oldest character Brickman back into print! Brickman Returns! will collect the pages I did from 2006 to 2009 which originally appeared in Image Comics' Elephantmen in the USA. This is effectively a sequel to Brickman Begins! that was published by Active Images in 2005.
This 32 page full colour one-off comic will be out soon, and exclusively available to buy directly from me, either by mail order or at conventions.
Look out for more info on this blog over the next few weeks!
This week I will be mostly working on my own comic. Yes, I'm getting back into self-publishing. I'm not giving up the freelance comics work of course, as that's fun too and pays the mortgage, (so don't abandon me, editors!), but I own a number of characters, and strips long out of print, that I really need to get out there again.
I'm only talking about small-press print runs of course. This isn't, in any shape or form, an announcement of a new comics company to compete with the mainstream. I'll post more info at a later date about the comic I'm working on first. Stay tuned!
