To celebrate the launch of “The Dark”, Markosia are producing a limited run of just 100 copies of the “Bristol Expo Special Edition”!
The official promotional text runs as follows:
To celebrate the launch of their new graphic novel, “The Dark”, Markosia are producing a special edition of the book exclusively for Bristol Expo visitors.
With a variant cover from series artist Rick Lundeen, there will be only one hundred of these individually signed and numbered editions available.
A great opportunity to read the graphic novel that critics are calling “highly original“, “a great, …

OK, you’ll need to excuse the pun. Ace is a superlative I don’t think I’ve used since junior school. I put it away in the big-box-of-words-I-no-longer-use along with “mega”, “brill” (except when referring to the fish), and “wicked” (except when describing witches and rather nifty anthology comics from FutureQuake Press.
Something that is genuinely, actually, and properly ace though is the new Ace Comics website, not least because the guys at Ace have been kind enough to place The Dark and Freeman front and centre on their brand new homepage for …

To celebrate the launch of The Dark, we have arranged a very special prize draw, with our esteemed publisher Markosia, to win a signed copy of The Dark. The competition is simple to enter, just tweet our URL “http://www.thedarkcomicbook.com” anytime between now and January 31st. Every tweet will count as an entry, and a winning tweet (and tweeter) will be selected at random on February 1st 2010.
It would be fantastic if we could make The Dark a trending topic on Twitter, but I’ll settle for knowing that we’ve got the …

Rick, Harry, and I have all been interviewed by the Hypergeek website about the forthcoming release of The Dark.
We all answered our questions seperately, and it is interesting to see the areas in which we see the book differently as well as the areas in which we agree!
A great chance to get a little “behind the scenes” peek at the workings of a trans-atlantic creative team and a trans-atlantic publisher.
And, of course, I give a few little clues away as to what the big mystery is in “The Dark” …
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The first batch of Markosia titles are now available via iTunes for your iPhone or iPod touch.

The following titles are available today, just click on the link to check them out …

Boy Who Made Silence http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=324033785&mt=8
Beowulf Graphic Novel http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323815818&mt=8
Haven http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323860657&mt=8
Hope Falls http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323827153&mt=8
Kong: King of Skull Island http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323832212&mt=8
N-Guard http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323987827&mt=8
Serpent Wars http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=324000083&mt=8
The Lexian Chronicles http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323834684&mt=8

These comics are using the same “Kamikaze!” platform as The Dark will be released on later this month, so I will certainly be downloading some of these not only for the …

The first official press release for my new comic book mini-series “The Dark”, with AAM/Markosia, was despatched today.
The first issue should be available digitally from August, with the remaining four issues out by the end of the year, with a graphic novel version in the works shortly after that.
There is a preview version online that you rate and comment upon:
http://www.thedarkcomicbook.com

The Birmingham International Comics Show (BICS) is back, bigger and better than ever before for 2009! And, as usual, Monkeys with Machineguns will be there!
After our exhibiting hiatus at last year’s BICS, we will be proudly sharing a double sized exhibitor space with the fine fellows of Orang Utan Comics and David Wynne at the 2009 show. Having seen life on both sides of the table at last year’s Birmingham International Comics Show, the first convention I have ever attended as anything other than an exhibitor, I think it is …

Cy Dethan is a man with his finger on the pulse so when he says “Beware! It’s the Future – It Will Burn You!“, I have to prick up my ears (or, as this the internet my eyes) and listen (read).
What Cy’s posting about is the publication of some Markosia back catalogue stuff via iTunes as an iPhone application and the future publication of the same to Google Android phones, Blackberrys etc. in the near future. Very exciting stuff, especially when you get your head around the size of this …