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13.1.05 You Can Never Go Wrong With Gorillas

The below image from a conversation Dino and I were having last week about stupid comics we love:

I love that the secret to world domination can be discovered via two Robert Louis Stevenson books and a Melville novel. "Ha! I laugh at your ICBMs, puny human! Using the mystic force of Pulp Sea Fiction I will vanquish you!" Next issue: the man-ape discovers Patrick O'Brien, and the universe is his! Eat shit, Da Vinci Code.

Still, it's made me think what three books I'd want if I were taking over the world. I reckon: Livy's HISTORY OF EARLY ROME (says everything there is to say about government); Machiavelli's THE PRINCE (takes up where Livy left off); and Campbell's HERO OF A THOUSAND FACES (nothing like being able to justify mass conquest via the heady mix of divine right and Freudian psychology).

Meanwhile, it's that convention-planning time of year again. My pass just arrived for Angouleme, and I've had to book my hotel for SDCC today (I'll be at the Hilton). Bristol preparations are also in full swing. Kieron Gillen and I are planning to do another COMMERCIAL SUICIDE anthology for May, and we'll be opening submissions in February.

I'm also doing a self-published digest-sized anthology, DEFECTIVE COMIX. So far the plans are for a 40-page surrealist murder mystery, "The Wild Swan", with Arthur Goodman, and I'll be putting in the "6 Characters" short horror story I did with Rob Croonenborghs. Hopefully Matthew Craig will be contributing a bittersweet romance story. Anyone else who has an offbeat black and white story for which they want to find a home, let me know. I'll organise a nice colour cover and proper binding, like we do with COMMERCIAL SUICIDE, and flog it via Lulu and this site after the con.

For the artistically inclined, Adrian Brown is doing a third Just One Page charity comic (warning: seriously ugly website) for Bristol, with the theme of Great Team-Ups. This year, he's raising money for Childline. I'm drawing a WONDER WOMAN vs TANK GIRL page.

( 11:54 AM )

1 Comments:

SO, I tidied up the seriously ugly website.
(Kept the picture of you and me on the old version for 2004 though.)

By Adrian, at 10:05 PM