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Metaphrog’s Louis – Night Salad graphic novel gets YouTube trail

By John Freeman on August 1, 2010

A trailer for the Louis – Night Salad graphic novel, created by Scotland’s fab folks metaphrog, is now live on YouTube.

“Our friend hey from Berlin has made an amazing soundtrack inspired by Bach’s beautifully emotive “Air on a G-string” and also by Delia Derbyshire’s version,” the team tell us.

Due for release in October, Louis – Night Salad is a brand new stand-alone graphic novel, the moving tale of Louis’ quest for a cure to save his friend FC. It’s descibes as a simple story of friendship, heart-warming and genuinely transporting.

metaphrog are the duo Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, creators of the critically acclaimed, multiple award nominee Louis series of graphic novels. Other titles include Strange Weather Lately and The Maze. They’ve also contributed short stories and illustrations to various publications, and enjoy spreading the word about comics at festivals, libraries and schools.

• Louis – Night Salad is now available to order from Diamond Previews, item code AUG101077 LOUIS NIGHT SALAD HC (C: 0-0-1), page 297. More info here on the metaphrog web site

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.