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Crowdfunding Spotlight: Face to Face Creative Portraits, a photograph collection featuring Andy Serkis, Posy Simmonds, and others

By John Freeman on February 19, 2024

Face To Face Creative Portraits By Joel Meadows - Cover

After the huge success of Sherlock Holmes and the Empire Builders The Gene Genie Volume 1 graphic novel on Zoop, more than doubling its target, Tripwire editor-in-chief Joel Meadows isn’t resting on his laurels. He’s currently seeking support for Face To Face Creative Portraits, a unique A4 hardcover featuring a selection of some of his superb portrait photographs of movers and shakers in the worlds of comics, genre and film.

You can find the campaign – fast approaching its £2500 target, but needing just a little more support – here on Kickstarter.

“I’ve always wanted to create a book like this and now seems to be the perfect time to do it,” says Joel. “I’ve spent over thirty years interviewing people like Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, Dave Gibbons and more and so this gives the book a great range of subjects from the worlds of comics and genre.”

He has every right to be proud – as some sample pages show, he has a great eye for a good portrait, his subjects for this collection including creators such as Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock and Posy Simmonds.

Face To Face Creative Portraits By Joel Meadows

The campaign offers a regular lavish hardcover, a hardcover with postcards and A4 prints, a digital edition and a very limited edition in a customised box with signed photo prints by Moorcock, and artists Liam Sharp and Simon Davis.

Joel’s work has fans in the comics industry, and you can join them by backing the campaign here. The campaign runs until 14 March 2024.

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.