Longtime British comic creator, raconteur and comic tutor Kev F Sutherland is currently running a Kickstarter for a new edition of his debut graphic novel, Findlay Macbeth.
The new edition, featuring brand new halftone artwork, has already hit target, but if you may just want to check it out. The original edition, released in 2020, was great fun, and hopefully this new edition will allow Kev to reach a wider new audience.
The new edition of Findlay Macbeth will be published ahead of the release of his next Shakespeare adaptation, Romeo and Juliet, previously announced.
For those who missed it, Findlay Macbeth offers Shakespeare with a twist, setting the bards tragedy in 1970s Scotland, mashing it up visually with Mike Leigh’s play Abigail’s Party.
If you support the project, you’ll be able to pre-order a signed personalised copy of the new edition for just £10 plus postage, and it’ll be yours before the summer is over.
“Realising how much better my book could look (yes even better than it already did) I have revisited Findlay Macbeth and am improving and enhancing all its artwork for a new edition,” Kev explains.
“Though I love my first graphic novel, I’ve long thought its artwork pages could use a little something more, and now they’re getting that. I’m creating a half-tone layer for every page of this 130 page graphic novel and I hope you agree they take it to a new level.”
Kev F. Sutherland is probably best known today for his Kev F’s Comic Art Masterclass for kids and his bonkers, extremely funny Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre show. He’s written and drawn several comic adaptations of Shakespeare since publishing Findlay Macbeth: to date these are Hamlet Prince Of Denmark Street, The Midsummer Night’s Dream Team, and Richard The Third. Previously, he has written and drawn for BEANO, Doctor Who Magazine and Marvel UK.
• Check out the Findlay Macbeth – Graphic Novel Kickstarter here
Get it Now: Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Available now as an eBook, a print edition launching at the Lakes International Comic Art Festival in September, check out Kev Sutherland’s Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare, an adaptation of the hilarious show into 75 pages of comic strip magic.
As well as the adaptations of the Socks’ versions of Romeo and Juliet and Richard III, which have been available in comic form before, there are now adaptations of every sketch, from How Me Met to Othello, via An Actor Prepares, F*** Up Some Shakespeare, The Porter Scene and lots more.
There are even illustrated song pages giving you all the words for the Shakespeare songs the Socks play before the show, including Love’s Labours Lost (to the tune of Neighbours), King John (Big John), Comedy Of Errors (Umbrella), Nick Bottom (to the tune of Spinal Tap’s Big Bottom), and more.
The paperback will be out in time for the Lakes Festival in September. Meanwhile the ebook is available now and can be snapped up on any of the following devices: Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and Fable.
• Upcoming Kev F’s Comic Art Masterclass!
Kev F’s Comic Art Masterclass 10am – 11.00am Saturday 19th July Storyville Books, Pontypridd, CF37 2SN | Tickets £5 | For more info and to book head here | Suitable for ages 7 – 16 years
Calling all Creative Kids! Kev F Sutherland and his Comic Masterclasses will be at the Storyville Books Presents a Children’s Book Fair on Saturday 19th July. At the end of a Comic Art Masterclass, everyone goes away with a comic containing a strip by everyone in the class plus an individual caricature by Kev F.
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as 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.
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