“Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales” digital comic raises over £1200 for Malaria No More

SEQUENTIAL Team delivers Neil Gaiman Cheque Comic

SEQUENTIAL’s Chloe Pursey delivers the first monies raised thanks to the Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales Comic to Malaria No More UK

Last week, SEQUENTIAL‘s Editorial Director, Chloe Pursey, was delighted to hand over a cheque for $2,000 to Malaria No More UK to help them fight malaria.

This was the first tranche of the money publishers Panel Nine are raising by donating 50¢ for each person that downloads a copy of Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales from the SEQUENTIAL graphic novel and comics app for the iPad.

“We’re still aiming to raise thousands of dollars more,” says Panel Nine’s Russell Willis.

SEQUENTIAL's Chloe Pursey with the Malaria No More team

SEQUENTIAL’s Editorial Director Chloe Pursey (centre) with the Malaria No More team

Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales features Gaiman’s collaborations with Bryan Talbot, Dave McKean and others, and includes a very rare interview from 1988, Gaiman’s original typed notes for Sandman, sample scripts, project proposals, rarely seen early photos and more. Also included is an original cover by British underground comics great Hunt Emerson, specially commissioned for this collection, plus comment from Knockabout publisher Tony Bennett and comics historian Paul Gravett.

Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales also collects stories from the long out-of-print Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament and Seven Deadly Sins – both of which caused outrage upon publication – as well as SF tales from Trident Comics and a favourite from 2000AD, plus several others.

The free collection, which runs to over 100 pages, is exclusively available via the SEQUENTIAL iPad app, and a donation of $0.50 will be made to Malaria No More UK for each download before 31st December 2013.

SEQUENTIAL and Knockabout, partners on the release, aim to raise up to $15,000 (over £9,000) for the charity’s work to bring an end to malaria, a preventable disease that is tragically one of the biggest killers of children in Africa.

Neil Gaiman’s Lost Tales is downloadable for free from within the SEQUENTIAL iPad app, available for on iTunes here



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