Slingsby Bros, Ink opens San Diego Comic Con “Virtual Booth” for Carol Day art sales, offers award-nominated book at discount

To celebrate this year’s San Diego Comic-Con and their Eisner Award nomination, independent publishers the Slingsby Bros, Ink! are having a special sale on their incredible, limited edition collection, Carol Day: Lance Hallam.  

From now through to Sunday 28th July, the book is on sale for $200 in the US, shipping included, or £150 plus shipping for out of US orders. 

Carol Day - Lance Hallam - Cover
Carol Day - Lance Hallam - Sample Pages

Carol Day is a fashion model, elegant and assured in a world of intrigue, vividly brought to life in a much-acclaimed newspaper strip with multi-layered adult storylines and superbly detailed and atmospheric artwork. Created by artist David Wright, it was published in the Daily Mail between 10th September 1956 and 25th May 1967. 

As we previously reported, Slingsby Bros, Ink! collected Carol Day: Lance Hallam into a sumptuous high-end limited edition measuring 19″ x 14″ (489mm x 362mm) last year, featuring a cover by Brian Bolland.

You can order in the US from the publisher’s ebay store and, outside the US, including Britain, from their partner, The Book Palace.

Details of how to order this incredible collection are here on the Slingsby Bros, Ink! web site.

Carol Day art offered in “Virtual Booth”

The company has also listed items thy will have on sale at San Diego Comic Con this weekend, in a “virtual booth”, including original art by both David Wright and Ricardo Leite, the latter the creator of the publisher’s latest project, the award-winning graphic novel, In Search of Lost Tintin.

Ricardo Leite is a brilliant Brazilian designer and artist, and a twin soul – his love of comics has informed and directed his life. In 2013, an exciting trip to Belgium for a visit to Brussels and the Hergé Museum led him to weave the threads of a grand tribute to the world art of Comics. The result is this graphic novel In Search of Lost Tintin, a grand psychological reflection on the art of comics, memory and time, an “autobiographical fantasy” – which has won numerous awards already in other languages. Now, Slingsby Bros, Ink! are publishing in English language edition.

In Search of Lost Tintin by Ricardo Leite (Slingsby Bros, Ink! English Edition, 2024)

This amazing graphic novel presents Ricardo’s travels through the symbolic and cultural universes of comics that have enchanted him throughout his life, as he maintains a semi-real, semi-dreamlike relationship with Hergé, his world and his work, in particular, “The Adventures of Tintin”. Along the way, he encounters a huge range of comic creators, such as Winsor McCay, Hugo Pratt, Will Eisner and many others, who steer him toward his aim of creating his own comic stories, albeit late in life.

It’s a stunning book that offers insight into histories of comic creation in South America and Europe that are rarely documented, in a very accessible if at times mind-bending story!

“Not everyone who would like to will be able to attend Comic-Con,” explains Roger Clark, “and even if you’re an attendee you might like to be able to ponder what we’re bringing when you’re not in the convention hall. So here we are presenting the books, art, and other stuff that will be available at the show.

Check out the Slingsby Bros, Ink! “Virtual Booth” here

• Read our news item: Award winning graphic novel “In Search of Lost Tintin”, by Ricardo Leite, gets English language release

Read our news item – First “Carol Day” collection, “Lance Hallam” now available



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