Cy Dethan’s latest projects investigated
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Locking Down the Unknown: 300 Page Digital Comic Collection and ‘Fallen Heroes’ novel Free for Limited Time
Grab a free, limited time release of all of much-acclaimed Unseen Shadows project’s comic one-shots, courtesy of shared universe creator Barry Nugent
Crowdfunding Spotlight: TorsoBear – The Final Chapter
Independent comics creator and publisher Brett Uren has just launched the Kickstarter for Torsobear: Back on the Blocks – the third and final volume of the much-praised cartoon noir comic book about toy-on-toy crime in a fantastic city of playthings, created… Read More ›
Cup of O – Small Press Reviews: A Certain Symmetry, CROSS and How To Be A Superhero
A Certain Symmetry (Self Published) By Richard Worth & Jordan Collver I’ve long been an admirer of the distinctively creative collaborations of Worth & Collver and this tantalizing pamphlet (at the time intended purely to seduce publishers) is another slice… Read More ›
Crowdfunding Spotlight: Metal Made Flesh 2 – Blood & Oil
After a chance meeting at a convention in 2011, Simeon Aston and Jeremy Biggs began working together to create the illustrated cyberpunk novella Metal Made Flesh, a collection of three separate but interlinked stories set in a futuristic world created and illustrated… Read More ›
Sneak Preview: The Indifference Engine 2 – The Suicide Show
Markosia released The Indifference Engine by Cy Dethan and Robert Carey a while ago now – a book I enjoyed as a fan of alternate timelines and other such SF themes. Now, a second collection, The Indifference Engine: The Suicide Show, this volume drawn… Read More ›
In Review – Torosbear: Yarns from Toyburg
Created by Brett Uren Edited by Brett Uren and Glenn Moane Cover by Hal Laren Writers: Brett Uren, Frank Martin, Grainee McEntee, Cy Dethan, Glenn Moane, Kieran Squires, Janos Honkonen, Brocton McKinney, Jon Scrivens and Jake Young. Artists: Brett Uren,… Read More ›
Thought Bubble Gets Cross (the Disconnected Anthology, that is…)
This weekend will see the launch of the CROSS anthology from Disconnected Press at Thought Bubble, a glorious assemblage of political wit, satire and polite British rage! And we do mean glorious, because Conor Boyle, the co-conspirator in the project with partner… Read More ›
Spinning strange and creepy yarns: Torsobear Kickstarter launched
Brett Uren and over twenty other comic creators, including Hal Laren, Cy Dethan and Kieran Squires have been beavering away on an intriguing-looking toy-on-toy crime anthology book the Aylesbury-based creator has conceived and is now seeking crowdfunding – Torsobear: Yarns… Read More ›
ROK Comics teams with escape artist ‘Master Merlini’ for latest audio title
Lancaster-based ROK Comics, publisher of audio comics for a range of mobile devices, have announced the release of Master Merlini, its latest interactive title featuring an all-new incarnation of the real-life, world famous escape artist David Merlini.Escape artist, crime fighter,… Read More ›
British ‘Showcase Comic’ preps for October launch
A new title highlighting British comics talent is currently in pre-production, and set to launch later this year. Announced last November, the British Showcase Comic from Markosia, dedicated to promoting the best indie British Talent working in Comics and Graphic… Read More ›
DRAFT – In Review: Cancertown: Blasphemous Tumours
Publisher: MarkosiaWriter: Cy DethanArt: Graeme HowardOut: 1st November 2012 The Book: Vince Morley is a dangerously sick man. Within the monstrous alternate world of Cancertown, a creature of horrific violence and limitless rage has burst from the nightmare landscape. The… Read More ›
Cancertown creeps back to scare readers again
We can no longer protect you…
Happy Birthday, 2000AD! From writer and fan Cy Dethan
Name: Cy Dethan Website: www.cydethan.com Blog: www.raggedman.com Currently working on: Right now I’ve got enough projects in the works to knock a buzzard off a gut-wagon. Among those currently scheduled for 2012 are White Knuckle (Art: Valia Kapadai, Letters: Nic… Read More ›
In Review: Thought Bubble 2011
Comics writer Cy Dethan was one of many creators at this year’s Thought Bubble event in Leeds earlier this month and has kindly agreed to let us post his thoughts on the vent on downthetubes, first published on his own… Read More ›
Markosia’s mind-bending comic releases!
It’s not often you get to release a book that causes people to worry about reality and feel unstable after reading it – which is how I felt after reading one of them. It’s almost unthinkable, dangerous even, that you… Read More ›
Jonathan Ross praises "Tales of the Fallen" in special intro
Jonathan Ross (left) with Barry Nugent (right) (with thanks to Barry Nugent) Turf witer and TV broadcaster and presenter Jonathan Ross has provided a special intorduction to Tales of the Fallen, the latest project set in the Unseen Shadows universe…. Read More ›
Tales of the Fallen anthology cover revealed
Barry Nugent’s rapidly expanding Unseen Shadows universe, which encompasses novels, comics and audio drama, has another addition on the way – a Tales of the Fallen anthology, hopefully due for release at the Thought Bubble in Leeds in November. Barry tells… Read More ›
Overload yourself at the Glasgow Comic Con
If you’re at the Glasgow ComicCon this Saturday, then look out for copies of Martin Conaghan’s new title, Overload, which comes wrapped in this ace cover by Roy Stewart. All work in the title is creator-owned, with Overload reserving some… Read More ›
Take a Butcher’s at Slaughterman’s Creed
Markosia Enterprises have just announced their new graphic novel, Slaughterman’s Creed – a surreal London gangland thriller which combines the vicious intensity of British crime fiction with the structure and spirit of a Samurai revenge drama in a nightmarishly compelling… Read More ›