Insomnia Publishes some great books

The deadline for the 10 page strip I did with Steven stone for Insomnia publications Layer Zero anthology is next Tuesday, no worries I finished a couple of weeks ago. So it'll be off to the printers and ready to go on sale at Bristol con. Above is the cover without the title and all the lettering gubbins that you find on covers.
Here is the list of what you have to look forward to.

Cover

• Pencils and Inks by Scott James, colours by Jason Millet

Stories

• Beautiful People: Script by Jim Alexander, Art by Dean Stahl
• Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: Script by Chris Barker, Art by Des Langford
• Borrowed Life: Script and Art by Valia Kapadai
  
• Butterflies and Moths: Script by Corey Brotherson, Art by Ariyana Vidya
• Death in Therapy: Script by GM Jordan, Art by Michael Tribble
• Devils Due: Script by Richard Casey, Art by Preston Asvedo
• The Devil Road: Script by James Johnson, Art by Leonardo M Giron
• Erratum: Script by Matt Gibbs, Art by Des Langford
• The God Trap: Script by Chris Lynch, Art by Gary O'Donnell
• Hobson’s Choice: Script by Thomas Romeo, Art by Tom Harry
• Hunger: Script by Peter Forbes Art by James Daniels
• Love Like a Bullet: Script by Aiden Langley, Art by Jane Summerfield
• Magpie: Script by Richard McAuliffe, Art by Mark Chilcott
• Nearest and Dearest: by Monty Borror
• The Proposal: Script and Art by Scott James
  
• Red Wire Blue Wire: Script by Alexi Conman, Art by Larry Watt
• The Right Choice: Script and Art by Stephen J Butler
  
• So Much To Do, So Little Time: Script and art by Dave West
• Soul: Script by Steven Stone, Art by Gary Crutchley
• Time Wave Zero: Script and Art by Adam R Grose
• The Turtle Guitar: Script and Art by Ben Powis
  
• Waste: Script by Cy Dethan, Art by Ben Mcleod
• Waiting for the End: Script by Martin Conaghan, Art by Nulsh

Pin ups

• Andy Bloor
• Marcus Truckle
• Angus Day

It looks to be a good solid book.

They are selling the book and the others that are coming out at special prices at Bristol.
So a good read at bargain prices.

If you're going to be at the Bristol International Comic Expo and the Small Press Expo 2009, you'll be able to pick Cancertown up (along with its Insomnia brethren, Layer Zero 3 and Cages) at a special convention price as shown below

• Cancertown RRP = £14.99, Con Special = £10


• Cages RRP = £10.99, Con Special = £7


• Layer Zero Choices RRP = £9.99, Con Special = £7


• Cancertown + Cages for £15Cancertown + Layer Zero for £15


• Cancertown + Cages + Layer Zero for £20

Cancertown is the biggee, Written by Cy Dethan, Pencils/Inks by Stephen Downey, Colors by Melanie Cook, Letters by Nic Wilkinson, Cover by Paul Cartwright. Features a foreword by Bryan Talbot...yup THAT Bryan Talbot.
Personally I can't wait, from what I've seen of it on www.mybook.com it looks great.
Ok that's it, hard sell over.

done and dusted

Hurrah, finished the strip for insomnia at last, it took a little longer than I planned, but I learned a new technique (thanks Matt) so it wasn't too bad.
I can't rest on me hands though, cause it's straight onto something else.
This one's an old one, redoing it to send to a horror mag I discovered that is (a rarity) looking for submissions.
It shouldn't take too long though as most of the work has been done, (famous last words).



However still doing some sneaky sketches, and still using these great Promarker pens from Letraset. Just wish I had the kahonies to do a full comic with these on real paper and not have to ink digitally. Oh well, one day perhaps, when me inking skills are a lot better than they are now.
It's just that the delete button makes things so much easier and neater.

A new year, some new stuff

Is it the 1st already? Bugger, where does all the time go.
anyway first things first...Happy new year and all that. ( I missed all the Christmas hullabaloo didn't I)
I hope everyone had a terrif holiday time and got all the prezzies they asked for.
Now I know what you're asking.. where the bloody hell have you been. No updates for a month, slapdash, is what it is. This is no way to run a blog, but in my defence I have been busy with drawing and writing. I'm finally moving on with Hard Country, the huge western I'm working on. I've started the pencils on issue 2 and I'm writing issue 3. I sold a strip to Boom studios, so I'm doing all the work on that. I've been approached to do a a strip for Insomnia studios for their Layer Zero anthology, touching up a strip for AccentUK's next anthology-predators and have written a zombie fairytale, so not exactly twiddling my thumbs. And thats not to mention the huge project I want to start later on in the year..A pulp action adventure with...no that's for another time. As I (hopefully) finish all these projects I'll be posting little previews on here.
So, that's the plan anyway.
So a busy year ahead...
Wishing everyone a prosperous and exciting new year to you all and I'll see you later
Gary