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#1
Off Topic / Happy Birthday!
23 April, 2021, 07:57:09 AM
We used to have a thread for this, but that was many moons ago.

So -- Happy Birthday to Mr Jim Campbell.

Fingers crossed we'll get to meet up in the real world again at some point, most likely Thought Bubble!
Have a great day my friend.
#2

Sometimes a question comes along that just doesn't go away. We've been asked a few times over the years about reprints of earlier issues of Zarjaz & Dogbreath and seeing as the print run is limited I've not really done more than keep the most recent couple of years issues available.


However, we 'do' keep getting asked about older issues so I'm saying here - if there is demand for an issue to be reprinted, then I'll do it.


If you are reading this and there are issues of either Zarjaz or Dogbreath that you want to fill your collection (please bear in mind that I can only print the issues I've published, so no shouting out for the rare as funt Dreddcon specials) get in touch with us and we will see what we can do.


I'm not about to sit and order loads of copies of older issues, but if enough interest is out there I can justify getting a short run made.

#3
News / Rebellion wins awards!
24 February, 2021, 03:57:31 PM
As spotted on Down't Tubes.


Nice one chaps!
#4
Hi Squaxx.

David Hathaway-Price has been building an online repository of classic 'zines at:
Classic UK Comic Zines

One of the latest finds of his is a 'zine I was involved in back in '88.


Link to the book:-Graphic Nonsense

Reason for bringing this to your attention is that it contains interviews of Mr Pat Mills, carried out by Tony Luke, back when he lived in Manchester and we worked at Odyssey 7 together.

This was before computers, so everything is hand built, so apologies for the typo's.





#5
We are very pleased to announce that we have a copy of the first issue of BEST OF 2000 AD - the Retailer Exclusive edition.


How do you win this copy of one of the most sought after exclusives? Simple - all you need is a copy of either Zarjaz 38 or Dogbreath 38.


To enter the competition all you need to do is identify the 38th piece of text in a strip in either issue.

Captions or spoken word - SFX do NOT count.

Note - just in case I'm not 100% clear, count each piece of text --


If a balloon is joined to present multiple pieces of text, count each one separately. Therefore there are 6 pieces of text in the example above.

Then simply email in to futurequakepress@gmail.com with the subject header of 'BO2K Competition entry' and write either the line of dialogue or caption that is the 38th in that issue.


The competition is open till midnight November 30th, so as long as your email has a timestamp within that window you are good to enter.

Finally - please note that this is not an official Rebellion competition, it is solely the responsibility of team FQP and my decision is final. Good luck all of you.
#6
Classifieds / Bolts bonanza blow-out
24 June, 2020, 05:56:29 PM
Hey Squaxx. Rather than go through Ebay I thought I'd see if anyone here wanted any of these.

##List updated below##
#7
News / NEW! Zarjaz #37 now on sale
24 June, 2020, 11:41:12 AM
Hey Squaxx, don't miss your chance to get the latest and possibly greatest issue!

Cover by the amazing Simon Fraser

Now available! Zarjaz 37!

Judge Dredd - Great Escapes by writer Kev Hopgood and artist and letterer David Broughton

Judge Dredd - Monsters by writer Michael Crouch artist Jim Lavery and letterer Bolt-01

Lulu Romanov - Iron And The Maiden by writer Santiago Mayaud artist David Thomson and letterer Bolt-01

Robo-Hunter - Game For A Bath by writer David Fenn artist Gail Nedry and letterer Bolt-01

Slaine - Beginnings by writer Alan Holloway artist Ed Doyle and letterer Bolt-01

Storm Warning - The Sentinels by writer Charles Murphy artist Daniel Reed and letterer Bolt-01

Tales of Mega-City One - Alien Town by writer artist Scott Twells and letterer Bolt-01

Tales of Mega-City One - Children of the apocalypse by writer artist Robomonkey147 and letterer Bolt-01

Tales of Mega-City One - He Is The Law by writer Alan Holloway artist John Cahill and letterer Bolt-01

You know you want to buy this today! so don't delay, and while you are in the FQP shop - note that there has been a restocking of recent back issues. The enitre Harlem Heroes serial from Zarjaz 34-36 is now available, including the centrespread of Zarjaz 36, now in full glorious colour!

After all, it's not called Zarjaz for nothing.
#8
Links / Comichaus - The 'Netflix' of indie comics.
27 March, 2020, 02:21:34 PM
Fairly sure I've mentioned this before, but Comichaus have just dropped an email with a link to a code to enable the reader to claim a free month of access. This is sweet enough, but combined with the standing offer of two weeks free when you sign-up this will give new users six whole weeks of access to the self proclaimed 'Netflix' of comics.

"Hi Everybody.
Hope you are all staying safe and sane.

Have a free month of Comichaus on us!

We have set up a code to allow users a free month. New users will get a free 14 day fee trial AND the extra month. Small token to help alleviate the boredom of being isolated!

Use code: COVID19 when your current subscription runs out
Hundreds of indie comics direct from creators for you to enjoy :)

Download at your app store = http://www.comichaus.com/app
Amazon/Kindle users download https://install.appcenter.ms/orgs/comichaus/apps/comichaus/distribution_groups/public  ."


Self interest makes me tell you that there are a load of top quality comics on there (and even some IDW Dredd, too) and I'm sure many of the creatives have posted here over the years.

It is worth noting that each 'view' of a title will result in some funds for the creators – and ultimately this is set to reach those creatives as a thank you for their work on FQP titles.
#9
Events / True Believers 2020 - Saturday 1st Feb
27 January, 2020, 02:12:24 PM
True Believers 2020 is this Saturday, at the Jury's Inn in Cheltenham. Tickets look to be £8.00 in advance and £10.00 on the day.

Appearing this year, for the first time - FQP! Yep, your favourite small press comics will be making the hazardous trip along the M5 to Cheltenham for the very first time, bringing visitors copies of FutureQuake, something Wicked, Dogbreath, Zarjaz and Neroy Sphinx!

But wait, that's not all - scanning through the list of attendees you can also find:
Accent UK,
The Awesome comics podcast folk,
Steve Sims - (who produces the Beast Huntin' Battle Badgers comics - you have to see these to believe jusy how good they are),
Big Punch studios (That's probably going to be Jon, off of Afterlife Inc),
Dan Cornwell,
Dave Broughton (with new Shaman Kane, I believe),
Disconnected Press (You 'do' have a copy of Sentient Zombie Space Pigs, right?)
Dylan  Teague,
Gustffo Vargas - His comics are just incredible.
Mike Collins,
Nick Bryan and finally
Timebomb comics - Some lovely lettering on their books...

Update - I've got a spare ticket for the event. If any Squaxx out there wants to take advantage of my situation, PM Me and we can take it from there.

Doors open at 10.30, so come along and say hi!
#10
Events / Thought Bubble 2020
23 January, 2020, 02:10:10 PM
Thought Bubble 2020

This year the gig will be 14th & 15th November, and staying in Harrogate!

First wave of guests announced, including Joe Hill.
#11
News / Planet Replicas - Rogue Trooper Biochip Magnets!
23 January, 2020, 08:21:25 AM
https://www.planetreplicas.com/product-page/rogue-trooper-biochip-magnet-set


One for the oven, one for the fridge and one for the microwave!

"Chiller, dispense ICE!"

Superb.
#12
Hi Squaxx - this is something a little different - ARNIE, the flaming bag of dog-poo!


Now available on comiXology - Arnie is a project by writer Joe Cervelin and artists Jackson Gebien and Denis Pacher. Stating right now that I lettered this, so that is why I'm plugging it.

Arnie is one of the more unusual projects I've worked on in the last couple of years, but it is a fun book that deserves to find an audience.

A direct descendant of the 'underground comix', Arnie appears light and fluffy but there is a heart to the book that is worth finding.

Get it from here on comixology.
#13
Events / UK Illustration Championship 2019
25 November, 2019, 01:04:12 PM
Hi everyone, and allow me a moment of self-indulgence as I promote the UK Illustration Championship for 2019.

It is taking place this weekend (29/11 – 1/12) down in that there London.
Link to event Homepage inc tickets


Why am I telling you this? My eldest son 'GingerDan Illustration' is one of the 32 artists selected to compete in the opening round. I'm sure a few of you round here will remember him from all the times he was at gigs with me.

Insanely proud that he's gotten this opportunity and if all goes well, it will be a hell of a weekend!

If any of you are at this event, please get in touch as I don't get down the 'big smoke' that often.
#14
Not been able to talk about this till now but seeing as there is a news item on Down the Tubes, here we go!


'18' is a one-shot comic written by Richmond Clements, with art by Gary Crutchley, colour by Matt Soffe and letters by Bolt-01. The book was co-ordinated by Steve Tanner and will be premiered at the birmingham MCM this weekend.

Full news release courtesy of DTT so thanks to John for writing that.

If you are at MCM thins weekend - looking at you, Hawkster - get yourself a copy. After all, it is free!
#15
News / Game News - Judge Dredd: Crime Files
21 October, 2019, 03:15:27 PM
Shameful pasting of a press release:

Judge Dredd dispenses justice on mobile in Judge Dredd: Crime Files

Zarjaz free-to-play strategy adventure RPG based on the popular 2000 AD comic book character comes to iOS & Android.



Independent game developer No Yetis Allowed today announced that its new mobile game Judge Dredd: Crime Files is now available for download on The App Store and Google Play. Based on the iconic Judge Dredd, Judge Dredd: Crime Files brings the future Law enforcer to life using 3D graphics, animated 2D comic artwork and newly recorded voice over to give fans the ability to dispense Justice on the streets of Mega-City One. Developer No Yetis Allowed also developed smash hit Pocket Shrek that had over 6.5 million downloads.

The app has been developed in association with Rebellion, brand owners for Judge Dredd and 2000 AD.

Mark Hardisty, CEO of No Yetis Allowed said "As a lifelong fan of Judge Dredd, it has been an honour that Rebellion has allowed us to bring Dredd into the gaming space. It has been our goal to use artists and writers from the pages of Judge Dredd to craft a game that looks and feels like Dredd from the pages of 2000 AD, which I believe we have succeeded in achieving."

In the game, players take on the role of Judge Dredd. Using intuitive card battling gameplay, build a deck of iconic weapons and dispense Justice to criminals and perps both old and new. Combining 3D animations with 2D animated comic artwork created by Dredd artists, the player will experience what it is like to be the futures most famous lawman as they fight through patrols and epic stories written by current Dredd writers.

Unlock new weapons such as the Lawgiver MKII, Lawrod and Stubb Gun, and characters like Judge Anderson, Judge Rico and Judge Giant, to fight criminals and perps, from Punks, Juves and Muties, to Robots and Fatties.

Judge Dredd: Crime Files is free-to-play, with plenty of additional content planned post-launch, including further storylines, weapons, enemies, locations and more.

You are the Law!

Link for iOS devices: http://bit.ly/JudgeDreddCrimeFiles

Link for Android devices: http://bit.ly/JudgeDreddCrimeFilesGooglePlay
#16
As seen on DTT.

Pin Some Words on a strip!

Shamefully lifted text:

In Week 7 of the digital comics anthology Aces Weekly Volume 41 (just past the title's seventh birthday), the team are offering you a little party fun! Yes, a competition, like Pin The Tail On The Donkey, except this is Pin Some Words On A Strip! It's open to all, and there's a terrific page of art on offer to the winner, the work of Aces Weekly publisher and comics artist David Lloyd.

All you have to do is check out the art from an 11-page silent story of great art from up-and-comer, Alejandro Velasquez, which you can acquire as a PDF by emailing info@acesweekly.co.uk with the subject line: COMPETITION.

Then, after you've read the instructions for this Comics Competition that come with the PDF, write a clever (funny/or dramatic/or extremely intelligent/or all three) script for the art – and be in with the chance of winning a stunning page of art by David Lloyd...

But wait! This is just one of the prizes for writing the winning script to go with Alejandro's 11 pages, the other prize being having that script lettered to the final strip, and published in Aces Weekly Volume 42, Week Six on 2nd December 2019!

Write your script in any legible format: i.e. Page 1; panel 1, Caption: whatever; Runner: whatever, etc... No handwritten scripts, please – and let the Aces Weekly team have it, via emailing info@acesweekly.co.uk

"This is all really just a bit of fun," says David, "but in having that fun you might discover some creative muscles you never thought you had...

"By the way, for any Aces Weekly contributors reading this – you're barred!"

Aces Weekly, for those who came in late, is a comics art collection of serials and short stories beamed directly to readers through cyberspace. A continuing stream of seven- part volumes – each totalling up to 150 pages with Extras – is yours for just £1 a week, in any currency. All Aces Weekly volumes are instantly accessible to subscribers and are never out-of-print, never unavailable, and are ready to read at any time when connected to the web.

Every volume is packed with strips, and has many pages of Extras, including character sketches, layouts, scripts and background info. New editions appear every Monday of every week of seven weeks, with two-week production breaks between each volume.

Velicity Jones - The Silent ForestAces Weekly Volume 41 features "Velicity Jones" by Lee Robson and Bryan Coyle; "Reflection"  by Jok and Santullo; "The Fixer"by Richard Blandford and Lily Durell; "The Life and Times of Otis P. Mattingly"  by Chris Geary; "Mr Custa: Shrinking!" by Philip Whitmore, Bambos Georgiou and Mychailo Kazybrid; "Brown Bread" by John Kaiine; and "Grace's Imaginary Menagerie" by Ryan Taylor.

• The closing date  is 11th November 2019. The winner will be announced shortly after via Aces Weekly's home page and Facebook page. The Publisher's decision will be final!

• A subscription to Aces Weekly will cost you £6.99 – or £1 a week

There you go - one for the writers among us. Good luck!
#17
Music / Comic Writers on the Radio!
01 October, 2019, 10:02:05 AM
On Friday 4th October, Mr Alan Moore will be hosting a 2 hr radio show.

BBC Sounds page - Alan Moore Show!

following on from Mr Moore it will be Neil Gaiman.

Looks like a 'season' of comic related broadcasts.
#18
Other Reviews / Comic Zine - 2000 AD special
13 September, 2019, 07:52:51 AM

Coverby Ed Doyle - shockingly bad photo by me.


Declaration of interest - we here at team Zarjaz / Dogbreath were interviewed for this.

Okay - that's out of the way, time for a rambling review.

Comic Zine - 2000 AD 1977 - 2019. 

I knew this was about as I'd heard it was being produced, but it wasn't till I was corresponding with Ed Doyle that I was prompted to pick a copy up. 

You can get it from: https://getmycomics.com/ComicScene scroll down to find it.

I was very pleasantly surprised to see that this is a full colour title - with a decent spread of colour pages throughout. The content is all interviews and features, with illustrations spread throughout from a variety of artists. Lyndon Webb does some standout work and luckily he has his signature on several of his pieces as they aren't directly credited. There are several pieces in the book that I have no idea who drew, which is a picky point - but a valid one. The artists would like recognition.

The zine starts with a really nice interview with John Wagner and Dan Cornwell that took place at Lawless this year, followed by chats with Steve Macmanus, Ian Gibson and John Higgins. Then there is a piece about the 1977 - 2000 AD facebook group and a kickstarter they are planning for next year before Alan Holloway closes the zine with an article on 2000 AD fanzines that we took part in.

Niggles - I thought the lack of credits for the artists on the various illustrations was accidental but there is a page of strip written by Baden James Mellonie and illustrated by Steven Austin that has had its credits removed. An odd decision, as this is just the first page of a three page strip I lettered so is just left floating there with no frame of reference. 

It would have been nice for the fanzines to have gotten a 'where you can buy' line or two. I know that both us here and the chaps over at Sector 13 would appreciate the potential custom, especially as we were not provided even a digital copy of the book.

Overall I heartily recommend getting a copy of this - it's a really nice read, and if the team put together another I'll be keen to see where they go!
#19
Off Topic / Friday chat - what's happening with you?
30 August, 2019, 08:44:33 AM
This weekend I'll be speniding Saturday lettering comics for and Australian self publisher working on a pair of books, a one-shot GN for a scottish publisher and then I'll be trying to get the cover to the new Zarjaz ready.

On Sunday I'll be mostly driving - Plymouth and back (from the Brum wastes) to return Micro-Bolt to University then getting my stuff together ready to start the working week.

That's me - what about you lot?

Who's going to a gig? Comic show?
#20
Events / Comic Creating Course - October 2019
09 July, 2019, 03:33:04 PM
Hi Squaxx, just seen this and thought that some folk here might be interested, or know someone who was:

Moniack Mhor Creating comics

Guests Emma Beeby, John Higgins and Hannah Berry (Currently the UK comics Laureate) are there all week.