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A few sample pages as requested.

And the campaign has been extended.

Trailer for the graphic novel on YouTube.

Richard Calder and Leonardo M Giron "speak" about Dead Girls - The Graphic Novel on YouTube.

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The House of Murky Depths is about to publish Richard Calder's cult novel as a re-imagined graphic novel. And yes, they're calling it a graphic novel so it's not confused with the original (no apologies to those who hate the term). Filipino mangaka Leonardo M Giron pencils, inks, colours and letters the whole thing (you can see him drawing heroine Primavera here) with science fiction cover legend Jim Burns supplies the wraparound illustration for the collection cover (originally an eight-comic series).

Those in the know will be aware the original comic series appeared in Murky Depths, the award-winning anthology magazine, before it closed back in 2012.

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Story: Richard Calder. Internal pencils, inks, colours and letters: Leonardo M Giron. Publisher: The House of Murky Depths.

Dead Girls #7 (the cover on the right) has just launched and the final issue in the 8-comic series will be mailed to subscribers at the beginning of February 2014, with cover art by the legendary Jim Burns. See a list of guest cover artists here, where comics can also be purchased.

My latest blog about the project can be read here. If you like what you see and read we'd be extremely pleased if you would Tweet, FB or use whatever social media you prefer to spread the word.

While Murky Depths may be having a rest - Well, you never know, it might be resurrected. - there's a special offer at the moment. Although we've seen this now-collectable mix of comics and short stories selling at extortionate prices - we did say these 80-page anthologies are collectable - they're currently selling on the website for £50 for all eighteen issues (plus postage). Bargain! There's a few familiar names from 2000AD amongst a host of other writers and artists. http://www.murkydepths.com/mdall.php

Finished inks from the sketch in a previous post.

Dead Girls #6 - In Dreams
Cover artist: Boden Steiner



Available to pre-order from the Dead Girls site now.

Hopefully I'm not breaking any rules here but, I'd heard Matt Wallace's podcast series of his The Failed Cities and thought I'd love The House of Murky Depths to publish that as a novel (not graphic). Guess what? He only contacted me and asked if we would! Synchronicity? Now it's available from http://murkydepths.com/fc.php as a 150-copies limited edition (signed and numbered by Matt) hardback.

If you pre-ordered you could also get a free Illustrated Companion featuring seven artists' interpretation of the eight characters. The artists included 2000AD cover artist Neil Roberts; Kev Level, who I'm sure is also familiar to 2000AD fans, Murky Depths illustrator and artist on Lavie Tidhar's graphic novelette Adolf Hitler's I Dream of Ants, Neil Struthers; Macaruba (aka Jason Smith); Huy Truong, writer and illustrator of the Pwanda children's books; freelance illustrator Donna Evans; and Stateside comic book artists Jason Flowers. We might be willing to sell the remainder for a paltry £2 ($3) if anyone is interested.

If you like your future fantasy (I guess you could label it sci-fi) with a hint of cyberpunk, and you like your stories to be gritty and violent (at least in places) then this is your book.

A trade could be in the pipeline but not until end 2014. Dead Girls #8 (November this year) will complete the series.

Subscribers to the series will receive a discount on a trade in any case but the trade won't feature the guest artist covers.

You may have listened to the amazing The Failed Cities monologues on Variant Frequencies (still available at Podiobooks) and very soon you'll be able to buy a limited edition hardback of the complete novel. Pre-orders have just started and with only 150 signed and numbered copies we're expecting to be sold our prior to shipping at the end of April.

No, it's not a graphic novel but if you order now you'll also receive a free eight-page booklet featuring artwork from some of the artists that we used on Murky Depths. You'll all be familiar with Neil Roberts, no doubt, from his 2000AD covers, and Kev Levell. We commissioned them to give us their interpretation of the eight main characters in the novel.

http://www.murkydepths.com/fc.php

Latest two covers.
Dead Girls #5 by Monty Nero

Dead Girls #6 by Italian pin-up artist Marco Guaglioni

and a sketch from the forthcoming Dead Girls #6 - In Dreams yet to be inked and coloured

Richard Calder's cult 1992 novel started it's comic re-imaging in Murky Depths. Now it has become a full-colour 8-comic series with completely new colouring from original Filipino mangaka Leonardo M Giron.
Richard Calder rarely makes an appearance at conventions but he is slated to be signing the first three comics in the series at the Cult Publishers Expo in London later this year.