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Not sure if this is the right place to mention it, but here goes...

I've just self-published my BLAZING BATTLE ACTION articles as a text-only ebook, available exclusively via Amazon. It explores the genesis and history of acclaimed war comic Battle, home to beloved strips like Charley's War, Major Eazy, Darkie's Mob, and Johnny Red.

The ebook is only 19,000 words - more a novella than a book - but I figured there might be some people who wanted to read it. Saves you having to dig out back issues of the Megazine from 2003!

It's free to read if you're a Kindle Unlimited subscribe, or £1.99 for everyone else.

I've written a wee blogpost about it:
http://viciousimagery.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/blazing-battle-action-published-as-ebook.html

And here's a link to the ebook on Amazon.co.uk (it should be on all other Amazon sites too):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blazing-Battle-Action-Britains-Acclaimed-ebook/dp/B071NLYYPG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1493882973&sr=1-1&keywords=blazing+battle+action

davidbishop

Just realised it's exactly 20 years this week since 2000AD published the 3000AD supplement, featuring supposedly satirical updates of the original Prog 1 line-up, reimagined for 1997. All of them were written by me and/or Steve MacManus, borrowing heavily from the source material.

The strip that got attention at the time was B.L.A.I.R.1, which confidently predicted a Labour landslide in the imminent general election. But it was the 1997 incarnation of Invasion!, subtitled Double-Barrel Euro-Sceptic, that looks even more prescient now.

Bill Savage launches a one-man war against the EU after his family gets murdered, with amazing art by Henry Flint. [Less prescient: the idea that a Daily Mail-loving nutter like Bill would have a Muslim mate.] If nothing else, the strip did demonstrate there was still stories to be told about Mr Savage...