Dead Girls is the cult 1992 début novel by Richard Calder. In 2009 Calder re-wrote the film script (the Japanese-Australian film company had pulled out) for comics and pitched it at Murky Depths, who had already serialised his new comic story, Death and The Maiden, in Issues #1 to #3. With Filipino mangaka Leonardo M Giron on board to bring the words to life Issue #9 featured the first part of the Dead Girls graphic novel with Act 1 completing in Issue #12. If you're a Murky Depths fan you'll know that the internals of this quarterly prose/comics anthology are black and white.
With an extra eleven pages and now in full colour you can buy a limited (numbered) edition in hardback signed by both the author and artist direct from the website for £24.99 (it retails for £58.97). But there's only 100 available and 26 have already been pre-ordered (and will be shipping this week).
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dead girls rocks. love the art!
Act 2 continues the Dead Girls graphic novel in Murky Depths #16 with a 21-page double episode. Leonardo's art is awesome! I've received his sketches and they are beautifully drawn and just bring the story to life.
Sudden surge in sales from around the world. Not the UK. Strange . . .
Still 52 left. Oh yes, Richard Calder, the writer, will be at Kapow this Saturday and Neil Roberts, cover artist for Murky Depths #16, featuring the start of Dead Girls, Act II, launching at Kapow, will be sketching and signing on the Murky Depths table (71) from 1pm Saturday.
Oh yes, SFX has a feature on Dead Girls in #208 out on Thursday.
I noticed you guys at te SFX weekender! You had a stall around the corner from my own, and I meant to get over to see you. LOVE the artwork on DG - very cool :)
Thanks, Hoo-Haa. I didn't get to wander around much myself either. Maybe next year!
Page 35 of SFX #208: self-published? I guess they had no-where else to review Dead Girls, like when Murky Depths appeared five times as Fanzine of the Month. But the brief review is a good one: . . . is an absolute cracker . . . this is a graphic novel that will leave you with a serious doll addiction. Highly recommended. So can't grumble really.
Dead Girls #1 - the 24-page full colour comic to start the six-part story line will be launching in March, then every quarter. Rumours are that Kev Level is illustrating the first cover...
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Dead Girls has it's own website! (http://www.deadgirls.co.uk) Dead Girls #1 is now available and you can also subscribe to the full eight-comic series, save a couple of quid and be the first to get your fix.
You can read who the guest cover artists are at the website.
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Dead Girls #2 will be available in June.
At the moment there's a 1 in 10 chance of winning a free copy of Dead Girls #1 at the Dead Girls website (http://www.deadgirls.co.uk).
Nothing to loose.
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Paul McCaffrey (Men of War #4, DC) has produced a superb wraparound for Dead Girls #3, but you'll have to wait to see the amazing back cover art - there's a little hint on the front though.
And the free offer on Dead Girls #1 is still available!
Not really my sub-genre, but that there is a cover that'll move copies.
Thanks. Not into cyberpunk then?
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Okay, so this issue won't be available until September next year (that's right 2013) but I wouldn't be cruel enough to keep it from your eyes that long. Art by Martin Baines, who also illustrated the last (#18) Murky Depths cover.
Quote from: Lucifal on 17 March, 2012, 07:26:46 PM
Dead Girls has it's own website! (http://www.deadgirls.co.uk) Dead Girls #1 is now available and you can also subscribe to the full eight-comic series, save a couple of quid and be the first to get your fix.
You can read who the guest cover artists are at the website.
(http://www.murkydepths.com/covers/DG1-300.jpg) (http://www.murkydepths.com/covers/DG2-300.jpg)
Dead Girls #2 will be available in June.
Quote from: Lucifal on 17 March, 2012, 07:26:46 PM
Dead Girls has it's own website! (http://www.deadgirls.co.uk) Dead Girls #1 is now available and you can also subscribe to the full eight-comic series, save a couple of quid and be the first to get your fix.
You can read who the guest cover artists are at the website.
(http://www.murkydepths.com/covers/DG1-200.jpg) (http://www.murkydepths.com/covers/DG2-200.jpg)
Dead Girls #2 will be available in June.
They really are very attractive ladies. My compliments to the cover artist :)
Latest two covers.
Dead Girls #5 by Monty Nero
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Dead Girls #6 by Italian pin-up artist Marco Guaglioni
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and a sketch from the forthcoming Dead Girls #6 - In Dreams yet to be inked and coloured (http://www.murkydepths.com/dead%20girls/sketch.jpg)
Oddly, I studied Dead Girls at university.
Haven't got a clue what it was about now, though, but vaguely remember enjoying it.
If there's a trade of this I will be very interested in picking it up.
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.
That would be cool.
I rarely buy physical comics these days, but I do have shelves of graphic novels...
Dead Girls #6 - In Dreams
Cover artist: Boden Steiner
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Available to pre-order from the Dead Girls site (http://www.deadgirls.co.uk) now.
Finished inks from the sketch in a previous post.
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