Title: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 04 January, 2011, 07:51:17 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 04 January, 2011, 07:51:17 PM
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).
(http://www.murkydepths.com)
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).
(http://www.murkydepths.com)
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Gibson Quarter on 15 January, 2011, 07:38:58 PM
Post by: Gibson Quarter on 15 January, 2011, 07:38:58 PM
dead girls rocks. love the art!
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 27 January, 2011, 09:51:54 AM
Post by: Lucifal on 27 January, 2011, 09:51:54 AM
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.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 05 April, 2011, 08:22:42 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 05 April, 2011, 08:22:42 PM
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.
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.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: HOO-HAA on 05 April, 2011, 09:33:30 PM
Post by: HOO-HAA on 05 April, 2011, 09:33:30 PM
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 :)
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 06 April, 2011, 01:26:35 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 06 April, 2011, 01:26:35 PM
Thanks, Hoo-Haa. I didn't get to wander around much myself either. Maybe next year!
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 08 April, 2011, 04:18:41 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 08 April, 2011, 04:18:41 PM
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.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 24 December, 2011, 08:51:55 AM
Post by: Lucifal on 24 December, 2011, 08:51:55 AM
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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Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 17 March, 2012, 07:26:46 PM
Post by: 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.
Dead Girls #2 will be available in June.
You can read who the guest cover artists are at the website.
Dead Girls #2 will be available in June.
Title: Special offer
Post by: Lucifal on 28 March, 2012, 05:09:42 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 28 March, 2012, 05:09:42 PM
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.
Nothing to loose.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 07 April, 2012, 06:51:09 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 07 April, 2012, 06:51:09 PM
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!
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: TordelBack on 07 April, 2012, 07:45:12 PM
Post by: TordelBack on 07 April, 2012, 07:45:12 PM
Not really my sub-genre, but that there is a cover that'll move copies.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 23 April, 2012, 10:58:42 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 23 April, 2012, 10:58:42 PM
Thanks. Not into cyberpunk then?
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Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 26 April, 2012, 12:42:53 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 26 April, 2012, 12:42:53 PM
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.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 26 April, 2012, 12:45:02 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 26 April, 2012, 12:45:02 PM
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.
Dead Girls #2 will be available in June.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 26 April, 2012, 12:45:40 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 26 April, 2012, 12:45:40 PM
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.
Dead Girls #2 will be available in June.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: HOO-HAA on 03 June, 2012, 03:15:52 PM
Post by: HOO-HAA on 03 June, 2012, 03:15:52 PM
They really are very attractive ladies. My compliments to the cover artist :)
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 14 March, 2013, 02:28:12 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 14 March, 2013, 02:28:12 PM
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
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
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 14 March, 2013, 03:04:31 PM
Post by: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 14 March, 2013, 03:04:31 PM
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.
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.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 14 March, 2013, 03:26:39 PM
Post by: Lucifal on 14 March, 2013, 03:26:39 PM
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.
Subscribers to the series will receive a discount on a trade in any case but the trade won't feature the guest artist covers.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 14 March, 2013, 03:37:21 PM
Post by: Jimmy Baker's Assistant on 14 March, 2013, 03:37:21 PM
That would be cool.
I rarely buy physical comics these days, but I do have shelves of graphic novels...
I rarely buy physical comics these days, but I do have shelves of graphic novels...
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 30 May, 2013, 07:07:13 AM
Post by: Lucifal on 30 May, 2013, 07:07:13 AM
Dead Girls #6 - In Dreams
Cover artist: Boden Steiner
Available to pre-order from the Dead Girls site (http://www.deadgirls.co.uk) now.
Cover artist: Boden Steiner
Available to pre-order from the Dead Girls site (http://www.deadgirls.co.uk) now.
Title: Re: Dead Girls thread
Post by: Lucifal on 30 May, 2013, 07:26:56 AM
Post by: Lucifal on 30 May, 2013, 07:26:56 AM
Finished inks from the sketch in a previous post.
