A Brick-tastic response!

I'm very pleased to say that my self-published comic Brickman Returns! is still selling well. I sent off a stack of copies last week and another batch of orders (above) were received over the weekend which I've just dispatched. Those of you who ordered it recently should receive your copies tomorrow. Once again, my thanks to all of you for supporting this venture.

For those of you new to my work who might be wondering who Brickman is, he's zillionaire Loose Brayne, who was stuck for something to do one night when suddenly a brick was lobbed through his window! Naturally, as it's a comic strip it instantly inspired him to become... the Brickman! Yes, it's a Batman parody, but the daftest parody you'll ever see.

The 32 page comic features:

Brickman Returns! The 20 page saga that originally ran in the USA in Image Comics' Elephantmen comic in 2006 to 2009. Now collected into one comic for the first time, the full colour adventure kicks off by recounting Brickman's origin and early days in a new spin on the old stories, before bringing us up to the present to find out what happened to our hero after the events of Brickman Begins! Co-starring Brickman's partner Tina Trowel and special guest star Combat Colin! 

Speaking of the bobble-hatted buccaneer brings us to the back up strips:

Combat Colin! A three page classic from 1989 where Colin and loyal assistant Semi-Automatic Steve first encountered their deadliest nemesis, The Brain! 

Suburban Satanists! The long-running strip that originally appeared in Norway and Sweden finally comes to the UK! The De Ville family just like to bond over their hobby. It's just that their hobby involves devil worship! 

Plus: A feature on the history of Brickman over the last 36 years!

Brickman Returns! is a limited edition, full colour, one-off 32 page comic on quality paper that you can buy directly from me for £4.50 plus postage. Support British comics! You can order a copy via my online shop:

http://www.comiconline24h.com/page7.htm

I'll also be selling copies at Comic Con Leicester next Sunday, 11th October. If you're attending, drop by my table!

http://www.comicconleicester.co.uk/

Aces Weekly celebrates three years

Yesterday marked the 3rd anniversary of the award-winning digital comic Aces Weekly, published by David Lloyd, co-creator of V for Vendetta. For those of you who often ask "Why aren't there any new anthology adventure comics anymore", Aces Weekly is for you. Six all new strips every issue by a wide variety of creators that have included John McCrea, Herb Trimpe, Kev Hopgood, Yishan Li, Rachael Smith, Henry Flint, David Leach, Shaky Kane and many more. As for those who claim that online comics aren't real comics because they're not on paper, that's as illogical as saying music isn't music if it's not on disc. It's the 21st Century, baby! Like most media, comics can come in different forms these days. 

The line-up of the latest volume.

Here's what David Lloyd had to say about the anniversary of the comic...

"I am pleased to tell you that today Aces Weekly marks its 3rd birthday! It's  entertained readers with some of the best comics creators from around the globe in 18 Volumes of fantastic storytelling, and there are no plans for it to stop. Aces Weekly will be celebrating this happy event with a very special deal for buyers that will be announced very soon today! Meanwhile, we raise a glass to all our current readers and subscribers to thank them for their continuing custom and support, and to all our terrific Aces, who have made Aces Weekly the most amazing and varied, and radical and revolutionary, and extraordinary anthology of comics that can be found anywhere in the world! Cheers! www.acesweekly.co.uk."

As for the special deal that David mentions, they're Birthday Box Sets. You'll find it revealed on the Aces Weekly website at the line above.

As a sometimes-contributor to Aces Weekly myself with all-new Combat Colin strips I'm pleased to see it celebrating another anniversary and I look forward to contributing again in the future.

BRICKMAN RETURNS! New comic launches at ICE this Saturday!

Here it is! Brickman Returns! is fresh from the printers and will be on sale at the International Comics Expo (ICE) in Birmingham on Saturday 5th September! My oldest character is back in print with stories never before published in the UK, and in full colour too!

Who is Brickman? He's zillionaire Loose Brayne, who was stuck for something to do one night when suddenly a brick was lobbed through his window! Naturally, as it's a comic strip it instantly inspired him to become... the Brickman! Yes, it's a Batman parody, but the daftest parody you'll ever see.

The 32 page comic features:

Brickman Returns! The 20 page saga that originally ran in the USA in Image Comics' Elephantmen comic in 2006 to 2009. Now collected into one comic for the first time, the full colour adventure kicks off by recounting Brickman's origin and early days in a new spin on the old stories, before bringing us up to the present to find out what happened to our hero after the events of Brickman Begins! Co-starring Brickman's partner Tina Trowel and special guest star Combat Colin! 

Speaking of the bobble-hatted buccaneer brings us to the back up strips:

Combat Colin! A three page classic from 1989 where Colin and loyal assistant Semi-Automatic Steve first encountered their deadliest nemesis, The Brain! 

Suburban Satanists! The long-running strip that originally appeared in Norway and Sweden finally comes to the UK! The De Ville family just like to bond over their hobby. It's just that their hobby involves devil worship! 

Plus: A feature on the history of Brickman over the last 36 years!

Brickman Returns! is a limited edition, full colour, one-off 32 page comic. If you're attending ICE you can buy it directly from me for £4.50. Support British comics!  

For those of you unable to attend ICE, when I get back I'll work out the postage rate for the comic and will update this post with the details of price and how to order copies.  Review copies will also go out next week.

My thanks to Stuart and Hal at UK Comics Creative for doing a fantastic job on the printing and getting the copies to me on time. I'm really over the moon with how it's turned out! If you need a printer for your comics I thoroughly recommend them: http://www.ukcomicscreative.co.uk/

Aces! Combat Colin returns again!

Early this morning I completed a brand new Combat Colin three page strip and thanks to the wonders of technology it's now live online in the latest issue of Aces Weekly! (Vol.16 No.6).

As most of you will know, Combat Colin was a strip I did for Marvel UK's Action Force and Transformers comics in the late 1980s and Marvel returned the rights to me when the strip ended. I've used him in a few places since, including two earlier issues of Aces Weekly. This latest new adventure sends Colin (and his loyal assistant Semi-Automatic Steve) into space to deal with a giant asteroid shaped like a bottom! The Ass-Teroid! Yes, the strip's as daft as ever!

For those of you wishing there were more British anthology weeklies around, Aces Weekly is just for you. Six all-new stories every issue from an ever-changing line-up of top comic creators. All the strips are creator-owned and we receive payment via a percentage of sales so subscribing means you're actively helping the creators not a big company. Each volume of seven issues costs just £6.99, so you're getting each issue for a quid. Bargain!

The onscreen comic is now up to volume 16. Here's how the Aces Weekly website describes it...

ACES WEEKLY- the multi-award-winning, exclusively onscreen - NO PRINTING - comic art magazine published by David Lloyd - the guy who brought you V FOR VENDETTA. We come to you every Monday in seven-part volumes of serials and short stories by some of the finest comic creators on the globe. We've won the Best Digital Comic prize in Pipedream Comics annual poll, and Best Web-Based Comic in the True Believers Awards, inaugurated in celebration of the legendary Stan Lee!

Volume 16 is our latest, seven-week extravaganza! Subscribe at BUY right now!  And grab any or all our Previous Volumes there, too!  See tasters at STORIES and listed contents via BUY. Each of our Previous Volumes has over 200 pages plus Extras, and features our exclusive Week-to-Week facility, which transforms any volume's serialized content into a continuous narrative - comic-book length, but without the advertising!

Our terrific Aces include, JOHN MCCREA, PHIL HESTER, MARK WHEATLEY, MARC HEMPEL, DAVID LLOYD, SHAKY KANE, DAVE HINE, KEV HOPGOOD, YISHAN LI, HERB TRIMPE, BATTON LASH, VAL MAYERIK, JAMES HUDNALL, KAT LAYNO, HENRY FLINT, PAUL MAYBURY, ALAIN MAURICET, LEW STRINGER, DAVID LEACH, RACHAEL SMITH, LAURA SCARPA, and many more.

Subscribing not only gets you over 20 pages of great comic art every week for LESS than one pound, but also free entry into regular prize draws for collectibles and original artwork!

Check out our  FREE SAMPLES to try us for size, and see us at   facebook.com/acesweekly  for more info and news.  You can also find us at our growing blog :  www.acesweeklyblog  

Join us and enjoy us now : )

http://www.acesweekly.co.uk/

A good week to buy ACES WEEKLY!

If you still haven't tried Aces Weekly yet there's never been a better time! As a special offer this week, publisher David Lloyd is offering Aces Weekly Volume 1 at half price! That's seven digital issues of all-new material for just £3.49! Who can argue against 50p a comic? Go Aces! 

Here's the info David sent me....

Friends,
We love you! Yes we do! And because of that, on this Valentine's Day, and until 12 midnight UK-time on Feb 20th, you can get Aces Weekly Volume One for half-price! JUST £3.49/$4.99/€3.99 for the one where it all began - with the stupendous Mark Wheatley, Phil Hester, John McCrea, David Lloyd, Jeff Vaughan, David Hitchcock, Alain Mauricet, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Lew Stringer, Dave Jackson, Esteban Hernandez, Carl Critchlow, David Leach, Bambos Georgiou, Mychailo Kazybrid, Phil Elliott, and Rory Walker, in over 200 amazing pages!
Go to www.acesweekly.co.uk/shop to buy Volume One, fill in the form, but then DON'T click the full-price pay button. Instead pay half-price directly via Paypal to lforlloyd@aol.com!
If you're a current subscriber who just missed getting Volume One, then it's yours half-price, too, by just purchasing through your usual account.
And then... you get all this and more... with our love... : )

New Facebook page

Apologies for interrupting this blog on British comics in order to self-promote but I thought some of you might be interested to know that I've just set up a new Facebook page for my artwork. 

I've had a private Facebook page for years but I'm limiting that now to personal friends and acquaintances and people whose work I know. My new public page is open for anyone to 'follow' and read. You'll find it by clicking here:
https://www.facebook.com/comiconline24hcartoonist?ref=hl

I'll be showing bits of artwork there and posting news of upcoming work, convention dates, etc. (Pretty much similar stuff that I already post on my other blog but it always helps to expand in social networking.) If you're on Facebook it'd be great if you could follow my new page. If you choose not to, no worries. I won't feel offended. 

Thanks for your time. Normal service to this blog will resume with the next post.  

Vote Aces!

If you're a reader of top digital comic Aces Weekly (and if you're not, check it out here) it'd be great if you could take a few seconds to vote for it in the Pipedream Comics Digital Comic of the Year Awards at this link:
https://www.wedgies.com/question/54a1cbc077f94c0200006252 

Publisher David Lloyd constantly works hard to promote Aces Weekly which includes a huge array of comics creators. I've contributed a couple of brand new Combat Colin strips to it myself and will hopefully do another one this year.

Your support would be very much appreciated. The poll closes at midday on January 7th. Vote Aces!  

It's convention weekend!

It's the London Film and Comic Con this weekend at Earls Court and the event promises an impressive array of guests. Amongst the many names there you'll find Carrie Fisher, John Hurt, Bernard Cribbins, Jenna Coleman, Charlie Higson, Emma Vieceli, Jessica Martin, Mark Buckingham, Dave Gibbons, Steve Rude, David Hine, Mike Collins, Gail Simone, Bryan Talbot, Hunt Emerson, Chris Weston, and even the legendary Stan Lee!

If you drop by the Aces Weekly table (manned by mighty David Lloyd) you'll be able to take advantage of the subscription incentive of buying a unique hand-drawn sketch card which contains a secret code on the back. Type in that code at the Aces Weekly website and you'll have access to a full volume of the digital weekly to read on your PC, laptop or tablet. You can choose your card by various artists. Here are the 12 recent ones I drew the other day...

I'll have a table at the event but a reminder that I'm only going to be there on Saturday. If you're attending, please stop by my table for a chat and perhaps buy a sketch of whatever character of mine you'd like me to draw. I'll also be selling copies of my 2005 book Brickman Begins!  Here's a photo of me at last year's show, taken at a deliberately wonky angle by Debbie Tate. 

Hope to see you there!