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Alien-Hunting Transvestite Comic Approaching
Welcome, oh ye snivelling wretches, to an O.G. blog post - so capricious and timid in its rarity, that it is frightened by your enquiring eyes, and scuttling around trying to avoid being seen. Know this, however: we once again stand quivering in your gaze with a spot of news.
Way back in November we were in attendance at the Comica Comiket festival. There we chatted with many of the good comic folk of London about Trenchfoot and other O.G. things, and also relaunched the sterling, developing series, Unpaid Intern by the n-n-notorious Michael O'Keefe. His second issue is magnificent; another welcome dose of deadpan absurdity with the usual comics, stories and poems. For more from Mr. O'Keefe check out his blog: http://tizersoze.tumblr.com/ We have no current plans for conventions but we hope to change that soon and will be announcing our event plans shortly.
Following our relaunch we have been hard at work on our latest title. John Voight: Agent of F.L.A.N.G.E is coming along nicely and the artwork by Sam Willoughby is his finest contribution yet to our sordid stories. I hesitate to give a release date for this two-part mini-series as we routinely break all of our promises on such matters. As soon as we have something more solid to go on, though, we will of course be shouting from the digital rooftops.
The next project on the horizon will be the long-awaited Trenchfoot #5. When this, the penultimate episode of the first Trenchfoot arc, gets underway, we resolve to be more transparent with the creative process. If you have any burning desire to see how we make these damned, dirty comics then stay tuned for more updates.
Over and out, Trenchlings.
Gav and Regan
Way back in November we were in attendance at the Comica Comiket festival. There we chatted with many of the good comic folk of London about Trenchfoot and other O.G. things, and also relaunched the sterling, developing series, Unpaid Intern by the n-n-notorious Michael O'Keefe. His second issue is magnificent; another welcome dose of deadpan absurdity with the usual comics, stories and poems. For more from Mr. O'Keefe check out his blog: http://tizersoze.tumblr.com/ We have no current plans for conventions but we hope to change that soon and will be announcing our event plans shortly.
Following our relaunch we have been hard at work on our latest title. John Voight: Agent of F.L.A.N.G.E is coming along nicely and the artwork by Sam Willoughby is his finest contribution yet to our sordid stories. I hesitate to give a release date for this two-part mini-series as we routinely break all of our promises on such matters. As soon as we have something more solid to go on, though, we will of course be shouting from the digital rooftops.
The next project on the horizon will be the long-awaited Trenchfoot #5. When this, the penultimate episode of the first Trenchfoot arc, gets underway, we resolve to be more transparent with the creative process. If you have any burning desire to see how we make these damned, dirty comics then stay tuned for more updates.
Over and out, Trenchlings.
Gav and Regan
Sunday, 8 April 2012
A Wolf at the Door
And so, with great pomp and fanfare we released the new issue: Trenchfoot #4; A Wolf at the Door last week in Travelling Man, Newcastle.
Many hearty thanks to Shaun Amin, our new artist, for his superb work on the back up mini-story 'Friends Like These'. I think you'll agree that it raises the general standard of things.
Next from our festering maw comes John Voight: Agent of F.L.A.N.G.E. This harrowing tale of (you guessed it) revenge, has been expertly drawn by Sam Willoughby. The drawing is done, I've seen it, it's amazing, I just need to get the lettering etc. done and we're good to go so hopefully not too long 'til that.
An exciting event is lined up for us this month, we are showing at the Comica Comiket festival on 21st April at the Bishopsgate Institution near Liverpool St. station in the big smoke. Come down if you're in the city for it is FREE and there will doubtless be many fine small-press comics to be obtained or merely perused. Also in attendance will be a friend of mine from work: the wonderfully talented Mireille Fauchon (http://www.mireillefauchon.com/) and that should really be reason enough to drag y'selves down so we hope to see y'all there.
We sincerely hope you are enjoying the new issue, Trenchfoot fans, to express this or alternatively to shower us with abuse please direct communications to trenchfootcomic@gmail.com.
Sick
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Many hearty thanks to Shaun Amin, our new artist, for his superb work on the back up mini-story 'Friends Like These'. I think you'll agree that it raises the general standard of things.
Next from our festering maw comes John Voight: Agent of F.L.A.N.G.E. This harrowing tale of (you guessed it) revenge, has been expertly drawn by Sam Willoughby. The drawing is done, I've seen it, it's amazing, I just need to get the lettering etc. done and we're good to go so hopefully not too long 'til that.
An exciting event is lined up for us this month, we are showing at the Comica Comiket festival on 21st April at the Bishopsgate Institution near Liverpool St. station in the big smoke. Come down if you're in the city for it is FREE and there will doubtless be many fine small-press comics to be obtained or merely perused. Also in attendance will be a friend of mine from work: the wonderfully talented Mireille Fauchon (http://www.mireillefauchon.com/) and that should really be reason enough to drag y'selves down so we hope to see y'all there.
We sincerely hope you are enjoying the new issue, Trenchfoot fans, to express this or alternatively to shower us with abuse please direct communications to trenchfootcomic@gmail.com.
Sick
G
Monday, 12 March 2012
A Sip of Filth: First Real #4 Previews
With the meat of the work done on our forthcoming issue: #4 A Wolf at the Door it falls to me at last to offer you a taste of the joys yet to come. Here are some preview images from me and our new recruit Shaun Amin. Wallow in them - splash the pixellated grime about you.
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| ©2012 O.G. Comics: A Wolf at the Door Cover, inks and shading. Art by Gavin McPhail |
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| ©2012 O.G. Comics: A Wolf at the Door Page 1, inks and shading. Art by Gavin McPhail |
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| ©2012 O.G. Comics: A Wolf at the Door Page 18, inks. Art by Gavin McPhail |
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| ©2012 O.G. Comics: Amy and Ketching, preview images. Art by Shaun Amin. |
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| ©2012 O.G. Comics: Trenchfoot Recap Page, inks and shading. Art by Gavin McPhail |
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| ©2012 O.G. Comics: Trench and Kevin, preview images. Art by Shaun Amin. |
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
A FLANGE AT THE DOOR
Greetings from the low-rent
district, O.G.s.
Of late, all has been flat and calm and much like a mill-pond which, of course, makes the icebergs harder to see. But, as we sit in the crow's nest full of malaise and self-hatred, not one but two jagged chunks of cataclysmic literary land-mass are headed straight for us. Smell ice, can yeh? Bleeding Christ...
Yes, in a the next couple of months we shall pull the proverbial finger out of our tender bums and release two new comics, the first of which is the long overdue Trenchfoot #4: A Wolf At The Door.
Readers may have virtually forgotten that we still have an ongoing concern. Our last three releases were The Blood, Giant-Sized Trenchfoot and The Biscuit Maker; a series of one-shots, prequels and spin-offs of our parent title.
So, to re-cap y'all...Since November 2009 - two-and-some-years real time - not even a whole day has passed in the Lake District. John Trenchfoot, charming cad that he is, has been beaten to a pulp by his one-time lover, the ever-tightly-clad Solar Girl.
So, after the soppy nostalgia of his protracted dream sequence in #3, we're back to what Trenchfoot does best: baiting quiet country folk and irate Polish migrants. But there is more going on...
Over in New York (y'know, where all superheroes EVER live), Solar Girl's media-friendly team-mates are brewing for a fight, and it will not be long before they discover that John and company have been living the good life over in rain-sodden ol' England.
And who's that fella that looks like Christopher Walken and has a name awful similar to the guy that wrote Identity Crisis? That'll be John's old boss - criminal geneticist Brad Meltzen: the man who stuck the secret of super-powers up a goat's bum. As you do.
So, it's all go in issue #4, and we've got a really cool and beautifully drawn back-up feature included as well. If you read Giant-Sized Trenchfoot you'll have seen Donnell Carlton's magic, indestructible ice cream van. But whatever happened to said vehicle? You'll find out here!
And then onto our second release of the year...John Voight: Agent of F.L.A.N.G.E. #1!
John Voight (no relation to Angelina's dad) is a retired soldier living a quiet and peaceful life in the southern USA. But when his fiancé, Bethany-Lou, is abducted and impregnated by aliens, John is forced back into action. Setting up his own anti-alien outfit - Frontline in Alien Nuisance Guerilla Entropy - the 6-foot-3 transvestite Voight becomes a one man army. But what link does his fiancé's ordeal have to John Trenchfoot's nemeses, The Starlight Squad? And what on earth will Voight do once he finds out? It's episode 1 of a titanic 2-parter, gangsta!
So, that's what's coming up on the immediate horizon...and later in the year we (promise) we'll be delivering Trenchfoot #5, as well as a few more surprises. So stay tuned, O.G.s!
Of late, all has been flat and calm and much like a mill-pond which, of course, makes the icebergs harder to see. But, as we sit in the crow's nest full of malaise and self-hatred, not one but two jagged chunks of cataclysmic literary land-mass are headed straight for us. Smell ice, can yeh? Bleeding Christ...
Yes, in a the next couple of months we shall pull the proverbial finger out of our tender bums and release two new comics, the first of which is the long overdue Trenchfoot #4: A Wolf At The Door.
Readers may have virtually forgotten that we still have an ongoing concern. Our last three releases were The Blood, Giant-Sized Trenchfoot and The Biscuit Maker; a series of one-shots, prequels and spin-offs of our parent title.
So, to re-cap y'all...Since November 2009 - two-and-some-years real time - not even a whole day has passed in the Lake District. John Trenchfoot, charming cad that he is, has been beaten to a pulp by his one-time lover, the ever-tightly-clad Solar Girl.
So, after the soppy nostalgia of his protracted dream sequence in #3, we're back to what Trenchfoot does best: baiting quiet country folk and irate Polish migrants. But there is more going on...
Over in New York (y'know, where all superheroes EVER live), Solar Girl's media-friendly team-mates are brewing for a fight, and it will not be long before they discover that John and company have been living the good life over in rain-sodden ol' England.
And who's that fella that looks like Christopher Walken and has a name awful similar to the guy that wrote Identity Crisis? That'll be John's old boss - criminal geneticist Brad Meltzen: the man who stuck the secret of super-powers up a goat's bum. As you do.
So, it's all go in issue #4, and we've got a really cool and beautifully drawn back-up feature included as well. If you read Giant-Sized Trenchfoot you'll have seen Donnell Carlton's magic, indestructible ice cream van. But whatever happened to said vehicle? You'll find out here!
And then onto our second release of the year...John Voight: Agent of F.L.A.N.G.E. #1!
John Voight (no relation to Angelina's dad) is a retired soldier living a quiet and peaceful life in the southern USA. But when his fiancé, Bethany-Lou, is abducted and impregnated by aliens, John is forced back into action. Setting up his own anti-alien outfit - Frontline in Alien Nuisance Guerilla Entropy - the 6-foot-3 transvestite Voight becomes a one man army. But what link does his fiancé's ordeal have to John Trenchfoot's nemeses, The Starlight Squad? And what on earth will Voight do once he finds out? It's episode 1 of a titanic 2-parter, gangsta!
So, that's what's coming up on the immediate horizon...and later in the year we (promise) we'll be delivering Trenchfoot #5, as well as a few more surprises. So stay tuned, O.G.s!
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