Halfway through our WesterNoir Kickstarter and all is going well.

We've managed to unlock 3 stretch goals so far and we're halfway through our WesterNoir campaign. 

It's great to see something that we're really proud of picking up interest across the globe, and particularly to see that readers in the USA are willing to give a couple of Brits a chance with writing a Western.

Time Bomb Comics are also into their latest campaign, with Brawler Issue 2, and interestingly Gary Crutchley has a tale in that book too. To celebrate this, and support each other's campaigns, Gary has produced a Team Up piece of art.

Featuring both lead characters and coloured by Matt Soffe, it's a great image and one that we'll be adding as Bonus Print for those Backers who support both campaigns with physical purchases. 

Pop over to Kickstarter to learn more about both projects.

WesterNoir

Brawler 2

Remastered WesterNoir on SmackJeeves.

WesterNoir is on a journey.
What started as an idea for a one shot idea quickly moved on to become a greyscale limited series.
In this format it has reached issue 8, with issue 9 in development.
It has seen the first 4 issues collected as a Trade Paperback.
And it has a spin off companion title, Tales Of WesterNoir.
During this time co-creator and artist Gary Crutchley and I have often played with the idea of seeing the book in colour. Wouldn't that be cool.
And then we got to know Matt Soffe and work with him on the covers.
And we just knew that we had to do it.
If we were going to do this then could we use the opportunity to redo a few things that we wanted to improve?
Well, why not?
Produce a remastered coloured version of the trade paperback.
The only reason we could see against doing this is that it might annoy people who have already got the greyscale versions of the comics or trade paperback.
What if we put the thing online then? So they could see it and read it without having to pay for it?
And what if, when we do print it, we give them a discount to offset the fact that they have the greyscale versions?
OK, we thought that could work.
So, you can follow the pages, we release one a week, over on Smackjeeves, we're currently up to page 50. We were going to announce this later but I think in the current climate it might be nice to have something to read.
Hope you enjoy it.

Megazine mention

Our go to colourist, Matt Soffe, has hit the big time.
He's now colouring for 2000AD's Judge Dredd Megazine and has been doing so for a little while now.
In the latest issue however he is interviewed by Karl Stock

and kindly manages to mention WesterNoir and Accent UK a few times.

At the moment Matt is busy working his colouring magic on the first 4 issues of WesterNoir along with a number of new short story additions. We are looking to publish this as a remastered trade paperback collection and launch at Thought Bubble.
Matt's colouring has really given it the 'wow' factor.
Thanks for the mention Matt, it's really appreciated.

Stephenson's Robot #2 is at the printers.

Yep, Issue 2 of our Steampunk, alternate history comic, Stephenson's Robot has been sent to Stuart Gould of UK COMICS CREATIVE for printing.

This issues back story has been illustrated by co-creator and artist of WesterNoir, Gary Crutchley and coloured by WesterNoir cover colourist Matt Soffe.

Just waiting to review the print proof copy and then it'll hit the presses ... or whatever they call them these days.

Next weekend Accent UK hit Warrington Market.

A bit of a surprise for us, we've been invited to attend the first Warrington Comic Con Style event which takes place next Saturday. It's not going to be your typical Comic Con, there are no famous artists attending (that I'm aware of anyway), but it should be fun.
From a comic-in-development perspective Matt Soffe (our regular colourist for the WesterNoir covers) is in the process of adding his magic touch to the Carnival Master back story for Stephenson's Robot issue 2. Illustrated by WesterNoir co-creator Gary Crutchley and written by Jon Ayre, the issue will be printed a little later in the year. Here's a sample...

And if that isn't enough, the cover of Tales Of WesterNoir issue 2 is now complete, colours again by Matt, and is with Andy Bloor for his design touches. This will also be printed a little later in the year, but it's nice to have these things ready and waiting.

this issue will focus on Jim Wilson...