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Andrez Bergen from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan is reading 'The Spirit' by Will Eisner April 26, 2014 - 1:55pm

Hey, mates — and those of you who might be fellow sequential art buffs...

I'm rebooting my first novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat, which was a Book of the Month @ Chuck Palahniuk's The Cult in 2011.

It's basically an homage to noir/hardboiled fiction set in a near-future dystopia.

This time I've decided to tackle the thing head-on as a graphic novel, for which I'm doing the artwork as well as rejigging the story/dialogue plus inserting some plot extras. And I've almost finished.

To remain independent and thereby have free rein over development of the brute, we decided to apply for funding via KICKSTARTER... and luckily? It reaching the set plateau and was funded! There're some amazingly cool cats out there.

Anyway, we're currently looking to increase both page-number and the colouring of those pages (from 50% to 75%), so looking for a wee bit of additional $ — if anyone is curious, come take a squiz:
TOBACCO-STAINED MOUNTAIN GOAT

25 days to go.

This is the mock-up front cover art:

Cheers,

Andrez

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. April 27, 2014 - 2:44pm

Very cool! Can't wait to read it!

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Thuggish from Vegas is reading Day of the Jackal April 30, 2014 - 7:06am

not normally into graphic novels, but something about it is quite intriguing...  

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Andrez Bergen from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan is reading 'The Spirit' by Will Eisner May 8, 2014 - 1:45pm

Ta, mates! ;) Actually almost finished putting it together. The Kickstarter concludes in 13 days — and we've covered the costs of production, which is wild. Will be published in July.

Here's the newer cover:

And a sample page:

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Alma from Denmark is reading Warm Bodies + The Haunted Vagina May 8, 2014 - 3:01pm

That's probably the coolest title I have ever heard of...!

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L.W. Flouisa from Tennessee is reading More Murakami May 9, 2014 - 2:23am

As someone who loves graphic novels, this is pretty cool.

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justwords from suburb of Birmingham, AL is reading The Tomb, F. Paul Wilson; A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby May 9, 2014 - 11:38am

Congratulations! Looks great!

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Andrez Bergen from Melbourne, Australia + Tokyo, Japan is reading 'The Spirit' by Will Eisner May 11, 2014 - 9:24pm

Cheers, all! Finished now, and currently being put together as a finished tome. Man, what a journey that was! ;)