Just slightly longer than a couple of days since my last posting, but hey, after leaving it for six months, this is quite punctual.
I’ve been busy since moving site to new server, tweaking and revising. Special emphasis on the Portfolio (go look)—the visual sections are now slideshows. And much more up-to-date. It’s easier to maintain & update for me, too. So I’m pretty happy about that.
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Well, anyhow—one of the things I’ve been doing is working on a book! Those of you, if there are any, who’ve been visiting for aeons and have an obsessively long memory might recall me talking about Hard Luck City before.
By the way, you can click on that cover image to see it even bigger. The colours are by Randy Sargent, who is obviously a great talent!
Memory Lane: I mention HLC in this post from February 2002. I was just starting work on the novella. There’s some sad stuff in there about when Fred Senior was getting very ill. And some embarrassing crap generally. I was still revising the thing in December 2002, apparently. It was October 2006 when I commissioned the late Gene Colan to draw the cover (of the anthology Freedom; the lead feature would’ve been HLC, but sadly the project stalled permanently). I received Gene’s cover art in December 2006.
The project goes back a lot longer, actually. I created it in the mid-’90s and it was intended as a comic book originally. Various stops and starts. By 2000-2001, I was starting to work on prose variations. By the end of 2002 I had about 15,000 words of a novella. But I got distracted by other things. The great Aussie artist Shane Foley drew a 12-page strip in 2007, for the aforementioned Freedom anthology.
The new book is a combination of the novella, the 12-page strip, various drawings by me, and perhaps 30% new writing. Plus the old stuff was revised quite aggressively because I think I write better now. Just to be a wannabe auteur, I also did all the design & layout! Very pleased with the result, overall.
Did I mention the book is available NOW on Amazon UKImage may be NSFW.
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and Amazon Com? Well, it is. Go and buy it.
HLC also has a Facebook Page. Go ‘like’ it!!
