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Ghastly McNasty
The Alton Towers marketing team have been in overdrive this past week promoting their new ride ‘Th13teen’ officially due to open next month. Billed as a psychoaster Alton Towers claim the ride is a mix of physical and psychological terror but it’s he technology behind Thirteen that gives it a ‘world first’ status.
In what is surely marketing bluster, the park say it “will potentially make the ride so frightening that the Resort is considering introducing a controversial age-rating.” This is almost certainly a device to build hype for the ride, as opposed to a credible proposal.
I wonder if the Thirtennth Floor’s Max had anything to do with
Visit the official Thir13 site here.
February 10th, 2010 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blah |
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Ghastly McNasty
David Gordon of My Excess Publishing and Underground Overkill is putting together an exciting project titled ‘Babes,Bullets and Blades’. Check out his mission statement below:
With the response to our last little project (Underground Overkill) a massive success, here’s a new one. We’re looking to do a book of pin up art, entitled Babes,Bullets and Blades, there’s no restriction on content other than the fact there has to be a babe at the core of each page. No strip work just pin ups.
This is a promo piece, each artist featured gets a wee bio listed at the back of the book with everyone else. No cover artist as yet, that’ll be decided at a later date, asuming of course enough of you come forward, I’m looking to move on this soon, in time for the mart in April, so a closing date of March 6th should be ample time.
Already confirmed are:
Dave Alexander – Macbam Brothers/Viz
Curt Sibling – Total Fear/Nexion
Adam Gomm – Nexion
Stephen McShane – Nexion
Dave Gordon – Myexcess/Nexion
Andy Lee – Nexion
Helen Taylor
Nulsh,
Neil Bruce -Nexion
and many more.
The book itself will be A4 150+ pages BW/ Grayscale interiors, available through Lulu and Amazon. Unfortunately as I’m funding this, there is no money involved but your work will be seen by a great many people and be available through Waterstones as well. Copies of the book will be available to everyone involved at cost. So, if anyone is interested or has suggestions email me at newdoll18@hotmail.com.
Sounds damn cool and exactly the sort of topic that interests me. Contact Dave to get involved.
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Ghastly McNasty
Certainly not fresh news (in fact it’s so old it smells like a rotting corpse) but I had to post this as it’s proper exciting. Hit zombie survival comic ‘The Walking Dead’ is to be made in to a TV series!
Personally I think the story is perfect for a TV adaptation and I’m a big fan of good quality tv shows. My current faves being Lost, Heroes, Flash Forward, True Blood and I’m sticking with the BBC’s Survivors even after last nights poor start to the second series. Also there is certainly a gap in the market for a zombie based series as the genre shows no signs of dying off yet.
‘The Walking Dead’ is a big favourite here on Back from the Depths and many of our readers love it too. Sometimes the story can go off track a bit but writer Robert Kirkman has an uncanny knack of keeping this series exciting. One simple way he acheives this is by constantly killing off main characters and reshaping the surving group dynamics. This would lend itself perfectly to a high quality TV series as guest appearances by big name stars would always be extremely short lived.
As if this news wasn’t exciting enough then hold on to your seats for the next bit. Signed up to helm this new venture is none other than Shawkshank/Green Mile/The Mist director Frank Darabont. Joining him is Alien/The Terminator producer Gale Anne Hurd with Kirkman himself in an executive producer role. Surely this can’t be anything but a winning formula!
I’ve not seen any release dates yet for the project but it’s certainly worth keeping one ear to the ground regarding this project. Keep listening for the zombie herds!
November 1st, 2009 | → 3 Comments | ∇ Blah |
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M.I.K.
It’s Finally here! The 2009 Back From The Depths Hallowe’en Special! An anthology horror comic that’s not for the nervous!
Available as a totally free pdf file from our forum or via Clickwheel. Click the link to visit the Clickwheel site…
http://www.clickwheel.net/features/308
…or right click the attachment at our ning site and “save target as”…
http://backfromthedepths.ning.com/forum/topics/back-from-the-depths-presents
October 15th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blah |
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M.I.K.
Just a couple of days ’til the final deadline for submissions to the Back From The Depths horror fanzine (click that skull on the left for more info), but it seems there’s been a problem with my hotmail address and emails have been bouncing back.
So seeing as we’re not having to deal with printers and the like, you can all have another week to send stuff in, (and that can be artwork, full strips, anything horror based and already finished that you think might be suitable).
The final final deadline is now Saturday October 24th and the new email address to send stuff to is…
malcolm_iain_kirk@yahoo.co.uk
October 2nd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Blah |
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M.I.K.
Cartoonist Lew Stringer recently posted links to comic related Pathe newsreels in his blog and one of them is of particular interest to us…
It features Music hall comedian Barry Ono and his “world’s largest collection” of Penny Dreadfuls. Click the image below to watch the newsreel.
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M.I.K.
Misty was a girls comic, the first issue of which went on sale in 1978. It was slightly unusual however, as it was also a horror comic, and rather a creepy one at that. It was published by IPC, so it could, (and probably should), be considered Scream‘s gothy big sister and it was every bit as good as that description might suggest…
…and now it’s back.
The Misty Souvenir Special is now available from branches of WH Smiths newsagents in the UK. It costs £3.99 and if you take my advice, you’ll go to your nearest branch as soon as possible and purchase a copy. If for some reason you can’t, then don’t worry, because Egmont will be making it available to buy direct from their website at a later date.
Not only does the special have an excellent selection of strips, but unlike previous issues of Egmont’s “Classic Comics”, the stories featured aren’t part of longer serials. They’re all one-offs, which means you’re not left wondering what happens next.
Trust me, once you’ve read this you’ll be left wanting more and wondering why somebody doesn’t bring it back properly.
Well, actually….
Watch this space for news of a fan produced, (but completely legit and official), all new Misty special coming to you in the next few weeks! Yep.
Misty official website
Egmont Comic Archive
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Ghastly McNasty
If you’ve yet to discover the weekly online web comic Gutmunchers then you are now in for a treat. Just when you think that the Zombie Apocalypse market is saturated to the point of expolsion Gutmunchers carves itself a niche within the genre and owns it big style.
John Shatzer and Richard Duda have created a fabulous surrealist comedy in which the dead rising from their graves is good news because the uber-nerd survivalists were right and are the only people ready to deal with the situation.
Check out the first episode below to wet you appetite.
I have to say the short weekly installments are a great format for a zombie comic. Just like the kind of comic strips you would read in any national newspaper. It’s fairly easy to come up with a funny concept but somehow Gutmunchers manages to keep it funny week after week after week.
Click here to visit the Gutmuchers website
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M.I.K.
The fourth issue of free pdf comic, Temple APA is now available to download. Within its 132 pages are strips, illustrations, previews. a feature on Accent UK and a small press directory, (and yes, I’ve got some stuff in it again too). Go take a look… http://templeapa.ning.com/
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Ghastly McNasty
I was searching for this tune as I heard it on the radio a few months ago. Found it on YouTube and it just so happens to have a wicked spooky video. Turn it up!
London Elektricity ‘All Hell Is Breaking Loose’
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