Binary Domain - new trailer

Sega have released a new trailer for Binary Domain, which I worked on with Antony Johnston last year. Antony worked on the development of the story and script with Sega Japan, and together we reviewed and edited dialogue for various sections of the game.

Antony's also just announced a new graphic novel project, The Coldest City, with Oni Press. It's a cold war spy thriller set in Berlin that looks and sounds cracking.

Into the Woods - Cover

Into the Woods cover by
Andy Bloor and Steve Howard

Andy Bloor, the talented and lovely chap that he is, has done a fabulous cover for Stacey Whittle's Into the Woods anthology of fairy tales, with superb colours by Steve Howard.

Featuring a whole host of stories, re-telling and re-imagining some of the classics, as well as introducing new ones inspired by them, Into the Woods is being launched at Cardiff International Comics Expo in February, 2012.

Alongside a great line up of talent, Alice Duke and I collaborated on Samhain, which uses folklore as the basis for a modern fairy tale.

Into the Woods: Samhain

Samhain by Alice Duke and Matt Gibbs

Alice Duke has finished work on Samhain, our contribution to Stacey Whittle's Into the Woods anthology of fairy tales, which is being launched at Cardiff International Comics Expo in February, 2012.

Alice has done a stunning job. Her art and lettering for our six page story, which is set against one Samhain night, when the veil between worlds is thin, is simply beautiful.

Stace, of Small Press, Big Mouth infamy, is the driving force behind the anthology, which is best described in her own words, "The anthology is called Into the Woods: A Fairytale Anthology and it consists of short stories - a couple of them are based on famous fairytales, like Red Riding Hood and The Red Shoes, there's a few based on local legends and a couple of brand spanking new ones. In true Grimm style a few of the stories are either quite scary or a little bit gory, but we also have humour and a feel good factor."

"The front cover is by Andy Bloor and Steve Howard. Andy is also designing the book, which is black and white. Graeme Howard has done a fabulous pin up for the book and Vicky Stonebridge has done a beautiful job on the back cover."

"The idea came about because as I am a staunch lover and supporter of the small and independent press and I understand the difficulties in getting your work seen and wanted to provide another place to do so. It's coming together really well and I think it's going to be a beautiful book."

For the anthology Stace has brought together the talents of:

Alexi Conman and Conor Boyle - Changeling
Nic Papaconstantinou, Bevis Musson and Filip Roncone - Amber And The Egg
Richard McAuliffe and Sara Dunkerton - Red Riding Hood
Scott Harrison, Lee Grice and Filip Roncone - The Madness Of The Sea
Daniel Clifford, David Wynne and Ian Sharman - The Black Shoes
Lee Robson, Simon Wyatt and Filip Roncone - The Lang Pack
Ollie Masters and Valia Kapadai - Time For A Change

Into the Woods: A Fairytale Anthology will be launching at the Cardiff International Comics Expo in February, 2012.

FutureQuake 19: Yesterday Today

(Source http://futurequakepress.blogspot.com/
- Cover by Ben Michael Byrne)

FutureQuake 19, a regular anthology of 2000AD Future Shock-style stories from FutureQuakePress, is now available. It features a whole host of writers and artists, plus a story from James Reekie and I called Yesterday Today.

A Bigger World Than Yours by Alex Wilson and Ben Michael Byrne (and cover)
Parts Such As These by Ruaan Stuart and Crow
Neroy Sphinx by Dan Whiston and new artist Dave Thomson
Scientific Progress by Alexi Conman and Andrew Chiu
Utopious by Pardeep Singh and John Cahill
Little Things by Alexi Conman and Mike Bunt
Pak512 by Rob Burton and Rachael Stott
Jay by Terry Stock and Jim Lavery

FutureQuake 19 is available from the lovely ladies and gents behind FQP, as is it's darker sibling, Something Wicked 07, both of which will be available at upcoming UK comic conventions, beginning with Thought Bubble in Leeds on the 19th-20th November.

(Source http://jamesreekie.co.uk)

Improper Books

End of last week was spent in the lovely company of Ben Read, Chris Wildgoose and Laura Trinder working on upcoming projects for a comics imprint. I've been part of the collective for a while now working as editor across the four titles currently in production, the first of which will be launching next year.

Sadly, I can't say more than that really at this stage, but I can post a peek at some of Chris and Laura's gorgeous test work for two of the books.

(Source http://christianwildgoose.blogspot.com/)

(Source http://www.lauratrinder.co.uk/)