The hit series about an STD that gives you weird powers & six months to live, by Monty Nero, Martin Simmonds & Mike Dowling.
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Following the delivery of all the UK comics, books and prints, the USA and world orders are now the focus.
All the books and comics are at the warehouse, and I’ve prepaid all the mail and packaging charges. So we’re simply waiting on the warehouse team to update on how long it’ll take them to mail everything out, across America and around the world. More news as I get it.
Also finished another commission today, in acrylic paint with some ink and chalk, which I’ll post tomorrow. Good fun.
Speak soon
Monty
Also - got an update this morning confirming the final US comics are in transit inside the USA and should arrive this week. As soon as they do, the warehouse team will swing into action mailing those across the US and round the rest of the world.
More as it happens.
All the best
Monty
Hey there
When life gives you lemons, make art. That's my motto. Not necessarily like John Squire, much as I loved his Stone Roses paintings, but because it's the only thing keeping me sane since the car crash.
Yes - I've been plunged into a nightmare world of insurance and car dealers whose only mission is to be as cheerfully incompetent and useless as humanly possible. How are you doing?
Luckily, this has all coincided with time I'd set aside to catch up on my commissions so I've been breaking out the pens and paper and losing myself in some steampunk and cyberpunk style artwork.
"What pens, Monty?" I hear you cry. "Don't tease us - what pens?!!" I know how much sexy pen talk turns you on so in this case I used a Uni pen 0.1 fine line for, well, fine lines and a Mangaka fine brush pen for thicker brush strokes. Also a fountain Pentel for some bits though I found it a bit scratchy for these purposes. Then applied colour and tone with copics. Voila.
These are all part of the Death Sentence universe of characters, more on that soon. I used to use a brush and ink pot for this kind of thing, sable size 2 a la Brian Bolland, but it's too slow and there's more likelihood of a drip ruining everything. I found the pens really quick and relaxing to use and they gave me the intricate look I was after, plus they're all archival quality and don't smudge or fade or get diluted by the colour ink so it all looks top quality. I enjoy losing myself in a good drawing and only take on commissions I'm genuinely excited by these days. Life is too short for half-hearted art. With a commission you're getting a little piece of an artists life laid down on paper so it should always be something they and you care passionately about
Anyway, I've got a couple more commissions still to do and THERE'S SPACE FOR ONE MORE in the next two weeks if you fancy some artwork yourself. To be fair I haven't offered commissions for years, wish I could but I need to draw the actual comics. And I probably won't be offering any for another year or two, because I'll be busy working on some lengthy writing and graphic novel projects. So now is the window for original art in this style. If you're interested drop me a line and we'll discuss the details.
Meanwhile, I've set up the next Death Sentence Kickstarter campaign which you can find here. Be sure to follow it so you don't miss out when it launches. I'm also waiting on the final batch of comics to arrive, now due here Monday. So we've been getting all the envelopes and address labels ready for the next big mail out.
More news soon
Cheers
Monty
Good news: the printer tells me the last consignment of comics will be shipping to both warehouses next week. That being the case we’ll be able to start sending out the UK orders at the end of this month.
USA and world orders get mailed to the warehouse at the same time and It used to take no more than a week for them to arrive, but that changed during covid times and international shopping has been a lot less predictable since. Saying that, the last batch took ten days. I’ll keep you updated.
One more thing, as per my last update, we’re switching to publishing graphic novels rather than comics in future. An essential part of that is collecting Liberty into a graphic novel sometime this year, so people backing future campaigns can get ALL the earlier stories as books. This will ship with a brand new cover, signed, with twelve new pages, and some minor lettering and colour amendments.
Not sure when this will happen, it could be months, but if you follow the page here you’ll be first to see it and get notified whenever it goes live.
And if you have the comics themselves look after them, as switching to books in future will make the original run of comics more rare and valuable.
More soon.
All the best
Monty