Artists needed!

[Christian Mumford]

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From: christmu at login.eunet.no (Christian Mumford)
Subject: Re: Artists needed!

>Reply to Mike Parkington about Re: Artists needed!

>
>I told my wife about your project (she's an artist) and she asked me to get
>more details i.e. how long would each piece be, style, format and stuff.
>She's not a great HW fan but does know the material, living with me she
>couldn't avoid it ;) But I think she's very good. she has worked
>proffesionatly before but not in comics. She has also been very ill for
>sometime and this could be a good way to help her recover.
>

Hi,

We are looking for straight adaptations of their songs into comics (but stay
away from Moorcock's material- he'll be after my arse if he finds out!). I
find Calvert's stuff particularly well suited to visual adaptation. Format
wise I prefer to work upscale, about 10 x 15 inches or A3 format, and then
scale it down to size. The book itself would be A4 size. The art would have
to be in clear black & white line-art (i.e. no ink-washes), and be
reproproducable on a photocopier. It is possible I'll do a color cover.
Story length could be from 1 to 6 pages (but longer if needed), the total
length of the book will be determined on the amount of material I can get.
Hopefully more than 20 pages worth. It is possible I might get Matt Howarth
(a comics artist who did, among other things, 'Those Annoying Post Bros.')
involved - he's a Hawkwind fan and even had Brock or Turner make an
appearance in one of his comics... Stories that are already 'taken' are Jack
of Shadows and Spirit of The Age, and possibly Master of The Universe and
Urban Guerilla. I think 'High Rise' is another good canditate, but
non-Calvert material is needed too. Just let me know what song your wife
might be interested in adapting, and hopefully I'll be able to put together
this sometime next year! It doesen't necessaraly have to be straight comics,
it can also be as an illustrated story. I also need to know about rights to
use the lyrics - mr. Star_Rats? I'll need some other form of distribution
(other than the net) - comix-shops, cons, zines, gigs, whatever, so anybody
interested, please contact me..... I'm a little harder to get hold of these
days, so my response may be a bit slow -

>Anyway, let me know
>
>Si
>
>sihalley at vossnet.co.uk
"I am not as much a vegetable as everything is vegetable soup"

Christian Mumford


"I am not as much a vegetable as everything is vegetable soup"

Christian Mumford