The excellent David Baillie drops us a line with a pile of news – typical, you wait around for a new Baillie development then several come at once… First off, David is getting back into the saddle with his autobiographical Belly Button Chronicles, which makes me happy because its a particular favourite of mine; he’s going to see if he can reach the 52 episode mark before the end of the year. David also tells us that David Hailwood has taken David’s Zombie Interviews from one of Accent UK’s fine anthologies and created not one but two belting little animations based on them; go and have a look they’re very, very cool.
And there’s more news – some great news, in fact. David’s got his very first strip in the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! The Lie is the latest Future Shock from 2000 AD (funny, earlier this morning I was talking about an old Future Shock from Neil Gaiman’s early career, now its the latest one); its an interesting short tale of an immigrant moving to a fundamentalist religious city which bans high technology and goes to extreme lengths to deny the science of evolutionary biology in favour of religious dogma (thank goodness no-one is that mad in the real world, eh? Oh…). The artwork is by Nick Dyer who some will know from his FutureQuake work; it seemed to me to have a bit of early Mick McMahon and Cam Kennedy influence in its style (which is a compliment). Over on his blog David writes about the strip and about his years of collecting 2000 AD, from grabbing old copies at the Barras market in Glasgow to actually writing for Tharg. The Lie is in 2000 AD Prog 1611, which can be found on the shelves of your friendly, neighbourhood FPI right now. Nice one, David, let’s hope its the first of many.
Fri, Nov 7, 2008
Art and animation