Tag Archive | "Rainbow Orchid"

Upcoming: Rainbow Orchid Volume 3 (at last!)

Monday, March 26, 2012

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It’s taken many years to get to the conclusion but this April 2nd, just next week, we finally get to see the finale of Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid series. A false start in 1997, followed by initial serialisation in 2002, but it took another 4 years before publishers began to get interested, thanks mostly to [...]

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Rainbow Orchid fan art time….

Saturday, March 24, 2012

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Garen Ewing’s third and final volume of The Rainbow Orchid is out in April. But before that we have a lovely load of fan art for the series over at Garen’s website: David O’ Connell: Sarah McIntyre: David Goodman: Cherry Robin: But best of all is this by Simon Doyle, a perfect Tintin in the [...]

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Rainbow Orchid Volume 3 Preview

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

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Garen Ewing’s ligne claire adventure serial The Rainbow Orchid reaches it’s final volume next year. Publication date for the final volume from Egmont is April 2012, but in the meantime Garen’s begun putting preview material up online: From Garen’s blog: “The Rainbow Orchid volume three preview starts today! Click here to see the first strip, with [...]

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Speech Balloons talks to Garen Ewing

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

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Paul Birch at the Birmingham Mail’s Speech Balloons column talks to one of our very favourite creators (and jolly nice chap), Garen Ewing about his wonderful Rainbow Orchid: “Paul: Do you feel you’ve learned from the experience of doing the series, grown as a creator and a person? Garen: Yes, there’s no doubt about that. [...]

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Red and yellow and green and blue – he can paint a Rainbow (Orchid)

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

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We have a lovely treat for you today as Garen Ewing becomes the latest comics creator to give us a ‘director’s commentary’, talking us through the creation process for some of the pages of the new second volume of his wonderful Rainbow Orchid (which, as regular readers will know, has been a complete favourite with [...]

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Rainbow Orchid Volume 2 – The (continuing) Adventures of Julius Chancer

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Rainbow Orchid Volume 2 by Garen Ewing Egmont Let’s get the obvious thing out of the way first with Rainbow Orchid Volume 2, something that I’ve already seen mentioned several times in some so-so reviews of the book online. This is the middle bit of a three part series and as such it slows down the [...]

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Cartoon County

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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Garen Ewing will be the guest at the next monthly Cartoon County (the Sussex Cartoon and Comic Strip  Artists Association) in sunny Brighton, where he will be talking about the Rainbow Orchid (a long-time favourite of the blog crew) on Monday 26th of April, with the event kicking off at 6pm in The Cricketers on [...]

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One for the diary – Rainbow Orchid Volume 2

Saturday, April 10, 2010

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Over on his blog Garen Ewing has posted the cover and release details of the second volume in his three part Rainbow Orchid series of graphic novels. Volume 2 will be out on the 5th July 2010 and Garen is promising that Volume 3, with all new material, will be out in 2011. I know [...]

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Somewhere over the Rainbow (Orchid) – Garen Ewing talks to Pádraig

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Regular readers will know that we’ve been following Garen Ewing‘s delightful Rainbow Orchid series with great pleasure for some years, in limited print versions and online and we’ve kept up with Garen as it progressed, so it seemed right that now Egmont have published the first Rainbow Orchid book (I’m tempted to use the European [...]

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Rainbow Orchid’s Garen Ewing interviewed

Sunday, August 9, 2009

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Firstly, you have all bought your copies of Garen’s excellent Rainbow Orchid haven’t you? Good. Now you may be interested in a couple of extra things. Here on the FPI blog Matthew Badham has a wide ranging interview with Garen. And David O’Connell lets us know that he’s posted a new interview with Garen at [...]

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The Rainbow Orchid Volume 1: Julius Chancer’s beautiful adventures…

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Rainbow Orchid, The Adventures Of Julius Chancer Volume 1 by Garen Ewing Egmont. It’s taken a long time for Garen Ewing’s Rainbow Orchid to get a release that will finally do it some justice, but this first volume in Egmont’s three volume series is pretty much a perfect way to experience a series that has [...]

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Rainbow Orchid prints…..

Friday, July 10, 2009

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In advance of Volume One of Garen Ewing’s excellent Rainbow Orchid (released August 4th – pre-order it here) you can now get your hands on a couple of quite lovely prints in Garen’s very recognisable clear line style: Order the prints from Garen’s site here.

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