As most people keeping up-to-date with Black Tower via the blog or Face Book page (that gets a lot more stuff posted to it you know!) will know I stated that 2020 would call for BTCG to change its plans and go down new roads to sell comics, graphic novels and books.
A new strategy was worked out and it was due to be announced a month ago. Then "things" (you know what I mean) hit the pan.
There was a series of 13 issues titled The Bristol Comic (you don't have to live or be from Bristol to read it since the title was more symbolic) and one of the ideas was to sell these via mail order or at Small Press events. The comic is B4 (US Digest so a tad smaller than A5) and as the covers say "Black and White with a mixture of illustrated text stories and strips old and new. The Small Press is a totally different audience and seem put off by the "slick publications" I presented at events.
With a lot of local post offices closed "for the duration" and me in 12 plus weeks of isolation that idea obviously had a lit stick of dynamite shoved up its rectum!
There was also a Bristol Comic Special in which Ben Dilworth took a short story that originally appeared in Tales of Terror No. 1 and presented it from different angles and I quite enjoyed that one!
Of course, the Purple Hood had to have his own comic.
Until things can get back to normal there seem to be two choices: publish via the online store in A5 format or wait.....my brain has not yet decided. However until the decision is made here are the covers!
A new strategy was worked out and it was due to be announced a month ago. Then "things" (you know what I mean) hit the pan.
There was a series of 13 issues titled The Bristol Comic (you don't have to live or be from Bristol to read it since the title was more symbolic) and one of the ideas was to sell these via mail order or at Small Press events. The comic is B4 (US Digest so a tad smaller than A5) and as the covers say "Black and White with a mixture of illustrated text stories and strips old and new. The Small Press is a totally different audience and seem put off by the "slick publications" I presented at events.
With a lot of local post offices closed "for the duration" and me in 12 plus weeks of isolation that idea obviously had a lit stick of dynamite shoved up its rectum!
There was also a Bristol Comic Special in which Ben Dilworth took a short story that originally appeared in Tales of Terror No. 1 and presented it from different angles and I quite enjoyed that one!
Of course, the Purple Hood had to have his own comic.
Until things can get back to normal there seem to be two choices: publish via the online store in A5 format or wait.....my brain has not yet decided. However until the decision is made here are the covers!
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