March books

CRIMINAL, VOL. 3: THE DEAD AND THE DYING TP
 
STORY: ED BRUBAKER

ART / COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS

COLOR: ELIZABETH BREITWEISER

MARCH 25 / 128 PAGES / FC/ M / $14.99

The best-selling crime series continues in this strikingly-designed new edition from Image.
CRIMINAL, VOL. 3: THE DEAD AND THE DYING – It's the ultimate '70s noir from the noir masters! A beautiful but damaged woman returns home with nothing but vengeance on her mind, and two best friends, one the son of the city's crime kingpin, are caught in the crossfire. BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS get experimental, with three interlinking viewpoints that tell a tragic tale.


THE FADE OUT #6
 
STORY: ED BRUBAKER

ART / COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER

MARCH 25 / 40 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50

BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' best-selling series ever just keeps hitting! Charlie and his blacklisted friend Gil hunt Hollywood's back alleys for answers to Valeria Sommer's murder and cover-up, but the one man who might know something, ex-child star "Flapjack" Jones, has gone into hiding...unless he's dead in a ditch by the side of the road.

Good Omens

Here's nice big jpegs of the six pictures I did for each episode of BBC Radio 4's upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens novel...

Good Omens

I've been lucky enough to do a few drawings for the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens novel.
The first is up on the official website site now...

Good Omens

But here's a higher res version....

And a pic of Neil and Terry done for a postcard...

And a test drawing I did of Neil to decide on technique...

February Solicits

I've got a few things out in February...

CRIMINAL, VOL. 2: LAWLESS TP
story: ED BRUBAKER
art / cover: SEAN PHILLIPS

FEBRUARY 18 / 144 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99

THE BEST-SELLING CRIME SERIES CONTINUES IN THIS STRIKINGLY-DESIGNED NEW EDITION FROM IMAGE!

LAWLESS: A story of brotherly love and hate, as Tracy Lawless finally returns home to find out who murdered his kid brother, and how much their family history has doomed them both. This is where BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS take the world they created in CRIMINAL, VOL. 1 and begin stretching the boundaries of what crime comics can be.






THE FADE OUT, VOL. 1 TP
story: ED BRUBAKER
art / cover: SEAN PHILLIPS

FEBRUARY 25 / 120 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99

BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' newest hit series, THE FADE OUT is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era.

A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true. THE FADE OUT is BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' most ambitious project yet.


THE FADE OUT #5
story: ED BRUBAKER
art: SEAN PHILLIPS & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER

FEBRUARY 25 / 40 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50

The second act of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS’ biggest hit ever begins with a bang!

Someone knows who killed Valeria Sommers, but can our "heroes" find them without exposing themselves? And will their search lead them to answers they don't want to find?

A perfect jumping-on point for new readers, released the same day as the trade! And packed with bonus back pages articles only found in the single issues.

Hellblazer

The issues of Hellblazer I did with Paul Jenkins twenty years ago are being collected at last. The first collection is out now, and the next will be out in January with a new cover by me...
Here's the some in progress process shots of the first Hellblazer cover I've painted since 1998. After doing a couple of digital sketches in Manga Studio, I got my paints out and did the final painting in acrylics on illustration board. The painting in about 45cm tall.

Divas & Fatales

I've had a few enquiries as to what music was playing during the burlesque drawing event with myself and Rian Hughes and the beautiful Cherie Bebe at The Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal last weekend. Here's the tracklisting for the hour...
Great music to draw by!

Thames TV Logo
Johnny Hawksworth
Crime Jazz - Volume 07 - The Sound Department

Captain Scarlet - The Mysteron Theme
Barry Gray
Stand By for Action! - The Music of Barry Gray

Ufo - Shado-Variations On A Theme
Barry Gray
Stand By for Action! - The Music of Barry Gray

Midnight Cowboy
Henry Mancini
Romantic Movie Themes   

The Lonely Man Theme
Joe Harnell
The Incredible Hulk

The Persuaders (Amicalement Votre)
John Barry
Themeology - The Best Of John Barry   

We Have All The Time In The World
John Barry
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Main Theme - Carter Takes A Train
Roy Budd
Get Carter OST

The Italian Job
Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra
Crime Jazz - Volume 01 - The Ministry Of Suspense!

The French Connection
Cyril Stapleton & His Orchestra
Crime Jazz - Volume 01 - The Ministry Of Suspense!

Theme from the Tomorrow People
Dudley Simpson
Crime Jazz - Volume 08 - The Sound Department 2

The Human Jungle
John Barry
Crime Jazz - Volume 02 - Music to Spy By

Ipcress Files
John Barry
Crime Jazz - Volume 03 - Music to Spy By 2

Theme From Man In A Suitcase
Ron Grainer
Crime Jazz - Volume 04 - Music to Spy By 3

Matt Helm's Blues
Elmer Bernstein
Crime Jazz - Volume 05 - Music to Spy By 4

Tubbs' Theme
The Skeletons
Crime Jazz - Volume 06 - Music to Spy By 5

Theme from Starsky & Hutch (Funky People Mix)
The James Taylor Quartet
Wait a Minute

Theme from the Champions
Tony Hatch
Crime Jazz - Volume 07 - The Sound Department

Twin Peaks Theme
Angelo Badalamenti
Twin Peaks

Theme from the Professionals
London Studio Symphony Orchestra
Crime Jazz - Volume 07 - The Sound Department

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Edwin Astley
Crime Jazz - Volume 07 - The Sound Department

The Sweeney (Closing Version)
Harry South
Crime Jazz - Volume 07 - The Sound Department

WAY OUT WEST

New CRIMINAL!

 CRIMINAL SPECIAL EDITION (ONE-SHOT)

STORY: ED BRUBAKER
ART: SEAN PHILLIPS & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS
JANUARY 28 / 48 PAGES / FC / M / $4.99

CRIMINAL COMES TO IMAGE!

To celebrate the return of CRIMINAL to print, BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS return to their award-winning title for the first time in years for a 48-page special sure the thrill their readers, old and new alike!

It's 1976, and Teeg Lawless is doing 30 days in county jail with a price on his head, his only safe company from the savagery a beat-up old comic magazine his dead cellmate left behind. It's CRIMINAL like you've never seen it before, with a comic within the comic and all those slick ‘70s thrills!

"Brubaker and Phillips are the gold standard of the crime graphic novel." – Warren Ellis

CRIMINAL SAVAGE EDITION MAGAZINE-SIZE VARIANT
STORY: ED BRUBAKER
ART: SEAN PHILLIPS & ELIZABETH BREITWEISER
COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS
JANUARY 28 / 48 PAGES / FC / M / $5.99

MAGAZINE FORMAT

As an added bonus—and due to the overwhelmingly positive response to the magazine-size variant of THE FADE OUT—the CRIMINAL SPECIAL EDITION will also be released in a Savage Edition, a variant in the style of magazine-size comics of the ‘70s!

CRIMINAL, VOL. 1: COWARD TP (NEW PRINTING)

STORY: ED BRUBAKER
ART: SEAN PHILLIPS & VAL STAPLES
COVER: SEAN PHILLIPS
JANUARY 28 / 144 PAGES / FC / M / $14.99

The bestselling crime series returns to print in strikingly-designed new editions from Image, starting where it all began: CRIMINAL, VOL. 1: COWARD—a new take on noir that turned the heist story on its head and created a whole new underworld for BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS to explore.

BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' recent series FATALE and The FADE OUT have brought their work to a wider audience of new readers, and now is the perfect time to show them the work that made the award-winning team's reputation!

"Brubaker and Phillips' books have always been about eight years ahead of their time." —Brian K. Vaughan

Good Omens

I've done some drawings for Radio 4's adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens. The first will be given away on a postcard at the festival this weekend...

The Fade Out inks...

Too Many Books...

I've been photographing my books for insurance purposes and thought I'd share them...
These are just the ones in my studio, there's another couple of hundred around the rest of the house.