And The Intercorstal: 683 Kickstarter campaign is live! And here, exclusively to intercorstal.com, and all the endpoints that it publishes to that I keep forgetting about, is the cover!
Head over to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grthink/the-intercorstal-683 to reach the Kickstarter page, have a look at my terrible video (I hadn’t realised until I watched it back just how much slow blinking I do when talking) and if you feel like getting a copy of the finished comic, pledge away! And if there’s something you were hoping would be on the reward tiers that you can’t see, let me know.
Once more, here’s that link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grthink/the-intercorstal-683
The Kickstarter campaign for ‘683’ starts on the 15th May. I’ll share the URLs and details once they’re live.
The reaction from review copies has been very positive, and I’m really pleased with how it’s turned out, so fingers crossed it’ll all work out. Hopefully you’ll hear what other people think in the near future.
I’ll be posting blogs related to the themes of 683 to my OTHER blog, garethahopkins.blogspot.com whilst the KS is going, so keep an eye out for those, too.
I’m currently planning a Kickstarter campaign to launch (and print) ‘The Intercorstal: 683’, which is an abstract anthology-style comic inspired by the British comics I was first exposed to as a child.
The comic’ll be 36 pages in total when finally completed, which includes the front and back covers, and I’ve got 32 of them done — each of the actual comic pages are done, and the cover. All I’ve got to do now is the ‘letters page’, the back cover, and two full page adverts.
I’m very close to fixing a launch date now — should be announced in the next couple of days. There’s a lot of work that goes into these things, certainly more than I’d bargained for.
As a ‘taster’, here’s the first version of the cover I did, which I’ve since rejected for (what I hope is) a better, fully painted cover.
As 2015 draws to a close, it’s probably a good time to review what the year has brought The Intercorstal, and what The Intercorstal has brought the year.
Firstly, there was of course ‘After Smith‘, the 10-page sequence produced for inclusion in Projectraum 404’s Abstrakte Comics series. As well as introducing The Intercorstal to Germany, it was mentioned in the German paper Taz, as well as getting a feature on Down The Tubes. Added to that was the gift of Tom Whiteley’s piece which accompanied the show, and can be downloaded here.
Page from The Intercorstal 683
My work on ‘683‘, took a pause whilst I worked on After Smith, and then again as I worked on ‘Neighbours Bring Food’, but is more than half-way finished now, and is working out pretty well. As long as everything goes to plan, there should be print copies available in March 2016. I’m also planning the follow-up to 683 already, after a few thematic things loops closed unexpectedly earlier this month. I’ll go on to that nearer the time.
2015 also saw the official close of ‘The Intercorstal 2‘ as a project. Always difficult to define, ‘2’ found me really testing what I could do with the project, eschewing some of the elements that I was no longer comfortable with (the eyes/teeth/hands motif for instance, which had been a defining element when the comic was first born) and developing new tools and ways of working. Without ‘The Intercorstal 2’ I’m not sure how to group the outlying pages that get done — my Deaths Head II or Dungeon Fun reworkings for example. I’ll come up with a name for them, I’m sure. I’m good at naming things.
Here’s some pictures to support this blog:
Photo of a Death’s Head II page completed whilst in Bremen for ‘After Smith’Prep work for ‘Neighbours Bring Food’ on display at Iridium, Kendal.
The Intercorstal 