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Showing posts with label Barrie Tomlinson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barrie Tomlinson. Show all posts

Monday, August 12, 2019

Preview... WILDCAT: LONER

The second volume of stories from the short-lived 1980s comic Wildcat is coming in a few weeks from The Treasury of British Comics. Wildcat: Loner is a fabulous collection of strips illustrated by David Pugh and Eric Bradbury, from scripts by Barrie Tomlinson. 

This is some of David Pugh's most imaginative and detailed work, and of course you can't go wrong with Eric Bradbury who takes over the Loner strip later in the book. Barrie Tomlinson's scripts keep the story moving along at a fast, exciting pace, with clearly-told plots... the way good comics should be! Wildcat merged into Eagle, and the chapters from that comic are included as well, along with a full colour cover gallery.

• CREATIVE TEAM: Barrie Tomlinson (w) David Pugh, Eric Bradbury (a)
• RELEASE DATE: 5th September 2019
• PAPERBACK, 224 pages
• PRICE: £14.99 (UK)
• ISBN: 9781781086841

The second volume in the complete stories from Wildcat! Silver age comics meets Alice in Wonderland in this weird and Crusoe-esque absurdist science fiction! Ex-mercenary Loner always works alone. Even if it means being on an alien planet as the sole member of one of the spacecraft Wildcat’s exploration teams! With only his customised six-shooter, “Babe”, and some alien fur balls as company, Loner must contend with psychic aliens, subterranean monstrosities, and angry shapeshifters. He might be the toughest, but can he survive being shrunk, melted, and transformed on a planet that seems to want him dead? Join humanity’s last surviving ex-mercenary on a surreal and grotesque adventure down the alien rabbit hole…, 

Available in print from: book stores, Amazon, and UK comic book stores via Diamond

Available in digital from: Treasury of British Comics webshop & apps for iPad, Android and Windows 10




Thursday, May 18, 2017

Grab a COMIC BOOK HERO this September!

Here's the cover illustrated by David Sque for Comic Book Hero, Working with Britain's Picture-Strip Legends written by Barrie Tomlinson. It'll be published in September and will reveal the background stories to IPC comics such as Tiger, Speed, the new Eagle, Scream, and more, told from Barrie's perspective as a senior editor on the comics back then. 

Books revealing the inside story of the comics industry are a must for aficionados of comics history and I'm sure this will be the perfect companion to Barrie's previous book Real Roy of the Rovers Stuff!

You can read more about the book on the Down the Tubes blog today:
http://downthetubes.net/?p=38101 

There's also more info on Comic Book Hero at the publisher's website here:
http://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/comic-book-hero

Barrie Tomlinson, David Sque and other guests will be appearing at Lancaster Comics Day on 11th June:
https://lancastercomicsday.wordpress.com
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