The Liberty Brigade - Graphic Novel - 100+ pages of action!!

Liberty Brigade - Thanksgiving Update
almost 7 years ago – Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 02:26:19 PM

Happy Thanksgiving all - we are in the final stages of proofing The Villains book and hope to have that .pdf out to you all very very soon -- we found a few typos and we are doing what we hope is the very last round of read-throughs before sending the .pdf out.  Lined up right behind that is the Encyclopedia and we are driving to get that .pdf done as well.  Both of these books will be at the printer in the next 3 weeks.

The Heroes book awaits 3 origins but the other pages in it are all penciled, inked, colored and await lettering.  We are doing all we can to chase the outstanding pages and are optimistic it will hit the printer by the end of December.  That leaves only the graphic novel -- we have 85 pages that are penciled and inked and colored; the last 8 pages of the bonus stories are being inked right now, and about 15 more pages in total to be penciled and inked/colored but these are some of the best pages in the book with some amazing double-page splashes and literally dozens of characters.  In the meantime, we are dialoguing all of these pages now so I hope we are not too late.  

Everyone has been patient and I'd ask that you just give us a bit more -- it is over 200 pages of material and it all looks amazing -- we've been showing progress pages all along so everyone can see how nicely the book is turning out.

Below are three more progress shots -- one is a group of folks that I would not want to invite for dinner and they are from the bonus story "Girls Night out" -- pencils by Garrie Gastonny (this is being inked as I type this) and after that, I wanted to show off our amazing colorist, Chris Sotomayor and his work on a page by Barry Kitson and Mick Gray and then again on one of the bonus stories featuring K the Unknown.

The Liberty Brigade Update
almost 7 years ago – Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:57:23 PM

Thank you for your continuing patience -- we have proofed the Villains Origin book and await some technical file changes and then we will have this off to all of you.  Here is the interior front cover so you can see what is in store for you --d

I thought we'd show off a few more panels so here are Mick Gray's inks (over Barry's pencils) for the upper panel of Beat #10 page. 16 by Barry & Mick.

And the first panel to Beat 10 page 17 pencils by Barry Kitson. 

And, here is Barry's rough to Beat 10 p.18 -- 

Hope you can see all the progress and work going into the book -- we should have the Villain's Origin out shortly and are furiously work on the Encyclopedia as well.   Thank you for your patience - I think everyone will be very happy with the finished product.

Kickstarter - Heroes of the Golden Age #4
almost 7 years ago – Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:02:17 PM

Our good friends at Temporal Comics are back with another Kickstarter for their fourth issue of Heroes of the Golden Age; a reference guide to heroes of the golden age. This issue features twenty-four new profiles and all new art by Chris Malgrain.

http://bit.ly/TNCHGA4

We can't recommend this series enough and with each successful campaign means we will get MORE issues! So please consider pledging.

Best,

TNC

Next Up - The Encyclopedia
almost 7 years ago – Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 10:57:21 PM

Finishing touches on the encyclopedia are coming together right now -- here is some art from it...

and a pin-up of AIR MALE by Mike Perkins from Anthem #1

and another panel from the Girls Night Out Story

And a panel rough from Barry Kitson's latest page

And a sneak peak at one of the Hero Origins -- this is from the illustrious Garry Leach himself

And the Cover to Anthem #1 which is free as a .pdf

More art - we are on the way
almost 7 years ago – Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 06:04:34 PM

Thank you again for all your support - we have just received the last page of the Villains origin book (one of the new, extra pages) and it is by the wonderful Mike McKone featuring The Golden Age Porcupine -- here is a tiny panel from the story.  We should have the high resolution version today, off to our letteror and colorist and then we'll package up the .pdf as we also ready the files for the printer for this book.

And, the Maestro, Barry Kitson stopped by the publishing house and here we have a photo of him hard at work on the next page of The Liberty Brigade - an amazing fight scene featuring dozens of Golden Age characters.

The final (extra drawings) for our encylopedia have been received in pencil and are being inked and then off to the colorist so that too should be wrapping up very very soon.  Here is a panel from artist Thiago Carvalho -- hope you like it...