Joseph Elliott-Coleman

Croydon based artist and writer of science fiction and fantasy www.josephelliottcoleman.com

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Filippo Palizzi (Italian painter 1818–1899)

Excavations in Pompeii, 1870

Oil on Canvas

119.5 × 86 cm.

Private Collection

[rabid-transcendentalist]

@anthropologist-on-the-loose get peer-reviewed because your shared experience with the subject of the painting really heightened the emotional impact of this artwork for me ( An impact which was already high tbh. The idea that Pompeii was built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations. What if I just started screaming and never stopped. )

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

"Built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations" is ruining me, thanks

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

But it was buried by generations! Yes, it was buried in a volcanic eruption, but it was also figuratively buried. Over the centuries the location of Pompeii was lost, and it was found again by accident during construction projects. The ruins were not conclusively identified as the city of Pompeii until the 18th century (more than a millennia and a half after the eruption!) and it has been excavated ever since. People have been digging there since before the formation of the United States.

It's truly an incredible, one-of-a-kind site.

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Panels from the manga “BLAME!” illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei

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Charles Dana Gibson. ' A Cabinet Meeting ', ca. 1896.

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Charles Dana Gibson (American, 1867-1944), oil on canvas, 30" x 25"

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Rest in Peace, Tony Stella (1988 - 2026)

[amalkova]

"It's my duty to protect the town. You're dying tonight" Another VSMP illustration! This time it's incredible Apokuna, she sure, uh, had a time, all kinds of times in session 3 and this moment was both heartbreaking and very cool.

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[trashpandaqc]

two proof-of-concept adaptations of Blame! from 2003 & 2007. 100% confusing without the manga but totally immersive. dl the first one here.

[amalkova]

~the hills are alive with the sound of s̵̘͍̺̎͌́̈́ͅh̷̭̥̃r̶̟͕͛ë̵͉́ͅď̶̲̤̗̪͋̽d̵̝̰̖̿ĭ̶͇̪̀n̵͕̓g̷̨̟̊

[josephelliottcoleman]

Frostfeld - The Mourning Son: Available now.

My urban fantasy novel "Frostfeld - Mourning Son" is available digitally everywhere. Equal parts police procedural, urban fantasy, and fantasy epic, it is a tale of love, grief, horror, awe, and forgiveness. And I'm damned proud of it. Welcome to my world. https://books2read.com/u/brn2jE

[zuzartii]

Until next life

[josephelliottcoleman]

From the writer of Frostfeld - The Mourning Son and 2000AD's Judges - The Patriots comes the first book in a new thrilling saga!

RUN THE MISSION

STEAL THE PLANET

SAVE THE GALAXY

Captain Francis Ignatius Solomon III commands the Yaa Asantewaa, the Confederation’s blade in a galaxy that refuses to stay quiet. Brilliant, stubborn, and inconveniently perceptive, he’s sent to investigate a planet that has reappeared after fifteen years — the same world that swallowed his father.

He’s forced to take an Uncanny Agent with him, one of the ancient manipulators who have steered civilisations and erased them. Their warnings are vague. Their concern is not.

What Solomon finds is no mystery. It’s a wound in spacetime, reopening. Something vast and patient is waking beneath the planet’s surface, and its return answers a millennia‑old question with a single truth: survival was never part of the plan.

As time fractures, the dead intrude, and the Confederation’s greatest weapons fail, Solomon and his crew face an enemy that does not hate or rage. It simply returns.

And when it does, galaxies are the smallest things it reclaims.

Cover art by @grahamtg

Available for preorder immediately https://josephelliottcoleman.com/books/the-weapons-masters-planet-heist-the-weapons-masters-book-1

[josephelliottcoleman]

The Heretics - A light novel

So my next project will be a ya fantasy book or a light novel entitled: The Heretics - Dead Cities. The story originally took the form of a pitch to Oni Press for an ongoing comic but seeing the material they were publishing at the time it was obivious that it would be unsuitable.

The plot changed over the years and subsequent draft but all the core of the story centered on a mother and daughter from another world, possibly the last of their people who survived a purge of their order who were forced to flee across worlds to ours effectively becoming refuges. Those one who were burdened with emence power and awful responsibility.

What happened when great power lies in the hand of people who now reside in world where there is no responsibility?

I mean to self publish it and like light novels from China and Japan, I mean to commission an illustrator to provide full page art for the project. The KDP portal is so user friendly that a kid could see their way through it.

The plan was to write the novel very quickly having it be completed by mid January then edit and rewrite through February for it to see print in March ready for the London Book Fair. Unfortunatly, due to family emergencies and whatnot i've completely blown my self imposed deadline to get the draft of my current YA urban fantasy novel completed.

Lets try and smash it out by the end of *this* month and see what it looks.

[a999ain]

xoxo 📸 💋

ref under cut

[josephelliottcoleman]

So this is what 46 looks like. A birthday day is a milestone that offers the opportunity for reflection. And my god do I have a lot to be thankful for. Friends, family, peers, all of you make me life richer. My work gives me purpose. The future gives me inspiration.

Thank you. All of you.

The best is yet to come!

And please buy/review my book it's the best birthday present you could ever give me! https://amzn.eu/d/14ss0eC

[josephelliottcoleman]

Why I wrote my novel

I wrote Frostfeld because I wanted to see myself and my people in positions of power and authority, facing adversity and horror who enjoyed the respect of their peers. Our lives are not governed utterly by tragedy and hate but by courage, struggle and hopefully, a little bit of love. Cover art and design by Neil Mcclements https://amzn.eu/d/2O4G0EX

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In Review: Judges Volume Two

In Review: Judges Volume Two

Review by Joe Gordon

By Michael Carroll, Maura McHugh, Joseph Elliott-Coleman Publisher: Rebellion/2000 AD

The Book: In the United States of America of 2041, Eustace Fargo’s new justice system has been in effect for eight years. The old days of waiting times and backlogs are over: judgement is quick, and sentencing is instantaneous. The old police academies have all shut down, and the new…

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Manuscript Excavations

So, i took a short break from writing my current novel to reread space opera/detective novel entitled "The Six Damnations" that i wrote 14k words of during the 2020 lockdown before abandoning it for unknown reasons.

And it links directly into the novel I'm currently writing in the same way the Silmarillion links directly into Lord of The Rings

I think once this currently book is on its way to the printers I'm going to have to swing around and finish this and get it out there.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Why i stopped writing it is utterly beyond me......

Addendum:

I abandoned it because i wanted to focus on rewriting another novel that ended up clocking in at just over 256k words! In other words, i wanted to work on something that was nearer competition so that i could sell it.

It didn't sell. So I'll sell it myself via self publication.

Nothing is ever wasted.