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Crowdfunding Spotlight: Lustration from Joe Latham, Star Wars-inspired silliness, Flintlock, SKRAWL, and more!

Some great looking Kickstarter comics projects worth your attention, including Flintlock, SKRAWL and The Nazz

There are a number of smashing comic projects on Kickstarter well worth your attention right now, some that we’ve already highlighted recently, such as the latest for Death Sentence Liberty. But there are several more… How about a generous mix of adventure in the 18th century, for example, in Flintlock Book Six from Time Bomb Comics, the independent publisher behind the Gerry Anderson-inspired…

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“Brand is how we find each other” is a new guide to branding that could be ideal for comic creators

“Brand is how we find each other” is a new guide to branding that could be ideal for comic creators

Comic creator and illustrator Adam Lumb has a new book out – but it isn’t one of his impressive graphic novels. Instead, Brand is how we find each other is a guide he hopes will help the comics industry and creators with the business of comics. Subtitled “Rethinking branding for museums, media and the arts so it actually works”, Adam, a veteran brand consultant by day, artist by night, argues…

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Making Better Comics - artist Adam Lumb delves into the comics form, aided by the work of Scott McCloud

Making Better Comics – artist Adam Lumb delves into the comics form, aided by the work of Scott McCloud

Adam Lumb, the Sheffield-based creator, writer and artist of the self-published fantasy horror graphic novel series The Tide acknowledges Scott McCloud’s books (Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics) had a huge impact on his desire to make them – and voices that in a new video that should be of interest to many comic creators. “They hinted at the potential of comics to be…

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Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Tide Gallery Collection by Adam Lumb

Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Tide Gallery Collection by Adam Lumb

Ahead of the launch The Tide Volume 3, comic creator Adam Lumb has launched a Gallery Collection crowdfunder, featuring new Art Prints by Adam himself and a new piece by legendary artist Staz Johnson (Batman/Aliens, Dracula, X-Men, 2000AD, Marvel, DC). “If you’ve read the acknowledgments in The Tide Volume One, you’ll know Staz was very supportive with the launch of the book,” says Adam, “so when…

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Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Tide Volume Two by Adam Lumb

Crowdfunding Spotlight: The Tide Volume Two by Adam Lumb

Independent Sheffield creator and comics publisher Adam Lumb is currently seeking crowdfunding for Volume Two of his dark fantasy thriller series The Tide on Kickstarter. I was one of the people who backed the first volume last year on the basis of Adam’s pitch and promotional art, and like many others, I wasn’t disappointed by its initial promise.

The campaign for The Tide: Manhunt, the second…

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Creator Spotlight vol.3 | ADAM LUMB Welcome to another Creator Spotlight! This week we’ve been catching up with Adam Lumb about his debut title ‘The Tide’ - a female-led fantasy horror thriller in the form of a lusciously-produced European style hardback. Available for £12.99 with your SuperCard Go! Hey Adam! Congratulations on the publication of The Tide! There are an increasing number of people using KickStarter to fund comics projects in recent years and I’m curious to hear about your experience using the platform to launch a debut title. What drew you to KS and what were some of the things that helped and hindered you on your mission? There's no way I could have funded The Tide with the production quality I wanted to achieve without crowdfunding it. Kickstarter is great in two ways. It allows customers to effectively pre-order (and Kickstarter helps give potential backers a sense of security and trust to unknown projects). Secondly it effectively tests whether there is a market for the book. (Hitting my goal was a huge relief.) Doing the writing, pencils, inks and colours myself helped because I knew it was in my control (since it was all on me) and the Letterer on the book, Jim Campbell, is highly experienced and reliable. However doing all the rest yourself is exhausting. Anyone who finishes any book deserves a pat on the back. The other thing that really helped was listening to http://www.comixlaunch.com/podcast-archive/ . You don't have to agree with everything in the podcast (and not everything with my campaign followed the usual path expected) but the podcast asks good questions and helps you avoid pitfalls along the way. For example, without the podcast I would have set my funding goal way too high. Most of the backers were not known to me (all around the world and at least half from the United States) and the perceived wisdom is you need a big email list of contacts going in (which makes sense and I only had a small list). I ensured as many people as possible backed on the first day but I was also fortunate that the book was selected by Kickstarter as one of their Projects We Love and that well known creators like Kieron Gillen backed the book on Kickstarter. Any new creator is struggling to get eyeballs on their new comic so any extra exposure really helps. That's why Travelling Man's small-press work is so good for supporting new creators. Thank you! We do our best :) Was the full-colour, European hardback format something you were dead set on when it came time to print or is there an alternative future where The Tide would have been a staple-bound black and white zine instead? The Tide was always going to be colour (and I had a clear vision for this) but originally it was in fact going to be a "floppy" US format comic. The book is drawn on 11 x 17 paper on a grid designed for US format. However I decided to invert the traditional comics publishing model for The Tide. As many will know the traditional US model was to do floppies and then collect into paperback or hardback trade editions. I decided to release through my imprint Rich and Strange Press as hardback first as traditional prose book publishing industry always has. So for those who want a premium hardback, and don't want to wait, they can get this now. I'll then be releasing the digital and lower priced floppy down the line. (Or think Cinema release and then DVD if you prefer that analogy). And yes I know that's different to how everyone else is publishing comics... :-) The other thing that changed was that Milas Clay was originally going to be a man and was written as such in the script. At the last minute when I began drawing I flipped it. But she kept the name and made the whole character more interesting. I believe it happened with the movie Salt which was written for Tom Cruise and then cast Angelina Jolie. This project has been 20 years in the making; what convinced you it had reached its final form and what did it take for things to reach that stage? What a great question. I had to get good enough (measured by my own standards - no-one was stopping me). So I waited until I felt my first small-press, self-published title was of a standard I felt I could put out there. Of course now it is time for others to judge it. And of course I'm already thinking about how to make volume 2 better. This is my first comic ever so not just a debut for The Tide but for me too. You definitely learn from finishing something and seeing it all the way through. Even if it is just the first volume in a series. What can people expect from The Tide, and what should we expect to see from you next? The whole Tide Story script is written and finished and I can't wait for people to read the ending. But before then expect around 12 volumes to get us there. This is Witness Protection in Hell... Thanks for taking the time to chat to us, Adam! Be sure to check out https://www.artofadamlumb.com/ for more work and updates!

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In Review: The Tide by Adam Lumb

In Review: The Tide by Adam Lumb

By Adam Lumb Publisher: Rich and Strange Press ISBN 9781999957704 The Book: There are monsters in the lake. War is coming. Spies are everywhere. This is witness protection… in hell. The Tide is female led heroic fantasy horror-thriller, and oversized “European art book” format giving readers a cinematic reading experience. The story explores what it is like for a female law enforcement officer to…

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Here at An Englishman In San Diego, we’re big proponents of supporting home-grown comic talent where we can, whether it’s by sharing updates of UK conventions, spreading the word about signings and exhibitions, and posting about new releases from up-and-coming artists and writers which we think are worth checking out. One such project has been brought to our attention from someone who’s been on our radar for a while.

Adam Lumb is a comic book artist/writer, based in Sheffield in South Yorkshire whose previous work has always impressed the hell out of me – and now, Adam has come up with a book of his own, called THE TIDE.

The debut “explores what it is like for a female law enforcement officer to try and keep safe her wards in a witness protection scheme, but presents a new perspective by shifting a traditional thriller setting to a fantasy world of demonic monsters.” Intriguing stuff.

“I wanted to try something new and this book has been 20 years in the making,” says Lumb. “I wanted a book as pretty as the books of the 90s comics boom but with an approach to story more in line with contemporary comics storytelling.”

“I’ve tried combining new approaches to rhythm and tempo in comics with diverse influences from 90s comics publishers such as Top Cow, contemporary European comics and the works of Tennyson. Ultimately, I started with what I thought the medium of comics demanded and let that guide me.”

THE TIDE is going to be “…drawn traditionally and coloured and inked using a fusion of traditional and digital techniques to create a cinematic painterly approach”, which sounds pretty damn epic. The book is also bolstered by some strong pedigree in terms of its lettering and book design, as Jim Campbell (BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics) will be making his not-inconsiderable contribution in those departments.

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Okay, I’m sold. You can find out more about the book by heading to its official page on Adam’s website (https://www.artofadamlumb.com/thetide), you can download a preview comic, here (https://www.artofadamlumb.com/free) and you can pre-order the book by supporting the project on Kickstarter, starting 1st September (link to come). Check it out today – and we’ll keep you up-to-date with how things are progressing for THE TIDE, soon…

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First look: @ArtofAdamLumb's demonic 'witness protection' thriller THE TIDE sails to Kickstarter this Sept Here at An Englishman In San Diego, we're big proponents of supporting home-grown comic talent where we can, whether it's by sharing updates of UK conventions, spreading the word about signings and exhibitions, and posting about new releases from up-and-coming artists and writers which we think are worth checking out.