Greetings friends,
After many months of drawing, fiddling, crises of faith and ultimate resignation, my first ever small press book of comic strips titled 'Dark Days and Other Tales' is finally released today. It contains 25 comic strips which feature ruminations on death, hatred, space, skulls, quests and more. It even comes with an exclusive 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' badge, so the world knows you have a healthy and debilitating fear of death. Let us have a peek inside before I explain what on earth possessed me:
INFO:
Dark Days and Other Tales
Written and Illustrated by Luke Drozd
Full colour cover, black and white inside.
25 comic strips including such hits as: The Glue Factory, Judgment Day, The Pummelling, The Burial, Ugly Child, Found In Space, Four Famous Skulls, Greetings For Enemies, Cats, The Worm's Turn and Dark Days.
Comes with exclusive 'I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' badge/button.
It is available from my online shop HERE for £5 plus postage.
Looks alright, huh?
Well, it nearly didn't exist. I certainly never set out to make a book of comic strips. It all started when Crispin Parry from British Underground and I decided to have a 'Funnies' section in the first issue of UKPA's Flood magazine. People liked it so we did it again in issue 2 (which featured Four Famous Skulls, the only previously published strip in the book). I had long been baffled by the amount of truely awful and genuinely unfunny and uncreative strips that get published in UK papers and decided that I could do better, or at least as bad. I soon realised I wasn't massively funny either but I did enjoy making them so I carried on. Every once in a while I would have a vaguely dumb idea that may work as a strip, and slowly but surely I created a small stack of them. I decided they were probably not worth publishing, but showed them to my good pal and art advisor Graham Pilling. He told me I had to release them and I have a legal document that says I must do as he says, so I made a chunk more and they in turn formed the contents of Dark Days, which is what it is...
So basically, what I'm saying is, it's all Graham's fault.
Now go and buy it. It's HERE, get your eyes all over it.
Luke
