A recent finished page from the manga story THE STORY OF LEE. This will appear as a 25 page episode out of the longer story 'arc' in volume two of the MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW MANGA, out October 2007. Its from the planned part two of the story, where Lee now lives in Edinburgh, with her boyfriend Matt. Part one is where the two of them met in Lee's native city of Beijing,China. There will be a part three also, with a bit of luck. Written by myself and the artist is the wonderful and cute (but not as cute as me!) Yishan Li. The parts of the story set in Edinburgh contain a lot of biographical details from my own life, even though this story is basically fictional.
This story also features the 'real life' band THE CLIENTELE, performing in Edinburgh Univeristy. The singer of this band, Alasdair Maclean, and I went to the Univeristy at the same time, and were close pals. We used to go to the Cafe Florentine together near the high street and discuss of glorious artistic futures. This was 15 years ago, and thankfully we are both still making those dreams come true. Now, thats magick! They can bee seen at: http://www.myspace.com/theclienteleofficial
2 comments:
i'm trusting you to include somewhere an "arright mate, this isnae your neighbourhood is it? wan gies yer jaicket, and ya wan gies yer jaicket the noo?"
How dare you perpetuate the myth that all Scottish people are violent hooligans, you cad!
When I see you next you will need to get
THAT stitched!
Joking of course. Hello dear Alasdair!
That infamous 'gies yer jacket' thing pretty much happened to me once in Glasgow in 1990, when me and my brother were mugged on our way to George Square. In fact, Ive been attacked on the street in Scotland 5 times to my recollection. And was once held up at gunpoint in central London.
Hmm, peace and love huh?
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