Classical Comics

I have written a comic book version of the novel A CHRISTMAS CAROL, by Charles Dickens. For the UK publisher, CLASSICAL COMICS, which will be out October 2008. A preview can be dwnload here:
http://www.classicalcomics.com/previews.html

My version highlights the social realism of the book, mixed with the very engaging characters that relay the moral in the story. They are making a line of high quality adaptations, including with my good friend Neill Cameron,who has done the art for the first of this line of books - HENRY V. This book is out now. Their aim is a good one and they have a great team of people working on their books. In fact they just won a silver medal in the 2008 Independent Publishers Awards in America - in the Graphic Novel/Drawn Book- Drama/Documentary category. So, please click the post title and check them out.

The artist on A Christmas Carol will be Mike Collins, who has been professional artist for more than 20 years. He has worked on many well known books, such as Batman, Judge Dredd, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Harry Potter. So its lucky for me to have such an experienced artist drawing my script. He even has good taste in music - likes Joni Mitchell, one of my favourites too! Here are two pages by him, David Roach and James Offredi.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.collins17/mikecv.htm

The second book of mine with Classical comics will be THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, based on the first book published of Oscar Wilde's. The mansion house art above is the opening page from that book, by Steve Bryant and Jason Millet. The third book is WUTHERING HEIGHTS, which will be drawn by the expectional John M Burns. Again, someone who has being creating comics for many years and who is still doing great work ( Nikolai Dante, Judge Dredd, TV Century 21, Look-In, Modesty Blaise, etc. An honour to have him work on one of my scripts.

BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY

Over the last few years, since i moved to Japan, I have become more and more involved in doing coordinator and editor type work, as well as my main work of actual writing. So I decided recently I should formalise that into a specific section of Boychild Productions, with the name of BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY.

I've got involved with help to organise the manga section of the Bristol Comic Expo in the UK. In 2006 we brought along its first Japanese guest, Sakura Mizuki, direct from Japan for his first visit to the UK. Then in 2007 we put together 12 manga creators in a specific 'manga alleyway', including 5 Japanese creators and two Chinese. This year the manga section will be even larger. I also became involved in organising the translation of a famous Japanese manga book into English for a UK publisher. I worked as the coordinator between a US publisher and a Japanese artist on the production of a150 page book last year. Recently another UK publisher asked me to find a Japanese manga artist for their new book and to find another Japanese artist for a Library event. I have also started working with a manga agent in Tokyo on similiar things.

So the BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY will be the name for this type of work I do alongside the Japanese agent from now on. The main thing we will specialise in is finding Japanese (but also Chinese and Korean) manga artists for American and European publishers looking for 'real' manga artist to work on their books. We can also do the same for design, advertising companies and magazines. We already have several artists sign up for this, but we need more. So submit your artwork to us to be considered as one of the list of artists that companies look at. A special website for this is being prepared now, and the money details worked out. Publishers and companies can contact BOYCHILD MANGA AGENCY already to say what kind of artist they are looking for.

Contact me in English:
info@boychildproductions.co.uk

Boychild Books - Tailored Made Comics

Tailored Made Comics! - This allows you to get a comic book made about yourself, your family or your company... recounting and recording the story, to treasure for years.

Comic books, manga, graphic novels, illustrated stories are an excellent way of recording your biography. The words allow your thoughts and interactions to be recorded clearly, and the art brings the story fully alive in visual form. Its cheaper and easier than making a long film about yourself, but more visual than simply writing a text book.

All you need do is supply the biographical details (of what happened to whom, where, when, why etc within your real story) and reference material to help us get the details right (photos, clippings, text etc). We will then write a comic book script and illustrate it with one of our artists. Once you are happy with what we have done we will present the finished story to you on both paper and jpeg/ pdf formats.

The basic cost depends on the page length:

20 page story = 450 UK pounds/ 870 US dollars

35 page story = 650 UK pounds/ 1200 US dollars

50 page story = 900 UK pounds/ 1700 US dollars


This is for black and white pages, colour pages will take more time and effort, so cost more. As a special service we can also arrange the professional printing of the finished book for you, with a cover specially designed and printed at a specialist comic book printer. This will be a book good enough to be sold in shops and online. Contact us for the price of this extra service.

For more information and to get a comic book of your own life made, then please contact: info@boychildproductions.co.uk

UK webcomixthing March 2008

The indie event, UK webcomixthing March 2008 is on 22nd March and Boychild Books will be there represented by Andy Woolf and Lee O'Connor. Several of our books can be bought there and lots of other good stuff from people in the very creative indie comic book scene in the UK. This image here is nothing to do with it though! Its from an advert from 2006 book THE JAPANESE DRAWING ROOM, with Sakura Mizuki as artist. This was a possible ad to use in Diamond Previews, but we used a different better one instead. Click to expand it to full size. This book can anyway be bought from the Boychild Books stall, so there is some slight connection! The Giraffe pic is by Lee O'connor, to be included in the event anthology, showing Nazema nd his sister from our IRAQ book. UK webcomixthing , March 22nd, Great Hall, Queen Mary University - Mile End - London - UK

http://www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk/2008/exhibitors-booking.php?PHPSESSID=e41a56364b5be4173ce52d46d6d8053c