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Eagle Awards 2009
Submitted by DAJB on May 11, 2009 - 05:25
A couple of years ago, I entered Shades in the Favourite Web-Based Comic category of the UK's prestigious Eagle Awards. Not surprisingly, we didn't win. (The award, if I remember rightly, went to some decades-old gag-strip)! Anyway, this year, I thought it was about time we tried again!
Free Comic Book Day
Submitted by DAJB on May 2, 2009 - 19:51
So - Saturday, 2 May 2009, is Free Comic Book Day ... Does this happen in the UK? I don't know. It seems to be a big thing in the US, though, so at Broken Voice Comics we felt we ought to participate somehow. Unfortunately, we don't have any of our titles in print, and so - as Ryan so neatly puts it below - we decided to make Volume 1 of our graphic novel Shades available as a free PDF instead!
Twitter - anyone else tweeting?
Submitted by DAJB on February 26, 2009 - 05:03
Forget MySpace, forget Facebook ... it seems the in-place to be these days is Twitter.
If the established social networks provide a "shop window" for you to display your wares, Twitter is a coffee shop where you can put your head in the door, have a quick chat with anyone you know there, and move on.
Shades - Chapters 9 and 10 now available!
Submitted by DAJB on December 10, 2008 - 19:34
Wow - have I really not posted anything here since August? Yup - it seems so! Oh, well ... here's a snippet just to keep you all updated on where we are!
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Chapters 9 and 10 of my graphic novel Shades are the latest to become available to read online at the Broken Voice Comics website. The new chapters are the first to be illustrated by the new art team of E.C. Nickel and Muamal Khairi.
Shades a finalist - DD Awards 2008
Submitted by DAJB on August 14, 2008 - 06:26
Remember I mentioned the 2008 Drunk Duck Awards recently? Well, the five finalists in each category have just been announced and Shades has made it into the final round in six categories! Thanks to everyone who nominated us!
The six relevant categories are:
Drunk Duck Awards 2008
Submitted by DAJB on August 3, 2008 - 07:47
Just in case there's anyone reading who doesn't know, Drunk Duck is a webcomic hosting site and, towards the end of last year, we began serialising Shades there, as well as at our own BVC website.
Well, those nice people at DD have decided to give out lovely awards again this year, so - if you've been enjoying Shades at either site, please do support us by giving us your nomination!
"Shades" reviewed by Ain't it Cool News!
Submitted by DAJB on July 13, 2008 - 07:16
I'm sure you've heard of Ain't it Cool News, right? The Harry Knowles website that gives brutally honest reviews of the latest movies and has a knack for unearthing the most closely guarded studio secrets? Of course you have. Well, unless you visit the AiCN website regularly, what you may not have realised is that they also review other things, like DVDs and comics. And more recently, it seems, even webcomics. Webcomics like ... Shades!
Women bishops?! Good Lord!
Submitted by DAJB on July 8, 2008 - 06:25
I try not to voice my personal opinions too loudly on the net, particularly on issues in respect of which too many other people's views are so firmly entrenched that a rational exchange of ideas just isn't possible. Religion is a big one. Feminism is another. And now the General Synod of the Church of England has voted to press ahead with plans for the ordination of women bishops, hitting both nails squarely on the head with - to extend the metaphor - a single hammer.
So - to break my customary silence on such matters: Yay, them!
kemlo @ 2008-05-15T12:36:00
Submitted by DAJB on May 15, 2008 - 07:37
Shades - it's the end!
Well, to be more accurate, it's the half-way point. Today we reach a huge milestone in Shades - the last page of what will eventually be Volume 1 of a print version!
Thy Will Be Done - creepy is as creepy does!
Submitted by DAJB on May 9, 2008 - 10:18
We've seen a lot of creepy things in E.C. Nickel's and Alexandre Lobao's SciFi comic Thy Will Be Done but none, perhaps, quite so creepy as the mysterious "Doctor".
