10 YEARS OF THE BF SIX TO WATCH! Again, there is so much excellent work currently competing for your cash and attention on various crowdfunding sites but here’s another project you really should be looking out for. Zack Quaintance’s Death of Comics Bookcase is an anthology with a distinctively meta twist and features new work from BF ‘Six to Watch’ creator Anna Readman (in itself good enough reason to back this!). Full details and some preview pages below.
Death of Comics Bookcase, Vol. 1
Six stories, 48 pages, one epic demise! This new anthology comic is written by Zack Quaintance, founder and former editor of the defunct comics blog, Comics Bookcase, which is being murdered in these pages…publicly…and purely for entertainment purposes, of course.
“I shut down my comics site a couple years ago to focus on creating comics,” Quaintance said. “Now, I’m dusting it off to tell the tale of the titular Bookcase’s demise. There will be blood…and bookcases…and comics. It’ll be great!”
One of the standout stories in the book is The Werewolf Priest, which features art by rising star artist, Anna Readman (Dancing Queen, 2000 AD), colored here by Brad Simpson (Coffin Bound). A young reporter takes his first job at a newspaper in South Texas, but everything changes when something murders an agent with US Border Patrol. Suddenly, paranormal horror is everywhere in this story that features stunning grindhouse artwork and a fun pulp sensibility. It also features letters by Becca Carey
United by a shared cheeky sensibility, the rest of the book features a range of genres and a mix of rising/established creators. In its pages, Kickstarter backers will find a superhero story by artist Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade), with letterer François Vigneault; fantasy by artist Luke Horsman (2000 AD), colorist Jason Wordie, and letterer Rob Jones; crime by artist Pat Skott (Next Door), colorist Ellie Wright, and letterer Rob Jones; and sci-fi/war by artist PJ Holden (2000 AD, Battle Action), colorist Dearhbla Kelly, and letterer Simon Bowland.
Tying the whole book together is a framing sequence, where an actual anthropomorphic comics bookcase is telling the tales, and that story is illustrated by Ryan Lee (Mountainhead, Rick and Morty) with colors by Doug Garbark, and letters by Shawn Lee.
In addition, the book will feature a main cover by John McCrea with colors by Mike Spicer; a deluxe edition cover by Raul Allen, and a variant cover by Nick Cagnetti, all available exclusively this spring via Kickstarter.
2024 marks the tenth year of Broken Frontier’s ‘Six to Watch‘ initiative. Look for articles throughout the year celebrating the work of those artists who have been a part of the programme.
