Rammenoth
03-24-2009, 02:14 PM
Hi all!
First of all, I would like to introduce myself. I´m Jose Oliver and I´m the writer of the comicbook Young Lovecraft. The artist Bart Torres and I are Spanish and we're not a lot into the English-speaking Lovecraft World... (Hope you can understand me... sorry for my horrible English).
We´ve just started to publish our webcomic in English after its Spanish edition. It´s called Young Lovecraft and it´s about the childhood of HPL. We play with the creatures of his Myths and tell what if they had been real entities that he met while he was just a kid. Our Lovecraft it´s not exactly like the real one, but we think our work is a nice homage from our love to him and his works.
At the moment we´re publishing the comicstrips via blogging, in our weblog: http://younglovecraft.blogspot.com/
We started in Spain with the spanish version (http://eljovenlovecraft.blogspot.com/) and it became successful to the point Diabolo Ed. (http://www.diaboloediciones.com/actualidad.html), an Spanish publishing house became interested. With the comicbook version it has sold more almost 4,000 copies (which in Spain is a lot of sold copies if authors are not japanese or american). Diabolo now will publish Young Lovecraft in English worldwide via Previews. We think that, as Lovecraft it´s an important icon of American Literature, may you, HPL readers across the ocean, will be interested in our comic.
To make a quick idea of it, we could say that it´s a cross between Tim Burton's style and Calvin & Hobbes' humor + Lovecraft Myths. Does it sound well? Hope it does...
Can I let you an example?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/cisnenegro/lovie51eng.jpg
Any comment, advice or blasphemy will be welcomed! Please let us a chance and visit us (http://younglovecraft.blogspot.com/)!
First of all, I would like to introduce myself. I´m Jose Oliver and I´m the writer of the comicbook Young Lovecraft. The artist Bart Torres and I are Spanish and we're not a lot into the English-speaking Lovecraft World... (Hope you can understand me... sorry for my horrible English).
We´ve just started to publish our webcomic in English after its Spanish edition. It´s called Young Lovecraft and it´s about the childhood of HPL. We play with the creatures of his Myths and tell what if they had been real entities that he met while he was just a kid. Our Lovecraft it´s not exactly like the real one, but we think our work is a nice homage from our love to him and his works.
At the moment we´re publishing the comicstrips via blogging, in our weblog: http://younglovecraft.blogspot.com/
We started in Spain with the spanish version (http://eljovenlovecraft.blogspot.com/) and it became successful to the point Diabolo Ed. (http://www.diaboloediciones.com/actualidad.html), an Spanish publishing house became interested. With the comicbook version it has sold more almost 4,000 copies (which in Spain is a lot of sold copies if authors are not japanese or american). Diabolo now will publish Young Lovecraft in English worldwide via Previews. We think that, as Lovecraft it´s an important icon of American Literature, may you, HPL readers across the ocean, will be interested in our comic.
To make a quick idea of it, we could say that it´s a cross between Tim Burton's style and Calvin & Hobbes' humor + Lovecraft Myths. Does it sound well? Hope it does...
Can I let you an example?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/cisnenegro/lovie51eng.jpg
Any comment, advice or blasphemy will be welcomed! Please let us a chance and visit us (http://younglovecraft.blogspot.com/)!