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Mary Boys: ALL STITCHED UP!
In this first full-length Mary Boys adventure, things get a little hairy for our beloved baldies and their wayward mentor, Father Parrish.
It was the final straw. And I mean, the FINAL final straw.
The Boys had pursued their crusade against sin in Basham with such vigour that even the town's pious church-going inhabitants were starting to get quite fed up.
It seemed that every day the Boys were getting into some sort of mischief, like setting fires to institutions of ill repute, terrorising some hapless (yet immoral) scum or curb-stomping any biker gang or football firm careless enough to cross their path.
The police never seemed to do anything about the problem, so the good people of Basham petitioned their mayor, who went ahead and did something no-one could ever have predicted.
First, he contacted the Bishop's office to remove Father Parrish from his post as priest and ship him off to London to be 'rehabilitated'. The Boys were placed under the care of a new priest tasked with de-radicalising them.
The Mayor then instituted a programme to rid the town of anti-social behaviour by banning the sale of booze and replacing it with a 'harm-free' new drug developed by a company called ASBOPharm. The company's private security force, recruited from the ranks of the very hoodlums the Mary Boys regularly clashed with, monitor the booze ban whilst ASBOpharm uses Basham as a testing ground for its drug trials.
Teenagers flock from all over the country to join these trials and partake in the non-stop debauchery that ensues. To make matters worse, a brutal yet enigmatic serial killer emerges to terrorise the town's population by night.
And so, the bodies pile up while Basham slowly descends into chaos. All the while the Boys are trapped in their own existential crisis which threatens to spell the end to their lives together as a family.
ALL STITCHED UP! is a story in five parts and the proceeds of this campaign will go towards the costs of producing, printing and shipping the first instalment, which will be a 40-page black and white comic book written and illustrated my me, Chubb (who else?!).
The whole ALL STITCHED UP! arc has already been written and thumb-nailed.
The campaign for each instalment will launch only when all the art for that book has been completed. This is to avoid long waits between backing and fulfilment.
The comic in this campaign also includes a Christmas story, which ties in with the overall ALL STITCHED UP! arc.
Please sign up to the mailing list to get notified when we launch: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mary-boys-all-stitched-up-part-1/coming_soon/x/22253895#smallpress
Mary Boys: Beefheads!
Almost forgot about this Blogger account. Lots has happened since the last post. We have fulfilled on the old comic and launched a new campaign for the next volume MARY BOYS: BEEFHEADS! A 74 page collection of self-contained stories. BACK IT HERE!
You can order the comics from the first campaign here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124827255926?hash=item1d1048c476:g:VksAAOSwHupg~6~X
Video up
I made a basic video setting out the plot to the Mary Boys comic with art samples to give prospective readers an idea of what I'm trying to achieve. I'll do a more polished one for the Indiegogo campaign.
Warm up inks
Warm up inks before I get started on the pages to remind myself of the desired balance between line art and ink washes. Just a touch of shade does the job with the rest a stark choice between black and white line
Let's get slaughtered
Get your meme's. After Article 13 becomes law we will all have to use public domain images for our meme's so I thought I'd get in early.
Character designs
These guys have been kicking around in my brain for years. The fleshing out process left me with a very good idea of who they were and what they stand for.
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| Harry |
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| Parrish - the 25 facial expressions challenge |
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| The boys |
Research
I've been skulking around several of Bristol's churches in the hope of finding one that would fit the bill for the Mary Boys' church, but they are all either too big, don't have the elements required for the story, or simply weren't built in the gothic style. Finally I cut and pasted a church from several different sources, but mostly St John's on the Wall and St Mary's of Redcliffe.
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| St John's on the Wall |
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| St Mary's of Redcliffe |
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| St John's on the Wall |
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