Wordslinger

I've been sitting on the news for just a week or so, so that I could get everything in place for this announcement: The Duncan and Mallory graphic novels will be published on the Radio Comix website, beginning this September: http://www.radiocomix.com/

I've got QUITE a lot of work ahead of me to get all the pieces in place, which is why I'm waiting till September (Fencon weekend) to "go live" with it. Among the many new items that will be added to the full series is material that no one has seen before (a list of all the "in-jokes", for one thing, because they're too much fun to keep to myself), character bios, an "origins" story of how Bilge and Sadie got together, as well as some detailed concepts about "The Tangles" (and possibly even a tiny little game based on that. After the first 3 are finished, the 4th one will go up -- the one Bob and I were working on at the time of his death.

This is not the ONLY Duncan and Mallory material that's around. We had a number of stories that we had kicked around (and exist in a sort of "You know, we could ..." format) over the years. I've got a tiny notebook with about 20 different ideas that we had talked about at one time or another, so there's enough story material to keep it going through a 5th issue and beyond.

No decision about print publication has been made yet, but you KNOW it's coming. However, the first thing that needs to get done is to get all the fiddly details run (like making the banner for the page) and then it'll be up and on the web. I'll worry about print after I've done a print of Coyote (and made all the mistakes there, right?)

I'm very pleased and excited; I've been friends with Elin and the whole Radio Comix crowd since... uh... well... let's just say that we go back a number of years.

It's a real pleasure to be working on this for them.