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 City of Tomorrow

Part One

Shitty City is flooded after months of non stop rain and it's about to be invaded by mad future pirates! Only Fred can save us now!!

In the style of classic 2000AD mixed with Deadline and The Beano, it'll be a 40-50 page black and white comic with lots of action, beer, flying car chases and jokes, wrapped up behind colour covers.

 

It's mostly scripted with 20 pages pencilled, 6 of which are now inked and ready for lettering.

If you like the look of it please check back for news and updates etc.

Here's a couple of random spoiler free pencilled pages to give you a teaser...

I'll also be posting a ton of the old Fred comics from way back when, all tidied up and digitally restored...

Thanks for reading this far.

Hail CG!!

BJ Teaser 'OOO-ERRR, MISSUS!!'

During the early 2000s artist BJ Wilson quickly became Mondo's stand out superstar with comics 'Iron Ed' and 'Assault Suit Kevin'. Sporting quite a cartoony style that is influenced by both US underground comix (Zap, Crumb etc) and the French/European comics (Metal Hurlant, Moebius etc) of the 1970s his work appeared in several underground/small press comics in the UK in the 80s before settling in to becoming a Mondo mainstay around the late 90s. He's known for his very precise inking and unique lettering style.

Here the is a few teaser illustrations by BJ to give you a sampler of what's to come. These are all just scans of the photocopied pages he sent me a while back and are unaltered. The proper stuff will be all tidied up and coloured... enjoy.

'Brilliant line work!!'

NEXT- The Death Of Simply Splendid!!

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Mondominium #4

Not seen since the March 1995 issue of  Mondo (#32), this little gem saw Jon Edwards on a very Heavy Metal/Moebius sci-fi vibe. This new remastered version has been digitally restored and coloured very quickly by Yours Truly over a couple of weeks. Colouring isn't my strong point, but I really enjoyed doing this, the perfect pallet cleanser after months doing lots of very intense black and white detail on Fred Fortune. I loved those old Epic Comics reprint paperbacks of Moebius' work back in the late 80s and tried to evoke that colour style and not make it look too digital. My own colour sensibility has probably sneaked in a bit too much... What do you think?

Jon Edwards, apologies for remastering your stuff, if you are out there please get in touch...

NEXT- ???

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Previous Fred Fortune comics available here-

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Mondominium #3!!

 

Here's a selection of old Mondo covers for you... This is the cover of the first issue I read by one A.Davies. I don't have copies of #s1-5 and Lee didn't keep any, so if anyone seeing this has those issues please drop us a line, we'd love them back in the Mondo archive. We'll scan them then get them straight back to you. Other missing issues are #s 8, 9 and 10, #33, and #37 of Mondo's first run.

The Christmas 1993 issue was Mondo's first colour cover and featured the epic death of British Bulldog story, aping DC's Death of Superman which was running at the time. This issue also came with a free gift, as a lot of UK comics did at the time to boost sales. Usually stickers, bubblegum or plastic space spinner toys, here we had free tissues for mourners to have a good cry at the loss of the fallen hero! Art by Nick Raybould.
 

Issue 25 (August 1994) was by the late Hadyn Walker marked the start of his and Lee Davis' post apocalyptic adventure strip 'Garrison's Blade'

Another Mondo legend made his debut in Issue 41 in 1999. Known for his very precise line work cartoonist BJ Wilson had been around the small press scene since the 80s. His 'Iron Ed' story was serialised and quickly became the comic's go to strip with it's very English take on the 70s Heavy Metal style.'Iron Ed' and BJ are Mondo MUST HAVES. If you use Kindle unlimited you can read 'Iron Ed' in all it's glory here- 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/IRON-ED-Barrys-Comics-Book-ebook/dp/B007RGIHDM/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=iron+ed&qid=1633440975&sr=8-1

It's follow up 'Assault Suit Kevin' would come later. Personally speaking I think BJs amazing artwork would benefit from some colour. Perhaps that French/Moebius/Asterix etc style... Watch this space if you'd like to see something like that...

CGUK ROUND UP-

The Boys are back!!

MRY BOYS: BEEFHEADS

Funding on Indiegogo

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NEXT TIME- Mondominium #4

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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Woolley Jumper #8

It's Woolley Jumper time again, this week part one of 'The Citadel of Silence' bursts onto your screens with lots of dynamic triangle panels and crazy action. It originally appeared in #18 of Mondo, the first issue of 1994.Sporting an amazing biker/metal cover from Tom Carney, also below, the issue featured 'The Hitman' by Lee Davis and Mike Kinsella- a strip I've earmarked for restoring and colouring to be republished at some point. My own Fred Fortune in a story entitled 'The Dull Day' where Fred is so bored he walks out of his own strip in disgust(!). Part 8 of 'Copter Cops' by Matt Banwell and Noel White, a strip that started in one of the missing issues. If anyone out their has any stray copies of Mondo #s 1-5 (1992), 8, 9 & 10 (1993), 33 (April 1995), and 37 (August 1995) please drop us a line so we can return them to the Mondo archive. We'll get them scanned and straight back to you ASAP with a gift of some sort. Also in #18 was Negative Man scripted again by Matt Banwell with art by Chris Doughty. A prose article by Mark Yarwood about the Noir genre called 'Hard Boiled'. Mark is now a crime author with a huge stack of books to his name... check them out on Amazon if you like. You can also find Mark on Twitter @MarkYarwood72. Next Lee Davis and Paco Garcia's epic superhero sequel 'Hyperion II' continued as did 'Man XL' also written by Lee Davis with art by Steve Jones. The issue was capped with a few pin-up pieces including a very Schwarzenegger like rendition of the 'British Bulldog' character by Cavan Ark.

 

NEXT TIME- Building Blocks 4

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Coming Soon- Fred Fortune: City of Tomorrow 

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