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Suggested stuff to buy this gift giving season #2 – A Study in Sherlock

John Reppion — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:00:55 +0000

BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES—IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger

Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and reveal their own personal obsessions with the Great Detective.

Thomas Perry, for example, has Dr. Watson tell his tale, in a virtuoso work of alternate history that finds President McKinley approaching the sleuth with a disturbing request; Lee Child sends an FBI agent to investigate a crime near today’s Baker Street—only to get a twenty-first-century shock; Jacqueline Winspear spins a story of a plucky boy inspired by the detective to make his own deductions; and graphic artist Colin Cotterill portrays his struggle to complete this assignment in his hilarious “The Mysterious Case of the Unwritten Short Story.”

In perfect tribute comes this delicious collection of twisty, clever, and enthralling studies of a timeless icon.

Order from Amazon or The Poisoned Pen

Coming soon… [revised, updated and fixed]

John Reppion — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:34:02 +0000

ometimes with Twitter, and Facebook, and Google+, and everything else, we get so used to putting bitesized chunks of information out quickly, as and when, we forget that some of the more major stuff can easily get lost amid more trivial things. So, for the benefit of those of you who might not be addicted to any of the above sites (as well as those who are but just missed any of this info as it zipped past), here are few exciting bits of Moore & Reppion news:

The Thrill Electric will be available on iTunes (still 100% FREE) as of next month.
Darklore Vol VI is coming early December 2011 (just in time for Xmas) and features an article about the mysterious prehistoric Calderstones monument here in Liverpool, written by John Reppion.
Moore & Reppion have just sold their first Black Museum story to 2000 AD (thanks Tharg).
We’re writing a brand new 8 issue series for Dynamite Entertainment (we also have our second Sherlock Holmes series – The Liverpool Demon – coming next year).

That’s all we can tell you about for now but there’s plenty more exciting news to come very soon. If you’re not one who Twits, or a Facebooker, or whatever, you might want to subscribe to our mailing list to make sure you don’t miss anything. Otherwise, please keep checking the site for regular updates.

Autumnal Equinox 2010 – half a year gone already

John Reppion — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:48:31 +0000

t 3.09 am (Greenwich Mean Time) tomorrow morning the centre of our Sun will be in the same plane as our planet’s equator and the Summer will officially turn to Autumn. There will also, for the first time in nine years, be a full moon in the sky to see in the new season. The Harvest Moon appears larger than other full moons and often takes on a reddish tinge… but it’s too cloudy here to see it at the moment, sadly.

2010 seems to be flying past and it feels rather weird not to have had anything new out since May (not counting collections). Rest assured that we’re still working our arses off, cracking on with Sherlock Holmes – The Liverpool Demon, and preparing for that very, very, very exciting project we keep mentioning but not telling you anything about. Alright, how about this as a tiny bit more info – in addition to Windflower Studio, we’ll also be working with the wonderful Emma Vieceli. Excited now? You should be!

Who would have thought that it would take us two years from the picture to the left was taken at Thought Bubble Leeds to fulfil our ambitions of working with both Leigh Gallagher and Ms. Vieceli… and that no-one would get to read any of it until 2011… Ah well.

We have been proofing scripts and indeed artwork for that Mike Raicht penned Dynamite follow up series we mentioned not so long ago and it looks like #1 of that should be hitting the stands soon (we’d like to think around Halloween, but that’s not definite). It’d be nice to be able to show you a bit of that but we can’t really. No honestly, we can’t. Well, I mean… okay, look… so long as you don’t tell anyone, yeah? Alright.

Holmes and Alice collections out now

John Reppion — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:59:49 +0000

A paperback collected edition of our 2009 miniseries The Trial of Sherlock Holmes drawn by Aaron Campbell, coloured by Tony Avina, lettered by Simon Bowland and with covers by John Cassaday is out now.

Just like the hardcover, the book is crammed with extras including an afterword by world renowned Holmes and Dracula scholar Leslie S. Klinger, an original Conan Doyle Holmes tale – The Devil’s Foot – illustrated by Campbell and lots more.

You can read a nine page preview of the story here.

Buy the Sherlock Holmes paperback from Amazon.co.uk

Buy the Sherlock Holmes paperback from Amazon.com

The big shiny hardback edition of The Complete Alice in Wonderland is also out now.

Collecting all four issues of our mammoth double adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There with beautiful artwork by Erica Awano and colours by PC Sequeira, the book also features loads of extras like poems, the “lost” chapter The Wasp in the Wig, scripts, and so on.

There’s even a rather beautiful French edition!

You can read a seven page preview here.

Buy the Complete Alice In Wonderland hardcover from Amazon.co.uk

…and we’re back

John Reppion — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:00:48 +0000

o, it’s been a while, eh? How are you? Oh, we’re good thanks, keeping busy, you know. Yeah, sorry about all the obituaries, bit of a downer. What’s that? What have we been up to?

Well…

We’ve written an adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth for a Self Made Hero anthology which is due out in 2011. The ever impressive Mr. Leigh Gallagher is handling the art and is currently wrangling with our mammoth script even as I type these words.

We’ve plotted a four issue follow up to a Dynamite Entertainment horror book we wrote a few years back which Mr. Mike Raicht is scripting and we’re overseeing. We’ve seen a bit of artwork already and it’s looking very nice.

We’ve just today finished writing #2 of our second five issue Sherlock Holmes series which is entitled The Liverpool Demon and is proving to be lots of fun thus far. Not sure who the artist is going to be yet but we’ll let you know.

On top of all that, we’ve got a big comics-but-not-as-we-know-them type project lined up which we’re very, very excited about and which we will tell you all about as soon as we possibly can. We promise.

And… I’m sure there’s other stuff too… Oh, we’ve got a couple of new collected editions out too. I’ll blog about those right now.

What’s that? Shut up? Fair enough.

The Trial of Sherlock Holmes paperback out – 07/15/10 – Your local comic shop

John Reppion — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Event	The Trial of Sherlock Holmes paperback out
When	Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:00am -
Where	Your local comic shop (map)
Other Info	Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective Sherlock Holmes returns in all-new adventures! Sherlock finds himself involved in a mystery that has him fighting for his very life and Watson putting the pieces together to either save his friend or condemn

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Merry Christmas 2009

John Reppion — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:00:13 +0000

Thanks to everyone who has helped to make 2009 such a great year for us both personally and professionally. Here’s hoping a good few people will be opening Moore & Reppion books this Christmas morning.

To help get you in the festive mood please enjoy this fantastic 1948 US radio presentation of that Chistmassy Holmes tale The Blue Carbuncle.

The Trial of Sherlock Holmes hardcover out now (with preview pages)

John Reppion — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:51:25 +0000

Yes, the collected edition of our five issue Dynamite Entertainment series The Trial of Sherlock Holmes is available now.

The book is crammed with extras such as scripts, artwork, an afterword by world renowned Holmes and Dracula scholar Leslie S. Klinger, an original Conan Doyle Holmes tale – The Devil’s Foot – illustrated by Aaron Campbell and lots more.

Surely an ideal Xmas present for that special Sherlockian in anyone’s life?

Order now from Amazon.co.uk

Order now from Amazon.com

Order now from Forbidden Planet

Still not convinced? Then please feel free to cast your critical eye over the first nine pages of our little tale.

Written by Leah Moore and John Reppion with reverence and a modern edge, artist Aaron Campbell completes the Victorian mood under the striking and iconic John Cassaday covers.
Issue #1 begins the “Trial of Sherlock Holmes” which presents the great detective with an all-too personal quandary and explores the nature of the man and his world with a mix of refined ambiance, carefully crafted mystery and chilling suspense!

The Trial of Sherlock Holmes #5 out UK & Europe – 10/08/09 – Your local comic shop

John Reppion — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Event	The Trial of Sherlock Holmes #5 out UK & Europe
When	Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:00am -
Where	Your local comic shop (map)
Other Info	The acclaimed mystery from Dynamite concludes. Can the world's greatest detective unravel his greatest mystery? Find out in the conclusion of "The Trial of Sherlock Holmes"!

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The Trial of Sherlock Holmes #5 out USA & Canada – 10/07/09 – Your local comic shop

John Reppion — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Event	The Trial of Sherlock Holmes #5 out USA & Canada
When	Wednesday, October 7, 2009 9:00am -
Where	Your local comic shop (map)
Other Info	The acclaimed mystery from Dynamite concludes. Can the world's greatest detective unravel his greatest mystery? Find out in the conclusion of "The Trial of Sherlock Holmes"!

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