Eldon and Lendon

Image: Page from "Eldon and Lendon"

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Eldon and Lendon

Image: Page from "Eldon and Lendon"

Paul Gavett's Chris Reynolds Interview

Inspirations and working methods.

http://paulgravett.com/articles/article/chris_reynolds

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Image: the mysterious Monitor!

 

Discussion about Mauretania Comics. Rome, Italy

https://www.tunue.com/

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Image: A journalist speaks enthusistically about comics.

Mauretania Comics at Paris Gare de Lyon (during Covid!)

https://www.garesetconnexions.sncf/fr/gare/frply/paris-gare-lyon

#chrisreynolds #graphicnovels #comics #paris

Image: Artwork at the station.

Eldon and Lendon

Image: Page from "Eldon and Lendon"

 Creeping Shadow review

Extra special thanks to Douglas Noble for publishing my "Creeping Shadow", reviewed here on the authoritative Broken Frontier website:

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/a-pocket-chiller-creeping-shadow/

“It's great being part of the Pocket Chiller team!” - Chris Reynolds

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Image: Book cover with Mr Sunderland!

One of the most important things that has ever happened to me as a cartoonist has been the support of Seth, who edited and designed my “New World” book. It has been wonderful. Seth can probably not imagine how grateful to I am to him.

https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-new-world?variant=53520533831

#comics #graphicnovels #seth #chrisreynolds

Text: Cover of "The New World" book!

 

THE DIAL AND OTHER STORIES

I was as pleased as punch in 2005 when Marc Baines of Glasgow's Kingly Books decided to reprint some of my Mauretania Comics stories in a smart new paperback. It was a really great thing and we had the launch at the Mono bar. The bar still exists although the great Kingly Books has gone! https://www.monocafebar.com/

The contents of Marc's “Dial” do not all appear in Seth's “New World” collection of my stories, although the first “The Dial” does.

The Dial and Other stories opened my eyes into how stories could be presented in print.

http://theslingsandarrows.com/the-dial/

#comics #graphicnovels #glasgow #kinglybooks #chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

Image: Cover of the book!

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

Chris Reynolds is one of the leading international graphic novelists.

His books have been published by Penguin and New York Review Books. His work has been translated into Italian, French and Spanish and reviewed by newspapers internationally, including The Guardian, TLS, New Statesman, Boston Globe, and most recently on the release of Italian and French editions in La Stampa, Il Manifesto, La Repubblica and Le Monde.

http://cinemadetectives.com/prowlcar.html

#comics #graphicnovels #kualalumpur

Image: page from the story.

TARGAFLORIOCOMICS: DO THEY COME OFF?

What are Targafloriocomics?

These comics are blessed by a spirit of irresponsibility. They are comics that will just take off and zoom down the straights with no thought of the dangerous bends ahead. Their readability or content may not be enhanced, their translation may be poor, and their subject matter … dumb ...but they do possess a certain... freedom.

The Italian version of Inspector Rockwell, despised, his office desk dumped unceremoniously in the road outside police headquarters... Rockwell will still solve the case!

Photo stories, stories that contain nothing, or stories that will make you squirm. Familiar characters Moon Queen and Prince Umsween adventure to regions far beyond their normal continuity. What is this? What are you trying to pull? Make you angry? Make you … cheated? Are there any videos? We've got aliens, of course!

Look out for the logo. Look out for Targafloriocomics wherever fast, zooming, irresponsible brain-dead Futurist comics are sold. Tragafloriocomics!

(Where does the name come from? The Targaflorio was a sports car race around the island of Sicily – like the Isle of Man TT motorbike races, but slightly more Dangerous!)

Experimental or just “...mental”?

#comics #graphicnovels #chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

Image: Comics covers with the Targafloriocomics logo.

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

We are the 28: “Power of Dreams,” “No Shocks,” “Not Taken,” “Human,” “Heavy Traffic,” “Giant Waterfalls,” “They Control Us,” “Liquid Light,” “Hands,” “The Framework of Cups,” “New Land,” “Old Trees,” “Dream Car,” “Tell Him,” “Memories,” “Old World,” “New Growth,” “Real Wife,” “Run Home,” “Bequest,” “Pulse,” “Spinner,” “Stronger than Magic,” “The Tree,” “Time to Forget,” “Top of the Town,” “Through Trees,” and “Wings.”

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

#comics #graphicnovels #kualalumpur

 

 

TORUS

had SOME stories I would have liked to have seen in “Adventures From Mauretania” but that's not what it became. I wanted it to look as if it just followed on, but what happened was that it followed through into the future.

#topology #geometry #comics #graphicnovels

https://www.amazon.com/Torus-Chris-Reynolds/dp/0244655847

TORUS

Collect Musicubes and find “Pure Heart”. Will they get them all? (Not without a little help!)

#topology #geometry #comics #graphicnovels

https://www.amazon.com/Torus-Chris-Reynolds/dp/0244655847

Image: Panels from the story, cover.

TORUS

Watch “The Beginning of Empires” with Monitor. He has to join the army!

#topology #geometry #comics #graphicnovels

https://www.amazon.com/Torus-Chris-Reynolds/dp/0244655847

 

FUTURE FARM STORIES

This book often has price deals!

“The Countryside Computer,” the second story in this collection concerns a change in technology among the countryside farms. A new machine, the Countryside Computer, now roams the farmland on its own specially-widened roads. It is hugely beneficial to all the farms, bringing prosperity to all using a very simple system. But after a while, our narrator, a young boy, finds that the Computer may be a harbinger of something a lot more sinister. He witnesses a minor local criminal who is willingly impaled by and who disappears into the machine, never to be seen again. He is disturbed by that knowledge but all remains calm. Then a war devastates the landscape. There is an implied feeling that the Countryside Computer is responsible for this, even though it is itself destroyed in the strife, but there is no obvious connection.

The Countryside Computer racing through the mountainous countryside is illustrated on the book's front cover. The design for the Computer was inspired somewhat by my friend's toys of Captain Scarlet's SPV and MPV, and you may notice that its design is not consistent throughout the story. To maintain it's presence, I have added details to the machine in the close-ups!

How did this story come about? One day, in a car, travelling through the fields of Wales, I noticed that the road we were driving on had recently been widened – but widened beyond all sense of proportion. Were they going to transport ships along here! That was the 'seed' for this story. (A colourised version of The Countryside Computer appears in the comic “Torus.”)

#farmers #comics #landscape #mysticism

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

Image: Panels from the story!

NEW POSTERS ARE IN!

Brand new images from the world of Mauretania Comics

The exciting new posters are: the cover from the book “Torus,” the famous image where we are monitoring Monitor, the lorry that drives across the mountain in “We're Early,” “Beware the Egg” from the old tale, then a T-shirt design based on “Sunbuit,” “Monitor” stares at you, as does “Rational Control.” Susan “would rather be anywhere,” and a pilot flies above a busy railway station.

#mauretaniacomics #chrisreynolds #posters #tshirts

https://10-chris-reynolds.pixels.com/art

Images: views of the exciting new posters.

 

 THE HISTORY OF “GRAND OLD TALES FROM THE WORLD OF MAURETANIA”

The main story from “Grand Old Tales”, “The Golden Age”, was originally serialised in issues of the original run of “Mauretania Comics” in the late 1980's. At that time I thought it was overlong and would take forever to finish, and so we printed the later episodes at a reduced size, four pages to fit on one normal page. This at least enabled me to bring the story to an end reasonably quickly. I thought that this was OK as I didn't think anyone particularly liked the story but I wanted to bring it to a conclusion.

To my surprise, I later heard that for several readers, it was their favourite thing, so much so that Marc Baines, editor and published at Glasgow's Kingly Books insisted on including “The Golden Age” in his 2005 “The Dial and Other Stories” collection of Mauretania Comics strips, so this became the first prestigious full-size representation of the tale. When the Kingly edition had sold out, a Lulu Press edition had slightly different contents but still included “The Golden Age”. But then the story did not appear in New York Review Comics' “The New World” edited by Seth for reasons of space.

And so it appears as part of “Grand Old Tales From the World of Mauretania”.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

#comics #architecture #ruins

Image: Robert crashes to the ground in a comic panel.

WHY GRAND OLD TALES?

“Grand Old Tales From the World of Mauretania” was inspired by Matteo Gaspari of the Hamelin Cultural Association of Bologna. Matteo had masterminded the Italian edition of “The New World” but thought that Seth (Editor of the original New York Review Comics TNW) had left out some important stories. As a result of this thinking, Matteo published these extra stories as”L'Età d'oro” to coincide with the Tunué (Italy) TNW launch in Bologna in 2019 under his “Banana Oil” imprint. The stories were out in the world again.

I was honoured to meet Matteo that year, and his infectious enthusiasm encouraged me. Our taxi ride to Bologna railway station was particularly hilarious! Covid then took some of the wind out of my sails but the idea of these extra stories lived on.

There had been no English language version of these tales since Glasgow's Kingly Books included them in “The Dial and Other Stories” in 2005, now long out of print, and it seemed a shame to just leave these stories lying in the drawer for English readers.

So here they are for you as “Grand Old Tales From the World of Mauretania.”

#comics #graphicnovels #architecture

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6

 MONITOR AND ROBERT PLAY IN THE SKY

Grand Old Tales from the World of Mauretania

Monitor and Robert play a dangerous game of catapults atop the abandoned industrial buildings.

Following a cryptic message delivered through his door, Monitor makes his way through the deserted city to a rendezvous where he joins his friend Robert atop the city's abandoned warehouses.

In a more innocent time, before the destruction of their city, Monitor and Robert dare a dangerous game of catapults, seemingly among the clouds, their youthful powers at play in the sky, high among the roofs of these derelict industrial buildings. (Someone could get hurt.)

Where is the little blind girl who loves them so much? What is the story behind her dolls? What about the catapults – surely so dangerous when fired at one another? Do Monitor and Robert appreciate the dangers of this carefree play?

Before the age of responsibility or care, where will their enthralling game of cat and mouse lead?

A stray shot plummets to the earth – a cry – who is it down there?

Could this be the end of their childhood innocence?

#comics #graphicnovels #chrisreynolds #mauretaniacomics

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6