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

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Image: Artwork at the station.

Eldon and Lendon

Image: Page from "Eldon and Lendon"

The Highway of Fear!

https://youtu.be/EPqoB1NLIKY

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Image: Cover of Highway of Fear Comic!

The Sunday Night Project

The Sunday Night project - sunset

So it's Sunday night. It's the night before going back to school or going back to work. The evening is drawing on, and the light is getting dim. There are just a few hours before sleep. What are you going to do with them?

The Sunday Night project - sunset

Sunday night films on the TV were generally films of the older kind, films you might watch alone. Films where you were the only one.

The Sunday Night project - sunset

There might be a scene where they went down to the beach, filmed on a Wednesday, or on any other day of the week, but because of when you were watching, the beach became a Sunday Night beach. The Sunday night beach to visit before sleep...

https://mauretania.cinemadetectives.com/sundaynight.html

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Images: Mountains at sunset.

 

My new detective book.

In my new book, “Lowell's”, I feel as if I am creating a detective novel from first principles. I wrote some scenes with the idea that I would tie all this material together and work it up into a detective book. My plotting is not good. The book needs more story, but there is some nice stuff in there.

So, my plan is now to write a second “Lowell's” using the settings and characters from what I've established so far. I may write this as a series of short stories longhand, and then type them up.

ROBERT'S GOLDEN AGE TRAIN RIDES AGAIN!

Robert's little train from The Golden Age finally crosses the canal once more!

https://cinemadetectives.com#goldenage

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Images: The train!

 I was astounded to find a copy of T.E. Hughes' “Chapels of the Dial in North Wales” yesterday. I thought only the National Library of Wales had one!

https://www.library.wales/

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Images: Fake cover and fake title page.

 

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur. World Book Capital 2020.

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

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Image: page from the story.

PROWL CAR INTERNATIONAL!

The Prowl Car visits Malaysia! A digest of Twenty-Eight Prowl Car stories, many completely re-imagined for Kuala Lumpur

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

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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!

“Their Shadows in the Sky,” the book's third story, concerns a group of three friends who grow up on a farm but, despite their love for play and innocent games, words, and secret codes, their lives are far from idyllic. A growing thirst among the community for efficiencies on the farm begins to make their lives difficult. The older, smaller, farms which they knew are systematically destroyed. The farm's efficiencies become ever more crushing until our friends realise that they may have to use their interest in secret codes to help them make their escape. But then, to introduce a ray of hope, they come across a “Mr. Parsley,” who they come to see as a possible saviour, a friendly man who visits from far away, who they increasingly see as someone so powerful that even the shape of his head seems to be reflected in buildings, in their phones, and even the landscape.

I had been standing in the office in the place where I worked in the country, and three of my colleagues were there talking. I had never seen the three of them together in the same place before, and I never saw the three of them together again. That was the source for this story. To develop, I took the idea of contact tracing by smartphones, then recently introduced, to use as an additional threat.

#farmers #comics #landscape #mysticism

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

Image: Panels from the story!

 

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.”)

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

Image: Panels from the story!

THE OTHER “GOLDEN AGE”

If you enjoy the short stories which appear at the centre of “The New World” book of Chris Reynolds comics, published by New York Review Comics, you'll come across a strange little story called “The Golden Age”.

This is where, as that book's editor, Seth, points out, rationality beats out the force of intuition and young Robert's teacher, Mr Ranger, stops him from pursuing an important dream. Seth particularly liked this story and, even before “The New World” came about, included it in his 2005 Appreciation of Mauretania Comics in The Comics Journal, pointing out certain aspects of the plot which interested him, comparing the features he'd found there to other stories, particularly the Penguin Books' long “Mauretania” story about Susan Black, where he explained that he saw another clash between rationality and intuition, but this time with a different result.

That “Golden Age” story, like most of the others in Seth's “The New World” originally appeared in an issue of Mauretania Comics in the late 1980s.

But it was only part of the “Golden Age” sequence. There were many more “Golden Age” stories which appeared in the original run of Mauretania Comics.

These missing stories are now available as part of “Grand Old Tales from the World of Mauretania”.

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

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Image: Robert and Catherine among the ruins of their city.

 

Image: Robert and Catherine boil a kettle among the ruins of their city.

TEA IN THE RUINED CITY

Grand Old Tales from the World of Mauretania

After the destruction of the city, rolled flat by machines, before its architectural rebuilding, Robert and his headmistress, Catherine, drink tea among the ruins.
Is this a disaster, or just reality? Reality making a friendly effort by bending and twisting its shape – to help Robert and Catherine – to achieve their hopeless dreams?
Is it necessary that they must deal with the monstrous Cwiss? Must they suffer the complacent whims of Mr. Ranger?
And what of the innocents – the other people caught up in this madness? Are they just droplets in the River of Time?
Will we really see the race between the two headmistresses, the huge golden arch, the underground spiral staircase, and the gleaming "copper" policeman?
Is it necessary that Catherine must die and lie forever buried in the ruins?
Who hit the little blind girl? What inspired Mr. Ranger to take up his career?
(It must be stressed that none of this turned out to be a dream.)

#comics #graphicnovels #ruinedcity #mauretaniacomics
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chris-Reynolds/e/B002PVY8J6