Teaser Taser Edition Is Blasting Through

Putting it in some form so it can be further transformed into a second state of being, the Twilight of Echelon teaser/ashcan exists on this plane. Limited copies are available through At Bay Press but be warned, there is a printing mistake. One page is printed twice and thereby taking the place of one page that is missing. You kinda don’t even notice it. Nobody else did until I thought something looked weird and pointed it out. At any rate, they will be printed again (I was told).

This edition is 20 pages, 6 x 6 inches, recycled gloss paper, fold-out front and back covers, all B&W and looks glorious.

It is still somewhat in the air on the books final size (7x7, 8x8)  page count (120pgs?) and form (whether hard or soft cover), silver printing on the cover possibly and the cover image my change. It is still scheduled for a spring 2024 release.

It’s Starting To Form

I am Starting to play around with some cover ideas, designs and images for the book, which is now scheduled to be out next spring 2024. I’ll continue to play around with it as we hash out the dimensions (I think it should be square) and the cover material. Will it be a soft or hard cover? Will there be foil stamping or embossing? How about all of the above! ??

I’ve chosen these three images for different reasons. They will each convey a different initial feeling response from the reader and the publisher, editor and I will have to figure out what we want.

The first one is more dynamic and explosive. The second is a bit quieter and is the first Echelon picture I made and kinda always thought this one would be the cover of the book if there ever was one. And the third image is very quiet, very meditative. I think all of these describe Echelon.

New Echelon No.93

 

Constructing Echelon

   We have a new 4th writer for The Echelon book coming out next year through At Bay Press. Alex Passey joins the rest of the Echelonauts, Lovern Kindzierski, Blaise Moritz and Den Valdron! I am super excited to have Alex on board for this book project. His novel Mirror’s Edge is fantastic descriptive tale of the not so distant future. Looking forward to what he brings to the world of Echelon.

Echelon Dreams

Sometimes there is an illustration that does not totally fit inside the Echelon world simply because they are too fantastic or a bit more surreal (if that’s possible) but they still seem to be connected to the Echelon world that I call them Echelon dreams. Do androids dream of electric sheep? In the next few episodes I’ll post some of these dreams. 

It’s been awhile…

 that’s only because things are happening!

A BOOK will be published next year of these Echelon Images plus many more that I do not want to post here yet. But that is not all!! There will be writing by authors, all sharing their unique vision of how this visual world speaks to them and how they describe it. AMAZING! Published by At Bay Press.

We originally asked 4 writers. Three of them have handed in their scripts. Sad to say the fourth had not, even after an extension, so we had to let them go and are currently seeking a fourth writer. If we can’t , then we will stick with the three. These being; Lovern Kindzierski, Blaise Moritz and Den Valdron!

I’m excited!

On an outside personal note, This spring saw the release of two new books/collections/graphic novels of my comics/abstract comics work through 2 different publishers out of Quebec. 

EPISODE 23 - The Eternal Chamber