A Brigand's Tale: February 2015

Wednesday 25 February 2015

New stuff coming soon featuring Brigand!

Convention season starts early this year with local (for me) Geek Culture Event NOWCON making it's return after a 2 year hiatus in sunny downtown Nowra, New South Wales.

As one of the initial instigators/organisers of NOWCON way back in the day it nice to see it continuing on without any real direct input from myself.

This will be the first time I get to table the full suite of Bolt Comics stuff in my local area so I'm super excited to introduce the Bolt Comics goodness to some more locals.

I've even started dabbling into prints.

Anyone familiar with Bolt Comics or A Brigand's Tale would be well aware pin up style images and powerful cover images are the speciality of Bolt Comics CEO (and The Adventurers creator) Andrew Tribe.

I mean,just look at those Adventurers covers, gorgeous stuff! Although the back up story in issue 2 I drew is pretty rad I must admit.

As the artist for A Brigand's Tale I'm not too proud to say I struggle with the epic imagery that such things need to convey,

But you don't improve by not doing a thing so I thought I would make a print and stretch my artistic muscles.

I came up with an image I think is pretty cool and have decided to do a Limited edition print run of 25 copies to celebrate getting back to my roots at Nowcon.

Here's a sneak peek:

These will be available for sale from Nowcon onwards for $10 a piece. Any left overs will be available to purchase at Comic Gong in May this year where (the long overdue) A Brigand's Tale #2 will also be launched.

For more info on Nowcon go here: www.facebook.com/Nowconinfo

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And you can always keep in touch with all things Brigand right here or follow me on the twitters: twitter.com/TheDanTribe

All artwork on this page is copyright their respective creators. All rights reserved.
Brigand and A Brigand's Tale and distinctive likenesses thereof are TM and copyright 2015 Daniel Tribe. All rights reserved.
The Adventurers and distinctive likenesses thereof are TM and copyright 2015 AndrewTribe. All rights reserved.

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Brigand makes a splash at Kinokuniya!

Last November I had to good fortune to feature one of my art works in the 22 panels exhibit.
It was held at Kinokuniya in Sydney for around 3 weeks. Here's a quote from the curator of the exhibit, Tim McEwen:
"Books Kinokuniya informed me that as far as they're concerned this was one of their more successful exhibitions"

High praise indeed for the comic book art form.

If you don't know about the 22 panels that always work. See the pics below.
The first is the original. The second an homage to the greatness of Wally Wood.

I'm pretty sure Wally Wood was also the guy who coined the phrase "if in doubt, black it out" so the great man is clearly a font of wisdom.

Here's my entry. Good ol' fashioned ink on Bristol!

I'll leave it to the reader to guess which of the 22 mine was.

Another plus was that just this week I found out this piece was sold (obviously to a patron of some good taste) during the course of the event!

I'm very glad that Brigand's backside is gracing someone's wall somewhere.

If you also appreciate fine art and would like to commission me to draw something for you drop us a line on the email: info@boltcomics.net

DON'T FORGET, there is still time to enter our PIN UP CONTEST

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All artwork on this page is copyright their respective creators. All rights reserved.
Brigand and distinctive likenesses thereof are TM and copyright 2015 Daniel Tribe. All rights reserved.

Wednesday 11 February 2015

ABT #2 overdue but getting there!

Hi again y'all.

Issue #2 of ABT is really starting to come together. About 80% of the thing is ready to go.

There is one single panel in the whole book that is just killing me after about 7 digital attempts to rework I'm still stuck but it will most certainly be overcome before we are through.

This is the cover to #2, this should give you some idea of the problems our hero must overcome to survive to the end of the book.

ABT#2 also has a sweet back up story loaded with feels courtesy of writer extraordinaire Mike Stoneburner. An interesting fact is that in the back up story one of the fonts used is a font I made myself! All I can say is font creation is harder than it looks!

Lastly, don't forget our pin up contest is still running, so spread the word!

Deets are here: http://boltcomicslatestnews.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/our-first-competition.html

A Brigands Tale is copyright and Trademark Dan Tribe 2015. All rights Reserved.

Tuesday 3 February 2015

A Brigand's Tale Pin up contest!

Hi Again,

I am in the process of finishing up the artwork for issue #2 of A Brigand's Tale and realised I have a spare page in my page count.

So I thought I would give my readers and Brigand fans alike the opportunity to have a pin-up printed in the book!

Announcing the Brigand's Tale Pin up contest!!

Here's all the deets.

Artwork must only contain Bolt Comics characters. Please bear in mind this is an all ages book so keep it awesome and G rated.
Artwork submitted needs to be Black & White or greyscale.
Artwork size to be no larger than A4 in size, at a minimum of 300dpi if digital. Tiff files preferred.
Any physical artwork supplied will not be returned.
You grant Bolt Comics the right to reproduce the image in the book, and in the case of non wining submissions, the artwork may be posted on Bolt Comics (and its affiliates) website or social media platforms for promotional purposes.
The winning artist will receive a copy of 'A Brigand's Tale' #2 signed by the artist and co-writer.As well as art credits in the credits section of the book.
Please email all entries to info@boltcomics.net with the subject line: 'ABT pinup contest'. If using mail, please post to: