SKETCHY DETAILS

Hey gang!

Just wanted to set up the sketch list here for the Spotlight Megatron signing this Wednesday, February 6th in Forbidden Planet and Dublin City Comics & Collectibles.

Basically I'm taking names here for sketches I can work on in advance and present to you on the day. It'll be inked (with added grey shading) HEADSHOTS ONLY at €10 each. Above are examples of what to expect.

I'm gonna be taking on 20 advance sketches altogether. So it's first come, first served here. Reply in the comments section with the name of the character you'd like (doesn't have to be Megatron, or even a Transformer!), the shop you'll be popping along to, and an applicable real-life identity for yourself so I can ascertain who the eff you are. PLEASE only sign up for a sketch if you're coming along to the shop. Any uncollected sketches on the day will be flogged off to the nearest rube. And obviously, no cash, no sketch, no hat, no swim.

When the 20 is filled up, that'll be it! I'll be handling a TINY number of sketches in-store, so pop along and get on that list, but because the day is so hectic, I wanted to get these up and running first.

So set me to task, gang! GO!

MEGATRON ONLY NEEDS ONE SHOT...

Wow, I seemed to remember all my social media log-in details this week, huh...?

Guys, the lovely specimens that run Forbidden Planet Dublin and Dublin City Comics & Collectibles (yup, them again) have decided to host a split signing session for what promises to be the best Transformers Spotlight that month, SPOTLIGHT MEGATRON! It's writted and drawed by me (and coloured by fellow Eclectic Mick, LEN O' GRADY), a rare enough confluence of happenings to make this worthwhile hootin' & hollerin' over. I'll be at FP on Crampton Quay at 1pm till 3pm, and heading over to Bolton Street to DCCC for a 4-til-finish jaunt. (And that means that everyone can head out to Big Bang Comics in Dundrum at 6pm for Will Sliney's FEARLESS DEFENDERS launch party. Wotta day!) I'm signing primarily, but get there early to climb aboard what should be a swiftly-filled and limited sketch list.

What can I say about the issue itself? Well, not much. It's very self-contained, so it's a good oneshot for those unversed with IDW's current AMAZING Transformers output. It's set a few years in the past and focuses on Megaton's restoration as ruler of the Decepticons...but is there anything left to rule? It's 22 pages of bad guys being bad, and boy, are villains fun to write. And draw. Other spoilers? Hmm...Aerial combat. That's yer lot.

So please go to the links below for the respective shops. And for those who can't make it to the Dublin signings, please let your comic supplier know how much you want this sucker. As I say, it's a rare writer's credit for me, so it'd really help to show your support to the retailers and the publishers. Hopefully I'll be around for more conventions and signings throughout the year. I'll definitely be at London Super Comic Con, so more about that soon.

Oh and I'm on Twitter, for now. We'll see how long my interest is maintained there. Do keep me accountable, won't you? Go to twitter.com/NickRoche; I'm @NickRoche, which is handy.

See you on the 6th!

Forbidden Planet Dublin Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fpdublin
Dublin City Comics & Collectibles Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DublinCityComics
Big Bang Comics: http://www.facebook.com/TheBigBangIE

"Who is this who is coming"

February 6th...

MY BLOODY VALENTINE

Retailers and readers...SPOTLIGHT: MEGATRON - written and drawn by me - coming this February.

So swears Megatron.

DUBLIN UP WITH ME AND THE FURMANATOR

A beintot, mons pillocks! It is I, with tales of how and where to witness me. What's that? You are unenticed by such possibilities? Well swivel on it - I have an ace up my skinny-fitted sleeve, and that bi-valued card is SIMON FURMAN! Yes, he (Simon) and I (Nick) are making an appearance at a Dublin Transformers Convention this Saturday 27th October. It's called Mini-Con, and it's hosted by the actually-genuinely-not internet hyperbole-these guys are the real deal - Fantesticles Dublin City Comics!

Simon is signing and dropping RG#1 hints per pint bought all day from 12pm, while I'll be sketching my life away, selling full colour art prints (Including the Josh Burcham-coloured MTMTE print that sold like an ex-reality star on a street corner at this year's Auto Assembly) and original artwork and covers from More Than Meets The Eye. The original artwork will all be selling at around and above €150, but come early and get on the sketch list, and I'll whip you up something for €10. Prints are also €10 each, so there are plenty of affordable options for those who want to pick something relatively unique

Simon and I are also gonna talk you all through the making of our first professional team-up together, Spotlight: Shockwave, in a powerpoint presentation showing you the stages from script to scribbles. That should be at 3pm in the shop's fabled Geekeasy section.

Check Dublin City Comics' Facebook Page and their dedicated Mini-Con Listing Listing for more details, as they'll have any last minute info that may crop up. The reasons for shuffling your corporeal assamblages down to the shop this weekend are infinite, but as well as basking in the glow of Simon's charm and chumminess, or finagling details from me about who I'm putting in the spotlight in 2013, there will also be very special, once in a quarter-of-a-century prizes dispensed throughout the day. We can't say anything yet, but let's just say that if you get lucky, 'you'll have better things to do that night than die...'

I love DCC, I love these events, I love Simon F and I love YOU. So I can't wait for this Saturday afternoon. Bring a friend, and come hang out with us all. (And, y'know, buy some comics and toys.)

More Colours Than Reach The Retinas

Everybody Have A Good Time!

So, here's the colouredy version of the More Than Meets The Eye art brint, beautifully and expertly manhandled by my phavourite Photoshop phunster, Josh Burcham. Someday,Josh, you and I will be reunited and we can whore our wares side-by-side, like slutty versions of Prime and Magnus in Resurrection Part 1. If anyone's curious to see the lineart be improved before your very eyes, Josh recorded this munificent moment for posterity. Check him out doing his thing on hsi livestream channel http://www.livestream.com/dcjosh. Look at him go!

So yeah, Auto Assembly tomorrow in Birmingham (check autoassembly.co.uk for d'tails) and I can't wait. Already about to be sucked into it's slipstream with very little sleep, so be gentle, folks. I'm selling artwork from MTMTE #6 (Though please be prepared to pay extra for stuff featuring villains from Last Stand of The Wreckers), earliers stuff like Infestation and Ongoing #13, and I'm considering bringing some stuff from Death of Optimus Prime, though I'm loathe to part with those pages. Plenty of covers available too, (Covers to MTMTE kids! Woo!) as well as earlier prints, such as Prime vs Megatron, Overlord on the Throne (FNARR) and 'Wreck And Rule'. Colour prints are £10 a pop.

(A lot of overseas folks are interested in this MTMTE piece. I'm really not very well set up for mail order here, in more ways than one, but if I can set up an efficient system which will work, I'll be sure to let you know. Thanks so much for all your interest. Maybe I should think about doing a regular print sale thing. We'll see.)

Another way to grab original artwork is to grab some sketches from me. Head shots are £10 each and this year I'm gonna try and do full figure commissions too for £50 each. Sketch lists fill fast, but I'll do my best to get around to as many as I can.

I LOVE this time of year! I'm like Santa Clause AND a kid at Christmas!

So, hope to see you all at AA this weekend, where I promise I'll be sharper and wittier and less desperate to sell you things than I am here.

S'long!

Auto Assembling The Gang...

On sale this weekend at Auto Assembly in Birmingham...the Josh Burcham-coloured version of THIS print...

Updated with colours in the next day or so, with details of original art for sale and other AA stuff.

Cannot. Wait.