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Announced – Rombies – The Series!

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

So, last week was huge.

After happily announcing that I was the new writer of The Authority on Wednesday, I was then flown to Perth on the Thursday (Thursday morning… I don’t do morning) by Gestalt Publishing for Gestaltapalooza!

Comic Book Jesus posted about the night right here.

And the night was capped off with the announcement that our one-shot ‘Rombies‘ was just a teaser. Yep, Rombies is set to be a series! The Dead will walk again… in sandals.

The depth and breadth of the story Skye Ogden and I have planned was not even hinted at in the first publication. This story is tied to real-life historical events and crosses the path of real-life historical figures. It weaves through theologies and empires and leaves no one untouched, be they citizen, soldier or senator.

It will be fun.

A great celebration of the first five years of Gestalt also included a sneak peek of the incredible ‘Changing Ways‘ by one of the fine artists working on my upcoming Brief Cases, Justin Randall. Gestalt asked if I could provide a pull-quote for this incredible book. Which meant that I got to read an advance copy.

“Changing Ways grabbed me by the eyeballs and wouldn’t let go until it was done. The art demands you stop and admire every extraordinary rendered panel while the tension of this perfectly-paced thriller forces you to turn the page. Justin Randall balances beauty and terror on a rusty razor’s edge.” – Tom Taylor, writer of Star Wars: Invasion and The Authority.

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Gestaltapalooza! If You’re In Perth, Come And Join Us.

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

We’re celebrating FIVE YEARS of Gestalt and we’d love for you to join us!

In preparing to launch Rombies, our zombies-in-ancient-Rome book, we realised that February 2010 marked FIVE YEARS since we first decided to start these shenanigans!

And so, to mark the occasion, we’re flying in the creative team behind Rombies:

Tom Taylor
Melbourne-based playwright who writes Star Wars: Invasion (for another publisher) alongside Gestalt titles Rombies, The Example, two stories in Flinch, and the upcoming Brief Cases.

Skye Ogden, illustrator of Rombies, Vowels and more! Skye Ogden
Tokyo-based writer/illustrator responsible for Vowels, ‘The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap’ in Flinch and, of course, Rombies! Skye is also Art Director for Gestalt, responsible for our book design and trailer videos.

Both Tom & Skye will be discussing their vision and creative process and signing books!

Plus: LIVE MUSIC!
Experience the musical stylings of Gestalt’s own Anton McKay and the immensely talented Tracey Read!

Care to join us? We hope so!

Where:
Clancy’s Canning Bridge
903 Canning Highway, Applecross

Western Australia
Find Clancy’s on Google Maps

When:
Thursday, 18 February 2010
From 7pm

We’ll also be celebrating ALL of our 2009 releases at Gestaltapalooza:

Flinch
Shaun Tan, Justin Randall, Colin Wilson, Terry Dowling, James Barclay & many more!

The Example
Tom Taylor & Colin Wilson

Digested #1 & #2
Bobby.N

We look forward to seeing you there, and unveiling some of our plans for the NEXT five years — including the creepily beautiful world of Justin Randall’s Changing Ways…

Cheers,

Wolfgang Bylsma
Managing Director

Tags: Book Launch, Colin Wilson, Gestalt, Gestalt Publishing, Gestaltapalooza, Roman Zombies, Rombies, Signing, Skye Ogden, The Example, Tom Taylor, Zombies
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All Roads Lead To Rombies – Pre-Order At Gestalt and Amazon

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Rombies will officially eat your brains on December 15 but the one-shot is already available for Pre Order over at the Gestalt Publishing site and at Amazon.com

Gestalt are having a sale at the moment so you can get quite a sizable discount if you order through them.

The artist, Skye Ogden, has also posted a nice look at his process in creating three pages from the book.

Click the image below for a look at Skye’s process.

Tags: Gestalt Publishing, Roman Zombies, Rombies, Rome, Skye Ogden, Tom Taylor, Zombies
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Star Wars: Invasion #5 Out Today – And What The Future Holds

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Yep, today is the day.

A holocron will reveal a terrible secret. We will meet a strange but very important crazy person on Nar Shadaa. There will be blood aboard the Tsam’ Pah. And, while some stories will be resolved, others will be frustratingly left hanging until ‘Star Wars: Invasion‘ returns early in 2010.

But fear not. While ‘Invasion’ is away, we can still play.

‘Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of the Dragonsnakes’ (it really is a long title…) is out in January and is already available for pre order over at Amazon here or Things From Another World here.

‘Rombies’ is set to appear later this month through Gestalt Publishing who have also published Colin Wilson and my one-shot ‘The Example’ which you can get through Amazon or right here.

On the theatre front, my plays ‘Mystery Flight’ and ‘Falling, Praying’ have both been shortlisted for the upcoming Short and Sweet festival in Sydney and ‘Mystery Flight’ is set to debut at the stunning Chapel off Chapel theatre later this month.

Finally, I’ve recently finished writing another Star Wars related work (and had an awesome time doing so), which should be announced later this month.

Tags: Colin Wilson, Dark Horse, Falling Praying, Gestalt Publishing, Luke Skywalker and the Treasure of The Dragonsnakes, mystery flight, Rombies, Skye Ogden, Star Wars Adventures, Star Wars: Invasion, Tom Taylor, Yuuzhan Vong, Zombies
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Rombies Cover Revealed

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Here it is, people. The first look at the cover to the upcoming Rombies!

Many a late-night-skype with the brilliant, Japan-based artist, Skye Ogden, and a lot of back-and-forth emails, has resulted in this. Great work, Skye.

Rombies – one shot — Gestalt Publishing – coming very soon.

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Friends, Romans, Lend Me Your Brains. Tom Taylor – Skye Ogden – Rombies.

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Coming soon from Gestalt Publishing… ‘Rombies’!

Skye Ogden, the creator of the gorgeous ‘Vowels’ (Chapter 1 of which can be read right here), has an epic story in his mind. And that story is set to escape his brain with the first installment of ‘Rombies’.

I would normally run a mile from a zombie story… and run a mile from zombies. However, after being asked whether I’d like to write the first instalment of this Roman zombies book, I woke one morning with horrible, horrible visions of a zombie infested Colosseum and, naturally, I wanted to share these horrible visions with the world.

Rombies is coming soon from Gestalt Publishing and three preview pages can be read right here.

“Ogden is an enormously stylish artist” – Publisher’s Weekly

Tags: Gestalt Publishing, Roman Zombies, Rombies, Skye Ogden, Tom Taylor, Wolfgang Bylsma, Zombies
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