Dan Lish

Big Bossage!

More loading screens and wallpapers for the Bafta award winning game Monstermind which I’ve added to my illustration section. Behold! Arachnoid and the Lizardator!

Bafta Winner!

The awesome Bossa Studios won a Bafta for Best Online Browser game last Friday. Their super duper social game entitled ‘Monstermind’, is Facebook’s first real-time Player vs Player game.

The game revolves around city building and tower defence featuring many B-movie style monsters sent by friends. For the past three months I’ve been lucky enough to have been involved in creating characters and loading screens for Bossa’s Monstermind. A big Congratulations to Henrique, Roberta, Ric and Imre for their lead and inspiration. May this be the first of many awards for such a deserving team.

Bossa Studios Bafta award 2012

Hello 2012!

Hello folks, apologies for the absence. It’s not due to negligence, i’ve just been furiously busy with my Graphic novel Cartigan volume 2, and my new position at the wonderful Bossa Studios based in London.

For all those that Twitter, I tweet a daily sketch. If not a sketch, then a sneaky peak of a new Cartigan page.

I recently had the fortune of my second book signing in wonderful French town of Angouleme. It’s the 39th BD (comic book) convention since 1972! 40 mins north of Bordeaux, the whole town dedicates itself to everything Comic book. Over 200, 000 comic book enthusiasts from around the world participated. Myself and creative partner Dan Willett signed our ‘you know what’s off’ through out the four day event. The reception was fantastic, very enthusiastic and welcoming, and althoug both our French is very minimal, the locals were extremely accommodating.

My first book signing was in the magical town of St. Malo in Brittany. This was a more family orientated event, with 35, 000 folks passing through. Many people favor this BD event over Angouleme as they say its more relaxed and less industry focused.

Dan W and I are both looking forward to being invited back if we have part 2 of Cartigan complete… (Gulp!).

Thanks again to our publishers from Akileos, Richard and Emmanuel for being such gracious hosts. We had an amazing time!

Cheers, Dan x

Cartigan

Cartigan; my first Graphic novel is finally available from all good French book and comic stores.

www.amazon.co.uk

www.amazon.fr

Published by Akileos, we’re in the process of turning this novel into a digital motion comic.

I’m also working on Book two, of which I’ll be occasionally posting teaser pages.

Watch this space for the English version, soon come!

Dan x

Guinness-World-Records!

I stumbled into this whilst promoting m’ novel at KAPOW! London comic con.

I contributed to this world record by creating the last frame, and after 11 hours 19 minutes and 38 seconds, two new Guinness World Records had been set: the “Fastest Production of a Comic Book” and the “Most Contributors to a Comic Book”.

With more than 60 contributors, the comic-book will be printed and distributed through Marvel’s Icon imprint, with all royalties being donated to Yorkhill Children’s Foundation. Well done to everyone involved!

Cartigan at KAPOW!

Finally, after almost five years my first Graphic novel entitled ‘Cartigan’ with be published by Akileos in June.

Two weeks ago, myself and Writer Dan Willett promoted the novel at KAPOW! London comic con, where the general feedback we received for Cartigan was truly amazing!

As the novel will be published in French first, our main objective was to try and secure a UK/US deal for all English speaking countries.  Again, the feedback from many UK and US publishers was fantastic, and will keep you posted on the outcome. Plus Cartigan will be featured in Bizarre magazine in a couple of months!

Big shout outs to The Establishing shot and the very friendly Den of Geek for their lovely Cartigan compliments.

These amazing shades I pinched courtesy of Madina. Check out his other mental styles.