Asterix and Obelix is probably one of my favorite illustrated series, and the plucky duo are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.
The Adventures of Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo. The series follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation. They do so by means of a magic potion, brewed by their druid, which gives the recipient superhuman strength.
This is a fantastic series I stumbled upon a while back, now onto it's second volume it's well worth a look!
SKY PIRATES OF NEO TERRA is the tale of a fantasy world once devastated by global catastrophe. Through the tradition of Glidewing racing, order is preserved amongst the remaining tribes with an annual Great Race, where the winner of five consecutive glidewing races selects a leader for the Great Tribal Council. The Pirate King has won four victories leaving him poised to undo the order the tribes of Neo Terra have worked to preserve. With the help of friends, an impulsive young glide wing pilot named Billy Boom Boom must stop the Pirate King before he unleashes dark forces that would change existence, as they know it.
It's no big secret that my imagination revolves around the ability to create weird and wonderful things. From industrious flying machines to ferocious monsters of the deep, they all help to make up a world where things are never quite what they seem at first glance.
I'm in the midst of building a new and exciting site that will house my brand new you illustrated novel. The book titled Vetuu 'Chasing the Sun' will consist of a fortnightly strip that aims to tell the story behind the world of mylaststar and is set for release January 1st 2010.
In preparation for this event I want to let you in on a little sub-genre that has the biggest impact on my work.
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.
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