ZARJAZ #3 HITS THE POST-APOCALYPTIC STREETS!
The latest issue is now available featuring the new ongoing strip BONES OF EDEN, first seen in the 2005 Winter Special .
Bones of Eden shows us a world where an experimental virus has turned back the cultural clock to Year Zero - leaving Washington DC crawling with hyperviolent 'cave people'. Writen by new 2000AD talent Al Ewing and drawn by original artist Russell Hossain. A special feature interviews Al and looks back on the Winter Special.
Also in Issue 3 - Judge Dredd by Nathan Adler & Nick Dyer, Sinister Dexter by Mark Leney & Mark Pexton, Judge Tex by Nick Xylas & Brett Buckle and more. Enough thrills for you and your alien spawn!
Zarjaz 3 is £2.50 + 75p p&p
pay by paypal to zarjazcomic@yahoo.co.uk
or send a cheque payable to Underfire Comics to:
57a Langney Road
Eastbourne
BN21 3QD!
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
New Postage Rates!
New Postage Rates from 1st Oct.
Unfortunately due to non-scrot forces at the Royal Mail we have had to raise the postage rate for a single issue from 50p to 75p. The cost for additional issues will remain at 25p per issue.
We hope the increase will not spoil your future Thrills!
Unfortunately due to non-scrot forces at the Royal Mail we have had to raise the postage rate for a single issue from 50p to 75p. The cost for additional issues will remain at 25p per issue.
We hope the increase will not spoil your future Thrills!
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Zarjaz 2 - Go Rogue!
ZARJAZ
Issue 2
£2.50
40 pages
A5 / colour cover / b&w interior
The second issue of ZARJAZ - the 2000AD Fanzine is bursting with Thrillpower! All new stories featuring the cast of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic by talented new creators, including Nick Dyer, David Gray and John Aggs.
Fight on the battleground of Nu-Earth with Rogue Trooper, survive the jungle planet with Durham Red and witness an alternative take on Robo Hunter. Also featuring an article on the recent Zarjaz exhibition in London.
Issue 2
£2.50
40 pages
A5 / colour cover / b&w interior
The second issue of ZARJAZ - the 2000AD Fanzine is bursting with Thrillpower! All new stories featuring the cast of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic by talented new creators, including Nick Dyer, David Gray and John Aggs.
Fight on the battleground of Nu-Earth with Rogue Trooper, survive the jungle planet with Durham Red and witness an alternative take on Robo Hunter. Also featuring an article on the recent Zarjaz exhibition in London.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Friday, January 13, 2006
A Zarjaz 9 out of 10!
If you carefully scan the reviews section of Comics International #192 right to the end you will find Zarjaz 1 has been awarded a prestigious 9 out of 10. Although the review is very brief I think it reflects the high quality of all the strips and the hard work of all the writers and artists that we got such a great mark.
Longtime readers of the review section will know we are now 2 for 2 because Issue 0 also got a 9!
So stay tuned for issue 2 - because we've got a lot to live up to!
Longtime readers of the review section will know we are now 2 for 2 because Issue 0 also got a 9!
So stay tuned for issue 2 - because we've got a lot to live up to!
Tharg Pluggage!
Peeps the Butler Droid here!
After I administered one of his favourite Beetleguesian sponge baths Tharg very kindly agreed to plug Zarjaz in his mighty organ. But what do I get? One measly mention on the letters page! Is that the price of my personal shame? It seems that it is.
I can only hope it has brought new Squaxx to my humble page and that you will be of the noble disposition to purchase my papery offering. BUY IT YOU FLESHY FOOLS, BUY IT!!!
... I'm sorry. Minor circuit overload. I think I'll lie down now.
After I administered one of his favourite Beetleguesian sponge baths Tharg very kindly agreed to plug Zarjaz in his mighty organ. But what do I get? One measly mention on the letters page! Is that the price of my personal shame? It seems that it is.
I can only hope it has brought new Squaxx to my humble page and that you will be of the noble disposition to purchase my papery offering. BUY IT YOU FLESHY FOOLS, BUY IT!!!
... I'm sorry. Minor circuit overload. I think I'll lie down now.
Friday, November 25, 2005
Thursday, November 24, 2005
ZARJAZ 1 - OUT NOW!
ZARJAZ ISSUE 1 is now available!
Featuring all new strips from Al Ewing and Arthur Wyatt who both wrote for the recent 2000AD Winter Special. Also interviews with Ian Gibson and Boo Cook, plus for the first time in print - Doppleganger - the Dredd strip that got Boo Cook his job!
If this weren't enough Zarjaz excitement there is also sctrotnig artwork from David Gray on Dredd, Paul Martin on Bad Company and Barry Renshaw on Rogue Trooper.
Previews of all the strips to follow.
To order either send a cheque (payable to Underfire Comics) to:
Zarjaz
57a Langney Road
Eastbourne
BN21 3QD
Or pay by PayPal to:
zarjazcomic@yahoo.co.uk
The price is £2.50 + 50p P&P
so Three pounds of your earth money!
Featuring all new strips from Al Ewing and Arthur Wyatt who both wrote for the recent 2000AD Winter Special. Also interviews with Ian Gibson and Boo Cook, plus for the first time in print - Doppleganger - the Dredd strip that got Boo Cook his job!
If this weren't enough Zarjaz excitement there is also sctrotnig artwork from David Gray on Dredd, Paul Martin on Bad Company and Barry Renshaw on Rogue Trooper.
Previews of all the strips to follow.
To order either send a cheque (payable to Underfire Comics) to:
Zarjaz
57a Langney Road
Eastbourne
BN21 3QD
Or pay by PayPal to:
zarjazcomic@yahoo.co.uk
The price is £2.50 + 50p P&P
so Three pounds of your earth money!
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
Zarjaz #0
Zarjaz #0 is here!
Stories are;
Judge Anderson written by Colin J Dinnie with art by David Gray
Kreelman written by Andrew Lewis with art by Nick Dyer
Uranuim City Judge written by James MacKay with art by Geoffrey Shane
Judge Hershey written by Nathan Adler with art by Ed Traquino
To get your copy for £1.50 + 50p postage e mail me now.
Sunday, May 22, 2005
The Story of Issue 0
I first got the go ahead on Zarjaz in November 2004, Andrew Lewis was happy for me to go on using the name so I ran it by 2000AD and it was fine with them too.
I’ve edited anthology comics before so when I put the call out for submissions in early 2005 I had my eyes on the long game. Rather than aim for the early summer Bristol convention and risk some seriously tight deadlines, I made life easier on myself and scheduled issue 1 for the end of the year, around the time of Dreddcon. The submissions started to come in thick and fast and to my relief there was some really high quality work being sent in. The end of the year seemed like a long wait but at least everything was going according to plan. I then got the rarest of editorial treats, some good luck. My old friend Nick Dyer reminded me that he had a six page strip that Andrew Lewis had written for the last Zarjaz but never saw print. Around the same time David Gray, who was already signed on for a Dredd strip being written by Al Ewing, was bugging me to do a Judge Anderson strip. He sent me a pin-up image he had done, which became the cover for the issue, and it propelled me into writing a four page strip that not only sated David’s need for some Anderson action, but also acted as a great introduction to Zarjaz. I knew a short strip like that would take David no time at all so all of a sudden I had 10 pages well before the deadline was due.
It was about this time I started thinking about doing a comic for Bristol, people who had heard I was re-launching had already sent e-mails assuming the first issue would be out in may – who was I to let them down? I figured if I had 16 pages plus a cover that would be a handsome preview issue, but of course I only had 10. I threw the gauntlet down to Zarjaz creators; anyone who could guarantee me the pages by the beginning of May could have the slot. Geoffrey Shane over in the States couldn’t resist the challenge. He was drawing James McKay’s Uranium City Judge strip and reckoned he could hit the deadline. That was 15 pages filled, all I needed was some pin-ups to fill the gaps so I asked a couple of favours. Si Penter has a great Rogue Trooper pin- up on the 2000AD website so I asked if I could use that. Si went one better and drew a brand new Rogue pin-up just for us! Then I asked Ed Traquino, a very busy guy, to knock up a pin-up. Ed went two better and said he’d do a two page strip if he could have the script by next week! And he wanted to do Anderson.
“Anderson’s been done” I said “You can have Hershey”
“Even better” said Ed and disappeared back into his harem.
Now I had no time at all to produce a two page Judge Hershey strip. Which meant it was time to trawl the pubs of Brighton, find Nathan Adler, slap him sober and put a pen in his hand. Say what you like about the old soak - give him a character, a page count and a deadline and he always delivers the goods. With everything in place it just took some long hours on Photoshop to put the book together and then off to the printers. All that was left was for my lovely fiancé and I to fold and staple and lo, a comic was born!
I’ve edited anthology comics before so when I put the call out for submissions in early 2005 I had my eyes on the long game. Rather than aim for the early summer Bristol convention and risk some seriously tight deadlines, I made life easier on myself and scheduled issue 1 for the end of the year, around the time of Dreddcon. The submissions started to come in thick and fast and to my relief there was some really high quality work being sent in. The end of the year seemed like a long wait but at least everything was going according to plan. I then got the rarest of editorial treats, some good luck. My old friend Nick Dyer reminded me that he had a six page strip that Andrew Lewis had written for the last Zarjaz but never saw print. Around the same time David Gray, who was already signed on for a Dredd strip being written by Al Ewing, was bugging me to do a Judge Anderson strip. He sent me a pin-up image he had done, which became the cover for the issue, and it propelled me into writing a four page strip that not only sated David’s need for some Anderson action, but also acted as a great introduction to Zarjaz. I knew a short strip like that would take David no time at all so all of a sudden I had 10 pages well before the deadline was due.
It was about this time I started thinking about doing a comic for Bristol, people who had heard I was re-launching had already sent e-mails assuming the first issue would be out in may – who was I to let them down? I figured if I had 16 pages plus a cover that would be a handsome preview issue, but of course I only had 10. I threw the gauntlet down to Zarjaz creators; anyone who could guarantee me the pages by the beginning of May could have the slot. Geoffrey Shane over in the States couldn’t resist the challenge. He was drawing James McKay’s Uranium City Judge strip and reckoned he could hit the deadline. That was 15 pages filled, all I needed was some pin-ups to fill the gaps so I asked a couple of favours. Si Penter has a great Rogue Trooper pin- up on the 2000AD website so I asked if I could use that. Si went one better and drew a brand new Rogue pin-up just for us! Then I asked Ed Traquino, a very busy guy, to knock up a pin-up. Ed went two better and said he’d do a two page strip if he could have the script by next week! And he wanted to do Anderson.
“Anderson’s been done” I said “You can have Hershey”
“Even better” said Ed and disappeared back into his harem.
Now I had no time at all to produce a two page Judge Hershey strip. Which meant it was time to trawl the pubs of Brighton, find Nathan Adler, slap him sober and put a pen in his hand. Say what you like about the old soak - give him a character, a page count and a deadline and he always delivers the goods. With everything in place it just took some long hours on Photoshop to put the book together and then off to the printers. All that was left was for my lovely fiancé and I to fold and staple and lo, a comic was born!
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