Rob Jacksons latest comic 'Great Deeds Against the Dead' is now available from his website. From fantasy to sci fi, historical to hard boiled, Rob seems keen to work with many different genres and this is no exception: GDATD is a horror comic, or maybe more an eery tale. It follows an old painter, Tisdale Carnegie who moves to a secluded house after the death of his beloved wife. Needless to say, eery things happen. Is the house haunted by a malevolent force? Is somebody trying to protect Tisdale? Is it something less than supernatural? Is his agent on the fiddle? Is Tisdale going mad? These questions are hopefully set up nicely to be answered in part 2, expected around December. It would have been nice to see the whole story in one go, but at 2.50 for 28 pages, this is well worth it.
GDATD is followed by a short story 'Colonial Amusements'. Lancaster residents will recognise the scenes around the castle, bridge, underpass (see below) and path to the Crook o' Lune. I guess the reference material is a bit old or intentionally altered (well, actually very altered as there are pyramids in Skerton!) as the colonial amusements sign has been subject to an attrition of letters. At one point it read 'Colon' instead of Colonial'. I guess this demonstrates the creativeness and humour of street artists, as does the extract below...........but you should see what they did to the Canal Tavern in Ulverston.
Talking of eerie stuff, we saw this near North point on Walney Island on the Whale trip...
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