Time Flies…

by factorfi on March 22, 2010 at 10:38 pm
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…when you’re fighting hackers. Yes, the Violent! and Girly Comic websites have been idle for a while, you may have noticed. Selina goes into all the gory details on the Girly blog, so I won’t repeat it all here. The important thing is that we’re back!

The current gameplan, after a few years of bringing out paper issues of Violent! two or three times a year, is to do two things:

1) Increase our frequency to a strict quarterly schedule, beginning in May.

2) As with The Girly Comic, we’re stepping back from print publishing for a while. Online only. If you’re a paper junkie, and god knows, I am, sorry about that, but on the upside, it’s all free, baby!

We’ll be putting new issues of Violent! together in PDF form the same as we always have, but instead of printing, folding and stapling, we’ll just be releasing them into the wild for free download every three months. Oh, and we’ll also be continuing a rolling programme of putting strips from the archive up on the webcomic blog.

Well, that’ll do it for now, I think. Hope you enjoy the changes, and let us know what you think.

Spread the word!

Jay

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We’d like to thank the Academy

by factorfi on June 9, 2009 at 10:47 pm
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Well, blimey! What can we say? On Sunday afternoon, we received an email notifying us that The Girly Comic Book Volume 1 has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Comic/ Graphic Novel.

Nominated and voted on by members of the British Fantasy Society. If you’re a member of the BFS, and helped us to make the shortlist, then thank you so much. It was quite a surprise, as we hadn’t checked the longlist, so didn’t realise we were on that either! Wish us luck for the final vote, which closes on August 1st, and the result will be announced over the weekend of September 18th-20th at the FantasyCon convention in Nottingham. For more information on FantasyCon, check out:
http://www.fantasycon.org.uk

Voting is open to current members of the British Fantasy Society, attendees of FantasyCon 2008 and those who have already registered for FantasyCon 2009. If you’re eligible to vote, we’d really appreciate it if you considered supporting us again. Competition for the award is fierce, so we can do with all the help we can muster!

Our esteemed opposition are:

All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely (DC)
30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow by Steve Niles/Bill Sienkiewicz (IDW)
Comic Book Tattoo by Rantz Hoseley/Tori Amos/various (Image)
The New Avengers: Illuminati by Brian Bendis/Brian Reed/Jim Cheung (Marvel)
Hellblazer: Fear Machine by Jamie Delano/Richard Piers Rayner/Mark Buckingham/various (Vertigo)
Hellblazer: The Laughing Magician by Andy Diggle/Leonardo Manco/Daniel Zezelj (Vertigo)
Locke & Key by Joe Hill/Gabriel Rodriguez (IDW)
Buffy Season 8 Vol 3: Wolves At The Gate by Joss Whedon/Drew Goddard/Georges Jeanty (Dark Horse)

Win or lose, it’s great being invited to the party, and being able to say that we’ve been shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award, but just dreaming for a little while. How great would it be to actually win? :)

Jay and Selina

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Factor Fiction @ BICS & Thought Bubble

by factorfi on September 25, 2008 at 6:53 pm
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Factor Fiction will have a stall at the upcoming Birmigham International Comics Show (4-5th Oct) http://www.thecomicsshow.co.uk/

We’ll have new comics in the form of The Girly Comic #18, Violent! #14 plus a few copies of the MCR comic: The Fiend in Five Dimensions!

We were also hoping to launch The Girly Comic Book Vol 1, but printing delays mean we will now be launching that at Thought Bubble in Leeds on 15th Nov http://www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/08home.asp

The Girly Comic Book will be a 280 page hardback edition.

Hope to see lots of you at the events.

luv & jellybabies
Selina & Jay

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…and We’re Back!

by factorfi on September 15, 2008 at 10:51 pm
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Sorry about the hiatus in putting up pages for your delectation. The last few months have been taken up with a multitude of other projects, such as organising the Caption small press convention in August, and finalising the proofs for our next books, Shelf Life and The Girly Comic Book 1, as we gave you a sneak peek recently.

But here we are to save the day! See you on a daily (mostly!) basis.

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Coming Soon: The Girly Comic Book Volume 1

by factorfi on May 18, 2008 at 11:31 am
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The Girly Comic Book Volume 1

Here’s a sneak peek at what should be the next major release from Factor Fiction – collecting strips from across the first seventeen issues of The Girly Comic in a shelf-friendly perfect bound edition, under a gorgeous Dez Taylor cover. Further down the line will be The Girly Comic Book Volume 2, collected strips from Violent! and Crazycrone: The Lee Kennedy Collection. And tomorrow, the world!

The Girly Comic Book Volume 1 will, all things being equal, debut at the Birmingham International Comics Show this October.

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