Official press release below about Gestalt’s latest, and first full colour, offering, from writer/artist Justin Randall. It’s a great looking book, and it’s fantastic to see local talent so…talented.
Welcome to Grey Oaks
Justin Randall, artist on 30 Days of Night: Eben & Stella invites us into the beautifully disturbing town of Grey Oaks with the release of Changing Ways: Book One.
Changing Ways conveys the intimacy and heartache of a family struggling to survive in a world that’s falling apart.
Randall was focused on delivering a story that people could relate to from the outset.
“I wanted to create a story that, despite the cataclysmic events going on in the outside world, you could really just focus on the intimate moments of a small family,” he said.
Synopsis:
David Barrot, a retired Corrections Officer, moved to Grey Oaks after the tragic death of his son, Cale.
With wife Lucy and daughter Jessie, the Barrot family bought a farm on the outskirts of town and began their new life, putting aside all the dark events of their past.
Unfortunately for them, the dark just won’t leave David alone.
The first sightings started months ago, igniting rumours of disease and infection. Newspapers reported unusual lesions appearing on livestock and stories of strange side effects spread quickly. Perhaps it was inevitable that the people of Grey Oaks would be next.
These are their Changing Ways.
Justin Randall is a Lecturer in Digital Illustration for Curtin University in Western Australia, and an internationally published graphic novelist and commercial artist. He has worked on franchises such as 30 Days of Night and Silent Hill and produced artwork for video games, book covers and journals.
Changing Ways is distributed by Diamond Comics in the USA with an RRP of $17.95
I discovered this snappy little book from local publisher Gestalt Publishing (well local to me in Perth, Western Australia anyway) when I read about it in an article in The Australian newspaper. Written by Tom Taylor, and based on his award winning play, with art by 200AD’s Colin Wilson, this is a prime example of how to create something intense with a surprisingly simple premise. Two people, strangers actually, are waiting for a slow train to arrive. As a man (that we never see) leaves the station, he also leaves behind the hook behind this tale – a suitcase.
The new 120 page anthology from Perth publisher 
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