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It’s the 1st of the Month and it’s a Monday, which can only mean one thing - BIG PHAT CHUNKY COMIC NEWS DAY!


Regular readers of this blog, and our former studioblinktwice blogspot, will have heard tell of numerous book deals that we completed last year. We’ve already announced our first volume, Monkey Nuts: The Diamond Egg of Wonders (more exciting info on that one coming soon) but today is NEW book day!

We are currently to be found embedded in our little Bristol studio, working side by side and living off a diet of tea, coffee, cream soda and toast as we painstakingly produce page after glorious page for our next sequential adventure - a bande dessinée format graphic tale to be released as part of the 2011 DFC Library line-up.

Entitled BAGGAGE, it tells the tale of … oooooooooooh! You almost tricked us there! No, this is one story that is best savoured in small delectable slices and as such we will be drip-feeding you exclusives and teasers each month. Trust us ... you’re in safe hands...

To whet the appetite (lot of eating references today ... must be hungry!) here’s our first teaser pic. Paint your desktop with this bad boy and spread the word. The BAGGAGE is coming home...

5 Weeks to One Man Army Exhibition!

So, the clock is ticking away, and it's now just under 5 weeks until the opening of my Solo exhibition One Man Army here in Bristol. As mentioned before, the show will feature 7 new paintings and a series of new prints, all limited to truly exclusive runs of ONE. That's right, there'll be just one of each of the prints, so if you get one, you know it's properly exclusive, and yours will be the only wall it'll be hanging on! Today's web flyer features one of these prints, enjoy!

Details of how to get to the gallery can be found HERE

Lorenzo!

To misquote Han Solo ... I have a GOOD feeling about this...

Calling all Star Wars fans, young and old! I'm proud to announce that the latest issue of Titan's Star Wars comic, featuring a ten-page tale of action and intrigue written by me, has finally landed! In 'Droid Deception' the inimatable Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu lead a surprise attack against a battleship workshop located in deep space. But when dealing with the seperatists, nothing is ever as easy as it first appears...

For a sneak peek of the story, beautifully illustrated by Andres Ponce, read on.

Keep your eyes glued to the blog for more Star Wars news. There are many more heroic tales to come!

Robin

You can place a subscription for the monthly title HERE or visit your latest newsagent to grab a copy fresh off the press!

8 Weeks to Exhibition: One Man Army

Okay, so it's eight weeks and counting until the opening of my solo exhibition "One Man Army" at the Weapon of Choice gallery here in Bristol... Between now and the opening night on Friday 26th March (to which you're ALL invited!) I'm going to be showing you some sneak previews of the work that will be on offer. The show will be split into two parts, one half being a series of 7 brand new paintings by me'self, and the other half will be a series of exclusive new prints. To create the prints I've gone back into my archives and am pulling out a selection of my favorite illustrations that have never been coloured, and I'm colouring them up, and laying them up as brand new designs. Each of these will be sold framed, signed and numbered ONE OF ONE! That's right folks, there will only ever be ONE of each of the prints produced! Now that's MY kind of exclusivity! The first pictured here, features Serenity from MOON!

More very VERY soon!


Lorenzo!

Monkey Nuts and the Diamond Egg of Wonders...

So, the time between now and the release of Monkey Nuts and The Diamond Egg of Wonders is gonna whizz by, so I'll be giving you little previews and sneak peeks from now until then. Here's a little shot of the Muckybutt Temple marudering through the chumptown docs...This first Monkey Nuts book is of course part of the incredible new DFC Library which is being released from David Fickling Books and Random House. The first three titles are already available for pre-order on amazon, and having seen these books in the flesh yesterday, I can say that they look AMAZING. Click on any of the following titles to check them out on amazon, and maybe even pre-order yourself a copy! MEZOLITH, GOOD DOG BAD DOG, SPIDER MOON.

Oh, and on another note, top man and uber-talented colourist Scotty Simpson sent me an awesome piece of colouring, using one of my recent lineart sketches as a basis. It's very cool, and you can check it out HERE. If anyone else wants to have a go at digitally colouring one of my pics, just drop me a message, I'll be pleased to post up a link to it here and in my blog. Same goes for fan art etc...

Right, that's all for now, cheers!

Lorenzo!

Solo Exhibition By Lorenzo coming this March...

Hey folks! So, there's lots coming this year, all of it very exciting, and the first of which is ONE MAN ARMY, a solo show of my work at the excellent Weapon of Choice gallery here in Bristol in March. Expect brand new original paintings, exclusive prints only available at the show, and other treats besides......more news about the show very soon!

Lorenzo!

Welcome to our Brand New Home!

It's always nice around the new year to invest a little quality time in a good spring clean. With that in mind we have decided to reboot our online presence with a sparkling new all-inclusive blog...Since 2004 we have crafted our sequential adventures under the Studio Blink Twice banner but from this post forth all projects will be released under The Etherington Brothers label ... which makes sense when you think about it.

You'll still be able to find our gallery on Deviantart.com and our forum postings on Conceptart.com under the old SBT heading but that's only because we can't update it!

From now onwards all news relating to any project involving one or more Etherington will be released here: from Star Wars Strips to solo art shows, from 700 page sketchbooks to illustrated novels, from paper to pixel to print, and from Malcolm Magic to Monkey Nuts to ??? ... oops! Almost gave too much away!

Here's to 2010 - it's going to be a little corker!

Oh, and if you want to follow us with ease (and I know you do) then simply click on the FOLLOWERS link in the right hand column to get weekly updates via Google, Twitter, Yahoo, AIM, Netlog or OpenID. That way you'll get all the Etherington news as it happens!

So Happy New Year to you all and we look forward to seeing you soon!

Robin and Lorenzo