Liquid Comics creates Guy Ritchie's 'Gamekeeper' Motion Comic

Gamekeeper, an original, motion comic series launches exclusively today, 14th August on Yahoo! Screen, the ultimate video destination and produced by Liquid Comics, a digital media company that specializes in creating digital graphic novels.

The motion comic is a motion comic version of Liquid's graphic novel created by Guy Ritchie (director of the Sherlock Holmes films), written by comic book superstar Andy Diggle and drawn by Mukesh Singh, who also drew Devi and Jenna Jameson's Shadow Hunter, now also owned by Liquid and whose credits also include Grant Morrison's MBX project.

Gamekeeper is an epic tale of espionage, illustrating one man’s battle with the wild side of nature — and himself.  Brock is a reclusive, enigmatic groundsman who lives a quiet existence, until mercenaries invade it and destroy any remnants of his life he has left.

Now, set on a path of vengeance, it becomes difficult to tell who has more power – the man, or the animal within.


• Watch Gamekeeper online now here: http://screen.yahoo.com/gamekeeper
http://screen.yahoo.com/gamekeep

WebFinds: Chris Weston, Movie Star

Today's WebFind: ace British artist Chris Weston has re-plugged some 'motion comics' created to promote last year's Book of Eli film directed by the Hughes brothers and starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman.

It looks like two comics were published, with Chris, who drew the tale, making a cameo in the second, "The End", below...

So why didn't we we see him on the Oscars red carpet at the weekend?

"Billy"
A lone hero must fight his way across the wasteland of post-apocalyptic America to protect a sacred book that holds the key to saving the future of humanity. This motion comic was drawn by "the annoyingly talented Tommy Lee Edwards", Chris tells us.





"The End" - featuring Chris Weston (who also drew it)





Released to mix reviews and pitted against films such as Avatar, Box Office Mojo notes The Book of Eli gross $94,835,059 in the United States and Canada, and $62,256,659 in other markets, with an estimated worldwide total of $157,091,718.

Moore and Reppion announce steampunk motion comic "The Thrill Electric"

"We are very pleased to say we are now officially allowed to talk about a very exciting new project we have coming up in 2011," the writing team announced on their blog.

"This project came about from a writing cliché, in that it is the very first idea I have had which was so good and so obviously needing writing, that I had to sit up in bed, grab a pen and start making notes," says John. "This has never happened to me before or since, and in fact I never actually believed it did happen to writers. But now it has, and a bloody good job too. Hattrick Productions liked it, and 4education liked it enough to commission it!"

The team are now writing a ten part motion comic series set in the fast paced world of the Victorian Internet.

"We have the lovely and talented Emma Vieceli on board, giving the whole series her drop dead gorgeous signature style, and making sure it all has a smooth cohesive look and feel and then we have the combined force of Windflower Studio on art chores for the series. We managed to get these girls before the ink was even dry on their animation degree certificates, so we have the pleasure of saying 'you saw them here first kids!'"

The Thrill Electric revolves around the office of the International and Electric Telegraph Company in Manchester in 1871 and follows the fortunes of a gang of young adults who connect with wires. They have the day to day data of the city, of the world even, flowing through their telegraph keys and millions of people relying on the telegraph for news of wars, the prices of their stocks, the news of a loved one’s birth, or marriage or death. All of this responsibility heaped on those young shoulders and they still manage to find time to slack off, play games, bitch about each other and fall madly passionately in love, all at the lightning  speed of the telegraph.

• For more more about The Thrill Electric, check out this post on John and Leah's official blog