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Two More Ideas...
Whilst patiently waiting for an artist to emerge from the woodwork, (yes I know it’s not very appropriate but I just love clichés), I thought I’d mention a couple more graphic novel ideas. These have been festering on my hard drive like kippers left behind a hot radiator. Now, having semi-retired, I’ve decided to try and get them published.
Alternate Versions
This idea involves storyboards from alternate versions of cult films. Films that – for one reason or another – were never completed. The novel will contain excerpts from two such films.
1. During World War Two a top-secret department of the British Foreign Office were responsible for directing black propaganda at Germany and the German occupied territories. This department was known as the Political Warfare Executive. Amongst documents released into the Public Records Office were a series of storyboards belonging to their most ambitious project, a spoof version of Leni Reifenstahl’s classic film of the 1934 Nazi Party Rally, “Triumph of the Will.” Unfortunately the film was deemed too expensive to make but the storyboards, drawn by a Jewish artist and dubbed “The Kosher Kut,” survived.
2. The second set of storyboards were uncovered in the KGB files after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They reveal the plans for an alternate version of “Battleship Potemkin.” Fuelled by copious amounts of Vodka, a filmmakers collective in Kiev believed they could do better than Eisenstein. The artwork for both films will be in a 1920’s/30’s style.
The Wallygrange High School Blogs.
Wallygrange is a private fee paying school with the motto, “All Major Credit Cards Accepted.” Although located in the same area, it bears absolutely no resemblance to the prestigious King’s School in Macclesfield. Motto: “Who Dares Wins.” Yes, the founder of the SAS was educated there and a school that can produce guys like this is definitely not a school you want to piss off. After OFSTED labelled Wallygrange “the worst in the UK, if not in the entire world,” the headmaster, Alfred Hitchcork NUT TA decided to create a blog and put his side of the story. Inspired by this, a number of former Wallygrangians decided to create their own blogs. People like the cannibal chef Gordon Rumsey with his stomach turning recipes, (the hard skin from the heels of a cadaver can make a great substitute for potato crisps). Then there’s the historian and later PR consultant. David Irwing and the two gays who live in a bungalow in North Wales with a former US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant living in a DIY iron lung in the loft, (a trained marine combat engineer, the Gunny supervised the construction of the lung using materials salvaged from a scrap yard).
Their nemesis turns out to be Tom Crews, the Head Boy at Wallygrange who passes himself off as the Great Malakas, God of Bloggers. An emerging sociopath, he takes great delight in using his skill as a hacker to shut down blogs he doesn’t like.
Alternate Versions
This idea involves storyboards from alternate versions of cult films. Films that – for one reason or another – were never completed. The novel will contain excerpts from two such films.
1. During World War Two a top-secret department of the British Foreign Office were responsible for directing black propaganda at Germany and the German occupied territories. This department was known as the Political Warfare Executive. Amongst documents released into the Public Records Office were a series of storyboards belonging to their most ambitious project, a spoof version of Leni Reifenstahl’s classic film of the 1934 Nazi Party Rally, “Triumph of the Will.” Unfortunately the film was deemed too expensive to make but the storyboards, drawn by a Jewish artist and dubbed “The Kosher Kut,” survived.
2. The second set of storyboards were uncovered in the KGB files after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They reveal the plans for an alternate version of “Battleship Potemkin.” Fuelled by copious amounts of Vodka, a filmmakers collective in Kiev believed they could do better than Eisenstein. The artwork for both films will be in a 1920’s/30’s style.
The Wallygrange High School Blogs.
Wallygrange is a private fee paying school with the motto, “All Major Credit Cards Accepted.” Although located in the same area, it bears absolutely no resemblance to the prestigious King’s School in Macclesfield. Motto: “Who Dares Wins.” Yes, the founder of the SAS was educated there and a school that can produce guys like this is definitely not a school you want to piss off. After OFSTED labelled Wallygrange “the worst in the UK, if not in the entire world,” the headmaster, Alfred Hitchcork NUT TA decided to create a blog and put his side of the story. Inspired by this, a number of former Wallygrangians decided to create their own blogs. People like the cannibal chef Gordon Rumsey with his stomach turning recipes, (the hard skin from the heels of a cadaver can make a great substitute for potato crisps). Then there’s the historian and later PR consultant. David Irwing and the two gays who live in a bungalow in North Wales with a former US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant living in a DIY iron lung in the loft, (a trained marine combat engineer, the Gunny supervised the construction of the lung using materials salvaged from a scrap yard).
Their nemesis turns out to be Tom Crews, the Head Boy at Wallygrange who passes himself off as the Great Malakas, God of Bloggers. An emerging sociopath, he takes great delight in using his skill as a hacker to shut down blogs he doesn’t like.
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