Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: Burke and Hare
Over a 12 month period from 1827-1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, two Irishmen by the names of William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people and disposed of their bodies to the eminent dissectionist Dr Robert Knox at 10 Surgeon’s Square. Delve into the murky, misquoted history of Scotland’s most notorious serial killers with a research-based graphic novel that unwravels a ghoulish story of medicine, murder and money.
And that is the subject of the next book out from Insomnia, Burke and Hare by Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering.
The cover looks like this:
Its incredible beauty is as a result of being designed by Rian Hughes who has designed a lot of the logos of your favourite DC books, not to mention the Forbidden Planet logo, and being a comics artist himself.
The foreword for this one is by Alan Grant, The Big Dog of 2000AD and Johnny Alpha's real daddy.
There will also be a gallery of guest artists, including Frank Quitely and Gary Erksine.
Yes, we aim to please.
More details on the blog this week, and an interview with Martin coming next.
Burke and Hare is also the first of Insomnia's Vigil imprint for "Bio-graphic novels".
Martin is also the writer doing the adaptation of Fallen Heroes and you can hear him talking about both projects in his interview on Sci-Fi Pulse _________________
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