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**As a Christmas week special treat, Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is available once again for just five days from Monday Dec. 25th to Friday Dec. 29th. Here's your second chance to grab a signed plate edition by Walter Simonson, Mark Chiarello, or newly added plates by Frazer Irving and Barry Kitson (who have also provided new art prints)! The book has also gone up in page count from 88 to 96 pages, so supporters now get even more content!
Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is an epic alternate world sci fi adventure featuring The World’s Greatest Detective as people have never seen him before.
When Watson leaves Holmes to help Crick unravel the DNA helix and finds himself in the employ of England’s most evil man, Holmes is forced to team up with an unlikely group to defeat this monstrous figure and return England to its status quo. With your support here we can get the first part of this exciting graphic novel out to readers!
Testing the waters with three shorts which ran in Tripwire magazine, we felt that now was the time to debut this in its own graphic novel series. This will be a hardcover with a dust jacket running at 88 pages with 68 pages of story (much of which will be new material) plus character sketches, script pages and an interview offering extra information on the series.
Covers by Mark Chiarello & Walter Simonson
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Digital Edition
PDF, 96 pages
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Hardcover - Mark Chiarello cover
Regular hardcover with dustjacket, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.75”
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Hardcover - Walter Simonson cover
Regular hardcover with dustjacket, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.75”
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Hardcover SIGNED by Mark Chiarello
Hardcover with dustjacket, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.75”, tipped in plate edition signed by Mark Chiarello
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Hardcover SIGNED by Walter Simonson
Hardcover with dustjacket, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.75”, tipped in plate edition signed by Walter Simonson
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Hardcover SIGNED by Frazer Irving
Hardcover with dustjacket, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.75”, tipped in plate edition signed by Frazer Irving
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Hardcover SIGNED by Barry Kitson
Hardcover with dustjacket, 96 pages, 8.5 x 10.75”, tipped in plate edition signed by Barry Kitson
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Retailer Bundle
3 copies at wholesale price for retailers only. Write us at hello@wearezoop.com to tell us which cov...
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Tip Jar
If you want to add a little something extra, you can increase in increments of $1 by pressing '+' in...
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Frazer Irving high quality art print
11 x 17 limited edition giclee, Sherlock Holmes
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Barry Kitson high quality art print
11 x 17 limited edition giclee, Sherlock Holmes
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Mark Chiarello high quality art print
11 x 17 limited edition giclee, Sherlock Holmes
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Walter Simonson high quality art print
11 x 17 limited edition giclee, Sherlock Holmes
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Liam Sharp & Bill Sienkiewicz high quality art print
11 x 17 limited edition giclee, Sherlock Holmes
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Shawn Martinbrough high quality art print
11 x 17 limited edition giclee, Sherlock Holmes
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Andy Bennett high quality art print
11 x 17 limited edition giclee, Sherlock Holmes
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Head Sketch by Andy Bennett
Grab an 8 x 10 head sketch by the co-creator of Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders, Andy Bennet...
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Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders original art page
Own an 11 x 17 original art page from Andy Bennett. Write us at hello@wearezoop.com to make your sel...
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Get drawn in
Make a walk-on appearance in Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders The Gene Genie Vol.2. Give us a...
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Signed script
Get a signed script of first 20 pages of volume one
I have been a fan of Holmes since ! was a child and Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is my love letter to Doyle’s creation, while bringing something new to the canon. The series has been over twenty years in the making and now the creators, having tested the waters with the three shorts, feel now that we are ready for a longer form story.
Fans of Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion books like Elric and Hawkmoon or Bryan Talbot’s acclaimed The Adventures of Luther Arkwright graphic novel series will enjoy Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders. Fans of Sherlock Holmes both on the printed page and the big screen will enjoy this series too. The series also owes a great deal to DC’s Vertigo imprint so fans of comic series like The Sandman, Hellblazer, The Invisibles and others will also appreciate The Empire Builders.
“When you think there is nothing more to be said or done with Sherlock Holmes, along come Meadows and Bennett to breathe fresh life into the great detective. Bravo! I’m thoroughly enjoying this original tale!”
– Michael Moorcock, fantasy writing legend (Elric, Jerry Cornelius)
‘Drawing from the wonderful classic that is Sherlock Holmes, Joel Meadows and Tripwire have once again delivered an electrifying story in a dynamically driven comic spread’.
– Richard Taylor, Wētā Workshop (Lord Of The Rings films, Planet Of The Apes)
“A brilliant celebration of an iconic character. Joel Meadows delivers in style, with a refreshing take on Sherlock Holmes and the art by Andy Bennett is just what you need in a comic. I can’t recommend it enough.”
– Mark London CEO/CCO Mad Cave Studios and Writer of Hunt.Kill.Repeat, Wolvenheart, Battlecats, Knights Of The Golden Sun
"If you learn the names of your home's previous tenants and it turns out Sherlock Holmes used to live there, I would say get the locks changed--but it wouldn't do any good. This problem, and others, never would have occurred to me without the benefit of Joel Meadows' paranoia and Andy Bennett's moodily feathered art. Also, never reveal the secret potentials of DNA to a fascist, even a well-bred one. Especially a well-bred one."
– Tom Peyer, writer, The Wrong Earth, The High Heaven (Ahoy Comics)
Barry Kitson interior art
Mark Chiarello / Walter Simonson
Liam Sharp & Bill Sienkiewicz / Shawn Martinbrough
Frazer Irving / Barry Kitson
Joel Meadows
Joel Meadows is a journalist and writer with over three decades of experience on newspapers, magazines and books. His CV includes some of the world’s most renowned publications including Time Magazine, The Times, The Sunday Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Guinness World Records and The Observer. He has also written extensively about comics, film, TV and culture for publications like Playboy, Time Magazine, Esquire, Variety, Empire, Big Issue In The North, Jewish Chronicle. He is also the editor-in-chief of Tripwire, a position he has held since 1992. He lives in London.
Andy Bennett
Andy Bennett was born in southern Ohio. He is a graduate of Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, and The Columbus College of Art & Design in Columbus. Today he serves as a digital media designer at Highlights for Children in Columbus, as well as offering freelance design and illustration work for a wide range of clients. He currently lives in Columbus with his wife Lisa. http://www.b3nn3tt.com/
Once we hit our target of $5000, stretch goals will kick in. Our first stretch goal at $6,500 will activate this A4 Holmes print for everyone who pledges on the campaign, featuring art by David Hitchcock.
If we hit $8,000, then everyone who pledges on the campaign will get a new A4 Subterra poster
and if we get to $10,000 then everyone who pledges on the campaign will get digital versions of every Tripwire magazine since 2020 (Autumn Winter 2020 edition, Autumn Winter 2021 edition, Autumn Winter 2022 edition and May June 2023 edition)
The money raised will pay cover artists Walter Simonson and Mark Chiarello, the pin up artist Shawn Martinbrough, and also the series co-creator and artist Andy Bennett. It will also cover the cost of printing the hardcovers and the add-ons, as well as paying for the design and pre-production of the book.
The graphic novel has been partially scripted and the finished script for this volume will be completed by the end of August. Artist Andy Bennett will have the pages drawn and lettered by the second half of August and the book will be finished in terms of design by the beginning of September. Also both volumes will cleverly weave the three shorts that have already run in Tripwire as part of this epic new comic tale and they are already drawn and lettered. We are confident that all books and add-ons will be shipped by the beginning of December. This story is too big to contain in one volume so the second volume will be published early next summer with two new covers and the rest of the tale.
The risks here are ones we are aware of but with the momentum already as a big chunk of the script has already been written and the shorts already exist that will be weaved into the new story, we feel confident that both books will be completed to deadline.
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