We’re finally back with another Kickstarter, having just launched the campaign for MURKY WATERS: Tales from Beneath; a 56 page anthology of eight short comics exploring the blurred lines separating imagination and reality.
MURKY WATERS also explores life’s big philosophical questions – What comes after death? How responsible are we for our choices? What makes a life ‘authentic’? What separates a ‘hero’ from a ‘villain’? How can we live beyond our deaths? Is our existence defined by others?
The creator of THE RESURRECTED, Christian Carnouche, wrote all eight stories, while Erica Schultz is the editor, Cardinal Rae the letterer and Tula Lotay the cover artist. Meriam Carnouche co-wrote House of Cracks.
An all-star cast of international artists features Gabriela Contreras, Christian DiBari, Alex Diotto, Matthew Dow Smith, Triona Farrell, Ismael Hernandez, Maan House, Allison Hu, Dearbhla Kelly, Ariela Kristantina, Roshan Kurichiyanil, Lala Narita, Devmalya Pramanik and J. Schiek. Donna. A. Black,
Iain Laurie and Sachi Ediriweera produced pinups for the campaign.
Thanks again for supporting us! Christian Carnouche and The Murky Waters Team
Well… I’m a little embarrassed, but I haven’t updated this website since February 2019… I update regularly on social networks but for some reason I’ve let the website lapse a little. Anyway, enough with the excuses…
First up, I hope everyone is keeping safe in this crazy time. I never imagined I’d be updating my site during a pandemic… My wife and I are going into our 10th week in lockdown. We’ve been pretty strict about it as well. Things are improving in The Netherlands though so the lockdown will be eased in the coming weeks.
So, you might be wondering what we’ve been up to since our last update? The real question is, what haven’t we been up to!
Writing and producing a new comic book anthology
The most exciting recent news is that I’m writing and publishing an anthology of short comic book stories. The stories are all a little dark and focus on the blurred lines separated imagination from reality. While I wrote all the stories, I’m proud to say my wife Meriam co-wrote a six page story 🙂 Erica Schultz will edit all the stories, while Cardinal Rae will letter them. We are also lucky enough to have Tula Lotay on cover duties again.
So far the art for two stories is finished, art is underway for another, and there are four more stories with artists already assigned. The artist lineup is incredible. Seriously… I don’t want to announce the entire lineup just yet though. But I can say that Maan House and Roshan Kurichiyanil have already completed the five page story ‘Cogito Ergo Sum,’ while Matthew Dow Smith and Allison Hu have finished ‘Ashes and Dust.’ Here’s a taste of what is come. For some reason the colours look a bit strange when I upload them. Anyway….
I’ll update more once we’re closer to completed the entire anthology.
The Resurrected trade paperback
In May/June 2019, we successfully launched a Kickstarter campaign to print issues 1-5 of The Resurrected in a trade paperback. We were lucky enough to raise over 5000 euros. The book was printed and shipped without any nasty surprises. Thanks again to everyone who supported us.
Here’s the campaign if you haven’t yet checked it out:
And if you missed out, you can buy a print copy here:
We were lucky enough to have comics superstar, and my favourite artist, Tula Lotay, draw the trade cover. Just bloody lovely…
I didn’t end up submitting The Resurrected to Diamond distribution, but I have still managed to get it into quite a few shops in the UK, The Netherlands and Australia. I was about to go on a big distribution and convention push but the pandemic temporarily put a stop to those plans…
Conventions
So what else is going on? I attended loads of conventions, including my first ever guest appearance at Amsterdam Comic Con. Had an amazing time, even though I may possibly have had too many cocktails and sang way too much karaoke at the guest and crew drinks on the Saturday night… I also ran a comic book writing seminar there and my wife and I were lucky to have chatted for a while with Christophe Lambert. Super nice dude.
Here’s a photo of all the comic guests and the awesome organisers of creators’ valley (thanks Steve for the photo!):
My other convention highlight was definitely Thought Bubble last November in Harrogate, UK. Not only an amazing line up of fellow creators, but also organised incredibly well. My highlight was definitely getting to meet so many of my friends that I’d made on Twitter. Best con experience ever.
Reviews and Interviews
We’ve been blessed to have had so many websites review The Resurrected. Here’s an updated list:
One of my recent highlights was definitely been interviewed a few weeks ago by Iurgi at ALIA Graphic Novels and Comics:
Well thanks everyone for sticking by us. I’ve been doing this now since 2016. Can’t believe it has been four years since this silly idea popped into my peanut brain.
I definitely won’t wait a year until my next update 🙂
Moonlight… I watched this brilliant film when I was about halfway through the script for THE RESURRECTED. While it wasn’t initially an inspiration, the use of colours in the film to convey emotion and characterisation definitely influenced some of my later requests to our colourist Sal. I probably got a little carried away at times…
Early last year Carnouche Productions – Comics ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for the first printing of issue one of THE RESURRECTED comic.
I was extremely blessed to have received so much support, especially from family and friends. One of the award tiers involved Crizam and Salvatore Aiala drawing the backer into the comic as a cameo. These eight slots sold out almost immediately and were exclusively taken up by my family and friends. We also had a reward for a ‘producer,’ who was also drawn in.
We’ve just finished the fifth and final issue of the series so I thought I’d publicly thank those who appeared in the cameos 🙂
We’ll be running another Kickstarter in a couple of months where you’ll be able to pre-order print copies of the entire series.
Thanks again everyone for their support!
Christian
I’m not sure whether they inspired Crizam‘s cover for issue one or not, but both of the Bladerunner films were definitely a huge influence on THE RESURRECTED’s story and atmosphere.
Bladerunner is, and probably always will be, my favourite sci-fi film.
Central Park in Sydney – my new favourite building in Sydney, which is right next to my family home, served as one of the references for some of the beautiful Nova Lucis buildings designed by Crizam and coloured by Sal for THE RESURRECTED. Damn these guys are good.
He might have lost his family and the entire population of Australia to a nanobot plague but Cain Duluth still looks like a stud after 10 years. But geez mate you might want to keep your shirt on once in a while…
We’ve just dropped the fifth and final issue of THE RESURRECTED comic: a Bladerunner-esque story about redemption, mortality and an Indigenous-Australian detective’s struggle to save his people from extinction.
You can grab your digital copy here for only $3 an issue:
Working with me is the artist Crizam Zamora (Vampirella, The Precinct, The Black Sparrow & Lady Zorro), colourist Salvatore Aiala (Z Nation, James Bond: Felix Leiter, The Black Sparrow & Lady Zorro), letterer Cardinal Rae (Rose, Crowded, Superman: The Coming of the Supermen) and editor Erica Schultz (Bingo Love, RISE: Comics Against Bullying – Erica has also written for Marvel, DC, Dynamite and other publishers).
