Briar
Writer: Benjamin Read
Illustrator: Chris Wildgoose
Colourist: Jordan Boyd
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Editor: Matt Gibbs
ISBN: 9781473308503
RRP: USD $14.99 / CAD $18.99 / GBP £8.99
Trapped behind an impassable wall of enchanted briar, Layka has been cursed by the shadow-sorcerer, Celik. Her one hope lies with Kaye, The Knight of Thorns, who searches for a way to break the curse and set her free.
Set within a time of myth and fairy tale, BRIAR follows the story of Princess Layka, who seeks an end to the curse that keeps her shut off from the world. Trapped for years behind the enchanted barrier of the briar, she awaits her one true knight, Kaye, who has been tasked with the quest to break the curse and set her free.
Suggested for Young Adults and Above
Available to buy or order from all good comic shops.
Available digitally via: Amazon Kindle, iBooks, Google Play Books, and Payhip (PDF).
"As with their previous collaboration, Porcelain: A Gothic Fairytale, Read and Wildgoose have created an understated masterpiece with Briar that if it were published by a larger publisher like Image or Vertigo would rocket to the top of many of Best Of lists."
"My educated guess is that as soon as you've finished your first read through you'll want to begin again to see if the illusion cast by the clever script holds. It does."
Butterfly Gate
Writer: Benjamin Read
Illustrator: Chris Wildgoose
Colourist: Jordan Boyd
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Editor: Matt Gibbs
ISBN: 9781473308503
RRP: USD $14.99 / CAD $18.99 / GBP £8.99
Trapped behind an impassable wall of enchanted briar, Layka has been cursed by the shadow-sorcerer, Celik. Her one hope lies with Kaye, The Knight of Thorns, who searches for a way to break the curse and set her free.
Set within a time of myth and fairy tale, BRIAR follows the story of Princess Layka, who seeks an end to the curse that keeps her shut off from the world. Trapped for years behind the enchanted barrier of the briar, she awaits her one true knight, Kaye, who has been tasked with the quest to break the curse and set her free.
Suggested for Young Adults and Above
Available to buy or order from all good comic shops.
Available digitally via: Amazon Kindle, iBooks, and Payhip (PDF).
"Butterfly Gate is told entirely in art: there are no captions, no word balloons. Read and Wildgoose manage all sorts of complexity and subtlety using just the art."
— Charles de Lint
"It's a story entirely without words. But the progress of the narrative is delightfully clear. It's absolutely worth your time. It's a comic you should make a point of seeking out and experiencing."
— Patrick Rothfuss
Vertigo: CMYK
The Kshatriya of The Yellow Lotus
Writer: Benjamin Read
Illustrator: Chris Wildgoose
Colourist:
A short story for Yellow, one of four anthologies in theVERTIGO QUARTERLY: CMYK series.
True Grit:
Mean Business
Writer: Benjamin Read
Illustrator: Chris Wildgoose
Letterer: Jim Campbell
A free 24-page comic adapted from the novel TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis. Commissioned by Glass Eye for Paramount as a prequel to the major motion picture TRUE GRIT by the Coen Brothers. It is inspired by the dime novels that first brought fame to the heroes and villains of the old American west.