NEW STORY!
Escape In a Dirigible
or
To Make The World Safe For Tea
Graphic Novel
By Anthony & Myke Feinman, Illustrated by Anthony
Feinman.
Retail Price: $8.95
Ink and Feathers Comics price: $8.00 plus $2.00 shipping & handling
Art done in Bigfoot Popeye style based off of E.C. Segar and Bud Sagendorf
A prequel to Myke Feinman's The Mask Conspiracy, this Doc Savage-like story takes place in the last days of World War I, The War To End All Wars. Terry Freedom and his photographer, Irving Abraham, are flying with a British Squadron over enemy occupied territory when their squadron is ambushed. Terry and his sidekick's plane becomes damaged in the fighting and they are forced to make an emergency landing. Their landing strip turns out ot be a nearby DIRIGIBLE! Terry and Irving become entanged in a mad conspiracy and are forced to stop a mad man, Baron Marvin Von Schlameil, from trying to destroy all of England. This story, originally mentioned in The Mask Conspiracy, is the TRUE tale of what transpired on May 20, 1918. The events described in this volume helped to establish Terry as a world wide figure and is the foundation that help him build his fame and fortune which lead to NewsHunt Magazine.
A
must read for any fan of Terry Freedom. This short story is the first precursor for the last and
final Terry Freedom story, The B.U.C.K.S Stop Here.
Tears of the Prophets is the next scheduled story due to be out 2007.
For a brief preview, click here!
This
volume is now available as a paperback graphic novel. It is 80 pages.
As opposed to the prepublication version, this volume includes a NEW INTRO
by Anthony Feinman as well as a timeline of the history of Terry Freedom's
family. This is the first time that these facts have ever been released
to the public. That alone should be enough for fans of Terry Freedom to
purchase this intriguing volume. It also features a backup feature entitled,
Stage Fright, written by Andy Hall and lavishily illustrated
by Zach McDivitt. Stage Fright is a story about those timeless monsters
we have all grown up with and loved. They are now back in a new adventure.
This time, they are attempting to get back into the acting business, Unfortunately,
their comeback is met with deady force!
Cover Colored By Eric T. Gradberg. Visit www.ericgradberg.com
$1 out of each book sold goes to art and jounalism scholarships
at various high schools. This volume can only be ordered through Ink and
Feathers Comics at this time. For now, purchase them thorugh us and we
will PERSONALLY sign them just to you! Order yours today by clicking
or printing out our PDF
order form! (a version of Acrobat Reader is required) and sending
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Feathers Comics, 1214 Orchard Rd #7, Bloomington, IL 61704
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Gallery & Article about
Escape In A Dirigible
Banker
by Day, Cartoonist at Night
(Featured in The HeartBeat, 2003)
Anthony Feinman has recently completed his first comic book story for his father's comic book company, Ink and Feathers Comics. The story, Escape In a Dirigible, took him four years to complete. Based on his father's comic book reporter character of Terry Freedom, Escape is a prequel to Myke Feinman's first two books, The Mask Conspiracy and The Crystal Skull Files.
"It's been a long road for me", says Anthony. 'When my father and I originally plotted out this story, I was only planning for 20 pages. When I finally completed all the drawing in early July (2003), my short 20 page story turned into a 44 page story illustrated. That's twice the drawing I had originally planned on! I must add that my hands are really tired."
Anthony has been drawing non-stop for two months everyday after work to make his deadline. He claims it was liking working two jobs.
"Even after I was finished with the illustrations, I was still not finished. I still had to add my lettering onto the pages digitally and paginate two stories into a book form. I was waiting on the artist for the backup feature that appears at the end of my story to complete his work. Until he finished, I couldn't complete all the pagination and send everything off to the printers. My deadline was the first week of August. I didn't finish until the last week of July. It was a very stressful time for me."
Unfortunately, Anthony has only been able to do a limited 76 page prepublication version at this time. He hopes to have a perfect bound version by early 2004. The reason for the delay is that for the past few months Anthony has been going through and correcting spelling errors, adding extra pages, and being a perfectionist. The prepub was not up to his specifications. One of the mistakes he had to fix was right on the cover. In a hurry to get his story out in time for WiizardCon 2003, He misspelled "Dirigible" in his title adding an extra "I". He claims because of that mistake, the prepub will be worth hundreds of dollars more after the final version hits bookstores.
So, what was the reason for Anthony's story doubling in size? During the course of those four years in the making, Anthony's father decided that some extra subplots should be added. He had Anthony introduce previous characters from the first two books. This required Anthony to rewrite his origianl short story.
"It was a challenge
since when we had this discussion, I had already drawn the first two chapters.
Luckily, the story was still developing so I could add some plot twists. However,
I had to go back and research the stoylines in dad's previous books."
The female lead that Myke wanted Anthony to add was not supposed to meet Terry's sidekick until 1936. Anthony's story takes place in 1918, eighteen years before the first book takes place. Anthony need to do some clever writing.
Adding to the confusion, Myke threw Anthony another loop by telling him to plot his short story to be the precursor for the third and concluding book, The B.U.C.K.S Stop Here.
"The only hint I can give the reading audience when they read this story is to read The Mask Conspiracy and The Crystal Skull Files first. Then read Escape In A Dirigible. Escape is a stand alone story and can be enjoyed as such but some of it may be confusing with the addition of the new characters. All I can say for the moment is that the third installment deals with time travel. that may help to explain why a certain character makes a brief appearance in my story."
Though
this forty page story sounds like a project that should have been completed
years ago, this has not been the only project Anthony has been working on.
He has been shooting digital photgraphy for his father's latest two stories
involving a teddy bear, Scoop Schaumburg.
"I did photo work for dad's sixteen page short story, In
Search of the First Teddy Bear, that he originally published
online back in early 2002. He decided to print it in book form that fall.
I not only did the photo work but the pagination on it as well. Myke then
began writing his new novel, The Teddy Bear Conspiracies.
I've been working on putting together 20 pictures for that book as well.
It is scheduled to be released early 2004. It took me roughly six months
to work on those photos in between working on my story and my 8 to 5 job.
I'm probably going to need to see an eye doctor soon with all the time
I've been staring at a computer moniter."
Visit Anthony at MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/afeinman
Recent Quotes in favor of this publication:
"This is so Cool...When can I sell the prepub version
for hundreds of dollars and then buy the book version?"- Michael
Masters
Answer: NOW! Pick up this
new volume today and make some money on Ebay! But this can only work if
Anthony has signed the prepub version.
"You used the word "Schmuck"! I haven't
heard that word in ages!"- Jennifer Hinman
Answer: We love you too,
Jen!
"It's about time you got it done. I've only been waiting
for four years!"- Anonymous friend
Answer: We'd like to see
you put something like this together in your spare time! Put you money
where your mouth is but don't swallow. Better yet, give your money to
us and we'll sell you more books! We'll even PERSONALLY sign them to you!
What a DEAL!!!
To learn more about Terry Freedom and his NewsHunt gang, visit NewsHunt Crew!
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