Ex Astris on myebook

[John Freeman]

I've just been experimenting with the online ebook publishing tool myebook and have uploaded an episode of Ex: Astris, called Homecoming: a 10-page strip which first appeared in the British comic in Bulletproof Comics #2. Click on the image on the right to view the comic or follow this link. Love to know what fok think if you haven't already seen it.

This standalone story, drawn by Mike Nicoll, links with the strips we've published on ROK Comics and Clickwheel.net, taking place on a post-apocalypse Earth in 2511.

Included in this myebook is a one page article with some background on the origins of the strip, which was recently commissioned for an ongoing run in Spaceship Away for 2010.

This was my first try at myebook and it was fairly instinctive to use: you upload and manage assets using browser-based builder software.

Several independent publishers are using the platform - including Shane! - to promote their projects. You'll find books such as new Garth by Huw-J, The Fat Man by Thomas Cochrane, previews of Marksoia titles, and comics from Orang Utan Comics, Insomnia Publications, Unico Comics and many others.

If you want to read Ex Astris: Homecoming in print, then head over to the Bulletproof web site and order a copy of #2, an 80-page anthology which also features strips such as Slumbertown by Rik Hoskin & Thomas Crielly, Simba Khan by Paul Birch & Jon Haward, Love Hurts by David Hailwood & Stuart Giddings, Sideburns by Jim Alexander & Jon Haward and Redstitch by Lee Langford & Klaus Belarski.

• Bulletproof Comics: www.bulletproofcomics.co.uk

• Read Ex Astris: Homecoming on myebook.com