Gestalt Comics’ international hit graphic novel The Deep is to be turned into an animated TV series by Technicolor (Euronext Paris: TCH). The Deep, created by Australian playwright and comic book writer Tom Taylor (Injustice: Gods Among Us, Star Wars: Blood Ties, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight) and illustrator James Brouwer (Justice League Beyond), [...]
Wolf Creek‘s director Greg Mclean is embarking on a new project with Gestalt Publishing which is offering a unique ‘buy in’ opportunity to help raise funds to get the project up and running. The crowdfunding is not for film production but for a graphic novel about a swashbuckling Victorian-era adventurer called Sebastian Hawks – and [...]
ComicsOnline’s Jayden Leggett has put together an insightful review of Bobby Nenadovic‘s ‘Digested’ series: “A social commentary. An opinion piece. A journey of self-expression. An autobiography told through panels. Prepare yourself for a series that is vastly different to what you probably normally expect from the comic book medium. There are no spandex-clad superheroes here. Digested is [...]
Greg Mclean, primarily known as a filmmaker and renowned for his horror sensation movie Wolf Creek, will be delivering the launch speech for Gestalt Comic’s Changing Ways Book 2 by video from his current base in South Australia. Mclean not only wrote the foreword for the graphic novel by Justin Randall, but it seems fitting that [...]
Award-winning graphic novelist Justin Randall will be at Planet Books, Mount Lawley, to sign his works for fans from 7pm-9pm this 31 October. Gestalt’s Facebook fans have been encouraged to bring along their cameras for the opportunity to have their picture taken with the internationally renowned creator. The Hallowe’en evening will mark the launch of Randall’s latest [...]
This Hallowe’en the award-winning graphic novellist Justin Randall will be launching his latest work, Changing Ways Book 2, at Perth’s Planet Books. The eve of ghouls and haunting tales is the perfect atmosphere to welcome the second book in the chillingly good horror series. Randall will be at the Mount Lawley Store, 636 Beaufort Street, [...]
Tim McEwen’s review of Changing Ways Book 1, No Aimless Shambling in This Zombie Horror, is full of praise for Justin Randall’s work. “It’s a compelling thriller/mystery with a supernatural, possibly zombie, conspiracy twist, and it’s very hard to put down.” Despite early misgivings, it seems McEwen is now keen to get hold of the second [...]
With Hallowe’en on its way, Gestalt Comics has put together a pre-Hallowe’en sale so fans can enjoy a chilling night reading … Hallowe’en, a contraction of the original name ‘All Hallows’ Even’, is an annual holiday held on October 31 which was (according to some scholars) initially from the traditions of pagan harvest festivals and [...]
It’s always nice to be noticed by mainstream media; and on page 80 of this season’s SCOOP magazine, Gestalt Publishing appears in the ‘Books’ section. Featured in the photo are Christian Read, Wolfgang Bylsma, Tom Taylor, Colin Wilson and Andrew Constant, but the article is more general as the magazine discovers Gestalt, and graphic novels, for the [...]
The taste of grit, sweat and stubble in Christian Read and Emily K. Smith‘s latest graphic novel, Unmasked #2, is reflected through the latest Deer In The Xenon-Arc Lights review. “Comics don’t often play by real rules when it comes to the real societies that they set themselves in and Christian uses this book to call them [...]