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WARREN ELLIS
Last month, I told you about my idea of publishing a group of imaginary first issues of imaginary series from an imaginary line of comics on an imaginary fifth week. That email is appended below this one.
This month, I’m telling you what the line is called.
Apparat. Or the Apparat Singles Group, depending on my mood.
Four first issues from a line of comics that don’t exist, from an imaginary label called Apparat.
Apparat will work in partnership with the Avatar Press of Illinois, USA, who are generously funding this stunt. The Avatar Press mark will appear on the backs of the books only. Otherwise, to all intents and purposes, these will appear to be works of the Apparat Singles Group.
Right now, I have to thank William Christensen for his kindness and rank stupidity in bankrolling this thing.
There will be four Apparat books — as mentioned in an earlier transmission, I felt it’d be easier to maintain the quality on four than five.
The titles of the four Apparat books, along with the names of their illustrators, follow:
SIMON SPECTOR: illustrated by Jacen Burrows
QUIT CITY: illustrated by Laurenn McCubbin
FRANK IRONWINE: illustrated by Carla Speed McNeil
ANGEL STOMP FUTURE: illustrated by Juan Jose Ryp
Further information will be released next month.
And so it is said.
— W