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An up-date from Engine Comics on its much delayed Redeye magazine.

Originally scheduled for release in May, the critically acclaimed REDEYE 7 has now evolved into REDEYE WINTER 2007/2008 SPECIAL. Double sized, it will serve as a bookend to the first volume. In the meantime to get the REDEYE WINTER 2007 SPECIAL to the printers, the editor is looking for help. “I’m asking for donations to help make the magazine to print, putting a request out on MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, blogs and message boards. I’ll be adding a Paypal Donate button to www.enginecomics.co.uk . The donations will go towards not just the printing but the running costs of distribution, conventions and postage. If it doesn’t hit the required figure by October, the content will instead be published on the web in December in PDF format. Subscribers will receive a refund at that point in October for any unpublished issues, and the REDEYE subscriber button will be taken down shortly from the site.”

To give a taste of what will be in the Special, the magazine will expand on its normal mix of interviews and articles on creators old and new. “Behind a fantastic wrap around cover by Malcolm Magic artist Lorenzo, we have a great interview with the Brothers Etherington on their new MOON! series; we also speak with New York cartoonist Liz Baillie, creator of My Brain Hurts; the Godfather of modern British Comics, Pat Mills, in an uncut, epic face to face interview done over two days; the creator of Matter, Irish cartoonist now living in Canada Phill Barrett; and inventor of the Ultranet and Book of Lists, Paul Rainey; plus a few surprises. We also have an article on the Secret History of Irish Comix; Dave Baillie’s instructive Grammar of Comics; a retrospective on the much loved Transformers Marvel UK comic; and we investigate the creation of LOOK AND LEARN, the highly influential 1960’s comic soon to make a comeback.”