JOHN ERASMUS -Comic Genius!
John Erasmus I got into contact with in 1985,which is when he began to show his talent in the Small Press and magazines -covers for the “Zoo Vet” books,strips like Spring-heeled Jack for Fantazia,”Buck ‘n’ Ears”,Denizen Ark:Unemployed Crime-Fighter,the wonderfully insane “Home Front” for The Damage and more but here is a rather cut down CV:
2006-2007-Storyboard work for feature films Amini (dir. Yousaf Ali Khan) and Hush (dir. Mark Tonderai) and book covers for French publishers Leduc s. Editions
2005-Desperate Dan (Dandy, DC Thomson)
2003-2004-Freelance illustration for various clients including OUP, Mark Stewart Productions, BBC TV. Also Director on short video productions for Ghost Film Company
2001-2002-Storyboard work and production work for Independent Film Companies including Omniversal, Ghost, Solaris, Fathom and Roundtable
2000-Illustration work for OUP and Gecko Books and storyboard work for independent British film productions
1999-Star Reporter, Graphic Novel (Oxford
1996-1997- Book Cover art for Sheldon Press (UK) and Calderini (Italy), graphic work for various Agencies and Companies including Uli Meyer, Mathew Graham and Aardman Animation. Also work for Funny Comics Zit & Sweet FA
1995-Space Precinct (Manga Comics - Graphic Novel)
1993-Terrarists (Marvel)
1992-Special Agent Smegg (UT - Won Best Artist, British Funny Comics Awards ‘92)
1992-Sex Warrior (Dark Horse - inking and colour only)
1991-Accident Man (Toxic)
Of course,John has contributed work to my own publications and circa 1987 this included Turkish Locomotive and Dervish Ropey And The Maximin Sword! Now,years later,Dervish is set to return!!
The following is a brief synopsis followed by art pages that,if you viewed then at the size they were sent to me look even more incredibly wonderful!
DERVISH ROPEY IN THE AMAZON
SYNOPSIS
Dervish Ropey, Freelance Explorer and Archaeologist, is commissioned by private Museum owner Dickens Twyford to investigate evidence of script on newly discovered artifacts from the Amazon basin, an area not know to have developed a written language.
In so doing Dervish and his flying extra-terrestrial sidekick Freeto become entangled in a devilish scheme to install a new military regime and nuke the entire rainforest, masterminded by Colonel Navalha, the country’s leading counter-terrorist expert.
Yanomami Indians, illegal goldminers, the Russian mafia and a mystery subterranean civilization are all drawn into the action.
Dervish Ropey in the Amazon is a three part series of 44 pages each, 132 pages in total.
BACKGROUND
The years of research that have produced Dervish Ropey in the Amazon have included interviews with experts in the field, including John Hemming, former Director of the Royal Geographic Society, William Milliken, botanist and Amazon explorer and Mark O’Shea, snake expert and TV personality.
Some of the information here is comparatively new to publication; for example the details of life in the garimpos (goldfields) courtesy of Gordon Macmillan who made a six month field study of these mostly illegal places and the Graesser Contactor, a real machine designed to remove mercury from river systems but never used in the Amazon for political reasons.
And should some publisher recognising real talent be interested in an artist who works hard,keeps to deadlines and is -have I said this already?- TALENTED. Well,contact John at:
And he’ll be at the October Birmingham Comic show!!
oh. And he’s a nice guy!
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