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Help Terry Martin Resurrect Dead Girls In Graphic Novel Glory

By Alasdair Stuart

Terry Martin is one of the hardest working people in modern genre fiction. The head of the award-winning The House of Murky Depths, Terry has been instrumental in championing, and publishing, work by some of the best writers working in the field. Lavie Tidhar and Matt Wallace both have books out through him and now Terry's looking to add Dead Girls to his roster.

Written by Richard Calder, Dead Girls is an adaptation of his 1992 Cyberpunk novel. Calder's a fiercely prolific author whose other work includes Dead Boys, Dead Things Cythera, Frenzetta, The Twist, Malignos, Impakto, Lord Soho, and Babylon.

The art is the work of Filipino artist Leonardo M. Giron. Leonardo's style has been influenced by everyone from Mignola and Risso to Shirow and he absolutely nails the tone that Calder is looking for:

Leonardo M Giron's indigenous grasp of the ambience that Manila shares with Bangkok, and his ability to translate this into a unique, manga-like idiom – a kind of "manga+" – makes him perfect for delineating the cyberpunk exuberance and sheer down-and-dirty exoticism of Dead Girls.

That exuberance is clear in the sheer scope of Calder's work. It's foot-down, idea heavy Cyberpunk that incorporates new forms of human life, Vampirism and virtual realities. It's also a tight, coherent narrative that balances the precision-tooled excess of a lot of Cyberpunk with a very personal story. It's a perfect fit for comic pages and the graphic novel both collects and expands on the original work done in Martin's now-shuttered Murky Depths magazine.

The campaign is asking just £5000 and, with 9 days to go as I write this, could really use a hand. Rewards start at £3 for a postcard of the wraparound cover and take in full runs of Murky Depths containing the original story all the way up to a signed hardback. Go take a look and help Martin, Calder and Giron resurrect the Dead Girls.

Alasdair Stuart is a freelance writer.The 6^th Doctor Sourcebook for the Doctor Who RPG, written by him, is available soon. He's on twitter at @AlasdairStuart

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