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Soaring Penguin Gives Emma Vieceli And Malin Rydén's Graphic Novel "Breaks" Away For Free

Published Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:30:06 -0500

Soaring Penguin Press is the comic book publisher that I can walk to from my house in two minutes – two minutes thirty seconds if the traffic on Kingston Hill is particularly heavy.

Amongst their many upcoming projects (that go alongside their anthology collection Meanwhile, the latest issue of which I totally need to do a review of) is Breaks Volume 1, a collection of Emma Vieceli and Malin Rydén's webcomic that ran from 2014 to 2016.

And since it's already been online, Soaring Penguin Press are taking the step of making it free on-line in this format as well.

It's part of a publishing policy, explained to me at Brighton ICE last weekend (I generally see publisher John Anderson as many times at shows as I do in Kingston Vale) that free generates interest which generates print sales.

Use this address to check it out yourself: http://spengu.in/l8TvXN

You also have to subscribe to the Soaring Penguin newsletter. But that's a pretty good thing too

Everyone wears a mask. What we see of people on the surface is so rarely what's ticking underneath. We start young, learning to hide who we are and what we've done in case anyone reaches our center and realises just how fragile we really are…or how dangerous. And, in Cortland Hunt's case, what he's hiding might just be more than Ian Tanner is prepared for.

Breaks is the story of two young adults coming to terms with who they were, who they are and who they'll become. While Ian can't look forward beyond his school years, too occupied with playing shallow roles that will allow him the easiest path through life, Cortland can't keep his head in the present. The shadows of his past mistakes are holding his future to ransom, and if Ian keeps digging deeper, he may just find himself caught up in them as well.

It's a love story…but a little broken.