ABOUT THE STORY

A Viking King who has lost EVERYTHING, a devious plot hatched by the trickster God Loki and a quest to defeat Death itself!

To seek these things...head NORTH!

Blurring the line between a graphic novel and a picture book, NORD is a visual tour de force that will take you on an epic journey through myth and fantasy.

READ THE PROLOGUE:

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Nord

Page count: 78pp

Trim size: h 215mm x w 245mm

Illustrations: Full Colour

Format: Digital and Hardback

ISBN: 978-1-908030-56-6

ABOUT THE CREATOR

Martin Simpson is a freelance illustrator and comics creator based in the UK.

He has illustrated for the likes of Apple, Scholastic, Templar Publishing, The House of Books, The Chicken House Publishing and Puffin Books.

His comics work has included a one-man comics Anthology called ‘Misc’ and ‘The Needleman’, a graphic novella (also for ‘Soaring Penguin Press’).

In 2020, Martin joined a team of six UK based comics creators to help create and contribute towards the much lauded ‘SKRAWL Comix Magazine’.

All the while, Martin has been diligently working away on ‘NORD’ over the last four and a half years of his life. His wife is very happy that it is now finally finished!

ABOUT SOARING PENGUIN PRESS

Soaring Penguin Pressis an Eisner and Ignatz Award nominated UK-based graphic novel publisher.

Established in 2010 (but in existence much earlier), Soaring Penguin Press have published a number of notable titles, including Loisel's Peter Pan (in English for the first time), To End All Wars: the Graphic Anthology of the First World War (nominated for two Eisner Awards), Ellen Lindner's The Black Feather Falls (nominated for an Ignatz for Outstanding Series).

More recently, we published Black, Tobias Taitt’s autobiographical story of being second-generation Windrush in 1980s UK, and Ilana Zeffren’s Urban Tails, a Tel Aviv-based collection of stories about Ilana, her wife and their two cats. But mostly about their two cats.

For further details why we're running this campaign, please visit: https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/soaring-penguin-press-switch-to-a-crowdfunding-business-model

RISKS AND CHALLENGES

The book is done, we just need to print it. Tim Pilcher and John Anderson (that’s us) have been in the comics industry for decades. We’ve been bringing books to print for a while now and this is our third year of crowdfunding campaigns, so we're getting the hang of this now.

We aim to have the book out by May 2023. We’ll have the PDF to you shortly after the campaign ends - just as soon as you fill in the Backers’ Survey.

TIMELINE

NOVEMBER 2022: Crowdfundr campaign runs

December 2022: Book goes to the printers

January 2023: Book leaves printers

April 2023: Book arrives in the UK

MAY 2023: Book out to backers (that's you!)

September 2023: Book out on general release