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Rough Cut Comics
Founded1999
FounderEd Murphy
Colin Barr
David McBride
Jaeson Finn
Country of originScotland
Headquarters locationGlasgow
Publication typesComic books, graphic novels, trade paperbacks
Fiction genresHorror, Superhero
Official websiteOfficial website

Rough Cut Comics is a Scottish comic book publisher based in Glasgow.

History

Ed Murphy, Colin Barr, David McBride and comic-book artist Jaeson Finn founded Rough Cut Comics in 1999 to[1]

[..] create a publishing house to produce comic-book projects based upon - and to inspire - feature film and video game packages.

Rough Cut′s first title was The Surgeon, published in 2001. The Surgeon was based on a horror film script that never came to fruition. It sold more than 7.000 copies and has been translated into different languages, among them German,[2] where it was published by Weissblech Comics, French and Italian. Another comic based on horror films is the adaption of Brian Yuzna's Society; the current series is the sequel Society: Party Animal written by Colin Barr with art by Shelby Robertson for issue 1 and Neill Cameron for issue 2.[3]

The title

Jack Kirby Collector and comic magazine Wizard, as well as becoming one of new distributor UKonDisplay’s biggest selling titles at their launch earlier that year.[4]
In July 2014, their GoodCopBadCop: Casebook#1 title won the True Believers Award for Best British BW Comic-book.

Creators

Apart from company founders Colin Barr and Jaeson Finn, Rough Cut Comics has featured works by

Joel Carpenter, Dave Alexander, Will Pickering, Luke Cooper, Garry McLaughlin, Alex Ronald, Curt Sibling and Derek Dow
, among others.

Selected Titles

  • GoodCopBadCop: Casebook#2
  • GoodCopBadCop: Casebook#1
  • Amanda Swan: The Hellfire Legacy
  • Freedom Collective (one-shot)
  • Compulsory Freedom Collective (trade paperback)
  • Green Pages (b/w magazine)
  • Rose Black Book 1 (Graphic Novel)
  • Rose Black: Demon Seed (Graphic novel)
  • Society
  • Society: Party Animal
  • The Surgeon (mini-series)
  • The Surgeon: Timelines (one-shot)

References

  1. ^ About Rough Cut at Homepage of Rough Cut Comics Retrieved 13.August 2013
  2. ^ Horrorschocker Extra-Album # 2 (Horrorschocker Special # 2) at Weissblech Comics (in German) Retrieved 13.August 2013
  3. ^ Rough Cut Comic′s 10th Birthday: Neill Cameron at roughcutscomics.blogspot, 14.November 2011 Retrieved 13.August 2013
  4. ^ Rough Cut Comics brings Freedom Collective to book at downthetubescomics, 01.June 2013 Retrieved 13.August 2013

External links

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