Sci-Fi & Fantasy meets Western: webcomic Peacemaker has it all!

Acclaimed Australian author, Marianne de Pierres, and award-winning comic artist, Brigitte Sutherland, have teamed up to produce a new and exciting online comic. Entitled Peacemaker, the web-comic combines the supernatural, the futuristic, the Wild West and the Australian landscape in an exotic blend of storytelling.

Peacemaker introduces readers to park ranger, Virgin Jackson, and US cowboy, Nate Sixkiller. Dead bodies, missing spiritualists, an imaginary eagle and a wholly psychotic businessman, Joachim Spears, are just some of the things that force the two into an uneasy alliance to save Park Western from being closed. Trapped in the heart of a sprawling Australian super city, Park Western is the only piece of natural landscape left in the entire country, and Virgin will do anything to preserve it.

Marianne de Pierres has won awards for her science fiction and crime novels and  had her work adapted for RPG and animation. Peacemaker is the result of Marianne’s long term romance with Westerns, which started many years ago when her father gave her a copy of Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey. It was only a matter of time before she wrote one herself.

Brigitte Sutherland’s award-winning comic art has featured in numerous anthologies across the world. Brigitte recently released her first creator-owned graphic novel, The Adventures of a Homunculus. Peacemaker allows UK–based Sutherland to share the beauty of the land she  grew up in while indulging in high adventures starring a sassy heroine!

Peacemaker is available for download from de Pierres’ website www.mariannedepierres.com/peacemaker. There are plans for a limited edition soft-cover to follow. It is published under de Pierres’ own branded creative co-op, MDPWeb.

Here’s my formal announcement from the Supanova FB page:

Sadly, our friend and Supastar-author Marianne De Pierres has had to cancel her appearance at the Perth expo. She is terribly disappointed to have to do so, but ash clouds, family considerations and illness have conspired against her. She looks forward to seeing you all in 2012. Anyone who wants their book autographed by the author can contact her through this website’s ABOUT page and she will send them a signed bookplate and some goodies.

I have already received some emails for bookplates, so please let me know soon.

Yesterday, I heard that the documentary I was interviewed for last year (with Karen Warron and Sean Williams ) is about to hit the waves.

While in Melbourne recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jan Goldsmith at 3CR. Jan has been involved with 3CR for about seventeen years and I think has had her bookshow for about twelve. Anyway it was a pleasure meeting her and talking about Burn Bright. You can hear the podcast of the interview here. It’s at around the 16 minute mark.