Dopple Dopple Dopple...
As well as writing a variety of comics and graphic novels, I'm also know for my adapting work, where I would take a book (like Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, or Raven's Gate) and turn them into a comic or graphic novel. But one of the things I'm less known for is my adapting inside a book work - primarily the G.P Taylor Dopple Ganger Chronicles books.
I've known G.P Taylor since 2006 when I adapted Shadowmancer into a series of comics and, in the same year we took a book, then called The Tizzle Sisters And Erik, written by G.P Taylor - and ripped large chunks of it out, adapting them into sequential pages and then putting them back in - the term 'illustronovella' was used quite a lot. It wasn't an original term or even original idea, but the merging of both author prose and sequential comic throughout the book was a great success. So much so that Tyndale Press came on board and everything changed.
Now called the DoppleGanger Chronicles, these stories have now been released as three books, the third coming out this week - each one with story and text by G.P Taylor, and sequential pages adapted by me and drawn by Dan Boultwood.
Now, you might be surprised to hear that we've done this, as the PR for Tyndale prefers to ignore us, as G.P Taylor is the name on the book - which is fine, as long as we get credit for what we do. G.P Taylor himself is very good on this and always makes sure that we're in the loop, and Markosia (who produce the books for Tyndale) always provide the back end support for the book.
But it's one of those things that people simply don't know that I do. Even Amazon keeps flitting on whether I am or am not involved with it.
Either way, it's a great story, Dan's art is brilliant and it's well worth a read.
The Dopple Ganger Chronicles Book 3: The Great Mogul Diamond comes out on the 1st of May. You can order it on Amazon.