Another sneak peek at my final interactive animation project featuring the notorious P.I.G. (Paul Ian Gregory) himself, aprés take away, sans culotte, JD neat, Scott on the decks and Vincent Price on the tely.
Just in case you didn’t know, Pauly often tweets off the bog to the uncaring stratosphere. You can be his friend/mocking observer or voyeuristic surveillance agent at twitter.com/gregorypig, or just catch up with the epic that is his life in the Montague Twits column to your right.
Not having posted anything for a while, I thought I should pull my finger out to reveal to the world, er, the dozen or so people who come across this site by complete accident, what I’ve been hard at work on in recent months. Not only have I been toiling on a graphic novel version of Montague Terrace, co-scripted with brother Gary (more on this soon), but I’ve been creating the interactive animations for my MA degree show highlighting the hidden lives of four selected characters from that very same series.
Despite a few thousand technical issues and an extremely steep learning curve using Flash properly for the first time, things are going well.
The plan involves an interactive, wired-up multiple entry system that triggers off a related animation, telling one of 4 stories. Films featured will be of the ex-60s pop grump, Paul Gregory, the not so sweet and innocent former SOE agent Babushka, the magical, mystical double act, Marty and Marvo the Magic Bunny, as well as everyone’s favourite Eastern European megalomaniac, The Puppeteer.
Meanwhile, I’ve also been writing my dissertation discussing the effects of digital and online technologies on the visual language of comics and graphic fiction and the potential repercussions for the medium’s future.
As well as all that, I’m restructuring my website at last and working on design ideas for the degree show. So, just in case anyone was wondering why there hasn’t been a post up for yonks, there you go.
The Notorious P.I.G., Paul Ian Gregory has escaped the agoraphobic confines of Montague Terrace in a desperate bid to join the hordes of twitting tweeters talking turkey. It’s virtually virtual!
You can catch up with the latest dubious words of wisdom and politically suspect grouching at http://twitter.com/gregorypig
You can see the latest instalment from Montague Terrace, The Shipping Forecast, in full and online at Act-i-vate Comix now.
Here’s a link to the interview me and Gary did for Newsarama’s Chris Arrant recently http://www.newsarama.com/comics/040914-Pleece-Montague.html
And while we’re at it, a link to the latest instalment from Montague Terrace
If you haven’t been following the series yet, you can catch up anytime at Act-i-vate Comix and check out all the other gems at the same time.
Here’s a link to an interview by Tim O’Shea at Comic Book Resources between me and lil’ brother, Gary, talking about the new series of Montague Terrace, Velocity and wearing school shorts beyond their sell-buy date (?!).
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/03/talking-comics-with-tim-warren-gary-pleece/
Ladies and Gentlemen, the second episode of Montague Terrace is now online at Activate Comix, featuring Paul Gregory as…er, Paul Gregory. If you want to find out more follow the yellow brick link…
Finally, at long last, my new series Montague Terrace joins the roster at the fabulous Comics collective Activate comix. Check it out here and look out for more soon at my new website warrenpleece.com