Peter B. Gillis Big Comics Readthrough

Peter Gillis' last years as a writer were dominated by projects that didn't quite come to fruition. He had several books in the pipeline, including sci-fi and fantasy novels, plus a short story collection Welcome to the Gillisverse . He'd also written a couple of unfilmed screenplays. In 2016 Gillis began a serialised freewheeling web subscription story Romance of the Rose , through Connor Cochlan's Conlan Press. Gillis asked Dr Strange artist Mark Badger to provide the illustrations. Legal disputes at Conlan curtailed publication, so only 29 of its 50 chapters were posted. I believe 1First were lined up to publish a completed edition, but there's been no word on that since. During the pandemic of 2020, PBG vowed to post a chapter a day of a new story online. As lockdown ended up running much longer than expected, his tongue in cheek madcap fantasy Humans  concluded after 191 chapters, which are still available to read. Following the publication of The Black Flame g...

After a couple of decades of non-existence, a new incarnation of First Comics was founded in 2013, confusing branded as 1First . They launched with a collection of the Brunner issues of Warp , which led to Peter Gillis being offered a new The Black Flame graphic novel. Gillis chose old Micronauts  cohort Kelley Jones to draw it, but tracking him down proved difficult. So instead, PBG reached out to someone he'd long admired but never worked with, classic 70's artist Alex Nino, who delighted Gillis by agreeing to draw it. In the meantime, someone at First had located Jones' address, so the decision was made to split the book between these two stellar artists, with Nino delineating the heavenly Miracle Land pages, leaving Jones responsible for the rest. Despite artwork being completed in 2014, it took another three years to see release, following on from a 7 issue collection of the original Black Flame series. The Black Flame - Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere (2017) Art: Ke...