1992: dashing young comic writer Ian Edginton enlists rancid young comic artist Matt "D'Israeli" Brooker in a project called Scarlet Traces, a murder mystery set in a post HG Wells' War of the Worlds Victorian London, where Martian technology has been harnessed to create spider-legged Hansom cabs and heat-ray pistols.
Following a mere 8 years of ceaseless effort by Ian, the project is taken up by Coolbeans Productions as a partly-animated web comic; when Coolbeans folds in 2002, a daring reprint deal sees Scarlet Traces first serialised in The Judge Dredd Megazinein the UK, and then, finally, published as an 88-page hardback graphic novel by Dark Horse Comics in 2003.
Scarlet Traces does well enough that a sequel, Scarlet Traces: The Great Game is commissioned. And now, read on...
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Scarlet Traces is what got me hooked on your artwork, Mr. Brooker. Every once in a great while, if you're lucky, you get to discover a new comic that just blows you away. Scarlet Traces was that jem of a find.
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