Killer Elite Killer Elite, making of ... (Part One) The Desktop while gathering ideas for writing this post on
Killer Elite I realized that now the "Wild Bunch" (to quote another way of Peckinpah) befriends the killers to me,
Alessio Landi and Alessio D'Uva for almost two years.
For it was September 2004 when, at the Lexcorp (unofficial name of the house of Alessio Landi / Lexland), the host pointed to me and another Alessio (Dual on the forums) the plot of a story that involved the most clever killer the world and his decision to challenge the other major killers pay.
We were working on the background of a project involving a city founded by the blues, on which a multinational pharmaceutical reigned economically and politically.
The project is blocked (and is still standing) to begin work on what was originally the title of
"Six Killer" .
The structure of the project came quickly: first issue, with six stories of eight pages each was presented where the background of the story (because that is the world's most famous killer, Augustus Bruegel, he intended to challenge his "colleagues") and the six main characters.
Second number (if the first had found a publisher and went well) with the deadly challenge.
served the protagonists.
addition to me and Dual, Lexland also involved knowledge forumistica,
Sergio Calvo (Gambitt24 forums), which was scripted stories published online on one of your characters
http://www.comicus.it/ .
It started popping the six killer: in addition to Augustus
Brugel , engine first of the story, created Lexland
Leviatank (character who already had in mind for a story written and drawn by him) and Amy
Ammo, the only female protagonist, Sergio / gambit in a fast night "gave birth"
Virus ; Dual came with Lavater
Ted and I with
Earl Roy . Everyone
disturbed (the characters, I mean, not authors. ... My oh my, the authors ....).
The screenplay of the six "episodes" were written quickly, with some filings and corrections of the incident Brugel Augustus, who was a frame-presentation with the other five to make it more consistent with the rest of the stories.
With the project outlined, but without a shred of designer available Lexland
went to Lucca Comics 2004 looking for a publisher. Or at least a fool who would give us confidence. He got a crazy
:
Alessandro Bottero . Luckily it was also the publisher. Bottero
gave us confidence, and began to look for a designer disegnatori.Sergio had confidence, excellent
Alessandro Bragalini (just so, now is working with the Image!), I was five. I contacted Simon
Guglielmini
(but was struggling with Detective Dante
No. 9) and Gigi Baldassini, which became very interested in the project, but then joined the staff of
Jonathan Steele. Dual Lexland and knew one of the teachers of the School of Comics in Florence,
Francesco Ciampi, who spoke of the project, now firmly titled "Killer Elite
" proposed by the writer of this post here, and that gave us the names of some of the best final year students of the School.
From the list of names given to some meetings and information, to order the list of artists was completed. Alessandro joined Bragalini
Valerio Pastore, Marco
Tavarnesi , Nicola
Saviori and Francesco Rossi .
At that point the 2005 had begun. It began in 2005 with a bit 'of Scazzi interiors, a certain laxity on the part of designers (and a little control over their work on our part), and the promotion of the register by any means (legal).
Another friend, Fabiano
rings, prepared the logo and graphics of the register, as well as a mini-site presentation, and I Lex Dual gambit and we'd be done in contact magazines and websites critical of comics to advertise the book, which had as its release date in July 2005. A
Torino Comics 2005 brought some promotional cards with the six people who went to steal (in the sense that almost took All the great leader of the Pegasus to send to the various comics). Bottero occasion and I talked about the project with
Luca Boschi and staff
Fumo di China. Woods would later wrote an editorial for submission at dawn, smoke while China would have dedicated a full page interview and presentation of the register.
From Torino Comics 2005 came out another idea. The friend and forums
Scarlet Speedster, songwriter and guitarist of metal band DRAKKAR, we set out to write the lyrics of a song that the group had to prepare based on the subject of comics.
result was also the song "Killer Elite" , that if someone wants to think it can still be downloaded from the site of mini-Killer Elite (
http://killerelite.altervista.org/ ). To download you must enter a password, which you will find hidden within the pages of the register (yes, marketing strategies, advanced multimedia !!!!).
Meanwhile, the designers were (with soooooo caaaaalma) forward, and in May we prepared an exhibition of the boards at the ready 'fault
Club, one of the parties rockoteca Prato.
the end came all the tables, as editor and realized that we should have more respect for us. Although we specified the size of the plates, then not having to having to do a big job to match the size of the register, each had a little 'as he pleased. The deadlines we had given for delivery were substantially exceeded, and the boards came directly to us rehearse in china. Many errors anatomy and perspective (especially in the history of Bruegel-frame) was impossible to have it corrected.
The last thing to arrive was the cover of the register, created by Francesco Ciampi.
At that point, in many places there was talk of this
Killer Elite, and there was a certain expectation. We fear that there is lying in wait to slaughter.
The preparation work of the register (lettering, graphics, corrections, etc etc ...) was completed with some long nights at the computer, and finally carried the CD with the facilities at the press.
In July, the book came out, and despite the high price (6.90 € for 48 pages in black and white) and the absolute anonymity of the authors was a success: good response of sales and positive reviews (all but one that on
http://www.fumettidicarta.it/ , no time on that site that we had bus lanes. Objectivity and Objectivity, first of all.
I was delighted by the author of the criticism, and some of them I / we have been very useful). But we were already preparing the Special
number 0 Lucca 2005 ...