Harbor Moon ships in February and will be hitting shelves later that month/first weekend in March... but stores across the globe are now offering it for sale. For an international list of shops that sell Harbor Moon check out our STORE section.
You can also always buy a signed copy direct from us.
Happy Holidays to everyone... and for Christmas Harbor Moon was named to Broken Frontier's Five Independent Favorites of 2010.
December is here and the vividly painted graphic novel HARBOR MOON has arrived in this month's Previews. Officially hitting shelves in February through Arcana, the title is getting a ton of early buzz and positive reviews.
So print this out, march down to your local comic shop and make sure they have your copy ready and waiting.
Tim Knight of HeroPress has posted his review and it is extremely positive. He is also holding a give-away of a signed copy of the book! See previous post on details for that.
"Sambor's distinctive artwork immediately stirs echoes of Ben Templesmith's on 30 Days Of Night, but without being derivative. While it's not always obvious what is going on this just adds to the sensation of an hallucinogenic fever dream that also conjures up images of Stuart Gordon's Dagon - which, of course, was itself inspired by HP Lovecraft's Shadow Over Innsmouth.
When Tim has his first face-to-face encounter with a werewolf, the creature virtually leaps off the page, out of the mist to shockingly powerful effect.
However, it doesn't help that a lot of the male characters look very similar, if not identical, even though the flow of the artwork and dialogue sweeps you along.
Colucci's mythology-heavy story aims to do for werewolves what Lovecraft did for his amphibious deep ones by having an outsider drawn into their community and discovering he has a hidden connection to their past.
Rich in tense atmosphere and oozing with the American Gothic tradition, this is saga of family bonds, betrayal and community secrets in a mysterious, isolated town - and reflected in Sambor's striking and exotic art.
All of these threads culminate in a bloody climax to decide the fate of Harbor Moon - yet you can't help but feel that Colucci has left the door wide open for possible sequels and follow-ups!"
The awesome folks at HeroPress (Tim Knight) are having a drawing for a free signed copy of the book. So head on over to their site and enter - now!
And follow their site on blogger if you don't already (or at least twitter). Lots of cool stuff coming out of Tim and HeroPress on a daily basis.
Lydnsey Holder from Innsmouth Free Press is a comic book lover. Not just a comic book lover, but one of 'those' comic book lovers. She "hates lots of things... complains about them frequently and bitterly... picky and grumpy and incredibly difficult to please." Those are her words not mine.
But when she likes something, she loves it. She even has a tattoo from one of her favorite comic books. According to her, "Anything negative I could say about Harbor Moon is far outweighed by all of the praise that it deserves and that means a lot coming from my grumpy, demanding self. This team is definitely one to watch, as I am certain that they will do even more amazing things in the future. Perhaps I’ll even have to get another tattoo."
So we could be body art. That is awesome. The full review follows:
"The cover of the indie graphic novel Harbor Moon is fantastic, but if you regularly buy comics, you’ll know how poor of a measurement cover art is for the inside art. I remember being intrigued by Tim Bradstreet’s amazing cover art for Punisher, only to be bitterly disappointed to find out that not only was the inside art done by a different artist, it also wasn’t anywhere near as gorgeous. Thankfully, Pawel Sambor, the artist of Harbor Moon, has managed to create panels that live up to the standard set by the cover. He really seems to understand his medium and how to use it for best effect. You can almost feel the movement in the action scenes.
The story starts off in the middle, without any backstory, which is rare in comics. One thing I hate about comics is the tendency to assume that the reader needs everything spoon-fed to them, as though years of reading Silver Age Superman have rotted our brains and left us unable to comprehend subtlety. I liked feeling as though there were many secrets I wasn’t being let in on just yet. The writing drew me into the story, tugging me along with the main character on his relentless search for answers.
As the story unfolds, we follow Tim, who has gone to the town of Harbor Moon, Maine, to find his father. This proves to be no easy task, however: the locals are unhelpful and often downright threatening. Tight-lipped, they all appear to be hiding a terrible secret and are willing to protect it from Tim at any cost. The inhospitality of the townsfolk is the least of his worries: strange creatures in the forest are stalking him. It seems as though, in trying to find his father, Tim has become entangled in a deeper mystery and trying to solve it may cost him his life.
I wouldn’t say that this is the best comic I’ve read – the story flounders a bit in some places, the reveals aren’t always done effectively, and the quality of the art isn’t always consistent – but it does a lot of very clever things while managing to avoid many of the tired clichés of its genre."
After a ton of really great submissions, I have finally narrowed it down to one winner for the Harbor Moon Extra Content Art Print Giveaway - MARTIN MULROONEY.
Marty is an actual journalist with Alternative Magazine Online, based out of the UK.
I had a lot of fun reading through everyone's submission and wish we could include them all. I have another piece of extra content we were going to write in-house, but after such a great showing I may have to open it up again.
Look for all of this extra content as part of the digital editions of HARBOR MOON, which will be out on Graphic.ly (in the immediate future) and Comixology.
