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WATCHING THE WATCHMEN
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Watching the Watchmen

In 'Watching the Watchmen,' artist Dave Gibbons gives his own account of the genesis of 'Watchmen,' opening his archives to reveal excised pages, early versions of the script, original character designs, page thumbnails, sketches and much more, including posters, covers and rare portfolio art.

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It's all a mistake. I never meant to ask for that page...

John in Greatcoatooops...



Sorry -- the page you are looking for has either been deleted or was never there in the first place.

Perhaps you're thinking of the brilliantly-designed, flash driven, games-filled site in Parallel Universe 789? Hard luck, this is Parallel 96-6, or was when we last did a reality check.

Tell you what, why not have a look at my SITE MAP (or have a look at the list below) and see if you have better luck finding what you're looking for from there? Or use the search engine in the right hand column.

John Freeman

NEWS
• Read the downthetubes news blog
• Click here for the site's News Archive index for news items published prior to April 2006

LINKS
My resources section
Use the sub menu on my "Resources" pages to navigate this section of my site which includes many comics links, TV, animation film and more.

FEATURES
• Click here for an index of Comics Features and Interviews

ABOUT DOWNTHETUIBES
Who is John Freeman and what is this downthetubes site all about, anyway

STRIPS
Fiction Index

Death Duty by John Freeman and Alan Burrows
Strip looking for a home!

Ex Astris by John Freeman and Mike Bicoll
Find out more aboyt the space adeventure published in Spacship Away, Bulletproof Comics and by ROK Comics

The Grand Tour by John Freeman and Mike Collins
First episodes published by CPL Italy

The Really Heavy Greatcoat by John Freeman and Nick Miller
Three frame or one page strip available for syndication.

Zambaquons by John Freeman
Crazy aliens that escaped the Greatcoat

TELEVISION SHOWS
Dark Knight
lIncludes a postscript to the short-lived fantasy series by script editor Andrew Cartmel

Goodnight, Sweetheart
The quirky time-travel series starring Nicholas Lyndhurst

My Hero
Includes interviews with the creator of the show, Paul Mendelson

WRITING COMICS

A guide to writing comic strip, largely based on my experiences as Group Editor at Marvel UK and Managing Editor at ROK Comics.
Introduction
Professional Advice from other freelancers
Presenting a portfolio
Live Pitching
Robert McKee's 10 Writing Commandments
How2RiteGud
Copyright Matters
Books and other Resources
Life at Marvel UK
(Photo Gallery

 


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