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LiamSharp

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February 6th, 2007 6:23 AM

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SAVE OUR BOOK! Or, y'know, buy it or something... ;)

Bulletin:

Well, it's tough. Despite Rolling Stone magazine picking it as their "hot comic" for 2006, and despite love from Playboy magazine, and despite praise from Ain't It Cool News, Millarworld, CBR, Newsarama, Grant Morrison, Variety, Forward weekly Entertainment weekly and Robert Anton Wilson (R.I.P) - this book is still struggling to find the audience it deserves.
Partly I think religious people think it's blasphemous, and non-religious people think it's a religious book - when it's not really either. It's inteligent, thoughtful, wild, sexy, and quite unlike anything else out there. OK, I'm drawing it, so I'm biased (and I want to stay in work!), but I genuinely believe it's important that books like Testament stay on the shelves, and chalenge pre-concieved notions of what comics should be about.

From Rushkoff's Blog: http://www.rushkoff.com/blog.php

"Vote for Testament

If you like my comic book Testament, and want (as I do) to see it published for another year or more, please consider nominating it for the Eagle Award for Favourite New Comic of 2006.

It's not too hard to get through the form (you don't have to nominate in more than one category) and the top five nominees get voted on in March for the prize. Once you've filled out the top with your name and an email address, you can nominate my category about halfway down the page. (Please also consider nominating Liam Sharp for artist, and me for creator/writer. But I think the only place we stand a true chance is Favourite New Comicbook.)

Eagle Awards are based in the UK, and represent the voice of real readers as opposed to those of just creators or industry types. And publishers really do use them as a gauge on how successfully their titles are reaching an audience.

So please help keep this book alive. I want to make it at least through to the Romans! You can do it right here: http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/nominate.asp"

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