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RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK is out now…

Posted on Friday, March 4th, 2016

The first collected edition of Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel‘s Rivers of London comic series is available now in the US and digitally in the UK. Published by Titan Comics, it collects the six issues of RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK. Here’s the synopsis…

Peter Grant looks look your average London police officer, but he is actually a part-time wizard in a very elite branch of the Metropolitan Police. It’s his job to investigate those crimes that regular cops don’t like to talk about because they often involve vampires or strange things in Underground tunnels.

Peter’s latest case features a self-driving killer automobile, a Serbian refugee, the Most Haunted Car in England, a handsome drug dealer with a nice paisley scarf and a seemingly harmless wooden bench with a dark past!

Ben and Andrew’s second Rivers of London comic series, NIGHT WITCH, starts later this month (check back soon for more details). Here are the covers for the RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK single issues and variant covers…

RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK #5 Out Tomorrow

Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2015

Issue five in Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel‘s RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK comic series is released tomorrow! Published by Titan Comics, here is the synopsis…

A battered old harmless wooden stall? A snazzy sports car turned homicidal killer? A pack of wayward rich kids? Like pieces of a weaponizsed jigsaw puzzle, the links between these three apparently unrelated things are becoming lethally clear to full-time London cop and part-time wizard Peter Grant

The comics are set between the fourth and fifth novels in Ben’s Peter Grant series — BROKEN HOMES and FOXGLOVE SUMMER. The series is gorgeously illustrated by Lee Sullivan and coloured by Luis Guerrero. As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Ben was interviewed by the Amazon Kindle blog about the RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK series — more on that here.

The Peter Grant novels are published in the UK by Gollancz, in the US by Del Rey (#1-3) and DAW Books (#4-6), in Germany by DTV, in France by J’ai Lu, and widely elsewhere in publication.

Ben Aaronovitch Interviewed by Amazon about RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK

Posted on Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Last week, Ben Aaronovitch was interviewed for Amazon’s Kindle Blog about his new comic series, RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK. Co-authored by Andrew Cartmel, the comics are set between books four and five of Ben’s Peter Grant urban fantasy series. Here are a couple of snippets from the interview…

Amazon: Have the comics enabled you to explore anything that the books didn’t allow, and is there anything that you’d like to explore in future series?

BEN: The books are written in a very strict first-person narrative style and the comics are much looser – you can follow other characters, do quick one panel flashbacks, memories and other omniscient narrator stuff – which opens up a wide array of possibilities of expanding the world beyond the books.

There are also jokes and action sequences that wouldn’t work within the prose style of the books. Surprise splash pages, rapid chronological intercutting and ironic caption/image counterpoints are tools that aren’t available to me in the books allowing me to expand the story in new ways…

Amazon: Both the comics and the books include rich detail about local history, myths, and legends. What do you enjoy most about the research process?

BEN: The best thing about research is that it’s not actually work in any way or form. Actually that’s not the best thing; the best thing is finding out stuff that you never knew – like the existence of a coffee shop on the Thames in the 18th Century that was called ‘The Folly’. Things like that just drop into your lap and seamlessly integrate into your story as if you’d planned them from the start – it makes you look good.

The first four issues of the comic, published by Titan Comics, are out now. Issue 5 is out next month. The series is illustrated by Lee Sullivan and coloured by Luis Guerrero. Here’s the synopsis…

Peter Grant is one of only two members of a very special branch of London’s Metropolitan Police. He is, in fact, pretty much a wizard and it’s his job to investigate those shadowy crimes that involve urban vampires, weird folk in the underground and, in this case, why cars are suddenly taking on lives of their own and killing innocent folk

The Peter Grant series is published in the UK by Gollancz; in the US by Del Rey and DAW Books; in Germany by DTV; in France by J’ai Lu; and in multiple other territories and languages.

RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK #4 Out Now

Posted on Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

The fourth issue of Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel‘s comic series RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK is out now. Published by Titan Comics, it is a story set between the fourth and fifth books in the novel series — BROKEN HOMES and FOXGLOVE SUMMER. Here’s the synopsis…

What’s the link between a circle of wizards killed in the Second World War, a homicidal car and an ancient ducking stool used to torture young girls? London cops Peter Grant and his boss, Inspector Nightingale, are in a race to find out before more people die!

The series is illustrated by Lee Sullivan, and coloured by Luis Guerrero.

In related news, readers of The Londonist have voted Ben’s Peter Grant series as the Best London Novels — the ‘runaway winner’ in the poll, in fact: ‘… the author is particularly good at setting key scenes in real London locations. Throw in a family of water nymphs representing the lost rivers of London, and you have the perfect fiction for London geeks…‘ We wholeheartedly agree!

The series is published in the UK by Gollancz. The next novel in the series, THE HANGING TREE, is due to be published mid-2016.

RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK #2 out Tomorrow

Posted on Tuesday, August 18th, 2015

The second issue in Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel‘s RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK series is published tomorrow! Spinning off from Ben’s critically-acclaimed and award-winning Peter Grant urban fantasy series, the comic is published by Titan Comics. Here’s the synopsis…

Peter Grant – full-time cop and trainee wizard with London’s police force – is investigating why cars are suddenly turning from mild-mannered family saloons into possessed, power-assisted killing machines! Airbags will not save your life!

The series is illustrated by Lee Sullivan and coloured by Luis Guerrero. The third issue is due out on September 16th, 2015, and here’s the cover…

The Peter Grant series is published in the UK by Gollancz, and so far includes: RIVERS OF LONDON, MOON OVER SOHO, WHISPERS UNDERGROUND, BROKEN HOMES, FOXGLOVE SUMMER and the upcoming THE HANGING TREE. The first three novels are published in the US by Del Rey, the second three by DAW Books. The events covered by the comic take place between BROKEN HOMES and FOXGLOVE SUMMER.

RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK #1 Out This Week!

Posted on Monday, July 13th, 2015

The first issue in RIVERS OF LONDON: BODY WORK is published this Wednesday by Titan Comics! Written by Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel, it expands on the characters and world Ben created in the best-selling Peter Grant series of urban fantasy novels. In addition to the main cover, there are two variant covers (all three above). Here’s the synopsis for issue one…

Art is provided by Lee Sullivan, colours by Luis Guerrero and lettering by Rona Simpson. The rest of the series will be published monthly. Here are the covers for issues two and three…

The Peter Grant series is published in the UK by Gollancz, and so far includes RIVERS OF LONDON, MOON OVER SOHO, WHISPERS UNDERGROUND, BROKEN HOMES and FOXGLOVE SUMMER. The next instalment, THE HANGING TREE, is due to be published later this year.