THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE
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I hope everyone’s doing awesome and having a super fantastic holiday break time thing.
I’m going to skip the long, more personal yapping part and get straight to business because there’s a lot of it today! way too much, maybe?!
I’ve been crazy swamped with work and a million other things (French admin is ruining my life!) the last few months so I keep pushing back the updates, but the updates keep piling up. And now there’s just way too many to keep stashed under my mattress.
So let’s talk books, shall we...
1/3 HARPY
HARPY is finally real and it is absolutely beautiful and just such a fantastic book! I could not be happier with the final outcome. I spent 2 years of my life pouring everything I had into this. Then a year waiting for it to get released. And here it is! I fucking love it! I’m so damn proud of this 308 page brick! HARPY’s publisher, Living the Line, did an amazing job with my work and you can expect them to publish more titles of mine in the future!
HARPY is available in every good comic book shop in the English speaking world since mid November (if your LCS doesn’t have it, they can order it through Lunar distribution for ya) and in every good bookshop since mid December. There were issues with stock at the beginning because of Diamond distribution caused chaos but all that has been resolved now.
Get yourself a copy and let me know what you think about it. I love getting your feedback on these! So far the feedback has been really good and that’s awesome, but I’m also ready for the less good, If need be!
Whether you get yourself one or just spot one of them in the wild, please take a pic and send it to me! I love to see them out there and am always desperate for an excuse to post and promote the book!
Books like HARPY are the reason I make comics so thank you for everyone’s support! You have no idea how much you rule!!
2/3 TIGRESS ISLAND
TIGRESS ISLAND was just announced by Image and I can finally talk about it!!
Patrick Kindlon and I started talking about this project while I was still working on HARPY and I am so glad the ball kept rolling through 2025. The full story of how all of this came together is a bit long and I will save it for a podcast or something, if anyone’s interested one day, but eventually, the planets aligned and we went for it.
It’s officially my very first time working with a writer and, also, doing a floppy run. I also decided to keep the FFF artistic momentum going and to offer 100% hand painted pages on the full series and the pages look incredible so far. I don’t mean to brag, I’m just really so proud of the work I’m coming to produce now. I’ve learned so much in my last 500 pages and am just happy to see what I can do now.
I’m not gonna lie, working on TIGRESS ISLAND is very intense and very demanding and very stressful. It is the hardest I’ve ever worked on anything and definitely the most stressful too! But I’ve managed so far and it is, absolutely, 100% sooooooo damn good! The writing is impeccable, the beats are super tight, and, one last time, I’m so damn happy with my pages!! I’m so glad TIGRESS ISLAND exists, working with Patrick has been fantastic and I think you’ll all get to see what I mean when you get your copies!! This book is absolutely incredible and no one is ready for it!!
Here’s the official Image pitch:
“Fan-favorite fire-starter Patrick Kindlon (Gehenna, Stringer) joins forces with artistic wild-man EPHK (Harpy) to unleash a down-and-dirty, bare-knuckled blast of pulp mayhem in Tigress Island. This five-issue fever dream will hit the racks in March 2026 from Image Comics.
On Tigress Island, a crew of washed-up starlets finds themselves snatched, shackled, and shipped to a jungle hellhole ruled by a vicious, velvet-gloved she-devil of a warden. The only shot at freedom? Band together, break their chains, and outrun betrayal lurking around every corner.
This all new story promises readers a sweat-soaked cocktail of action and attitude, dripping with danger, double-crosses, and explosive payback.
“This one is for every reader who isn’t getting enough flavor in their weekly comics haul,” said Kindlon. “From concept to characters to execution, Tigress Island is unapologetic fun. High craft. Lowbrow. Awesome.”
EPHK added: “We set out to capture the soul of 80s and 90s sexploitation “straight-to-video” movie classics and somehow ended up with so much more. No one is ready for this!”
Tigress Island #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, March 11:”
3/3 THE FINAL FINAL FRONTIER
The FINAL FINAL FRONTIER: A GAME OF DEATH is also finally real! What? Yeah, you bet!!
I planned to make a big announcement but Image decided to announce TIGRESS ISLAND the same day and I thought the stage of new books was getting a bit crowded. So I wrote a thing about it on the Kickstarter campaign page but decided to sit on the official release until January. This book is a bit late from its original schedule (had to move in the middle of doing it) and now shipping issues with the US have delayed it some more. But, it got finished, printed and delivered to me two weeks ago and it looks sooooooo good.
As I’ve written about too many times, this was the first time I decided to make a full comic with fully painted pages. And now, the first time I got to see these printed. And they look fantastic. Absolutely, hands down, gorgeous!!
Here’s some pictures I quickly took for you.
I love this so much and every time I open it, all I want to do is make a second one. I already have the script and title for it too. Sadly, the shipping situation with the US at the moment is impossible and I think this might be the last book I am able to self publish if these rules and tariffs stay up. Out of 250 books sold on the Kickstarter, 160 go to the US. I LOVE self publishing books but my main crowd has always been in the US and if I can’t ship the books, there’s no point. I just don’t see a way out here. This situation is extremely shitty. I hope things change but until they do I think this will be my last self-published book.
I wrote up a bit more about it on the Kickstarter page, if you’re interested in the logistics.
What an update!
I actually have more book news about MAWRTH VALLIIS and MAWRTH VALLIIS 2 getting published in France next year and about some really fun shorts planned for Living the Line and Heavy Metal. But all that can wait until the next newsletter!
Until then, Get yourself a copy of my baby; HARPY, call your local LCS and pre-order TIGRESS ISLAND and be patient for A GAME OF DEATH to get an official release next month!
And I have zero media consumption plugs because I have zero media consumption time. I hope there’s good stuff out there. That Netflix deal is super scary and really shitty for movies and TV but more and more awesome books are coming out and that’s so great!!
Thank you all out there! For your time, for your interest, for your support! You’re all awesome and I wish you all the very best for the new year! I think it’s going to be another wild one but a great one for sure!
Take care of each other and stay awesome!
Is it still possible to get copies of FFF? I’m in Europe.
Dude! These look awesome! Congrats!