Bloeddorst

It’s been a while, but hey, a lot has happened since. But we can assure you that we’re back now with great news.

Bloeddorst will return for sure. As a magazine, nothing new there, but brace yourself: on the iPad!
Yesterday we talked it all over with a fresh, young and talented people from LayerGloss who can make magic happen with the Apple tablet.

The first magazine of Bloeddorst, exclusively made for the iPad will probably see the light of day early 2012, perhaps even by the end of this year. Bloeddorst the magazine will not be just a comic made for the iPad. It’ll be an experience. Something unique and freaking terrifying. It goes without doubt you can expect the quality you’re used to from the book, but this time with extra’s. Expect sketches, bonus comics, easter eggs, movement, sound, and lots of other great features. One thing’s for sure: it’ll scare the living shit out of you.

Stay tuned for more news to come. We’ll post all the bloody details on this blog. Of course you can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

The plans are getting serious, 3 stories are in production now so we are close to filling a first episode. We are independant, two guys and a girl who pay the whole operation out of our own pockets and publish the magazine ourselves, so we had some meetings to straighten out our vision for the future. And some essential things have changed!

First of all, we want to go out and search our public internationally. Horror isn’t bound to any border obviously so we couldn’t think of a good reason to publish exclusively in Dutch. Our magazine will be in English and from now on we are going to communicate in English too. Also, anyone around the world with a good sense of horror can send submissions for any next episode. We officially are looking for scripts for comics and short stories and also artists are welcome to submit examples of their work so we can find a suitable story to match. Or the cover. To be honest upfront: we don’t pay for your contribution. We do it for love of horror and together we can bring it back, full-throttle!

Some tech-facts:

• Bloeddorst is going to be a quality horror-magazine with 20 pages of comic-galore and 4 (timeless) editorial pages.
• Our format will be ‘American Pulp Comic’, size 25,9 x 16,9 cm, the cover will be glossy, fullcolour dubbelprint. The inside greyscale with one additional colour: RED. The inside paper is aimed to feel cheap, dirty and underground and will weigh as least as possible (since we are going to send the mag around).
• We will print 666 copies of each issue and sell through internet and conventions. We are sell-outs  and like the tag: ’sold out’. We have the philosophy of ‘print when you’re full’ and will therefore appear infrequent.
• Sure, we know a lot of Dutch comic-artists so we want to have a local colleague guaranteed in every episode  Also we will have to select on quality. We want to represent GOOD horror, created by and for horror-fans.

Let the games begin. And please do tell us if you know a way to improve ourselves!