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In Anglise, the peace has been kept for centuries by
Knights, an elite caste of magic-using warriors serving
the code of strength, skill and honour; ‘Fan Dan Go’.
The year is 1975, Imperialist rebels fight on the streets, armed with deadly magical rayguns.
Who’s gonna put them in their place? Knight First Class, Rekki Lune! The fiery, foxy, flare-wearing firecracker armed witha hundred pounds of steel and a short temper….oh, and some of her friends
A collection of the first three chapters of Fan Dan Go,
the webcomic by Kate Holden updated weekly at
fandangocomic.com

Volume 1

110 Pages Full Colour

Shop – Fan Dan Go

IndieManga’s first anthology. The book is approximately 100 pages and features the following exciting things:

Fell by Kate Holden
Alice Fogarty Hates Small Towns by Sally Jane Thompson
The King’s Silver prose story by Rebecca McCarthy
Rake: Drink & Driving By Kate Holden & Rebecca McCarthy
Valley of the Shadow by Anna Fitzpatrick

Shop – Origins

Features five self-contained short comics by Anna Fitzpatrick, Sally Jane Thompson, Kate Holden, Rebecca McCarthy,  and Sarah Burgess.

130 Pages.

Shop – Legends

Aer is the most talked about superhero of her generation, smart and powerful she has defeated many a villain. But very little is known about her. Where did she come from? where did she get her powers why does she fight?

Doug is an under achieving journalist whose life has been consumed by an obsession with Aer. When he literally finds the right kind of dirt on her, he realises he has the leverage he needs to get the worlds first exclusive on the elusive heroine.

What happens when Aer finally lets someone in?

24 pages B/W A4.

Story by Rebecca McCarthy Art by Chris Pullen

Shop-Heavier than Aer

IndieManga will be at the MCM Expo at table K4 29th and 30th October ( Saturday and Sunday, Friday is looking unlikely).

We have 2 new books out, if you can’t make it they will be available to order from IndieManga.com after the con:

Heavier than Aer ( A4 28 pages black and white)

By Rebecca McCarthy Art By Chris Pullen

Aer is the most talked about superhero of her generation, smart and powerful she has defeated many a

villain. But very little is known about her. Where did she come from? Where did she get her powers why does she fight?

Doug is an under achieving journalist whose life has been consumed by an obsession with Aer. When he

literally finds the right kind of dirt on her, he realises he has the leverage he needs to get the worlds first

exclusive on the elusive heroine.

What happens when Aer finally lets someone in?

Fan Dan Go volume 1

Story and Art Kate Holden

Over 100 full colour pages plus extras, collects chapters 1-3 of the web comic

Fan Dan Go’ is an action comedy comic set in the Retropunk Fantasy land of ‘Anglise’, a magical alternative version of 70′s England. It’s about the adventures of a group of hip young Knights trying to keep the peace and make a living.

IndieManga at MCM Expo!

The old shop is now offline, the new (and I hope easier to use) Pay Pal shop will be up after Expo, when we can divide up new stock. This Expo will be really interesting

Shop offline

You don’t have to spend a fortune finding the good software and tools for writing comics. A lot is available for free. Here I’ll briefly guide you through my favourites.

Libreoffice – Libreoffice has basically taken open over from Open Office as the free alternative to Microsoft office. So if you want a decent quality free word processor I highly recommend it.

Celtx - Celtx can technically be used to manage the creation of a whole project. There are places to add character bios. In fact it automatically tracks new characters. I use it mainly for it’s script writer, it also has a dedicated graphic novel export format which exports comic scripts into table like formats, dividing each panel up into different boxes.

After the Deadline a free spelling and grammar checker that you can get both as a Libreoffice plug-in and as a web browser plug-in. It’s grammar checking is really intelligent and I find it much faster and more accurate than other similar tools. If you’re worried about your writing being sent off to their server to check you can also host it on your own server.

Wikidpad I’ve not had a chance to use this and compare it with Celtx’s project management tools, but those of you writing longer more complex stories might want to give this a go. It basically creates a wiki locally on your system, so you can create universe ‘bibles’ , to keep track of stories, research etc.

Useful tools to use when writing comics

Heavier than Aer my collaboration with Pockets it’s finally almost complete!

Aer is the most talked about superhero of her generation, smart and powerful she has defeated many a villain. But very little is known about her. Where did she come from? where did she get her powers why does she fight?

Doug is an under achieving journalist whose life has been consumed by an obsession with Aer. When he literally finds the right kind of dirt on her, he realises he has the leverage he needs to get the worlds first exclusive on the elusive heroine.

What happens when Aer finally lets someone in?

HTA will be on the IndieManga table in the October 2011 MCM Expo and available online shortly after.

Heavier than Aer

Did you know that several members of IndieManga run free online webcomics ?

Far-Out-Mantic – By Sarah ( complete)

Far-out-mantic is the simple story about life, love, and DISCO!

 The Summer of Blake Sinclair

A slice of life comic set in a University, about hipsters, punks, the summer and honesty.

Fan  Dan Go – By Kate

‘‘Fan Dan Go’ is an action comedy comic set in the Retropunk Fantasy land of ‘Anglise’. It’s about the adventures of a group of hip young Knights trying to keep the peace and make a living.’

Between Worlds – by Anna

“It is the 80th birthday of the benevolent tyrant, King Bergan. His four loyal knights prepare to march in his honour, but all is not well. The senile ruler, plagued by hallucinations and delirious dreams, begins to cast strange allegations of witchcraft on one of his most loyal servants, the knight named Lynx, the soldier named Juno…

IndieManga webcomics