Baden Kirgan

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On taking submissions - a sort of policy

Being one of only a couple of domestic publishers interested in comics, we are often asked by people to review their projects for publication. On our old website, we even had a submissions page encouraging anyone to contact us with ideas. When we upd...

When Good Comics Happen to Bad Places

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Help stop this! Or at least have some fun with it with our first reader contest!

How not to sell a book about Zombies and scare little girls at the same time

Seriously - what are they thinking? This photo is courtesy of Jason Fischer - click on the photo to read his blog and catch an update on progress on his novel. More seriously this has been a big problem for both ATW and DD sales in newagencies, with...

Dark Detective 4 on sale now

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The next issue of The Dark Detective will be available from good Australian newsagents from Monday 22 February and is now on sale at www.blackboox.net.

Featuring three new stories from the pen of Christopher Sequeira and with art from Phil Cornell, Dave Elsey, Chewie Chan and Tim McEwen, issue 4 is a side trip into the life Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's mysterious brother and keeper of many dark secrets.

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The Eagle Has Landed

Well it's done. www.BlackBoox.net is finally up and running. When we were trying to work out the best way of selling our books online, we were initially going to incorporate the webstore into our home site. Thinking about it though, we realised that ...

Buy Black House Books online at Blackboox.net

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At Black House Comics we are celebrating the release of Gravesend, volume two in the After the World saga, by announcing the opening of our online store, www.blackboox.net.

All of our books are available there, along with the best of Australia's independent comic press. With online payments via Paypal and variable freight through Australia Post, you can now buy all of our products easily, securely and when you want to.

BlackBoox is owned and operated by Black House Comics.

Check it out now at www.blackboox.net.

Don't Panic - I take almost all of it back

Contrary to my last whinge - we have a workaround and the store is back on track. Amazing what a blog post can do for customer service. Just to make up for all the heartache you've undoubtedly gone through since my last post, here's another goodie fo...

Where's the Webstore? And some cools pics

You may be wondering where the promised webstore is. Me too. We are trying something a little bit different with our site's store and we thought we had everything ironed out with domain names and development. Turns out we made a mistake - we register...

Gravesend ready to roll

We've had a really good response to the first volume of After the World, Killable Hours. The good folks at scaryminds.com gave it a rap (http://www.scaryminds.com/reviews/book41.php) and www.ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com has just given it a once over as...

Preview of the Dark Detective Issue 4

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Issue 3 of The Dark Detective has been doing well in the newsagents but the work never stops. Issue 4 is underway and it is a bit different to the previous three.

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Dark Detective Issue 4 in stores February 2010