Description

A unique A4-sized, 50-page, black and white version of ‘The Bright Face of Death’. from the graphic novel of Zetari a handful left over from our original Kickstarter campaign… once they are gone they are gone!

Each time artist John M Burns finished inking a page of this particular story, he made a copy of it before adding colour. Direct from the master’s studio are those pages collected in a softback bookazine that is *only* available through this campaign.

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John M. Burns (1938 – 29 December 2023) was an English comics artist, with a career stretching back to the late 1950s.

In the 1960s, Burns worked on TV Century 21 and its sister magazines, including Lady Penelope. For a while, he drew daily comics strips for national syndicated newspapers, including The Seekers, Jane, and – for a year-long period – Modesty Blaise.

Burns moved on to illustrate very popular TV tie-in strips for Look-In (an example of which, The Tomorrow People, has already been collected in two volumes as special hardbacks for Andrews UK Ltd). He also worked on the title story for Countdown, which used design elements from the Stanley Kubrick classic movie, 2001.

Burns was already well known by the start of the 1980s, but it was when he made the crossover to 2000 AD that his position in British comics was cemented; working on Judge Dredd, Nikolai Dante, and The Bendatti Vendetta.

He retired in 2023 and sadly passed away at the end of the same year.