ONE BLOODY PRESS RELEASE

Hi, I'm cartoonist Michel Lacombe. My book ONE BLOODY YEAR: FALL will be in stores in August 2003, and is solicited for purchase in Diamond's PREVIEWS vol. 13 number 6. It's on page 345,
ordering code JUN03 2415.

The publisher is Michel Lacombe Illustration Inc. ONE BLOODY YEAR: FALL has 41 pages of story and retails for 5.30$US or 7.95$ Canadian.

ONE BLOODY YEAR is written and drawn by myself, Michel Lacombe, based on an idea by Dan 
Villeneuve. 

By the time it's over, ONE BLOODY YEAR will be a 160-some-page vampire romance, the hero of 
which kills himself on page three.  It's about unrequited love, sweet and sour family relationships 
and what happens when you suddenly give a lot of power to someone who wasn't properly taught 
how to be a human being.

And it has a dozen vampires getting involved in a biker gang war.

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THE PLOT

Sarah was the only good thing about Geoff's life. FALL starts with Geoff's suicide jump, after 
Sarah left him.

And then Geoff wakes up three nights later, transformed into a vampire. It turns out Sarah 
hadn't left Geoff at all. She was enthralled by the vampire Daedalus, who needs to understand 
why Sarah loves Geoff, so he can make her love him instead.

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THE POINT

Vampires are cool.  I don't believe myth has ever produced a better metaphor for blind 
destructive lust.

What I liked about the story of Geoff and Sarah and Daedalus when Dan first told me it was how 
well it could speak of those who suffer from being taught the game of life by people who never 
read the rulebook themselves. 

That being said, feel free to enjoy the vampires.

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THE CRITICS

Randy Lander of THE FOURTH RAIL:

"Lacombe has created a vampire subculture that is full of willing debauchery and inhuman cruelty, 
but what makes the book resonate is how human they all seem."

Don MacPherson of THE FOURTH RAIL:

"Lacombe's story is about what happens when pettiness is combined with power. The vampires in 
this story are spoiled brats, children without a bedtime who are dipping into the cookie jar with 
abandon."

http://www.thefourthrail.com/features/0703/onebloodyyear.shtml

Michael May of COMIC WORLD NEWS:

"A geek loves a beautiful girl who is also his best friend, but she loves someone else. If this were 
a John Hughes film, we¹d expect to reach the end having learned something about friendship and 
love. Lacombe gives the geek supernatural powers so that he can control the beautiful girl and 
torture the other guy. (...) Pretty in Pink meets Interview With the Vampire."

http://comicworldnews.com/forum/ib3/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=6;t=1378

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THE BYTES

Some interior art for ONE BLOODY YEAR: FALL can be viewed at 
http://michel-lacombe.dyndns.org

Michel Lacombe's mailing list: http://babyl.dyndns.org/mailman/listinfo/one_bloody_list

Michel Lacombe can be reached at meeshell@colba.net

Have a nice day!