Image Comics Break Out New Star Richard Blake With Hexagon Bridge

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Hexagon Bridg is a brand new five-issue comedian e-book seriee from Image Comics described as weaving an intricately-told science fiction story.

It labored with Zoe Thorogood; now it is Richard Blake‘s flip. Blake acquired a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design, together with one yr of studio observe in Rome, Italy, and his MFA from Cornell University. After a number of group exhibitions, and a solo present in 2005, he moved to New York City and started working as a storyboard artist for varied movie and business corporations. In 2019 he was a Creators for Creators grant finalist and started writing and drawing the graphic novel Hexagon Bridge. Launching as a brand new five-issue comedian e-book seriee from Image Comics in September, it’s described as weaving an intricately-told science fiction story that “promises to charm fans of stories like Jonathan Hickman and Mike Huddleston‘s Decorum and Darcy Van Poelgeest & Ian Bertram‘s Little Bird.” See him on the Eisner Awards subsequent yr?

Richard states that the e-book explores most of the themes central to his work: parallel dimensions, cartography, sentient A.I., shifting structure, and vacationers transferring by means of unusual, elusive landscapes. Inspired by writers reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, Blake makes use of quite a lot of mediums to develop his narrative concepts, together with watercolor, acrylic, graphite and digital drawing.

“One of the great things about Image is that we’re often able to showcase stunning new work by exceptional new talent, and Richard Blake is a prime example of that,” stated Eric Stephenson, Chief Creative Officer and Publisher at Image Comics. “Jonathan Hickman actually brought Richard to my attention a few years back, and it’s watching Richard develop this series has been a genuine thrill. I’m excited for everyone to experience this work for the first time—finally sharing this stunning new work with comics fans is one of the highlight of 2023 for me!”

In Hexagon Bridge, explorers Jacob and Elena Armlen discover themselves trapped in an odd parallel dimension of elusive landscapes and shifting structure inhabited by mischievous entities. Now it is as much as their clairvoyant daughter Adley and sentient robotic Staden to rescue them!

“Creating this book was a journey that took me, and ultimately the characters, to some very strange worlds and unpredictable places,” stated Blake. “I am very excited readers can finally share in the journey, and perhaps make some discoveries of their own.”

Hexagon Bridge #1 will probably be out there at comedian e-book retailers on the thirteenth of September, 2023. Here is a preview in addition to a gallery of Hexagon Bridge photos from Richard Blake’s Instagram.