Friday, July 22, 2016

BEYOND SKIN


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(Read the comic book first before reading this afterword, click the cover to read the book!)

Surreal lovers on the path to planet pain, a sky scraping cross spaceship, black holes leading to unknown universes and masochists peeling off each other’s skin. What in tar nation is Marius Black up to now?!
 
Hi! I’m Marius and you’ve just read The Man from The Planet of the Masochists. I would like to introduce myself a bit, I’m a surrealist artist and I love anatomical figures and use them  as subjects in my  artworks.

I also love making comic books, the ones that not  everyone likes to read.  Some previous works of mine  include SATANHIGH, The Black Rose and Someone  Else’s Life. 

I made this comic when I was in 4th year college in UST (University of Santo Tomas) studying Fine Arts painting and at that time, I was dealing with my painting thesis and a terrible break-up. That’s never a good mix, so instead of being  consumed by the masochistic tendencies I was going through, I made something creative out of it. This is actually the third rendition of this book.  Sometimes you have to redo things over and over just to get it right. It’s like going back to the past and fixing a few glitches here  and there to make a fresh new start today story and art wise,  the first time I made it was for the Graphic Fiction Awards contest judged by Neil Gaiman. Although I wasn’t able to finish it on time to  submit it in the contest, I was still able to release it soon after. Then years passed I made  a second rendition and released it under Komikult at  Komikon.  And now on the third rendition, I edited some of the panels and dialogues and it also comes with a big whammy in the end. Well the first two renditions, I considered this book to be a one shot story, but as  I edited the book for the third time I found that there are a lot more stories that can follow after the two masochists leave earth.  So what’s the big whammy you ask? Well did you happen to see the “To Be Continued” on the last page?  Yup! That’s  it! I have decided to make this a part of the Planet of the Masochists trilogy!

The second book will be titled The Vastness of the Empty Space so watch out for that soon!

Marius Black
Manila
Aug 29, 2014

 
The Man from the Planet of the Masochists was first released in 2007. 

COMMENTS + SUGGESTIONS: Write to me at mariusblackarts@yahoo.com

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