George the Hard-living
A comic about a hedgehog with a human voice has been released in English on the digital platform comiXology.
George the Hedgehog was created by writer Rafał Skarżycki and cartoonist Tomasz Lew Leśniak. The eponymous character is a hedgehog who speaks with a human voice and lives amongst people. George is a classic anti-hero who swears, drinks and takes drugs. He wears a baseball cap and often rides a skateboard. Of course, he sometimes gets into trouble, for example, having a score to settle with the Russian mafia, skinheads or even Satan. 10 comics of his adventures have been published, including an anthology created by other authors. In 2011, A full-length animated film for adult audiences based on the series premiered in cinemas.
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The film has been screened at many international film festivals, and is also distributed worldwide by Indieflix. These successes have made the authors decide to release a digital version of the comics in English. Since the beginning of April 2014, it has been possible to purchase the first issue of George the Hedgehog for 99 US cents on the comiXology platform.
"ComiXology is the biggest platform selling e-comics. Since the launch of the ComiXology Submit service, which allows independent artists to add their comics, nothing stood in the way, so, for a small cost, we can show the hedgehog to the world. Every month we put up another book of around 20 pages. These are the same stories which were in the Polish editions, but are arranged differently in English. We gave up some stories because they couldn’t be understood outside Poland.” - says Tomasz Lew Leśniak, co-creator and illustrator of the series.
The first comic in the series can be downloaded here. ComiXology was bought by Amazon.com in 2014.
Author: Łukasz Chmielewski, April 2014, translated: Katarzyna Maksimiuk, 15.04.2014
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