By the bauble factory

I always liked this scene in Nil, with all the identical workers leaving the factory in lock step. 

Enforced conformity through standardization and systemization. 

Eventually, you don't even notice it is happening. 

A revised page for the French edition

Artists are rarely happy with their work in hindsight, and I am no exception. There were a few pages in Nil: A Land Beyond Belief I was decidedly unhappy with. Much more so than the rest. Given that the whole book was experimental, this is hardly surprising.

With the french edition, however, I had the chance to fix some things and cull some dialogue to tighten things up.

I don't think the english edition will ever see an update, so... behold! The (relatively) new improved french version:

ta-ra!

The Mark IV Nilean Combat Cafe

A staple of the battlefields between Optima and Nil, the Mark IV Combat Cafe is a mobile coffee distribution hub, serving all ranks 4 days a week. Officers only on Fridays. Combat Cafe's are not open Sunday or during cease fires. Up to 10,000 cups of steaming hot java can be pumped out in a single day before requiring resupply. 

Cover of the French edition

From Presque Lune. The printing job was absolutely fantastic. The printer hated me for all the fine silver lines, but my God did he do a fantastic job. 

Nietzsche's deadly prehensile killer moustache

 Presented without comment:

Abandoned cover of the self-published version

 Before I heard back from SLG, I thought I'd have to self-publish Nil, and I did up a few different versions of what it might be. I hadn't settled on the title yet, and you can see here I was considering 'Nihil Obstat'. That was later abandoned.

 

Interview with Mr. Proun Nul, star of Nil: A Land Beyond Belief

A rare yet deeply insightful interview with Mister Proun Nul, the not very dashing protagonist, if such he may be called, for so poorly does he embody the role, of Nil: A Land Beyond Belief. 

This page was thrown together as an end page in an issue of Rex Libris. I think I'd do it a lot differently now. Live and learn.

Poster for the short film No Blood for Coffee

 

The film ran a sprawling 3 minutes, and was animated by the superb Andrew Foerster and scored by Devin Polaski. It did rather well on the short film festival circuit.