Nil: The website

Have you visited? 

There used to be a Flash game, but no longer. 

Appropriately enough, Flash became a security flaw and vector for viruses.

That's people for ya.

Tyson on death and nothingness

Gotta love it.

Get that man on Sesame Street.

We are all just visiting, everyone dies, and sometimes the best we can do just to make the world a little better for those who come after. 

He is not here, no one is!

The battlefield between Nil and Optima is a dangerous place

The ultimate camouflage.

And some meta commentary.

Booyah!

The world is stupid: throw rocks at it!

 

Such is life.

Knife in the Optiman eye!

Ouch!

 Another very aggressive propaganda poster found in the ruins of a Nilean trench on the Optiman border.

Battleballoon for sale

Side view of the Mar IV Obliterator Battleballoon from DMCO

OBLITERATOR BATTLEBALLOON  

An aerial battleship capable of carrying a 900 ton payload of high explosives, this behemoth is greatly feared by Optiman High Command. Heavily armoured and equipped with 16 high calibre cannons ranging from 300mm to 90mm, it can deal out formidable damage to any foe. The ship is ringed by balconies that can be manned by riflemen to fend off aerial attack. These balconies are also good for barbeques.  Virtually indestructable, the Battle Balloon has only one weak point: the three lift balloons, which are vulnerable to rifle fire and bird attack.  Five of these gargantuan vehicles are currently for sale. Minor damage to undercarriages. Heavily patched balloons. Leather upholstery. No credit cards. Perfect for avoiding traffic and blasting neighbours using leaf blowers.  

Crew: 500 

Weight: 20,000 tons (24,000 tons fully loaded) 

Weapons: Lots 

Armour: 150mm armoured plate 

Speed: 12 knots 

Design: Annihilator Design Co. 

Cost: $3 billion USD

Our price: 5,000 USD

In Nothing We Trust

In nothing!

Nilean poster smuggled out by tourists.

Kill Optimans!

Propaganda poster put out by the Nilean Ministry of Truthiness.

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.

And here's a post. Just because.

A battlescape, only with more texture than what you found in the original book.