Revolver One: Salgood Sam's comics quaterly

by Salgood Sam, John O'Brien (Text), A.J. Duric (Text)

Book one of Revolver is a collection of seven short stories, and assorted words & pictures. Exploring themes of mortality, belonging, identity and place. Nominated for the inaugural Doug Wright Award, critically acclaimed, Revolver One is a benchmark in the career of seasoned comics artist Max Douglas aka Salgood Sam. "Salgood's drifting vision has an incredible sense of space and freedom. Your eye moves across the page continuously, an angel floating through worlds." "Revolver plays with how we perceive things, and where we anchor ourselves." - Sherwin Tjia ---- Though muted and limited in palette, the art demonstrates a level of skill many comic artists can only aspire to. Perspectives are juxtaposed Escher-like adding to the alter-reality quality of each individual story as well as the collection generally. Revolver One feels like a cohesive whole. - Rachel Fenton ---- "Throughout this issue, you can feel Max Douglas's joy in experimenting with line, tone and page design, in a way that is simpatico with other big names of the small press like Tomer Hanuka or Farel Dalrymple. This is the kind of comics I unashamedly love, dense work by a creator following his vision and sharing the journey with his readers." - John Martz Salgood Sam aka Max Douglas, first put his work in zines in the late 80s, and started making comics professionally in the early 90s. In the mid 90s he started writing his name backwards as a pen name. Since then his work has been published notably by Image, IDW/NMK, Marvel & DC, and outside of comics clients have included The Criterion Collection, Bravo TV, Nokia, Nelvana Studios, and Fox among many others. He still makes comics, mostly for the love. And illustrates professionally, mostly for the money. And teaches art part time, for both. He lives in downtown Montreal with three cats and his wife and it is good.

Genres: Comics, Fiction

52 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2002

About the author

Salgood Sam is Max Douglas backwards.

Start early and often.

At 6 rather than lemonade, I sold drawings from a box beside the curb. In grade 7 I was selling art for the cover pages of my fellow students presentations making money for gravy with my ill-gotten fries! [it's a long story]. I drew often and early.

My first role models were my mother, a working artist, and my father, a photographer and trouble maker.

Despite these seemingly obvious hints, I fancied a career as a rocket scientist. But that didn't work out. So I kept drawing.

I thought maybe a forger! How fun! But then I got sucked into drawing comics, In the end they won.

I got started publishing zines through the 80s, and by the early 90s was working professionally as a comic artist at Marvel drawing Night Breed, Saint Sinner, and assorted 2099 titles.

While it’s been bumpy at times, I've been lucky. In the 20 years since then i've spent much of my time drawing both commercial, and creator owned or underground comix. Along the way i've also paid the bills as a designer for animation, and as an illustrator.

I was honored to be among those nominated “Best Emerging Talent” for the inaugural 2005 Doug Wright Awards for the first iteration of RevolveЯ, in 2007 I drew the best seller Therefore Repent! with collaborator Jim Monroe, and have work in the Eisner winning anthologies Comic Book Tattoo, Popgun 4, and in Awesome 2: Awesomer.  I have a graphic novel, Dream Life | a late coming of age: book one, coming out in May 2013, and a Dracula comic in the works with Mark Sable.

In my spare stolen moments I founded and publish the comics news metablog Sequential.

Salgood Sam is I, is Max Douglas. Backwards. And I no longer know what I would do without art.

Reviews

[Salgood Sam]

I'm obviously biased and i'm not reviewing my own work, just taking advantage of this space to tell you, i am very proud of this book, and excited for what i have planed for you for the next 6 or so issues of the series!

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do making it.

[Alexander Peterhans · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mix of memoir, poetry, with art mostly drawn by Salgood Sam. And that art is excellent, very David McKean.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Revolver de Salgood Sam, l'opus ''One'', est une bande dessinée d'une quarantaine de pages contenant quelques courtes histoires, idées et/ou concepts de différents scénaristes illustrés par Salgood Sam.

J'ai écrit que Revolver était une bande dessinée, mais on semble plus proche du carnet de croquis, alors que les phylactères et cases sont pas toujours présentent pour imager les concepts des artistes. Dans plusieurs images on peut voir les lignes de construction du dessin et j'adore le fait de voir le tracé de l'artiste sans le rendu final.

Le tout est en anglais, sauf une réplique en français, où on peut reconnaître les escaliers typiques qui prolifèrent autour des habitations de Montréal. Le dessinateur étant canadien et il a déménagé dans la métropole québécoise il y a plus de 20 ans déjà.

Alors, pas de grandes histoires, de superbes dessins, des idées originales qui auraient pu gagner à être plus développées, bref, on se fait allumer, mais il n'y aura pas de relation exhaustive, on sera épaté par la devanture et ça se termine en un clin d'oeil. Bref, un manège à la Ronde, un moment mémorable, presque trop vite passé.