1840

A misterious book that keep bottomless secrets, shadows of the past and lost world’s relics.

A dwarf, an audacious girl, a cursed gentlemen, two lovers, a lunatic; wizards, witches, a

singular child and an oddity foreign.

What destiny does wait? What strange fate change his lifes forever?

Genre: Fantastic

Setting: Victorian london, 1840 year

All publics

Artist: David Belmonte

Script: Mª Carmen Pardo

1- THE ADVENTURE

a. Sinopsi

b. Principal character

c. Background

2- THE PRODUCT

a. Development

b. Format

3- LINKS

a. External links

b. E-mail

4- ARTIST BOOK

1. THE ADVENTURE

Synopsis

London, September 1840. In the poster of a magician’s spectacle in the Strand, it’s metioned the

title of a strange book of alchemy “Ab Rosa Abscondita”, supposedly belonging to the master

John Dee and given for lost from his death. Several people, of different social origin and with

different interests and motivations, they will initiate from this moment the search of the

mysterious copy. But, in the way, they will meet the shadows of a not very distant past,

supernatural forces, personal revenges, treacheries and curious alliances. At the end of the trip,

they will discover that nothing is what seems, and the search has gone transforming in a

personal search that will meet them to his own affections, fears and aspirations.

Principal characters

Jeffrey Hudson: He’s a dwarf, master bookseller in a unusual bookshop of occultism, in

Cheapside. Actually, he works for a picturesque Society of gentlemen been interested in

supernatural and mystical matters.

Aislin O’Geal: Irish girl that she was thief time ago. In 1840 works for a magiacian in a little

teatre. Is an audacious girl, and her character is brave and independent.

John Daniels: A young doctor of middle class origins, that he obtains a certain social position

thanks to deals of shaded character; deals with a curse consequences.

Oliver Darcy: Aristocrat obssesed with the mistic and alchemy misteries.

Elizabeth Darcy: Oliver Darcy’s sister, a young girl lovely and intelligent.

Gilbert Leeson: Young painter of mysterious origins. He will be the drawing professor of

Elizabeth, and he fall in love with her, what will transport serious consequences.

Lilith Hudson: Jeffrey Hudson’s daughter (mixed race), whose appearance in the history is

seemingly chance, but that will be revealed as a fundamental piece of the plot.. She is a girl full

of vitality and optimism.

Mario Sicilia: Old friend of Jeffrey - with whom events of the past have made enemies of him-, is

an unconditional protector of the small Lilith. He’s strong, of rough and laconic aspect in words

and gestures, but after his reserve they hide deep secrets...

Background

Also, “1840” it wants pay tribute to the big histories and prominent figures of the 19th century,

and to the fantastic myths and legends that have come to our days reinvented in many cases by

the Victorian authors. So, we have references to the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins,

the sisters Brontë, ect, and in the graphic part, reminiscences of Whistler or Turner, and other

sources(fountains) of inspiration as the photography of beginning of the XXth

2. THE PRODUCT:

Development

"1840" it’s basically a webcómic; we think that nowadays we live through a process of change of

paradigm that causes the appearance of new formats. Inspired by the feuilletons and "Penny

Dreadfull" of the 19th century, the history appears in small deliveries that are lodged in the

platform ISSU and announced in blogs and social networks (the blog "1840", personal blogs of

the authors, Facebook, Picassa, etc.) It to consists of five plot parts, composed of approximately

11 deliveries each one.

The digital edition offers an added value: one can offer great quantity of transverse content to

the work (historical, literary contents, plastic arts, etc of the Victorian England and of the

imaginary traditional fantastic); and the presence in the network supposes a new form of

distribution and marketing that allows to come to a great number of public of different origin.

Format

For the digital publication and for his edition in paper, the format chosen to support the

parallelism with "Penny Dreadfull" is the comic-book: each episode would count of 22 pages of

emblems more a statement illustrated as complement of 4 pages, adding a whole of 26 pages.

Other practical questions for the election of this format are:

- Price lower than others, for his(her,your) dimensions and his(her,your) characteristics

- His reading is more practical in urban environments - to read in the underground, bus,

etc-. Also in his digital version it would facilitate his unload in mobiles, i-pod, ect.

- His cost of printin), more economic, allow a major periodicity and therefore a major

loyalty of the readers - this also is applicable to the digital version-

So,the work also is thinking to adapt to other formats like they are:

- The European album: Two comic books would form an album of 44 pages, more two of

statements illustrated as complement.

- - The Italian fumetti: 4 comic book would give a fumetti of 88 pages of history more 6

pages of statements illustrated as complement. In this case there would no be

disadvantage of editing the work in scale of gray, since it’s habitual in the fumetti, since

the author of the pages has versions realized in scale of gray of the same ones.

3. LINKS:

External links

Blog 1840:

http://misteriolondres.blogspot.com/

Plataforma ISSUU

http://issuu.com/

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1027521649&ref=profile

Picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/DavidMariko/1840ImGenes#5251828271598657170

E-mail:

davidmariko@gmail.com

ARTIST BOOK

Página 1, a color

Página 2, a color

Página 6, a lápiz

Página 8, en escala de grises

Página 16, en escala de grises

Imagen promocional: Aislin O’Geal

Bocetos delpersonaje Aislin O’Geal

Boceto del Teatro

Imagen promocional: John Daniels

Bocetos: Elizabeth Darcy, Jeffrey Hudson

Imagen promocional: Jeffrey Hudson