| Gutsville | |
|---|---|
 Cover of the first issue | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Schedule | Irregular |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | May 2007 - |
| No. of issues | 3 (out of 6, as of June 2009) |
| Creative team | |
| Created by | Simon Spurrier Frazer Irving |
| Written by | Simon Spurrier |
| Artist | Frazer Irving |
| Letterer | Frazer Irving |
| Colorist | Frazer Irving |
Gutsville is a currently on hiatus six issuecomic booklimited series fromImage Comics which began in May2007. It is written bySimon Spurrier and drawn byFrazer Irving.[1][2]
Spurrier and Irving had worked together onFrom Grace andThe Simping Detective. Spurrier had been looking to break into the American market and Irving seemed the ideal partner because he'd already worked atMarvel andDC. As Irving had spoken to people at Image Comics Spurrier prepared two pitches and Gutsville was picked "because it is more of a high-concept pitch."[3] Soon after getting this accepted, Irving got the job providing art forDavid Hine'sSilent War after the original artist backed out, and as he was usingPhotoshop for that "I realizedGutsville had to be done in the same way. I won't be able to change gears fast enough. As it turns out, it is the perfect choice. Photoshop gave me just the right tools I need to make it slightly unearthy."[3]
Issue #1 was sold out and went for a second printing in July 2007.[4]Matt Timson provided back-up art for issue #2cover dated September 2007. There was a six-month delay after issue #2 for personal reasons, with #3 released in March 2008 with a text back-up text story illustrated byBoo Cook. The fourth issue has not yet been released, leading to rumors of cancellation.
In 1846 an English ship called the Daphne heads out to reach Australia. The ship never makes it, as it, and all of its passengers (including slaves, zealous missionaries, and English settlers) are swallowed up by some gargantuan, oceanic beast. Skip forward to the present day and the descendants of the original passengers are living in Gutsville, ashanty town within the belly of this mysterious creature.