Press Release
Oi! Tales of Bardic Fury is a fantasy slice-of-life comic set in ancient Ireland that follows Bryan the Bard, a fresh graduate from the Great Academy in Tara, as he undertakes a work placement in a town that’s never heard music before.
Following strong sales of issues 1 and 2 at comic conventions across the UK, writer & artist Daniel de Sosa of Backwards Burd Comics (www.backwardsburd.com) has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the completion of Oi! Volume 1. The comic contains the first five chapters of the tale of Iron Age Ireland’s greatest rock band.
Inspired by Celtic mythology, Irish folk music, and hard rock from the 60s& 70s, de Sosa’s story forgoes the kings, warriors and epic quests of traditional fantasy to instead delve into the quaint and bizarre folk of villages that exist in this world. Focusing on a society controlled by mushroom chewing druids, where music was considered a form of magic, Oi! paints bards as the rock stars they were, shedding the derision afforded to them by years of table top RPGs.
Rewards offered to backers of the campaign include printed copies of the book, guitar plectrums, screen-printed band T-shirts, original page art and even the chance to be drawn into the comic as a permanent cast member in the village of Oi. The campaign ends 9th September.
Oi! is for fans of fantasy fiction, Celtic mythology, old school role-playing games and rock music.
Gosh! Comics Steven Walsh has described Oi! as the ‘best comic set in medieval Ireland that I’ve ever read.’ You can read the first two chapters for free and learn more about the campaign at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1382679986/oi-tales-of-bardic-fury-volume-one-comic
