Tomorrow People Jaunt in and new graphic novel from Robin

2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the visionary television science-fiction series, The Tomorrow People.

Series creator and writer, Roger Price, has teamed up with ComicScene Award Winners Chinbeard Books and Oak Tree Books to invite you all into another era of adventure with a brand-new novel series (starting with The Tomorrow People: Changes; written by Roger
himself and with co-writer Andy Davidson).

Not only that but, in association with Rebellion and the Treasury of British Comics, the team of Robert Hammond and Barnaby Eaton-Jones (the creative forces behind the recent award-winning Robin of Sherwood – The Complete Look-In Comics) will release two volumes of beautifully restored strips from the pages of Look-In magazine, with a vast array of extra features, for a complete collection of The Tomorrow People comics.

“All over the world, young people undergo a startling transformation as the awkwardness and uncertainty of puberty unlocks superhuman abilities. They are becoming Tomorrow People – the next phase of human evolution, gifted with the powers of telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation. It is their responsibility to guide the inhabitants of Earth on their first faltering steps towards the stars and take their place among the civilizations of the galaxy.”

Launched in 1973, the original Tomorrow People thrilled young audiences, becoming an international hit and one of the UK’s most successful science-fiction series. A generation of children grew up knowing that no matter how different, strange, or isolated they may have felt, they were never alone. Like them, the Tomorrow People were growing into something new: the
hope for humanity’s future.

At a time when colour television was still a novelty, the Tomorrow People explored places and times bigger than the small screen could realize when Look-In magazine launched an ongoing series of comic strip adventures for the team, collaborating with Price and some of the biggest names in the UK comic industry, including Mike Noble and John M Burns.

“We were very limited in what we could do, until Look-In magazine offered us the chance to have a comic strip. We might not have had the money to do wide-ranging and amazing things on the television, but we could on paper.” says series creator, Roger Price. “I always think of the comic strip version of The Tomorrow People as demonstrating what it could have been if it had a decent budget, and with today’s technology.”

Chinbeard Books and Oak Tree Books, in collaboration with Rebellion and the Treasury of British Comics, is proud to announce a two-volume set which collects the complete run of Tomorrow People adventures from the pages of Look-In, along with a treasure trove of interviews and features from the magazine. With forewords from series creator/writer Roger Price and original Tomorrow Person, actor Nicholas Young, this two-volume set also explores the story behind the comics with new articles by series historian Andy Davidson and Look-In expert Shaqui Le Vesconte.

Volume One is available to pre-order now – as a limited edition – and contains four pages of NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN artwork (from when Look-In’s weekly output was once interrupted by an
industrial strike). It has also benefited by having much of the restoration taking place on original artwork supplied by collector, Jon Gooch. There are only a set number of Volume One books available and once they’re gone there won’t be another print run. Do pre-order your copy now! The release date will be August 2023. https://auk.direct/product/the-tomorrow-people/ Volume Two will be available later in the year.

But there’s much more in store for fans of homo superior. To herald a new era of Tomorrow
People adventures, Chinbeard Books and Oak Tree Books will publish later this year a brand-
new adventure (which will lead into a book series).

Do read more about Look-In, with some unseen artwork, in the History of Comics 1971 in an article by Shaqui Le Vesconte. You can purchase the book here or you can read it in digital with 6000 more pages as part of the ComicScene Magazine kickstarter rewards here

Chinbeard Books is also aiming to bring to life a rather unique official continuation of the ‘Robin of Sherwood’ story for the 40th anniversary – the iconic 1980’s television series, which many believe is the seminal retelling of the folk hero’s tale. We are the official literary licence holder for this property, and we’ve produced books of new adventures before, but this is our first foray into the world of graphic novels. We did recently collect and restore all the comic strips from the 1980’s, which featured in ‘Look-In’ magazine (and were notable for being mostly drawn by the legendary Mike Noble), and that book won a Best UK Comic Collection award from ComicScene earlier this year. So, we thought we’d go one step further and create our own 68-page, full-colour, A4-sized, original graphic novel.

Pledge here https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/robin-of-sherwood-the-hooded-men/x/5248731#/