“The industry sold 25-30 submersibles last year,” she said. Harrison told hundreds of delegates attending the Superyacht Investor conference in London this week that submersible manufacturers had their best year in 2017, as there has been “definitive change in direction among owners to use their superyachts for new experiences”. They have seen Blue Planet, and they want to get down there and see it for themselves.” “They want to see what’s beneath the surface as well as what’s on top. The modern ones and the young ones want to go to Antarctica and the Galápagos Islands,” she said. “The super-rich aren’t happy to sit on the back of their yachts with a G&T anymore. There is a growing number of super-rich, she said, who want more than to merely luxuriate in their good fortune.
The Deep: The Vanishing Island and the previous volume in the series, Here Be Dragons, are distributed by Madman Entertainment in Australia & New Zealand, with an RRP of $19.95 aud.Louise Harrison, Triton’s European sales director, said in recent months the BBC’s Blue Planet series, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, had led to a “huge spike” in demand from wealthy buyers wanting to explore the deep and get up close to coral reefs, stingrays and whales.
Family exploring the deep in a submarine cartoon series#
The launch of The Vanishing Island will be held at All Star Comics Melbourne, Level 1, 410 Lonsdale St, Melbourne, on Saturday the 23rd March 2013, from 1pm-3pm, and will feature the first public preview of the upcoming TV series based on The Deep graphic novels.Ī new CGI series is in the works based on the The Deep graphic novels, with Paris-based animation studio Technicolor developing and producing 26 half-hour episodes of The Deep targeting viewers 6 years and up. Written by award-winning writer Tom Taylor (DC’s Injustice, Star Wars: Adventures, Star Wars: Blood Ties) and illustrated by the incredible James Brouwer ( Justice League Beyond), The Vanishing Island sees the Nektons, a family who have been exploring the seas for generations, investigate an island that was “completely not hit by a tsunami.” The Vanishing Island continues the adventures of a multi-ethnic family of daring Aquanauts who live on a submarine - and will receive its official launch on the 23rd March 2013 at Melbourne’s All-Star Comics. His recent publications sit atop the bestseller lists on Amazon and iBooks among others, and he has written adventures for Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Luke Skywalker and Boba Fett - however, for Melbourne born and bred comic book author, Tom Taylor, nothing excites him more than crafting tales of the Nekton family in his creator-owned graphic novel series, The Deep.Īfter receiving the 2012 Aurealis Award for ‘Best Graphic Novel’ for the first volume of The Deep series, Here Be Dragons, Taylor and artist James Brouwer return to the seas for the second volume, The Vanishing Island, published by Gestalt Comics. PREVIEW SCREENING AND BOOK LAUNCH THIS SATURDAY. Cool things also happen in my hometown of Perth, but I hope we get to see this trailer online soon.ĪUSTRALIAN GRAPHIC NOVELS BY BESTSELLING MELBOURNE AUTHOR TO BECOME INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED SERIES.
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