There is good news for all the Sherlock Holmes fans; Dean Wilkinson, a comedy writer is coming up with a new comic book Sheerluck’s Mysteries! Supernatural Sherlock Holmes Spoof.
Part factual, but all funny; Sheerluck is a comic character targeted at children and adults alike, upwards of 7 years of age. In this book he investigates supernatural mysteries and solves them with the help of his accomplice Watson (his long suffering sister Jenny).
Speaking exclusively to AnimationXpress.com Wilkinson expounds: “I wanted to do something around mysteries and the supernatural, so I invented a kid investigator on the lines of Sherlock Holmes, called Sheerluck.”
Lee Healey, the character designer of Sheerluck, has had a long standing relationship with Wilkinson of nearly 25 years. “We met while working on the same comic thus teamed up… I wrote, he drew. I thought he’d be ideal for Sheerluck and he is. He’s brilliant at putting little details on which I might have not even thought about,” he added on the association with Healey on this spin-off series.
Wilkinson is looking at crowd funding in order to raise Ł1000 for this venture. “TV presenter Adrian Mills has also come forward to help us with funds in order to push this comic strip,” he reveals.
Dean’s earlier work was published by the Penguin group, but this time he intends to keep exclusive copyrights.
On the distributing strategies in India, Wilkinson exulted: “I would hope Sheerluck would catch on in India, but I am also doing the Madcap league which is a spoof sports brand. It is themed around football but I have already started work on Madcap League: Cricket and have many Indian characters in it.”
Sheerluck’s Mysteries revolves around the character – Sheerluck, who thinks he’s a Sherlock-like, genius investigator, but he isn’t. He solves mysteries by sheer luck. In this book one will come across ghosts, UFOs, aliens, telepathy, Stonehenge etc and examine the facts. Watson (his long suffering sister Jenny) gives her theory, and Sheerluck gives his which is always bizarre, strange, comedic, but true!
The Mysteries book will be out soon at the price of Ł5 followed with a digital version, made available at a later date and cheaper price.
Dean Wilkinson began writing comedy in 1989 for children’s comic. His first own publication was a book titled Fizog which lasted a staggering thee issues. He diverted his attention to children’s television and went on to pen episodes and sketches for many shows such as The big Breakfast, Zig & Zag, Byker Grove, Timmy Towers and many more.