Andy Sparrow's Jet Metal Now Available Online For Free

It was less than a year ago that ComicBook.com spoke with Andy Sparrow, creator of Jet Metal, as its Kickstarter campaign raised the money to print the whole 140-page story in a trade paperback edition. "I had just passed my fourth anniversary of 48, A4 page-sized episodes, which seemed like enough for a 120 – 140 page book," Sparrow told us at the time. "Each page has about 12 to 16 panels crammed into it each month, so an episode expands comfortably over a few pages in the comic-book. I had consciously moved away from it just being biker oriented, into a more mainstream theme to appeal to a wider range. I like my magazine audience, but they have already read the story and thus don't need a trade paperback! My plan was to do the two arcs in separate books, but the consensus is that it'll be a better read in one go." When he connected with us earlier this week, Sparrow told us that "Jet Metal hit Amazon in October 2013, in time for the Christmas rush, and sold phenomenally," and it has now been released page by page, free, online.

Jet Metal began its life in 2008 as a syndicated, monthly page in various magazines around the world and was translated into French, Spanish, Russian and German. In 2013, after more than fifty monthly episodes, Sparrow decided to take a break, he says, "due to exhaustion. He is now in an asylum, I mean on holiday, recharging his batteries before resuming in the fall." The last five years have resulted not just in the content itself, but in an illustrated journal viewable on Facebook.