Gamekeeper is a miniseries published by Director’s Cut, a imprint of Virgin Comics. The free online comic version of Gamekeeper #1 is optimized for online-viewing: Virgin Comics offers us a nice Flash viewer including a widescreen mode, so also readers with a low resolution or a tiny screen (like I use to have) should enjoy this piece of art.

The Director’s Cut titles are a collaboration with the world’s best and most iconic film-makers where their ideas and stories are launched into comics [Source]. This comic series was created in collaboration with filmmaker Guy Ritchie (writer and director of Snatch), author Andy Diggle and artist Mukesh Singh. Some words of Andy Diggle on Gamekeeper:

THE GAMEKEEPER is a Director’s Cut mini-series about a killer who’s more in touch with the natural world than he is with his own humanity. Guy came up with the original character and premise, and I’m developing it into a 10-issue series to be illustrated by DEVI’s Mukesh Singh. [Source]

The widescreen mode and the special online adaption of this comic makes it much easier (and more fun) to read. If you prefer full page scans, follow the second link below. I really enjoyed this first issue, so go for it!

Virgin Comics and MySpace have teamed up to launch Coalition Comix (http://www.myspace.com/coalitioncomix), a new online comic book platform, allowing thousands of participants to work with leading comic book creators in the development and creation of new characters and stories.

Sounds like Virgin Comics want to make use of the huge myspace community to get qualified feedback on the creation of new comic stories. So, this will not be a platform for single independent comic book authors, the community will help leading comic book creators to create content that suits to its customers (or the other way arround):

Each digital issue will have a real time creation period of two weeks, with sketches, artwork and scripts continuously uploaded for interactivity with the community. The first comic planned will be guided by leading comic book author, Mike Carey (Voodoo Child, X-Men, Ultimate Fantastic Four). Carey will dialogue with readers and guide the development of the plot at each step along the way by reviewing feedback from readers, and posing questions with five or six choices for the Coalition Comix community to choose from. [Source]

So, you are a member of myspace and want to contribute? Or just want to watch what’s going on? Go to Coalition Comix and have a look, it will start at August, 2nd.