Ian Livingstone @ Forbidden Planet London this lunchtime!

Don't forget that this is happening today people...


As Forbidden Planet say on their website (here) ...join a fabulous Fighting Fantasy line-up at Forbidden Planet, signing Titan Comics’ FREEWAY FIGHTER on Saturday 25th November from 1 – 2pm!
Forbidden Planet are pleased to welcome back Gamesmaster Ian Livingstone and artist Jim Burns, bringing us the last leg of this furious road trip.

Celebrating 35 years in 2017, Fighting Fantasy brought together choice-driven storytelling with a dice-based role-playing system to create a world in which ‘YOU are the hero!’ The series sold over
18 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 languages.

In the new comics series, an unknown virus has wiped out over 85% of the world’s human population. Former I-400 Driver Bella De La Rosa is one of the 15% – living every day as if it were her last. Now, eighteen months after the collapse of civilisation, faced with a new world order where violence and chaos rule the Freeway. She must hone her racing skills and survive any way she can!
Also available ONLY at the event are two very Limited Edition Prints!

Stepping away from the usual mix of orcs and goblins, FREEWAY FIGHTER is a road trip like no other. Dare you take it? If yes, turn to paragraph 132!

Freeway Fighter signing @ Forbidden Planet, London

As Forbidden Planet say on their website (here) ...join a fabulous Fighting Fantasy line-up at Forbidden Planet, signing Titan Comics’ FREEWAY FIGHTER on Saturday 25th November from 1 – 2pm!
Forbidden Planet are pleased to welcome back Gamesmaster Ian Livingstone and artist Jim Burns, bringing us the last leg of this furious road trip.

Celebrating 35 years in 2017, Fighting Fantasy brought together choice-driven storytelling with a dice-based role-playing system to create a world in which ‘YOU are the hero!’ The series sold over
18 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 languages.

In the new comics series, an unknown virus has wiped out over 85% of the world’s human population. Former I-400 Driver Bella De La Rosa is one of the 15% – living every day as if it were her last. Now, eighteen months after the collapse of civilisation, faced with a new world order where violence and chaos rule the Freeway. She must hone her racing skills and survive any way she can!
Also available ONLY at the event are two very Limited Edition Prints!

Stepping away from the usual mix of orcs and goblins, FREEWAY FIGHTER is a road trip like no other. Dare you take it? If yes, turn to paragraph 132!

Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone signing tonight!

August 2017 is the 35th Anniversary of the first publication of the iconic The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by 
Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. To celebrate, Steve and Ian will be signing at the Forbidden Planet London Megastore on Friday 4th August from 6 – 7pm.

Ian will be signing the new Fighting Fantasy title, The Port of Peril. In this brand new addition to the multi million-copy-selling books, you - the hero - must travel all over Allansia, from old haunts like Darkwood Forest and Port Blacksand, on a dangerous quest!

And Ian and Steve will be signing the 35th Anniversary re-releases of the first five titles of the original series...











In 1982, Ian Livingstone co- authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, the first interactive gamebook in the Fighting Fantasy series, and wrote 15 of the titles, including City of Thieves, Forest of Doom and Deathtrap Dungeon. When serving as Executive Chairman at Eidos, he launched video games blockbusters including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He currently chairs nine video games companies. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in 2014. He has been awarded a CBE and a BAFTA Special Award.



Steve Jackson co-founded the videogame developers Lionhead Studios with industry legend Peter Molyneux. He wrote a weekly column on games and puzzles every Saturday in the Daily Telegraph, wrote and directed the F.I.S.T. series of telephone games, designed ‘Battlecards’ the first collectable card game series and his Sorcery series was converted to an app by Inkle Studios in 2013, with over 3 million paid downloads to date. Ex- Professor of Game Design at Brunel University Steve co-created the UK’s first MA game design course. And in 1993 he was awarded title of European Games Champion at the international games fair at Essen, 1993.

Casket of Souls

ok, so this isn't a comic but it's my blog, so I'll make an exception if I want to...so I was really into Fighting Fantasy books as a kid and must have picked this up from the library on the strength of Ian Livingstone's name on the cover. I remember I took it on holiday with me one summer holiday and spent so much time poring over the pages trying to work out what the hell was going on (and therefore work out what the hidden message was).
If you've never picked this up I won't give any clues away, suffice to say that there are a dozen pages and a dozen objects, and there's a different object hidden in each image. Sounds easy. Isn't. I'm sure someone has posted the answer somewhere on the internet and it would save me whole lot of bother if I just looked for the answers that way rather than getting sucked in to spending hours (which I know I could do) trying to find the treasures. My favourite 'Fighting Fantasy' type thing - just as good today as it was then. Fantastic illustrations throughout.

Softback and hardback editions were available (hardback is much rarer and commands a premium)