Artesia Online








Artesia Besieged Preview

Welcome to Artesia Online, the official web site for the fantasy comic book series Artesia, written and illustrated by Mark Smylie and published by Archaia Entertainment LLC.

Artesia is the beginning of an epic fantasy story, The Book of Dooms, following one woman on a journey of war and magic. Artesia left her home in the Middle Kingdoms after her mother was burned at the stake as a witch, and she has found refuge in the Highlands of Daradja and remade herself as a concubine, a priestess, a warrior and war captain. She now walks a dangerous path surrounded by jealous overlords, enemy witch-hunters, invading armies, dread gods, the ghosts of the dead, and ancient evils out of myth and legend.

Information about the Artesia Role-Playing Game can be found at The Known World: www.theknownworld.com.

		07.21.09 – Artesia Art Sale!
		To celebrate the resumption of the *Besieged* series, Mark is offering sale prices on original art from the first three series: interior pages from *Artesia, Artesia* *Afield, and Artesia* *Afire* are now available for $50. Also, pages from the first three issues of *Artesia* *Besieged* are being offered for sale for the first time, at $100 per page. Please email Mark directly at mark@artesiaonline.com for more information and lists of available pages.

		*07.16.09 – Artesia Besieged #4* content advisory for select markets**
		Due to graphic content in the next issue of *Artesia Besieged*, Diamond Comics Distributors will be listing the issue as Mature Readers but with Deny Codes for the following countries: Canada, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Readers and retailers in those countries may order the issue from Indie Press Revolution.

		07.16.09 – CBR interview
		Comic Book Resources’ Shaun Manning has posted an interview with Mark Smylie discussing the return of the *Besieged* series.

		*07.15.09 – Artesia Besieged #3* in stores.**
		The long-delayed next issue in the fourth *Artesia* series arrived in retail comic book stores on July 15. As longtime readers will know, it has been a tradition since the beginning of the comic to include a background essay about the world and its history and characters in the back of the book; space requirements prevented that from happening with this issue, and so for free download here is the missing essay, on the Golden Knights of An-Athair.

		06.22.09 – Artesia Arts Co. for Backlist
		Currently all available backlist titles for the *Artesia* series are available through a separate company, Artesia Arts, rather than through Archaia. Future issues of *Artesia* (beginning with *Besieged #3*) will be found in the Archaia/Kunoichi listings as usual. Retailers or readers ordering through Diamond should be aware of the new order codes for key items: ARTESIA RPG HC APR098397 ARTESIA BESIEGED #1 (OF 6) APR098405 ARTESIA BESIEGED #2 (OF 6) APR098406 ARTESIA HC VOL 01 APR098407 ARTESIA HC VOL 02 ARTESIA AFIELD APR098408 ARTESIA HC VOL 03 ARTESIA AFIRE APR098409

		*02.05.09 – Artesia* is “Essential”**
		In Gene Kannenberg’s recently published 500 Essential Graphic Novels (Collins Design/Harper Collins), Artesia made the list. Congratulations, Mark!