ABOUT BAKER STREET

Baker Street, a violent intrusion into a world that doesn't exist but possibly could have. It is a story of rebellion yet also one of belonging. It dives deep into a world on the fringe and exposes it's underbelly and treats the normal world as the outside . It is Baker Street and no, you won't find Holmes or Watson here but you will find Harlequin, Sam, Susan, Toby, Toller, the Ripper, and far too many other fascinating characters to list.

Nominated for "Best New Series" in the Harvey Awards the industry standard for excellence in 1990.  The collection from iBooks was also nominated in 2004 for a Harvey Award (some 14 years later!).

Written by Gary Reed and Guy Davis with art by Guy Davis.  Released as ten issues, collected into two trade paperbacks from Caliber.  In 2003, all the Baker Street material was collected into a single volume and released by iBooks and distributed by Simon and Schuster.

Gary Reed's Notes and Thoughts on Baker Street
I will always have a special fondness for Baker Street as it was my first writing attempt in comics.  I had done a few short stories and poems previously,  but Baker Street was the first time I was actually writing characters and events that would continue. The idea of Baker Street first came about as Guy Davis wanted to do something else after he tired of working on his first project, The Realm.  He presented the idea of doing all of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle but using two female characters...and punks at that.  I felt that it wouldn't work.  Fans of Holmes wouldn't like the bastardization and new fans would unlikely be pulled into the actual stories even with a punk female in the lead.  I suggested modeling the series after Sherlock Holmes...but not Holmes.  Guy wanted to do the punk subculture but even at that time, it was already on the wane...yet he also wanted to do the Victorian Age.  So, we came up with concept that both co-existed because World War II never happened.  That helped to maintain the integrity of the London architecture and I created newspaper articles to help fill the readers in on what was the world at that time.  One of the things I thought was crucial was to have a character that revealed the world to the readers and so I came up with Sue.  We would see everything through her eyes so our innocence was destroyed when hers was.    I was more focused on the mystery aspect and Guy wanted to delve more into the punk subculture so it was a good mix.  As the book continued, it became more Guy's since being an artist, he had become enveloped in the complete vision of everything.  If anything were to be done with Baker Street now, it would certainly be almost entirely by Guy.  I think it started off as a pretty equal standing initially and especially through the first mystery but more and more, the book became Guy's...and I have no problem with that.