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MELBOURNE IS ON FIRE. BUT EVERYONE AT THE DOOR STILL WANTS THE SAME THING-TO BE LET IN.
JACK works the most coveted door in the city - an enigma with no name, no record, no past, who stands at the threshold every night deciding who belongs and who waits outside. Then a bikie gang moves in on Melbourne's nightlife, turns his door into something far darker than a velvet rope, and the walls begin to close in on Jack himself.
Three lives collide onto his threshold. A Sudanese boy, trafficked into the nightclubs and hunted by the gang that killed his brother. An Indigenous woman searching for the father she never knew. And a doorman who's spent his whole life deciding who gets in - now desperate to find his own way out.
One in. One out.
A Melbourne noir about crime, belonging, and a country still arguing over who gets to call it home.
V.I.P. Artist Edition
The rarest way to hold DOORMAN and the only one that comes with a piece of original art.
JUMP THE QUEUE.
Every other edition gives you the finished book. This one gives you the VIP treatment.
The complete four-part saga in oversize prestige format, plus the full scripts and rough layouts behind all four books, a cover-art gallery, original artwork from the film The DOORMAN, set stills and storyboard panels from pre-production.
DOORMAN started as a stage play. It became a film script. Then, during Melbourne's lockdowns, it became a graphic novel. Sliding Doors tracks that migration form to form - what survived each translation, and what didn't. Afterword from artist, actor and creator Mark Diaco on the research that made it possible: twenty years working real doors in this city, the script that came out of it and what the film version would have looked like.
Housed in a case built as a door. You have to open it to get in.
For the completists ... this is one door you don't want closed.
The complete four-part saga in an oversize, full-gloss hardcover. Hand-signed and numbered inside the cover — your volume, 01 through 33.
An open wound.
The case is a miniature door, fitted with a real knob. Rigid board construction, built to hold weight and stand on a shelf. Behind it: the book, the signed print, and your original sketchbook page.
The object works the way the story does. Nobody gets in without working the door.
Script to page, in sequence. Rough layouts beside finished art, reference photography beside blocked panels, creator's notes on why a scene moved or died. Printed on thick premium matte so the pencil reads.
A numbered certificate matches your volume to your original artwork.
Every VIP collector receives a double sided, genuine hand-drawn layout page. Cut from the leather-bound sketchbook — pencilled, then rough-inked by actor / artist and creator Mark Diaco. Signed.
ONE of ONE. No two alike.
The human hand, in your hands.
"Some doors should never be opened."— Door Policy 32
Photographs cannot fully convey what this edition is.
Only 33 numbered volumes will ever exist. Every element — the printing technique, the binding, the materials, the case — is held to VIP standard, then finished by hand.
This is the version made with the collector in mind.
Signed by the hand that drew it.
The complete saga in an oversize hardcover, hand-signed by Mark Diaco. Same 204 pages as the V.I.P. same story, same full extras vault - without the original-artwork and bookcase.
The largest, rarest way to read DOORMAN.
Built to last.
Luck of the draw.
A case-bound keepsake hardcover of the complete saga — printed laminate case with a matt dust jacket, made to outlive the screen it was drawn on. Each copy ships with one of three variant covers — Sage, International or Motherless Melbourne — assigned at random. You won't know which until you open the box.
The whole saga, bound.
All four books collected in a single collector's volume — the complete story in one sitting, sized to hold its own on the shelf.
Four issues. The way in.
The saga as it was first told — issue by issue, perfect-bound on quality print. The reading copies, made to be lent and loved. Limited to 25 sets.
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne
Before the book,
there was the door.
Three short films behind the graphic novel: twenty years working Melbourne's ropes, the pull between acting and drawing that turned those nights into pages, and the city itself at 3am — the lights, the queues, the doorways the book was built from.
- Books 01–04 · complete saga
- Written & illustrated by Mark Diaco
- Colours by Simon Robins
- Letters by Darren Close & Sophie Muckart
- Corner Piece Pictures · Melbourne
- 156 Kickstarter backers
- 01 · V.I.P. Artist Edition · $255 · ltd 25
- 02 · Artist oversize · $99 · 13 left
- 03 · Hardcover + variant · $50 · 6 left
- 04 · Collector's trade · $39 · 7 left
- 05 · Soft-cover issues · $29 · 25 sets
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