VAMPIRES: THE ETERNAL #1
Hey cool kids. Here’s a preview of my upcoming comic, Vampires: The Eternal #1. It’s coming from Zenescope later this month.
Click the cover to see the preview.
To avoid confusion, it’s worth mentioning that these pages are not in order. They’re just random samples from the book.
Yay!
Also, Sarah Dill’s face is on a jar of pickles. Because.
All ages comic!
Digital first!
First in a new initiative!
Kid friendly!
Adult friendly!
Dancing cats!
Talking British snakes!
Fantasy!
Feels!
But seriously, this story means the world to me. Family Pets is my first creator-owned book, and the whole thing is written by me and drawn by the excellent Sarah Dill, who many of y’alls know from Distillum, her fantastic webcomic.
This comic will be free FREE FREE! (picture that in the voice of a car commercial guy from the radio) when it first comes out in April… for one week. After that, it’ll be $1.99.
Reblog for awesome-points!
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Here’s the interview I’ve been talking about. My big retrospective ROBYN HOOD interview with Wired - this is the one that pulled back all of the layers and asked questions that shocked me. Really pleased with this, and I hope it sheds some light. This is one of my favorite interviews thus far.
Joss Whedon changed my life.
I know, that’s true for a lot of folks. I was going through some books I’d stored to keep safely for Hurricane Sandy, and came across the book pictured above. ANGEL: YEARBOOK from IDW Publishing. It was the final Angel comic before the rights transferred to Dark Horse… and my first ever published comic book is in there.
A year and a half later, I’ve published twenty comics. This year alone, I’m going to do triple that number. I have a career because of a two page short story in an Angel comic.
It was a dream come true then and remains one now.
Thank you for this and for your stories, Joss Whedon.
This may be my favorite piece of art associated with any of the books I’ve written.
This isn’t even an official cover. Larry Watts, the mainstay Robyn Hood artist, drew this image of Robyn and the Merry Men as a punk band. I’d write an Elseworlds version where this happens in a second; hmmm… maybe a dream sequence in the next series?
First, I want to say this is my 100th post. Woo
Second, this is the cover for the pitch we sent out. Alright. This is the last thing we’re sharing from this for a while.
I wrote this comic and, if all goes well, you will get to read it.
SLIPSTREAM coming December 2012!
NOT AT SDCC ANNOUNCEMENT #1
So, I’m not at SDCC. To keep myself from being too depressed about it, I’m going to be announcing a few projects that I have, until now, kept hush-hush about. The first announcement is…
SLIPSTREAM: ORIGIN
You heard it here first - this is my first superhero comic, my first work with Big Dog Ink, and my first time playing in the Critter universe! For those unfamiliar with Critter, check out this brand new superhero universe from Big Dog Ink right here. Created by Tom Hutchison, the ongoing Critter series is the flagship title of Big Dog Ink, and it is putting the fun and adventure back into superhero comics.
Slipstream: Origin, written by me with art by the wonderful Owen Gieni, is the latest in a series of one-shot Critter spinoffs. It’ll hit shelves in December 2012 (for those keeping up with the things that’ve been announced so far, that’s the same month as Robyn Hood #4,Unannounced Project #3,and probably SuperUnannounced Project #??). A cover will be coming soon but, until then, here is a Critter cover by Slipstream: Origin artist Owen Gieni.
Slipstream captures the same sense of fun that Critter embodies, but with a sci-fi twist. I won’t spoil anything, but when I started plotting the comic, I was inspired by how much freedom Tom was letting me have with Slipstream, so I decided to make the comic about Slipstream building herself up from nothing and becoming the hero that we see in the monthly Critter title. It’s completely standalone, but I hope it’ll make folks eager to read more of Slipstream’s adventures, because that character has been in my head for a while now.
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Now, because I’m a fan of hearing about the writing process, I’ll give a bit of background on how this comic came to be. It’s funny that I’m announcing this in my Not at SDCC blog, because this tale proves how important it is for freelancers to go to cons. I met Tom Hutchison at NYCC 2011. I had only had one comic published at that point (Angel: Yearbookat IDW), but my work on Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales Holiday Edition 2011had already been solicited. Wanting to showcase my first work in the industry, I made a business card that had my contact info and little images featuring cover art from my soon-to-be-published comics. I found the Big Dog Ink booth, and was fascinated by their titles. I gave Tom my business card, and he recognized theGrimm Fairy Tales comic on it - funny sidebar, Zenescope editor and all around great dude Raven Gregory was checking out the booth too, and heard us talking about GFT. So I met Tom and Raven at the same time! Anyway, I asked Tom if I could pitch stories to him, read up on Critter, and wrote some ideas for one-shot stories. Tom dug Slipstream, and the rest is history. Moral of the story? Cons are important. If you can go, go. I hope to see you at NYCC 2012, and surely SDCC 2013.
More tomorrow!
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PATRICK SHAND writes ROBYN HOOD, GRIMM FAIRY TALES, 1000 WAYS TO DIE, and more for Zenescope. He has written ANGEL for IDW, SLIPSTREAM for Big Dog Ink, and short stories published in various anthologies by Pill Hill Press, Rainstorm Press, and Wicked East Press. His plays have been produced in Manhattan and he currently teaches screenwriting and scriptwriting at Five Towns College.
