A little exchange between Will Scarlet and Maid Marian from ROBYN HOOD: WANTED #1! Just to whet your whistle for the new series.
Artwork by Larry Watts, colors by Nick Filardi, letters by Jim Campbell.
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?
NOTE: This link is now dead. Blood Pong is currently being looked at by publishers, but thank you to those who check it out and enjoyed! Hopefully you’ll be able to purchase it soon!
One more post to celebrate Creator Owned Day! Here’s a preview of my creator owned comic, BLOOD PONG. Frustrated with the modern depiction of vampires as romantic creatures, CHAD and JOHN, two vampires who spend their days playing beer pong with blood, hit the town with a video camera. They’ve decided to make their own reality/horror movie that gives vampires back their badassery. The art is by the wonderful Ian McGinty (co-creator). We’ve been pitching it around, so it would be great to get any thoughts or reactions.,
Preliminary character designs for a new project! Super stoked about working on this one.
Here are some designs from an upcoming creator-owned graphic novel I’m doing with Sarah ‘Pickles’ Dill, tentatively titled THOMASINA’S HUMAN ZOO. I want to write this every day forever. You should totally click her Tumblr link (above) to see her sweet art.
Here’s one last EX LIBRIS character design (for now - keeping our Beowulf under wraps for now). This one is of Grendel, our big bad. Our version is a lot werewolfier than any I’ve seen before, which I really dig. While this isn’t an adaptation of Beowulf, and instead uses the characters and tropes of that story to tell a brand new tale, we still wanted the Beowulf characters to look as different from their depictions in the many movie adaptations. Art by Michael Hamlett. Mike and I are working on these for Ex Libris, a graphic novel we plan on pitching around in the summer and fall of this year. Ex Libris is a story about literature. It’s about how fiction bleeds into reality, influencing and shaping human life more than human life shapes it. It’s about Beowulf. It’s a story about the monster who just wanted peace and quiet being thrust into the noisiest, busiest place possible… modern New York. It’s about monsters and heroes. It’s about a world that no longer has a place for either of those things… for now. More to come! I’ll be putting out one of these every day for the next few days. We began with Erin, moved onto Seamus, and finished up the main cast of humans with Professor Peterson. We’ve still got Beowulf, and one of his… alter egos. Please support this page and, for more updates on this story and many others, like my Facebook page.
Yet another character design from my creator-owned graphic novel, EX LIBRIS. This one is of Professor Peterson, the resident expert on the Middle Ages.
Art by Michael Hamlett.
Mike and I are working on these for Ex Libris, a graphic novel we plan on pitching around in the summer and fall of this year.
Ex Libris is a story about literature. It’s about how fiction bleeds into reality, influencing and shaping human life more than human life shapes it. It’s about Beowulf. It’s about a professor of literature who meets his fictional idol face to face… and is faced with the crisis of telling this character that he is, in fact, made-up.
It’s about monsters and heroes. It’s about a world that no longer has a place for either of those things… for now.
More to come!
I’ll be putting out one of these every day for the next few days. We began with Erin before moving on to Seamus. Tomorrow… Grendel!
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