Buy my first published work!
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I got a short comic published
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Happy Monday, everyone.
Quickie today to alert you to a published short comic I worked on for friend Milton Lawson's trade paperback collection of Thompson Heller: Detective Interstellar.
You can watch a trailer for the TPB here to get an idea of the story and look.
Heller was drawn by Dave Chisholm, Milton's multi-talented collaborator (and also a mutual), who writes and draws his own comics, the latest of which include the experimental Chasin' the Bird, a surreal biography detailing musician Charlie Parker's time in California, and Canopus, a psychological survivalist sci-fi story that is now (or soon-to-be) out in trade.
Colors are provided by Fabian Cobos, and I think that about does it for the overall team. I will not be crediting the letterer because he is an insufferable asshole.
Anyway, the trade paperback is now out and in addition to collecting issues 1-3 of the really creative main series, it also collects a handful of one-shot short stories featuring the character of Thomson Heller.
One of those was both written and drawn by me, and this constitutes my first professionally published work as an artist (I have a writer credit at Caliber from a few years back).
I think honestly the genesis of the idea to include these stories was writer Rick Quinn and I deciding to surprise Milton with a short script from each of us featuring his Heller character just as a writing exercise or gift or something.
Turns out Milton loved them, and wanted to use them in some capacity, so I drew mine, and various other collaborative teams emerged around Rick's and an additional short written by Milton himself.
I also made a print of the Heller character for Milton as a separate gift, which is also included in the collection. I'm including it below because I'm still really proud of it, and to also give you a taste of the materials included in the TPB:
'I'm sold. Where do I get it?'
If you're a digital reader, you can get the Kindle edition on Amazon.
If you want the actual TPB, I think you have to go to the publisher, Source Point Press, or try to order it from your local comic book store.
I should have actually included a note about this project a few weeks ago so you could have pre-ordered it, so I apologize if you want it and have some trouble getting it now. But if you grab one and bring it to a con (either C2E2 or Heroes) I'll sign it, no questions asked.
Also, no NSFW cookies for you this week, but I got some good stuff coming.
That's all for now.
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