Happy Belated New Year
I have been neglecting my blog but I’ve had really, really good reasons to be spotty with the updates (honest!).
2008 was a transition year for me. Over the course of my career as a storyteller, I’ve written big company comics for Marvel, written studio horror films, had the #1 movie in America, launched books near the top of the Diamond listings, made shorts, gone on strike with the WGA and returned to comics with a slew of new projects on the horizon. I have come full circle and feel incredibly comfortable, self-possessed, wise and hungry to kick some ass in 2009.
Coming off the heels of last year’s successful JOKER’S ASYLUM event at DC Comics, I’ve written a bunch of new Batman projects — one of which should be solicited in the next Previews in support of a certain “Battle” for a certain superhero’s “Cowl”. It features a highly underused and richly Gothic and dark member of Batman’s mythos and I’m hopeful it’s the first of many stories I’ll get to tell featuring him.
I’m also involved in horror comic launches at a couple of other publishers which I believe will be public knowledge by the time New York Comic-con rolls around next month. Very cool stuff. I’m absolutely thrilled.
My first creator-owned book for Oni Press, the Russian-set supernatural thriller GHOST PROJEKT is currently in production. Steve Rolston is currently drawing the first issue while I race to finish the script for #2. We are hopeful we’ll be launching at this summer’s San Diego Comic-con. My other original book, the stoner-adventure titled, THE HASHISHIAN is in the works as well. Watch this space in the coming months for updates on both of these projects.
So, in short, 2008 is dead and in the ground. We elected a transformational figure to the Presidency, won a Super Bowl here in New York and I’ve really set some plans in motion for the coming months and years. I’m pretty sure some other stuff happened over the past year… but those were the highlights as I saw them.
More to come. Thanks for listening, reading, watching, etc.
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