Yesterday, I talked about what I had published in 2016. In terms of volume, it was a relatively small year compared to some I've had, but it was an important one: THE CASTLE-TOWN TRAGEDY, my second prose book, and first work published in hardcover, was released, as well as a comic book series (MYTHOS, full series available digitally or in print), which those of you who follow my ramblings know has been a long time coming.
Today, I want to talk a little about some of the things coming in 2017:
For prose, it'll be a very important year - my first novel THIS ROUGH OLD WORLD will be coming Q1 from Electric Pentacle Press. This Rough Old World is an occult-mystery set in late '60s Los Angeles, revolving around the fringes of the music scene and involing healthy doses of cosmic horror. It's a work that I hope will appeal to fans of both private eye and weird fiction and contains shadows of real events and people scattered throughout the work that will give sharp readers clues to a mystery within the mystery and reward them with a final reveal at the end. The publisher has gotten artist Wayne D. Miller onboard for the cover and I hope to be able to share it soon.
For shorter works, I have a new Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (protagonist of my book THE CASTLE-TOWN TRAGEDY) story appearing in Occult Detective Quarterly Magazine #2, entitled "The Arcana of the Alleys". It features a much younger Carnacki than we've seen in either W.H. Hodgson's original stories or my own and in a place I don't believe anyone's ever sent him before... Check it out in March.
Today, I want to talk a little about some of the things coming in 2017:
For prose, it'll be a very important year - my first novel THIS ROUGH OLD WORLD will be coming Q1 from Electric Pentacle Press. This Rough Old World is an occult-mystery set in late '60s Los Angeles, revolving around the fringes of the music scene and involing healthy doses of cosmic horror. It's a work that I hope will appeal to fans of both private eye and weird fiction and contains shadows of real events and people scattered throughout the work that will give sharp readers clues to a mystery within the mystery and reward them with a final reveal at the end. The publisher has gotten artist Wayne D. Miller onboard for the cover and I hope to be able to share it soon.
For shorter works, I have a new Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (protagonist of my book THE CASTLE-TOWN TRAGEDY) story appearing in Occult Detective Quarterly Magazine #2, entitled "The Arcana of the Alleys". It features a much younger Carnacki than we've seen in either W.H. Hodgson's original stories or my own and in a place I don't believe anyone's ever sent him before... Check it out in March.
Also coming out around the same time-frame, is Ravenwood Quarterly #3, their crime-themed issue.
In this, I have a short crime story called "Limits", about how even the wildest men and women have points they can't be pushed past.
Check out that beautiful cover by artist Mal Earl! (Click to enlarge)
In this, I have a short crime story called "Limits", about how even the wildest men and women have points they can't be pushed past.
Check out that beautiful cover by artist Mal Earl! (Click to enlarge)
In comics for 2017, I'm very excited to announce the long-awaited collection of The Crime Quirks Gazette, coming Q1 from Raven Warren Publishing!
The Crime Quirks Gazette Case Files contains the entire CQG series, written by myself and drawn by Joe Badon, and will be published in an oversized paperback designed to mimic the broadsheet-style newspapers in which the comic pages are formatted. Many of you have asked me when the CQG will return and/or when it will see print, so I hope you're all as pleased as I am and I hope you'll support Joe and myself by picking up a copy!
Also in 2017, my all-ages, kid-friendly Lovecraftian horror comic The Grumpledowns Gang and the Case of the Mail-Order Shoggoths will be published by Ten31 Publishing. I've shared some art from this before, but now the line art is done and Josh Jensen is working on the colors and it's just coming out beautifully. I'm very proud of this work as I've long wanted to do something that can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. More info to come soon.
Also soon to be completed is Petty Little Stings, a dark fantasy comic I wrote and Randy Haldeman is drawing. Originally, I wrote the story as part of a 24 Hour Comics challenge and while Randy came close to finishing the art, we didn't quite make it, so he decided to start over from scratch and take his time to make it something we can really be proud of. I mean, just look at that cover. You know it's gonna be good.
Coming in April is a Dagon-Boy comic I wrote for Martin Brandt and Charles Dowd's Kidthulu, an all-ages, Lovecraftian comedy series. You may remember Kid from his first appearance in Reasonably Priced Comics #4, from which he made the jump to webcomic. The new comics coming out this spring bring Kidthulu and all his horrifying friends back to print. I'm very pleased with the DB story I wrote and I hope to get to do more (possibly even an entire series, *hint hint publishers*).
And, last but not least, hopefully sometime towards the end of the year, I hope to at last see the publication of The Colour Out of Space, the graphic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novel of the same name that I wrote, with pencils by Kurt Belcher and inks by Randy Haldeman. Colors on the book have--ironically or appropriately, you decide--been troublesome, but hopefully we've gotten that cleared up and the book should be finished soon. In the meantime, check out the cover mock-up below (line art by Kurt and Randy, colors by Sanderson Gonzaga; text mock-up is by me and not final).
And, last but not least, hopefully sometime towards the end of the year, I hope to at last see the publication of The Colour Out of Space, the graphic adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novel of the same name that I wrote, with pencils by Kurt Belcher and inks by Randy Haldeman. Colors on the book have--ironically or appropriately, you decide--been troublesome, but hopefully we've gotten that cleared up and the book should be finished soon. In the meantime, check out the cover mock-up below (line art by Kurt and Randy, colors by Sanderson Gonzaga; text mock-up is by me and not final).
That's it for now, but certainly not it for 2017. In fact, it's only the beginning. Check back often for more info on what I'm up to!
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