I thought I should update here for anyone who might stumble over. Currently I’ve got a lot of dogs on the fire! I’ve got two shorts that I should see publication next year (Q1 I think) plus I’m working with the artist from one of those shorts on a full length OGN.

That’s actually my super-not-so-secret project, think Alice in Wonderland mashed up with Japanese folklore. It’s coming along nicely and I like where it’s headed. I figure it will be really well suited to a YA market. The artist that’s attached is super talented and I’m excited to work on something with her of greater length than the 10 page story we did for WORK!.

Lets see… not much else to say. I’m just working my fingers to nubs on new scripts. I’ll be at NY Comiccon and Chicago for sure in 09 and I may attend a few others. I’ll also be at WW Texas in November so if you’re going hit me up and we’ll have a drink or something.

Later!

Just wanted to update you on my new project Mini-A-Month. I’ll be creating a 16 page mini comic each month for the next 12 months. I hope to have all of them collected into one edition by Wizard World Chicago of next year. Check it out and stop by regularly for workblog updates, character designs, script revisions etc. Each comic will be posted in PDF form for you to d/l and print yourself or you can get a signed/numbered copy from me for 2$, the printed copies should be available around the first week or so of each new month.

–Steve

Also I got to read Alan Moore’s ‘Death of Superman (e-2 version)’ last night, what a fun story! It was spread across two issues one in Action Comics and one in Superman (I think.) Seriously if you can pick these up, lower grade copies shouldn’t cost much at all.

So the con went great, met a few editors and hopefully got my name in their brains. Handed out a lot of business cards and minis as well.

Saturday night was a blast, Trevor Mueller, Phil Chan, Irv Fabor, DJ Coffman, Jorge Vega, Dominic Vivona, Phil’s cousins, David Boozer, and I went to Korean BBQ down past Times Square and ate a crazy amount of charred flesh. Then we went down to Irv’s favorite watering hole, Whiskey River, to drink the night away and bullshit about virtually everything.

I’m sad as fuck I can’t get to Philly this weekend to hang out with them some more, oh well I’ll see everyone again in June at WizWorld Chicago.

Anyway I’ve got some more writing to do and some emails to send so I’ll post up a little more on NY some point in the near future.

-Steve

I’ve got business cards and a sample minicomic that has 8 pages from Right Way and 4 pages from The Devil and Ted. Hopefully this will be a good conversation starter with some publishers and garner me a little bit of name recognition for when I start submitting proposals. Who knows, maybe I’ll even land a gig this week! OK, posts will be fairly consistent through the weekend so check back for more on our voyage!

-Steve

And ellipses… lots of them…

Anyway just a heads ups, the first 12 pages of The Right Way Wrong are now lettered and available on TheRightWayWrong.com. Have a look, Anna did an absolutely wonderful job with this book!

Also my newest project A Dead Wonder (website coming soon) just picked up an artist! Lukasz is amazing and I can’t wait to see what he turns out on what I think is a really fun script. Check his stuff out over here http://xide.digart.pl/digarty/

Also, I’ll be at NYCC and Chicago this year! I’ll be wondering the floor flashing my writing portfolio to anyone who’ll look. I’m even going to have business cards, that’s right folks I am ‘high class’. Snip Snap.

Speaking of ‘Snip Snap’ I got season 1 of Frisky Dingo.. it’s totally awesome.. just wish they’d put some extras on it.

I’m really happy with the artist we picked up and I think this one has some legs. Though, I think all my projects that I push to get to this stage have legs :D.

On Right Way Wrong news, we’ve only 2 pages left on issue 1. Anna has finished her part of the cover and it’s been shipped off to Bruno (he did the back cover on Madman #6, you should check it out!) who will be putting on some final touches. I’m finishing issue 2 and will have that out to Anna fairly soon.

Since this was my first real project I’m going to go ahead and put the money in to finish all three issues. I like the idea of having something I can hand to people to show some of my abilities and I also I’m rather sentimental about this story and want it to be complete.

I’ll be at NY Comiccon this year pimping some of my work, no table I’ll just be milling about. It’s likely though you could find me hanging out at the DigitalPimpOnline booth in artist alley. These guys are the best, read their webcomics!

Oh also Sketch and I have DnT on an extended hiatus… it’s not dead yet! We have some stuff planned for those characters and hope to be doing some new stuff with them soon.

OK that gets us up to date I think.. oh as should be expected I have about 3 other scripts I’ve finished that I’m going to start shopping artists on. If anyone out there’s interested feel free to drop me a line. I’ve got some cyberpunk, religious, and a superhero comedy in the works as well as a few others that are in their infancy.

Here’s a preview of the cover of Misspent Youth #1!

So you may be a bit disheartened that you can’t find anyone to take your golden ideas! Well fear not, here’s a list of the publishers that will accept your scripts. Understand though that most of the time they want a script featuring their characters, also they generally only want maybe 10 pages max. Check their individual submission guidelines.

• 2000 A.D. : They only want future shock episodes from new writers. Future Shock is their proving ground. Write enough that they like and you might be    moved to one of their other titles. It was good enough for Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and Garth Ennis… it’s good enough for you.
• Avatar Press: OK, for these folks you need to turn in a script featuring one of their characters…..here’s the hitch though, it’s a bit hard to figure out who their characters are! Try Pandora she’s basically their flagship character.

Nowadays those are essentially the only companies that will accept unsolicited writing samples. Even with these two don’t expect a whole lot back, the editors there are only reading slush scripts when they have time…and I suspect they don’t have much time.

Keep writing.

-Steve

So I submitted something like 8 proposals so far but I realized …. I’m not giving them what they want! Shit! Yeah so I misinterpreted what they were asking for.. or actually I just got confused by some of the thread. I initially submitted what they wanted on two proposals; a full breakdown of the series in about 7 or so sentences with ending and all. Then after reading some of the thread it seemed they wanted just a quick synopses sort of like a blurb. That was wrong so I wasted like 6 good ideas on that.

Ah well I’m to an idea I really like and I’m going to give some good thought.

In other news, my new comic Misspent Youth is going into art production later this month. I’m really happy with this one. I collaborated on this one with David Boozer, one of my buddies. We have a guy named Paul Williams doing the art. He’s quite the talented Brit! We’re really excited that he’s doing the art and I think the series will be really fun.

As far as Right Way Wrong goes Anna has finished something like 20 pages and she’s working on the cover! We’ll start pitching that pretty soon, so hopefully we’ll have some good news soon.

–Steve