29th July 2004 / Closer / F-Stop / Nightjar / The Long Haul
Well, the house move is finally done and over with. In truth we moved almost a fortnight ago, but the weeks surrounding that move were filled with renovation, decoration and other boring real life things ending with “-ion”, so the Electric Space Interweb took somewhat of a back seat. Now that we’re in and (mostly) finished, though, it’s back to work.
First up is a rather nice post-San Diego review of CLOSER at Ain’t It Cool News, by someone who definitely seems to have ‘got it’. (I do wish people would stop using the advance cover design, though.)
[Edit: it seems the AICN review actually links to the image on Oni's website, which is also still the advance cover. Which it’s hardly unfair to expect would be the correct version. So, my apologies to AICN.)
NIGHTJAR #2 came out somewhere in June, though you’ll only have seen the wraparound cover featured on the Diamond shipping lists for some reason. I haven’t seen any reviews of it yet, but I was very happy with it myself. Max did a great job of bringing the rather bleak setting of Pendle hill to life. I believe the NIGHTJAR: HOLLOW BONES one-shot should be in stores very soon, and I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of reaction the “flashback story” gets.
YUGGOTH CREATURES #1 should also be in stores any day now, though scheduling always becomes a bit chaotic when American convention season rolls around, so I’ll be double-checking that with Avatar.
So, what next? Well, I’m still ploughing through the Big Avatar Thing that I returned to working on back in June, and I have scripts to finish for F-STOP and THE LONG HAUL. Besides that, though, a few new things have come up over the last few weeks which – now that San Diego is over and I finally have a study I can work in without worrying the walls are going to collapse on me – I can start cracking on with. I should hopefully have at least two pieces of very good news before Autumn.
9th June 2004 / Closer / F-Stop / Interviews / Nightjar / The Long Haul
I’m currently working on the Big Avatar Thing I mentioned toward the end of last year, which will keep me occupied for a few months at least, and I’m also moving house (again, but hopefully for the last time) in the next few weeks, which means my Net access will be limited. So here’s a quick round-up:
NIGHTJAR #2 will be out next week. Due to the delay in producing this one, it looks like the HOLLOW BONES one-shot will actually then come out between #2 and #3, so as to be published in time for the summer US convention season.
CLOSER should also be out next week – my editor saw final press proofs yesterday, so the presses should be rolling as I write this. He said it looked great, which is a relief. Hope the horror buffs among you like it.
YUGGOTH CREATURES appears to be catching the interest of quite a few HPL fans, even those not overly familiar with comics, which is nice. I’ve just completed an interview with online comics zine CBEM about the book, too.
Speaking of interviews, there’s a reasonably large article about me appearing in next month’s VAMPIRELLA MAGAZINE, focusing mainly (and not surprisingly) on my horror work. I think it’s the largest print interview I’ve ever done, so keep an eye out for it.
Besides the Big Avatar Thing, work continues apace on THE LONG HAUL and F-STOP, and the shape of Book II of SPOOKED is finally starting to coalesce in my head. I’m also working up a couple of new ideas which have got me quite excited – one of them is shaped around a story I’ve wanted to write in some form or another for about the last fifteen years…
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