Welcome back to Burnt Barn Business, my supposedly bi-weekly but in practice bi-monthly newsletter!
New York Comic Con happened and WOW what a week.
It was one first time in New York and the place is something else. The building, the food, the prices…it’s all bigger, including the comic convention.
I had a brilliant time there with my good pal Cian Tormey and some of our other friends. Got to have some great chats with creators I’d never met before like Mark Russell, Jim Mahfood, Nick Pitarra, Kyle Starks, Rich Douek and many, many more as well as catching up with friends I’d made up other conventions.
I also got to be part of the Oni Press panel on the Saturday, which was great fun, chatting about my and Shaky Kane’s new series THE MAN FROM MAYBE and have some good conversations with publishers and editors, which feel like they will lead to some positive things in the not too distant future.
All in all it was great, and then me and Cian had a lovely day of tourism on the Monday seeing a bunch of New York, including a man threatening several other men with a flick knife - the full New York experience.
Meanwhile, I had lots of work hitting the shelves.
The fourth and final issue of my and Shaky’s Image series WEIRD WORK hit stores the Wednesday before the con opened and I got to go see it on the shelves at Midtown Comics (on the following Wednesday when their reorder had come in as it had sold out WOOP!). I’m so proud of this book and the work Shaky has done on it and I really hope if you haven’t checked it out already you’ll give it a try now all the issues are available.
A review of the whole series went up on The Comics Journal today and really nails what we were going for, so that is very gratifying - https://www.tcj.com/reviews/weird-work-1-4/
Then the weekend after issue 1 of our new Oni Press series THE MAN FROM MAYBE was released, so it really is a golden time to be a fan of me and Shaky collaborating.
MAYBE is a sci-fi western that should have a whole lot to love for fans of both genres as dino-astronauts, mysterious gunslingers, tech-enhanced bounty hunters and giant helmet wearing meglomaniac billionaires all combine in a story that I think is a heap of fun with some of the best work of Shaky’s career. Issue 1 is already out and issue 2 follows next month before we close it out in December.
Besides these books the (not so) secret project me and Chris Matthews have been working on should be announced soon and I’m also just signing contracts on what will be my longest series to date, which is very exciting. So, I’m not going away anytime soon.
OTHER STUFF…
Outside of my comics work I watched THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER this past week, which I really enjoyed. I’m a huge fan of Flanagan’s THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE but hadn’t loved either of his more recent series, so I was happy to be whisked away and engrossed by this new show.
And I think that is all for now.
The next big thing I have coming up is Thought Bubble, so I hope to see some of you there.
I’ll be back soon with more Burnt Barn Business.
Stay safe out there!
Man of Maybe wasn't a KS project, wasn't it?