Something Old, Something New... Something Else New

I’ll start with the something new first.  Hero Petz.  We’re actually planning a LOT of things around this, but it’s coming out soon, via Blinko Books and is an all age adventure for the young and the young at heart.

Something else new is one of the projects I’ve been working on that’s starting to gather momentum and is finally starting to come together as a finished book.

Orpheus. If you’ve read other things I’ve done, you’ll likely find this book quite a departure from what’s gone before.  Here’s the mini-synopsis...

For years Orpheus, the world’s greatest escape artist, has defied the odds, wowed audiences and challenged Death.  Now, during his final performance Death has accepted that challenge.  If Orpheus is to perform his greatest escape ever, he will have to question everything he knows, and pay a price even greater than he could have imagined.

Orpheus is a dark tale of death and mystery with suspects aplenty and nothing as it initially seems.  Artwork is supplied by Sallamari Rantala (you can check out some of her work here.   I can honestly say the artwork MAKES this book.  Everything I envisioned as I was writing, Sallamari took, developed, made better and just delivered the awesome in buckets.

Finally we have the something old. 

Luci Phurrs Imps sketch

What you see above is one the early incarnations for Luci Phurr and her Imps drawn by my partner on the project, Courtney Huddleston.  If you compare it to the characters as they appear in the strip, you’ll notice MANY difference... not least of which, the eye-count.  What’s interesting here is that this is NOT how I originally described the characters when I first wrote them, NOR is it the way Courtney initially drew them.  As you can see, the look of the characters evolved a great deal before they even made it to the very first strip.

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