Introducing October O'Neill

Among the myriad other things that happened at the Toronto Comicon two weeks back, I managed to talk MR Comics publisher Steve Ballantyne (and, I think, myself) into letting me write and illustrate a new horror title.

October O'Neill: Everyday Is Halloween will be a self-contained one-shot "pilot". We're following a TV model here; if we like the response, we'll go ahead and make it a regular series. Steve was confident enough in the sales of horror comics in general to greenlight this with an untried illustrator (as opposed to sales on crime comics, which is why I'm doing October first instead of The Vengeance Machine), but once I showed him an illustration of October in action he was completely behind me.
I've been trying out some concepts to decide the look and tone of the book while writing the script. This is a work-in-progress of an image that occured to me while I was writing. It'll wind up as a pinup or something in the final book. Attila's agreed to do the cover and and illustrate a backup story, and Ty Templeton's editing.