Imagine FX #21

In the midst of all the excitement of my daughter being born I forgot to mention
that Attila is featured in the September issue of ImagineFX magazine, and spends a good chunk of space discussing Night.

October O'Neill - Finished Colours

I don't know what I'd do without Brian Haberlin's digital art tutorials. Half the techniques I used on this piece were from a CD I bought between starting and finishing it.

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.

Keeping Up Appearances - Toronto Comicon 2007

I'll be at the 2007 Toronto Comicon this weekend, June 8-10, at the Direct Energy Center. Come say hi at either the MR Comics booth or my own table, AA15, (see map) next to the extraordinary Attila Adorjany and right behind After The Cape scribe Howard Wong. Hope to see you there.

- j!