Amnesia Agents #1

DESPITE hearing a thousand-and-one positive things about the show, I've never made it up to Leeds for the city's annual Thought Bubble festival which takes place this week. And, sadly, it's the same this year. The main problem is that it always seems to clash with my eldest son's birthday (he turns nine on Friday). Added to that this year is the fact my mother-in-law has just passed away, and my wife will be spending the next week and a bit in Jamaica arranging the funeral and putting the old girl's house on the market, leaving me at home with the kids. 

Although I can't physically be at Thought Bubble, at least a story I wrote will be. It's a short and simple one-pager called 'Leo'. It's illustrated by Baz Renshaw (who you might know from the magazines Redeye and Multiverse), and you'll find it in issue #1 of Jason Cobley's Amnesia Agents comic. AA #1 - "an anthology about memories or the lack of" - also contains contributions from the very talented likes of Andy Bloor, Vicky Stonebridge, Gary Crutchley, Chris Askham and David Hitchcock. 

Amnesia Agents #1 is £3.50 for 52 pages. For more details, check out Jason's blog: http://writingcobblers.blogspot.co.uk/

* IN other news, I think I've found a publisher for a couple of my projects. I won't say any more now but hope to have more concrete news in the very near future.

Art sample

Here's page one of a graphic novel pitch I'm currently trying to get under the noses of publishers. Art by Stefano Cattaneo (who recently drew a biography of Che Guevara for the French publisher Broche), colours by Vicky Stonebridge (who worked on The Slaughterman's Creed and Bayou Arcana for Markosia).

The double-page spread that follows this page is even better.

Bubbling

APOLOGIES for the lack of recent updates, I haven't been idle. Indeed, I have a lot of stuff bubbling away at the moment...

Sample pages from Petal, the crime/horror story I did with Argentine artist Nicolas Armano, are with a publisher and I'm awaiting a decision on whether they are interested in seeing more.

Pages from Historical Project #1 are being coloured by the brilliant
Vicky Stonebridge.

Historical Project #2 is being drawn by the excellent
Daniel Bell.

Sci-Fi Project #1 is with a very talented Italian artist and he's designing characters, alien races and spaceships.

I'm also at various stages with a couple of other ideas. Monster Fun Project #1 uses minor characters from a very famous horror novel but in a completely new way, and Time Travel Project #1 is a black comedy featuring a female lead so outrageous she makes Tim Skinner look like Mother Theresa.

I'm looking for artists for both these latter projects, so if anyone out there is interested, please get in touch. More soon, including some artwork...