So Christmas was a thing, as was New Year I guess. I had a quiet one, a few board games some beer, a bit of food. It was a good time if you like that kind of thing and a bloody awful one if you don’t.

With that out of the way, let’s talk comic. My elevator pitch for the series is “like Candid Camera meets Silence of the Lambs sans cameras” and out of all the stories so far none of them get quite as close to that core idea as Missing.

Art this month is handled by Francesco Iaquinta – you can check out his horror book Croak (written by Cody Andrew Sousa with colours by Chris O’Halloran) or hit up his deviantart page for more comic goodness. I’m sure you’re getting sick of me saying this but he straight up murdered it. Say what you want about my writing but I’ve put together a helluva line-up of artists.

Incidentally Francesco is the only artist on this project that I’d actually worked with before. We put together a pitch a few years ago, sadly it didn’t get picked up but I still like the story, even though I completely botched the pitch (seriously the breakdown ran over eight thousand words). It wasn’t wasted work though, I learnt a bunch of stuff that I’ve carried over to future projects.

Anyway, I’ve uploaded the pitch pages and some post game analysis. Anyone that’s thinking of pitching comics themselves can probably learn something from my mistakes. And even if you aren’t thinking of pitching then there’s eight pages of comics and a neato cover.

Speaking of pitches, here’s a little peek at something that I’ve been working on with Andre Stahlschmidt – he killed it with his work on Thug but he’s doing next level stuff here. I really hope this one gets picked up and not just in a selfish ‘I want a career in comics’ way but also in a ‘I really want to show you guys this book’ way. I think you’ll really dig it.

Back on topic. We’re officially at the halfway point here. Just five more episodes to go and we can bring this thing in to land. That isn’t to say I’m going to just disappear in five months. I’m already looking at doing a collected edition and I’ve got a bunch of other projects turning over. Seriously guys, 2017 is going to be a blast.