Well... I've been a bit quiet here... for good reason.
I'm just back from Chicago and C2E2! A wonderful few days that
have left me tired but happy. It was also the chance for me to finally say that
I am working as a self-creator on a 6 part comic-book for the superb Dark Horse
Comics: ‘The Shadow Glass’. I hinted at the project further down in the blog, but it's grown a lot more since then. This explains why I’ve been so quiet with work, as
essentially this has been gestating for over 18 months. It’s the story of a search
for identity during the reign of Elizabeth 1st, that is set very
much in a real historical world but with fantastical and horror elements, however
more details later.
Dark Horse gave me the opportunity to produce a C2E2 convention-special
cover for the continuing comic book version of ‘Buffy: The Vampire Slayer’. The
cover features Xander and Buffy but the reverse has a teaser for the ‘The
Shadow Glass’. It will still be a while before the first issued will be
available, but as I was in Chicago we decided to combine the two for this
rather special one-off! Then all of a sudden I find myself sitting at a table next
to Nicholas Brendon from Buffy signing copies of the comic! How did that
happen!??
Anyway, this is the teaser and the cover together. Now that it’s
all official I’ll probably start posting more updates as it develops. I am incredibly grateful to Dark Horse for this opportunity, for taking a leap of faith with me, and for being all round great people!
