A digitally drawn version of an image I'm going to work up in pencil, maybe ink. It's essentially a 'mood/character/scene setter' piece for the next book. I've deliberately and maybe slightly amateurishly gone for the 'Franklin Booth' clouds here - you may have noticed! This is Vanessa and her Austin 7 'Chummy'... Thanks for looking!
https://2000ad.com/news/classic-horror-comic-misty-returns-in-2024/
Dare You Read It Alone? A classic horror series rises from
beyond the grave in 2024, featuring four brand-new chilling adventures
from some of the most terrifyingly talented creators in comics!
As revealed earlier today, Misty, the
classic horror series for young women, has been resurrected by megastar
writer Gail Simone, who is being joined by a murderers’ row of talent
for an all-new 48 page anthology special publishing on the 17th July
2024.
First published in 1978, Misty was the brainchild of legendary writer and editor Pat Mills, offering thrills and chills for a generation of young women in the UK and featuring stories from creators including Shirley Bellwood, Jesus Redondo, Jordi BadÃa Romero, and Mills. Running for over 100 issues in total, each issue was hosted by Misty, who acted as a guiding voice for her young readers – and in this new anthology we’ll be telling stories featuring Misty herself for the first time!
This anthology features three brand-new chilling stories written by Simone, with art by Carola Borelli (The Deadliest Bouquet, Spider-Woman), Aly Fell (A Trick of the Light) and Marianna Ignazzi (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), alongside a fourth story written and drawn by rising star Letty Wilson (Owl People). Completing this spectacularly spooky package is a cover from Eisner-winning artist Tula Lotay (Barnstormers)!
The four stories included in this collection are:
In Eleven Lonely Deaths. a true-crime podcaster visits a decades-old crime scene where eleven women lost their lives at the hands of a vicious strangler. There, he meets a mysterious young woman who knows more about the crimes than should be possible…
At The Pub at the End of the Road, an unscrupulous landlord of a dreary pub in the English countryside makes his gifted daughter work her fingers to the bone, and turns a blind eye to the customers’ wandering hands. She seeks solace in a secret love… until she’s forced to use her extraordinary gifts…
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Parker is set in a small English town where nothing’s been quite the same since the murders of eleven women some years ago…
The Cracked Glass – a tale too terrifying to even tell you about! Writer/artist Letty Wilson has some dark surprises in store for readers…
The
Misty 2024 Special is coming to a newsagent or comic book shop near you
on 17th July 2024 – lock the doors twice, make sure you’ve drawn the
curtains, and BY ALL THAT’S HOLY don’t forget to pre-order your copy!
Although not based on Virginia Woolf (Aunt Elspeth was loosely based on my uncle actually!) she was in mind when I drew her. This is one of the five character cards that I gave away with copies of 'The Kissing Gate' and if you look closely there is an edition of 'Orlando on the shelf. RIP Virginia Woolf who died this day 83 years ago (1882 - 1941).
Hello!
Since I last updated the blog, properly anyway, I've published two books: 'A Trick of the Light' and 'The Kissing Gate'. Both are graphic 'novels', and the first two in a sequence of four. Each story is not connected to the previous, and can be read independently, but they all echo with the same themes. Both were successful Kickstarters, and are now available through Etsy.
I'm currently working on the third, which was written last year and is almost completely roughed out. It will be longer than the first two: currently running at about 120 pages, and I aim to go to Kickstarter towards the end of the 2024, start of '25. The fourth is written, but only in prose form.
So that's all caught up then!
Below are the covers and examples of interior pages from both books.
Thanks!
