I'm delighted to see the response to the six-page CHOKER preview in Liberty Comics #2 has been so strong -- thanks so much, y'all! The anthology itself has been very well received across the board, too. Here's a few links to reviews:
http://www.ifanboy.com/content/potw/10_14_2009_-_Liberty_Comics__2 (via ifanboy.com)
http://theflickcast.com/2009/10/14/daves-weekly-comic-book-recommendations-19/ (via theflickcast.com)
http://www.majorspoilers.com/archives/25737.htm/ (via majorspoilers.com)
I very much hope the response to the mini-series itself will be as good. Issue 2's opening page may just be the zaniest thing you'll read in 2010...
Great reviews galore!
LIBERTY COMICS #2 OUT TODAY!
Liberty Comics #2 is out today in the US of A (UK & Europe tomorrow) and within you'll find a six-page preview of CHOKER by me and Ben Templesmith. We're in good company, too: Neil Gaiman, Jim Lee, Cameron Stewart, Dave Gibbons, Jason Aaron and Paul Pope (to name but a few) also feature, and the book benefits the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, making it even more of a worthwhile purchase.
Sorry...
Yeah, I know. My blog's a little ramshackle at the moment. It'll be fixed and much easier on the eye by the weekend; I'm just swamped 'til then.
Patience, peeps -- www.benmccool.com WILL eventually look the part!
More CHOKER links, interviews...
First up, me and Templesmith engage in interview with the mightily awesome Josh Wigler at Comic Book Resources:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22208
The Daily Planet reports on the big announcement:
http://www.fpusadailyplanet.com/2009/07/25/sdcc-choker-announced/
Hypergeek offers some very nice words:
http://www.hypergeek.ca/2009/07/sdcc-news-ben-templesmith-and-ben-mccool-to-bring-the-choker-to-image-comics.html
Plenty more coming soon!
Also: VINES
Hot on the heels of my CHOKER announcement, I can proudly declare that another project I've been working on, VINES, is in the works and coming your way soon. It's a fast-paced and outlandish action/adventure, wherein a dark twisted jungle has literally overwhelmed New York City. METNAL, the lowest most despicable level of the nine Mayan hells, also rears its sinister head, and the aftermath is unlike anything you'll have ever seen before...
I'm working with the absurdly talented Inaki Miranda (2000AD, DC Minx) and he really is quite something. Check out his blog for samples: http://www.inakieva.com/
Also, check out Soulcraft's website for more of Inaki's work on TRIBES, a book due early next year and published by IDW: http://www.soulcraftcomics.com/main/tribes-the-dog-years/
The book will hit sometime in 2010.
Finally announced: CHOKER
Like countless other Comic-Con attendees, a wretched Internet connection has stifled my attempts to blog. Much more to follow, but Image Comics yesterday announced CHOKER, a brand new series by me and Ben Templesmith. Here are a few links for starters:
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2009/07/24/just-announced-choker/
http://www.templesmith.com/faze3/
As soon as I escape the clutches of San Diego I'll post lots more. Interviews, video, teaser images, script... The works.
Now: back to the Con. Wish me luck...
Ramblings of a Mercenary
Ah. The Freelance Writer's Lifestyle. An oddball existence if ever there was one. At times, it's, well, downright fucking awesome: you can stay up late if you feel like it, sleep in as a result, and more often than not (in my humble experience) you're left alone to render whatever fiendish oddities your brain concocts into a physical, readable reality. Providing the work is a) turned in (more or less) on time, and b) of sufficient caliber, an editor will likely dispense less flack than a "regular" boss' daily dose of diabolical dross.
Obligatory downsides do surface--short, sudden deadlines & missing/late/non-existent pay cheques principal candidates--and these are Things You Just Have To Deal With. They'll drive you batshit crazy (and boy, will they) but they're far less soul-destroying than the alternative; having worked for years as a store clerk, I had a regular (well, monthly) payday and a homogeneous, almost templated working week. The tedium wasn't the primary annoyance; rather, the Standing Around Doing Nothing for most of my eight-hour shift was the paramount irk. This, I used to tell myself, should be writing time. Productive gratification through craft. I made this my major inspiration to get the fuck out of dayjobsville; it eventually worked.
(Most of the dissatisfaction I experienced working shitty deadend jobs was my own fault, granted; my lack of enthusiasm in seeking out decent daily grind landed myself in this situation, which in turn inspired me to push my writing harder than ever. Y'know, what goes around comes around and all that.)
I guess this random brain spillage is a self-reminder of how I shouldn't take this shit for granted. Whenever things aren't going so well I should revisit this and remind myself of hateful customers, Shit Things That Need Selling and hours spent staring into space, musing about alternative realms of vocation. And then, when I'm done, I'll make up another story about a mutant chain-smoking gumshoe with an advanced case of Alien Hand Syndrome.
Hey, that reminds me...
"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." --Abraham Lincoln
"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun." --Colleen C. Barrett
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