On Sale Now!

Check it out! Three comics with my stories in 'em are on sale right now, with more on the way!
From Will Lill Comics (available in print via IndyPlanet, and digitally via DriveThru) come issues 3 and 4 of Fun Adventure Comics! Midnight Stranger leads off issue #3, while Kragor and Black Rose fill the back 2/3 of ish 4! Art by Joe Koziarski, Louis Sollune (aka JP Dupras), and David Vance!

(And just 'cause I love ya, here's taste of my story in FAC! #5 on sale soon: "Snake Eyes" with art by Ben Ferrari...)

Also, Surprising Universe #1 is now on sale! Only 200 copies in print, available directly from publisher Mark F. Davis ($7.50 post paid via PayPal at markfdavis1@yahoo.com)! I love writing Unbeatable Brick (the big red guy on the cover), and I hope you enjoy his origin story!

 Stay tuned! Lots more stuff is in the works!

Kragor, Midnight Stranger, Unbeatable Brick, and Fantastic Giants Are A'Comin'!

Along with last month's announcements, there's even more excitement in the pipeline! Ready? Set? Go!!

First up, Will Lill Comics publisher Warren Montgomery  has announced that Midnight Stranger part 3 will appear in Fun Adventure Comics #3 in June, then Kragor will be cover-featured in Fun Adventure Comics #4 in July! Happy summer!!

Next, Surprising Comics publisher Mark Davis has thrown caution to the wind and granted Unbeatable Brick his VERY OWN COMIC once Surprising Universe finishes its three issue run. UB artist supreme David Johnson Jr. will continue drawing the series, and he's even created a new villain for the premiere ish! I LOVE writing Unbeatable Brick and I sure hope y'all dig it! Just to hold you over, here's David's in-your-face cover rough for UB's turn on the cover of Surprising Universe #3!

And last, but certainly not least..in fact, this is pretty big! And do I ever mean BIG! My online pal Steven Butler (yeah, THAT Steven Butler) and I are gonna work together (along with co-creator/inker/colorist/editor/honcho Mort Todd--yeah, THAT Mort Todd) on a brand spanking feature for Charlton Neo/Pix-C bringing back that grand old name, Fantastic Giants! Besides bringing back the name the name, we're also re-imagining Son of Vulcan into something totally exciting and new--Robogod Vulkan! But wait, the title is Fantastic Giants, plural, right? Right! Steven has also created a new gi-normous creature with roots in Charlton-past, Kongorr! And me? I get to put in lots of words! The plan is to run Fantastic Giants on online Pix-C and when it's finished, Charlton Neo will collect and publish the entire 30 page epic in it's own print-mag!

Yep, exciting times for yers trooly! I sure hope you join me for the ride!

Hard at Work...

Hey! Hope the New Year is treating you well! Just thought I'd pop in to publicly thank Warren Montgomery, publisher of Will Lill Comics for giving me another shot with Kragor and Alex Miracle! Both of these stories were published in my own Blue Moon Comics back in the late 1990s/early 2000s.

I have a special fondness for Kragor, and still write stories about him quite often (I have about a half dozen on hand--ANYONE OUT THERE WANNA DRAW 'EM?). Ahem. I hope that an enterprising artist (or several of 'em) might read this and be interested in taking a shot at Kragor. I know Louis Sollune (then going by the name of JP Dupras) set the bar high with the first installment, but reach for the stars, baby! Check out his sensational splash page:

Alex Miracle was actually created as a possible submission to Gary Carlson's Big Bang Comics (I came "this close" to having a couple stories published in Big Bang back in the day). It's a "Big Bang" version of Adam Strange, obviously, but I had a lot of fun with it. Artists Ernest Edwards and David Vance did a tremendous job on that story. Again, I think you'll agree when you get a load of the splash...

I'm not sure when Kragor or Alex Miracle will be making their Will Lill debut, but when I find out, I'll let ya know right here!

I've also been working on a couple more new concepts that I'm pretty excited about. Maybe I can fill you in with a bit more information about them next time around. Take care!

Looking Back/Looking Forward

Happy Holidays, y'all! Hope you had a great Christmas! I sure did! One of my favorite presents was a 3.5 portable floppy drive my son and daughter-in-law got me. I have tons of stuff saved from my old Blue Moon days on floppy, and had no way of digging it up. Now I do, and boy, have I ever dug stuff up! Tons of scripts (spruced up a couple and sent them to Mort Todd of Charlton-Neo already), lots of ideas, and some sweet art from back in the day. I thought you might wanna see some of it...

 This is Louis Sollune's (then J.P. Dupras) original b&w art for Kragor. I used it as the cover to Infinite Tales Vol. 1, No. 1 and Vault of Shadows #1.

 Louis again with a killer Ultimus cover. This one was on Infinite Tales Vol. 1, No. 2 and Infinite Tales Vol. 2, No. 1. (Confusing, ain't it?)

And here's Jamie Laurie's cover art for Power Corps #4. I'm pretty sure Jamie did the logo and David Vance colored it. Pretty sweet, huh?

And here's one that never got to see the light of day: Rocketboy, with art by the Indonesian tag-team of Alfa and Adetyar. Man, I wish I could have done more work with those talented folks!

Okay, that's the past, now what about the future? Well, I have a short story on the drawing board for Will Lill comics right now, and I still have a couple series I'm working on for Will Lill--those series need artists, so if you want to be published, shoot me an e-mail with samples at thegroovyagent@yahoo.com or PM me on FaceBook (either personally or through our Diversions of the Groovy Kind page). I also have lots more short stories (five to seven pages) if you would like to work with me without committing to a series or mini-series. 

Come on, 2016! Let's see what kind of comics we can make!