If you have been fol­low­ing me in recent weeks you’ll notice a heavy empha­sis on my cur­rent com­ic book projects. I’ve got three at present: two web­comics, Pret­ty Face and Human Wrestler; and But­ter­fly, one half of a split-com­ic which serves as a pre­quel to Deep Pen­i­ten­tiary 6, a pulp novel­la I released ear­li­er this year. Have I […]

In my last blog post I showed off the pulp fic­tion and grind­house cin­e­ma influ­ences behind the Deep Pen­i­ten­tiary 6 cov­er. How­ev­er, it takes a skilled artist to take the con­cept and bring it to life. For this project I chose Diego Galin­do after glimps­ing his rip­ping cov­er for issue 4 of the com­ic Nan­cy in Hell on […]

When I release a book the out­side cov­er is just as impor­tant to me as the inside text, both form­ing a com­plete con­cept as an art object. I real­ly want the read­er to judge the book by the cov­er. An exam­ple is in my Par­adise Earth series where I pay grim homage to the Watchtower’s […]