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 […]
Today, Texas author Sharon Bayliss drops in with a cocktail pairing for her electric new novel The Charge. In her words: Inspired by the famous New Orleans Hurricane, I created the Blue Storm, an equally intoxicating concoction with the electric blue quality of the blue storms from The Charge. Drink up! But be warned, much like the real […]
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 […]
What follows is an excerpt from my new book Deep Penitentiary 6. DP6 is a campy throwback to 70’s “women-in-prison” cinema filled with action, humor, and robes inexplicably flying open. In this selection, assassin, Theta Butterfly, has gone undercover in a secret space prison to locate her missing sister. She is taken to Block B where she […]