I'M DEVELOPING A COMIC BOOK!

I love to write and ever since the eighth grade I've wanted to be a screenwriter. That journey led me to Teen Wolf at MTV. There I was able to work with a fantastic group of people to tell the story of Scott McCall and his friends as they battled monsters and the ups and downs of high school. This was a great experience and one that I will treasure for the rest of my life. For as long as I can remember, screenwriting was how I wanted to tell stories. But some stories are just too big for the "small screen." Hell, they might even be too big for the "big screen."

In 2015, while I was still on Teen Wolf, an idea began to form in my head. A story set on a world covered in water. A water world, if you will. See what I did there? Classic. And as the story formed, a character emerged from the fog of... story... stuff: a young woman, sailing alone on what I was starting to call the World Sea. But how would I tell this story? My first instinct was a TV series. But that would be incredibly expensive. Then I considered a movie, but the story I was thinking about would be too large to cram into a two-hour movie. How about a novel? That made sense. Novels don't have budget constraints and they can be as long as you want. If they're good, that is. So I wrote a practice chapter but didn't like it. At all. When I mentioned my frustrations to Eric Wallace, my friend, and mentor from Teen Wolf, he said, "Dude. This is a comic book." 

A comic book! I'd never tried it before, but here was the perfect opportunity to give it a go. So with Eric's help, I wrote a series proposal and the script for the first issue. Everything was going well and I really loved the story I was coming up with. But then life got in the way.

Working as a TV writer is one of the most rewarding jobs around, but it's a very hard job and the hours can be grueling. And sadly, this type of job doesn't always afford you time for your own personal writing. From 2015 to 2017, we worked on Teen Wolf practically non-stop. Then Teen Wolf came to an end. Scott McCall and his friends defeated the monsters in Beacon Hills and graduated from high school. As they headed off into the wider world, so did we. And now I had time to get back to DELUGE. 

While I look for a new TV show to write, I'm developing DELUGE to pitch to potential publishers in 2018. Currently, I'm writing the first six issues and I'm having a blast. But what about the art? I'm working with a young artist in Germany named Deborah Hauber to develop the look of the two main characters as well the world itself. You can find Deborah on Twitter under @boaillustration and you can see her work on Tumblr here: boaillustration.tumblr.com.

And I want you to come along for the ride! As we go along I'll be sharing with you the designs for characters and locations as well as explaining the process of pitching the comic to publishers. So that's that, I guess. This is new territory for me, but I'm very excited to see what becomes of DELUGE and hopefully, in the not too distant future, you'll be able to pick up the book in your local comic shop. Thanks for dropping by. Talk again soon!