Kickstart the Week, Preview: Peter Pan Comic

Renae De Liz is the illustrator of many gorgeous books, including The Last Unicorn and Anne Rice’s Servant of the Bones. She was also the driving force behind the gloriously ambitious Womanthology. So you can imagine my excitement when I stumbled across her new gem of a project thanks to a random follower (@PeterPanComic) suddenly appearing on my twitter feed. (This is why I love twitter).

Renae has already begun the preliminary groundwork (and more) required to adapt the stories of J.M. Barrie’s enduring character, Peter Pan, into a full graphic novel. She has enlisted her husband, the similarly, fantastically talented Ray Dillon, on colouring/inking/lettering and design duties; and together they plan to rule the world! Or at least make a damn fine graphic novel worthy of your support.

You can find their official project blog, replete with sketches and character tags, HERE. And if you like what you see (why wouldn’t you?) you will want to bookmark it and keep a very close eye out for their impending Kickstarter project.

Naturally, I will be hyping this to the high heavens, but not just due to the talent involved. The initial character sketches and full colour images look wonderful. As a father, I would love to have a graphic novel of this quality to share with my kids. Still, even if I didn’t have my son and daughter to read this with, it promises to be a visually sumptuous adaptation of a timeless classic, and good art made with passion is always worth supporting.

Please, go and take a look for yourself. This won’t be the last time you’ll hear me mention it.

Discombobulation //K.T.W./Announcement/Comics/Other//

I have been neglecting this blog for the last week due to a confluence of events that are far too boring to go into here. Suffice to say, there is no full K.T.W. to speak of. However, you should definitely go and check out, Lust, the new comic project by Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Fell, Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse), Menton3 (MONOCYTE, Silent Hill: Past Life) and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, Iron Spirit). You also still have time to back the Plume Miniseries for the next four days.

In other news, the short comic I wrote for the wonderfully talented Donya Todd will be available *FOR FREE* in the next twenty-four hours. Links will be made available once it goes live, but I don’t think I’ll be spoiling anything by posting the title:

For the comic lovers among you, I also suggest you pick up the following from the last couple of weeks:

Captain Marvel #4 Kelly Sue DeConnick and Dexter Soy. [If you’ve read this blog before, you know about these guys already.]
Ghost #0 – Kelly Sue DeConnick and Phil Noto (Angel & Faith, X-23).
Happy #1 – Grant Morrison (Wyrd Comics Deity) and Darrick Robertson (Transmetropolitan, The Boys).

You can also find some good, but #SPOILER#-y reviews of Ghost and Happy over on Ariellalphabet’s blog.

For Ghost – go here.
For Happy – go here.

Why am I promoting another blog? Hmmm, well:

1) It’s Good, dammit!
2) The twitter suggestion to pick up Ghost? Yeah, that was me. It’s always nice to see someone actually listen to a suggestion, and it’s even better when they feel compelled to write a review because they enjoyed the thing you suggested.
3) Being nice is pretty awesome.

Anyway, I’ll throw a link up for The Demise of Horatio Lovemuscle when it goes live.

Until then you should probably liven up your day by reading Warren Ellis‘ (Tech-Wyrd Comics Deity) latest column for VICE:

Your God Is Not Strong – which reflects on the abuse of freedom of speech & expression stemming from the provocation of religious hysteria by a certain immoral (and non-religious) political group.