Two Pieces of News
Short one to start off the year, with two things that happened this week.
First of all, The Comics Beat announced Morgen acquiring a multi-volume graphic novel series by Ram V, Evan Cagle and Anand Radhakrishnan, with lettering by me, design by Tom Muller and editorial supervision by Eric Harburn. This is planned to published in nine volumes across three years, and the English edition will be published by Image Comics.
As Ram says:
It’s incredibly exciting to find a home for a project I’ve had on the boil for a while. And it is always a pleasure to be collaborating with Evan and Anand, alongside a group of creators and wonderful friends. I’ve always tried to view format, design and the way a narrative is presented and told as part of the art of storytelling in the medium. This book is possibly the most ambitious project I’ve undertaken in that regard and I cannot wait to build it with these incredible people.
The announcement link has additional comments from Anand and Evan.
This is the “big, cool” comics project I’ve been hinting on this blog for a while – one of my few new commitments. But Ram and I have been chatting about this one for a good while, and it’s going to be something very cool. Big plans with one of my favourite teams in comics.
There should be an official announcement with more details of the series closer to publication.
(Fun fact: I took that photo of Anand when I visited his studio last year while we were working on Resurrection Man.)
Speaking of my favourite teams in comics, I am very happy to see two comics I worked on nominated for the GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding Comic Book.
The Department of Truth and The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night are both titles from James Tynion IV’s Tiny Onion Studios, as is another book I didn’t work on (but whose first volume I lettered way back when) – Wynd: The Power of the Blood.
The world is turning nasty towards queer people at the moment, and it’s nice to work with people who are absolutely invested in telling queer stories, and it’s wonderful to see this work acknowledged.
More soon!