Michael's Cool Collaborators

Some cool stuff happening with some of my artistic collaborators:

Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly pencils



Greg Jolly's sharing some of the pencils from Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly, which I scripted.

Paul Taylor wins the Friends of Lulu!



Cownt artist Paul Taylor has won the Best Female Character Friends of Lulu Award for Monica from Wapsi Square. Congratulations, Paul!

Jason Copland and Perhapanauts



And congrats also to my Kill All Monsters partner Jason Copland! The issue of Perhapanauts he drew has been solicited by Image for February:

THE PERHAPANAUTS: MOLLY’S STORY (ONE-SHOT)
story TODD DEZAGO & SCOTT WEINSTEIN
art & cover JASON COPLAND
flip cover CRAIG ROUSSEAU
FEBRUARY 17
32 PAGES/FC
$3.50

Finally it can be told! The story that everyone's been waiting for, as we reveal the tragic tale of the Perhapanauts’ resident ghost – Molly MacAllister– and how she came to be! Stand alone story! You don't need to know any continuity or anything!

Cownt Tales #1 vs Machine Gun Kelly

All the lettering is done on Cownt Tales #1 and the files are at the printer. The plan is for the initial FallCon Exclusive print run to be produced early next week in plenty of time for the Show on October 10-11.

After the convention debut, the goal is to figure out how to get it into stores, but so far everyone's been focused on getting the book ready for FallCon as we promised the local fans at MicroCon last Spring. Stay tuned for information on how to get your copy. I'm really happy with how the book turned out, so I want to make sure people know about it and are able to get it.

Once that's all done, I'll be able to start thinking about Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly again. Fortunately, Greg's kept right on thinking about it while I've been busy with vampire cows. He's been posting a lot of Jesse vs Machine Gun stuff lately, including his photo references for important landmarks in the comic, props, and sketches for both Jesse's gang and Machine Gun's.

I'm thinking though that a couple of those guys in Jesse's gang look awfully familiar.

She's a Valkyrie (Valhalla is like SO bitchin)

My sincerest apologies for the title. Sincerely. As far as you know.



By Greg Jolly (from the book of mythic poetry he illustrated for Alex Ness).



By Victor Santos.

Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly update

Work on Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly continues to progress. Greg Jolly's come up with this snazzy new logo and has sent me some thumbnail layouts I need to approve. I've cropped the logo a bit from the version that Greg's got on his blog. The original title of the comic was Dust to Dust - with JJvMGK as the subtitle - but we've dropped Dust to Dust to let the more descriptive title do all the work. It's kind of a shame though, because I love the Dust to Dust logo he came up with. The version on his blog also has some extra flourishes that I love, so definitely go check that out.

He's also posted this early concept sketch for Jesse.

Jesse James vs Machine Gun Kelly update

For those of you interested in the Jesse James vs. Machine Gun Kelly one-shot, here's a little more information. We have a new artist for the book. His name is Greg Jolly and he's really frickin good. He and Alex have worked together before and I'm excited that I get to work with him now too.

As with most independently produced comics, Greg's going to have to work Jesse vs. Machine Gun in around his paying stuff, so we're not expecting his part of the book to be completed until early summer at the soonest, but I know some of you are curious about the future of the book, so I wanted to let you know that it's still moving.