It’s
official – At the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle WA. on Sunday, the Creators
For Creators fund announced the 2017 Grant Recipient. Quoting the website:
“Creators
for Creators is proud to announce that M. Dean’s project “I Am Young” is the
first recipient of the Creators for Creators grant!”
Details
about the winner and their project can be found at creatorsforcreators.org
As you
know, gentle reader, I’ve always viewed my submission to the C4C grant as a
long shot. So while I’ve been wringing my hands for months desperately hoping
“Heroes of the Dead” might somehow pull off a win, I wasn’t terribly surprised
by the outcome.
So what
does this mean for ol’ Glen Specter, for Heroes of the Dead, and for Specter
Comics? Why, it means great things! Terrible, fantastic, horrifying things!!
As you
might have seen from my little teaser for “Rotting Hills”, I’ve got lots of
plans for Specter Comics. I’ve decided to officially make Specter Comics my platform
for self-publishing. So along with “Heroes of the Dead”, I’ve been tooling
around with another zombie idea geared towards kids called “Rotting Hills”. I
mean, can you think of one successful zombie comic for kids? Me neither! So
there’s definitely a niche to fill.
“Rotting
Hills” began life (sorry :P) as a cartoon idea I successfully pitched, produced
and directed over a decade ago (god I'm old!). While the animated cartoon died when the production company
ultimately passed on the idea, I thought it high time to resurrect Rotting
Hills in comic book form! If you’re curious, the cartoon looked like this. My
plans for the comic book are a little different, as I have no right to the
stories or artwork of the original production, but I’m really excited by some
of the ideas I’ve come up for it!
Thus,
whilst old man Specter had been beaten down and had his old withering heart
crushed by the above news, I also feel liberated. For the months I was waiting
on news about the grant, I felt trapped in limbo as I didn’t want to proceed with
anything until the grant was settled. Now I’m free to go whole hog into
self-publishing and see where it leads me.
My plan is
to get a “Specter Comics” website up and running to serve as a portal to
Comixology, Amazon’s big giant online comic book store. comixology.com
From there
I’ll be publishing “Heroes of the Dead” #1 very shortly and see how it does!
And the good news is I’ve already finished the scripts for issues #2 and #3, so
work on the art will begin forthwith!
As for
Rotting Hills, I’ve been working away at a script for the first issue. I’ll be
posting progress for that project here on Dying to Draw as well so stay tuned!
G.S.
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