I've been away for a while, moving from NC to VA (along with twins under the age of 1).  Now settled and into my routine at home and work.  I'm still progressing on ClosetWorld, a faith-based fairy tale that got picked up by Arcana Comics and hopefully will be released later this year or early next.  I just added art from it by artist John Amor.  I'm also developing a pitch called "A Heart for al Qaeda" that's about Air Force special ops (I'm an Air Force officer in my day job).  It's written by me with co-writer Kevin Maurer (he co-wrote last year's nonfiction bestseller "No Easy Day").  All in all, it's going to be a great, busy year.

Greetings everyone.  It's been a busy few months.  The biggest news is I've been successful at selling my comic, ClosetWorld, to independent publisher Arcana Comics.  It's got fantastic art by John Amor and colors by Thomas Bonvillain.  They plan to release it first digitally on comixology, then as a graphic novel sometime next year.  We're a little over half-way through the 4 issues.  Having a blast creating it along with some other new projects that I can't wait to share. 

Greetings to all.  I'm curious if anyone out there has had experience publishing their independent comics online at graphicly.com, and if so, how it went.  I read a few comics from their site and I'm really impressed with their interface and the way they connect comics with reviews and fans. 

Any thoughts from those who've published with them?  Pros, cons?  Are their other sites that have worked better for self-publication? 

Thanks for sharing.

I've been mulling over possible imprint names to unite all my various independent stories under one brand name.  Would love to hear any thoughts on the various ones I have so far.  They are:

- Otherwhere

- Hangar 19 (the idea being you think you know what's in Hangar 18, but you have no idea what's next door to it in Hangar 19)

- Front Porch Entertainment

- Hyperion Entertainment (after both the epic poem by John Keats and my all-time favorite novel, Hyperion, by Dan Simmons which achieves a level of quality and imagination I could only hope to attain in my own fiction)

- Perpetual Motion

- Sons of Thunder

- Complete Geek Entertainment

- SDG Entertainment (this comes from Soli Deo Gloria, which basically means "for glory to God alone" and was used by past artists, e.g. Bach and Handel, to give God credit for their work)

You see that some of these have "Entertainment" at the end, and some have nothing (any of them could end in "Entertainment" or "Productions, but not "Comics" since it will cover all my fiction, including novels and short stories).  The idea is it would be an imprint name like Robert Kirkman's "Skybound," DC's "Vertigo," or Marc Silvestri's "Top Cow Productions." 

I've narrowed down from a ton of possibilities and these are a few remaining.  Thanks for any thoughts any of you have.

One of the series I'm most pleased with that I'm working on is ClosetWorld, a webcomic (for now) that comes out in semi-regular installments.  I'm searching for an independent print publisher.  Issue 1 has been fully released, and we're working on issue 2 now. 

I just posted a layout and final penciled/inked page from issue 2 to show how my artist, John Amor, is doing.  As the writer and editor, I think I've never been more pleased with how well this artist has matched the tone and style I was going for with this project.  Hope you like what you see.