I had an e-mail this afternoon from my editor saying I could announce this on my blog… so guess what? I’m announcing it…

I will be writing the new Disney-Pixar CARS comic book series for BOOM! Studios.

No official launch date yet, but it is most likely some time in early 2009.

The announcement that BOOM would be producing books based on the Disney-Pixar movies was made at San Diego back in July. The evening it became official I attached myself to the editor at the Hyatt Bar, sobbed in to his beer, and begged to be given a chance to write CARS. The following morning I trailed him around the convention floor pitching ideas, until, in order to shut me up, he suggested that I put these insane babblings about anthropomorphic motor vehicles down on paper and send them in.

Amazingly, both he, and the kind, wonderful, folks at Disney liked them enough to actually ask me to write a few scripts.

This is the first time that Disney-Pixar has allowed anyone outside the studio to create original stories using their characters, and I’m looking forward to playing in their toy box.

Radiator Springs – here I come…