Can't See the Forest for the Trees

Wow – is it really eight months since I last posted anything in the RevSF blog space – That was not intentional. Sorry I’ve been away for so long.

So if anyone is left who might actually read this thing, what have I been up to.

Well simply put, I’ve been writing – a lot.

2009 has simply been something of a break through year for me in terms of actually getting paid to write stuff.

Perhaps the biggest project I have been involved in is the one I mentioned in my last post all those months ago.

STAR TREK: A comics history is now done and on its way to a store near you in the not too distant future. The fine folks at Hermes Press gave the book its official launch at San Diego Comic-Con where we had about 30 advance copies flown in.

Initial reaction from those who picked up a copy at the con was very positive.

Hermes Press also used the con to debut its reprint collection of the old Gold key TIME TUNNEL comics. I wrote the introductory essay for the book and had great fun rewatching the old show, plus researching the history of time travel TV shows.

While at SDCC I spoke at length with the publisher at Hermes Press about various future planned projects, some of which I can’t talk about yet – but we have another book scheduled for 2011 and another tentatively on the schedule for 2012.

The other main project that’s been taking up my time is as the regular writer on the Disney*Pixar "World of CARS" comic book series for BOOM! Studios. The last issue of the first 4 issue story arc has just shipped, and I’ve scripted most of the second four issue arc. We’ve had approval for a third four issue arc (you might have spotted a trend) with another two waiting in the approvals pipeline.

There’s also a couple of other Disney*Pixar related pitches waiting on approvals.

Over the last year I also seemed to have developed something of a niche in writing and producing comic books for companies and various organizations. I’m currently working on a very cool corporate comics project that I hope I can share more information on before too much longer.

The writing thing also seems to be picking up in relation to my day-job with several articles appearing in various industry rags over the last few months, plus a technical / business book planned for release around May 2010.

SO that’s a quick round up of what I’ve been up to. I will try and make sure that I don’t neglect this blog again.