I'm dusting off this blog, because if you ain't gonna use your blog while you're running a Kickstarter, you're never gonna use it. For those of you who missed it, I'm writing a comic book based on a screenplay I wrote. It's a horror/coming of age story set near the US-Mexico border. There's more on my Kickstarter campaign page:
A comic book series adapted from a screenplay by writer Craig Phillips. It is a horror and coming of age tale based loosely on the Latin boogeyman myth of El Cucuy, set in modern times, adapted from an award-winning spec screenplay.
MORE: After the untimely death of her mother, anxious but whipsmart teen Rita Flores moves with her father to her mother's hometown in the Arizona desert, to live with an eccentric elderly aunt. There Rita discovers a dark family secret. EL CUCUY, the Latin Boogeyman, isn't a fairy tale—he’s real and tormenting this bordertown until he gets what he wants. Is Rita the only one who stands in his way? Along the way her life is changed by a cast of characters that include her eccentric great aunt Lupe, her new friend and neighbor Candace--a semi-goth artist who believes in both the supernatural and the eyerolling stupidity of the human race, a priest who knows more than he leads on, a wayward boy named Javier who develops a crush on Rita, and her father Ben, struggling with the death of his wife while he tries to rebuild a new life with his daughter. All in the very strange little town of Las Malezas, which is full of secrets and history.
You can read more about me, the artist and the rest by going to that campaign page.
The campaign has been under way for one week and has already hit some goals, but has a long way to go before it comes to fruition. Here's my first update. The most important part of that update, aside from telling your friends and pledging support!, is that we were picked as a "Project We Love" by Kickstarter themselves which was a nice howdyado or shot in the arm.
I'm going to post here and on the Kickstarter page with more about the writing process, learning to adapt into comic book format and pacing, working with an artist, doing my own storyboarding so I can better figure out the story beats and pace, and other behind the scenes stuff.
Will also post some of my inspirations while I work on this -- graphic novels, comics, movies.
More then, then!
