After some delay, my debut graphic novel with artist Dustin Higgins — Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer — is on sale today. Just in time for Halloween.
You can buy it through our publisher, SLG Publishing, at Amazon, or at your local comic book retailer.
For me, this day is the culmination of about eight years of work. It was that long ago that I decided to write books for a living. Pinocchio was the third book I finished and the first to be published.
It seems like it should be a big day, or that I should celebrate. While I’m very happy to have a book in stores, I feel more than anything that what I’ve learned from this experience is just how difficult it is to build a career as an author and how much more work lies ahead. In addition to a Pinocchio sequel, I have a handful of other projects in the works that I think will be a lot of fun.
Quickly, a word of thanks to those who helped make this project a reality: Dan and Jennifer at SLG, Todd Dezago, Ross and Mark at Boom!, Rob and Andy at Top Shelf, my awesomely talented collaborator Dustin, my family, and of course my wife, Amy, who makes it all worthwhile.
3 Comments
October 29, 2009 at 9:13 pm
OMG! I am so excited about this coming out today!!! I can’t wait to find it in the city!
October 30, 2009 at 3:23 am
Hi, just thought I would shoot a quick note saying I loved the book. I work at a comic shop and will make sure to recommend this to as many people as I can. Hope more of these come out.
November 30, 2009 at 2:14 am
[...] prime example of this would be when I heard my friend Van was writing a graphic novel about Pinocchio as a vampire slayer. He mentioned this idea to me, in the apartment he and his lovely wife share, and I think I laughed [...]