Beatitude NOTES
And then this happened
The always amazing Phil Hester introduced me to artist Jay Washer and we started working on the pitch for the BEATITUDE GN in 2002? 2003, maybe? I barely remember sending it out to publishers. Did we? Maybe not. We may have put it on hold. Then, on permanent hold. Our goal was to get a few issues in the can before we committed to print. I love Jay Washer’s work and I’ve always wanted to create a comic with him. We tried, too. But it just didn’t work out.
In 2018, I attempted to transform the comic scripts into a novel. I worked up a few chapters and sent them to my kidlit agent at the time. Unfortunately, she wasn’t interested in selling an “adult” project. Or maybe she just thought it was a mess and she didn’t want to help me edit the thing into submission for submission.
I also finished the first draft of a screenplay.
Anyway, my plan is to serialize the novel. Wish me luck.
I plan to drop in a few images from the GN to give you a taste. Unfortunately, the images are a little blurry. I can’t find the originals. They’re stashed on some obsolete storage hardware I can’t access unless I buy some crazy adapter(s). Or until I find an ancient computer with Pagemaker software installed. When I finally break into that old hardware, I’ll reveal all of Jay’s work on the project.
BTW, in case you’re wondering, this story is NOT autobiographical.
Beatitude starts here: