i have so much to say about the comic industry at the moment and most would not shock many of you and if things do not change in the next year, I'm out.
Loving, Ohio is available August 6th, 2024.
Preorder it for the love of god.
My comic career literally depends on it.
would be rad to see artists approaching writers to write their stories. i have no issue taking someone else's great idea and helping shape it.
i don't see it happening often but if you enjoy the way a writer writes, hit them up.
not everything we do needs to come from our brain
brb gonna mistreat comic students for 40 years and write a graphic musical about a baby who shits tornados at houses built before 1955.
this should get me at least 8 eisner noms according to news ive read today.
The kids have to get the fuck out of Ohio.
From me,
@sambeckdraws
and
@DarkHorseComics
coming in 2024.
LOVING, OHIO
A ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL
ABOUT BEING A TEEN
IN A CULT IN OHIO
I was in a new age cult until the age of eleven & my coming-of-age horror graphic novel, LOVING, OHIO is about a midwestern cult and vanishing teens.
It is available for preorder at all bookstores.
please inquire for an advance reader copy
writer: me
artist:
@sambeckdraws
Its okay to write/draw a bad book, comic, story whatever.
Its okay to have something not be liked or enjoyed or appreciated.
Its okay to fail, its okay to fail very hard. Its okay to be disappointed and frustrated about failing.
Its all okay just keep making new things.
Morning everyone!
I was just let go from my job thirty minutes after returning from bereavement!
If you were thinking about bringing me on as a writer, are interested in hiring me or just want to talk about opportunities I'm VERY available.
Hey, today is Friday and I'm declaring it
#freecomicfriday
and I'm giving away Long Lost
#1
to anyone that wants it. The whole thing.
Let's get this going, I'd love to send it to everyone and anyone.
Please ♻️ and tag anyone you think might be into
@lisa_sterle
& I's story.
Hello I’m looking for a sequential artist — if you’ve got a website or portfolio post it below.
You will not be hearing from me, instead I’ll be passing the ones that could fit to my editor.
Thanks!
I was told id never make it in comics by a publisher a decade ago. it made me question why I was a writer in the first place.
cut to next year when I'll have... 6 or 7 comic series / original graphic novels coming out from 4 different major publishers.
DO IT TO SPITE THEM.
so
@PublishersWkly
sent out a newsletter this morning announcing my next graphic novel through
@DarkHorseComics
.
It's calling LOVING, OHIO and it is written by me and all the art is by
@sambeckdraws
, edited by
@PenBerzerker
and comes out next year.
here is the cover:
Want to read a graphic novel about Ohio being one giant horrifying liminal space, roaming murderers, vanishing teens, and a bizarre new age death cult?
It's called LOVING, OHIO from myself and
@sambeckdraws
.
For this to succeed, you must preorder before May 1st (my birthday.)
im still in comics so im not
#ComicsBrokeMe
yet, but the advance for an upcoming OGN by a very well known publisher was unlivable both for me & the artist.
$10 a page for script &...$40 a page for the artist to do EVERYTHING in a 200+ page book
it was and is OBSCENEly fucked up
Today is my birthday and I'd love if you took the time to preorder my upcoming horror graphic novel, LOVING, OHIO. It's about a cult, growing up in the liminal midwest, and getting out of Ohio.
If there is any day to preorder, it is today -- for my birthday.
✌️
received some frustrating publishing/printing news so I'd love for you all to preorder LOVING, OHIO before its too late.
it's about a cult in Ohio, a roaming killer, murdered teens, spiritual darkness, and the acceptance of death and life's mysteries.
Preorder it right now.
Hi, I'm the co-creator of comics: Long Lost, Witchblood, Good Luck & Bonding. I've also written comics for Power Rangers & The Dark Crystal. Other credits include: Terminal Punks and Care Bears.
Upcoming original comics with Dark Horse, ONI, IDW and more.
Thanks for the follow!
The spread of Witchblood
#2
covers are three of my favorites SO FAR.
If you want, I'll send you the Issue No. 2 - Advanced Reader Copy. Just gimme a classic Stone Cold "hell yeah" in the comments and I'll DM it to you.
PREVIEWS: FEB211619
WITCHBLOOD
#2
IN SHOPS APR 28, 2021
⛔️ LOVING, OHIO ⛔️
A new graphic novel about the midwest as a horrifying liminal space, roaming murderers, & emotionally broken teens finding happiness and hope through trauma-bonding is on sale
⛔️AUG 6TH, 2024 ⛔️
Support & PREORDER & I'll send the .pdf to read right now!
This week I got horrible news & by the end of the week my upcoming graphic novel, Loving, Ohio is now a
#1
Bestseller on Amazon in several categories & is now the most pre-ordered book of my career.
my heart is broken with graciousness. thank you all.
keep supporting comics
i have so much to say about the comic industry at the moment and most would not shock many of you and if things do not change in the next year, I'm out.
Loving, Ohio is available August 6th, 2024.
Preorder it for the love of god.
My comic career literally depends on it.
things I've learned in 1 year of comics:
• 12 issues is maybe too many for your 1st series
• subtly is overrated
• there aren't really any rules
• learn what good art looks like
• you are your only advocate (usually)
• making friends > getting published
• things change ∞
Thinking about kickstarting & editing my own comic anthology around stories that creators think are potentially too weird, niche & strange to be published.
Unpublishable: An Anthology of Stories Hidden in the Dark
Would you be interested?
lemme know so I can gauge interest
In 2017 I started writing comics professionally for zero money and now in 2022, I am writing comics for considerable money.
Follow your dreams, but also -- get that cash.
It's super important.
#PowerRangers
Time Force is getting a sequel graphic novel that will focus on the romance between Wes and Jen and how they make their time travel long-distance relationship work. We've got the exclusive reveal!
yeah writing is hard and drawing is hard but you know what is way harder?
working a day job to ensure you have insurance for your family because life itself is an enormous struggle thanks to systems barely two hundreds old that have stripped us of autonomy & killed the planet.
Without divulging numbers, Witchblood
#1
will be the largest comic launch of
@lisa_sterle
and I's career.
We sold A TON of comics everyone and it wouldn't have been possible without everyone's support and kindness.
Thank you all.
Witchblood is going to be EVERYWHERE.
Hi
#PortfolioDay
!
I'm the co-creator of comics: Long Lost, Witchblood, Good Luck & Bonding. I've also written comics for Power Rangers & The Dark Crystal. I have upcoming original comics with Dark Horse, ONI, IDW, and more.
Don't be a stranger and say Hi! Always down to chat!
making comics is a job.
the other writers & artists?
your co-workers.
but just like in the workplace things like racism, and targeted harassment, will get you shunned, blacklisted, & left behind
we all want a safe space to make art, & if you infringe on that we will notice
In honor of
#SDCC2020
, I'm giving away the Long Lost Book One PDF to the first 50(ish) people who DM me.
If you're a fan of horror, David Lynch & General Ennui, I think you'll enjoy the comic that allowed
@lisa_sterle
and I to do this full time.
Thank you for the friendships!
just found out that a Ukrainian refugee who moved to columbus, ohio to have a safer life with their child actually moved back to Kyiv because living in the US was more or less impossible and living in an active warzone was preferred / easier.
"Comicsgate" makes "art" by belittling, demeaning, & outright hating creators whose work does not reflect a patriarchal, white worldview.
There is no such quality of art, that can justify themes that resemble white nationalism, racism, sexism, & bigotry.
They are losers. /1
Hello. I have a baby on the way & I’m looking for more paid work. Comics, video games, narratives, back matter, lore, poetry — whatever it is let me know if you’re interested.
I can guarantee work for the first ten people.
Thank you for everything, please spread if you can.
today is the Final Order Cutoff for LOVING, OHIO -- a book about suicide, cults, the liminal midwest & trauma-bonding
i'm asking you to please preorder our book
preordering is the
#1
way to support the team and to get more books like this published in the first place
20 bucks.
January 1st, 2020 - I'll be officially transitioning into being a full time writer.
What a wild trip this all has been. I can't wait to see where else it goes.
Loving, Ohio my upcoming OGN with
@sambeckdraws
is inspired by Perfect Blue, Pulse (2001), Twin Peaks, & New Age Cult Aestheticism.
It is about four teens caught in a whirlwind of midwestern religious trauma & how they fight back against the workings of forces they can't grasp.
still can't get over that you all read my tweet about me wanting to quit comics and decided to force me to stay in comics by buying my book and making it
#1
in YA Literary Fiction.
like wtf guys
From me,
@lianakangas
, Rebecca Nalty and
@micahmyers
comes an inter-dimensional breakup story inspired by “90 Day Fiancée” and “Night is Short, Walk on Girl”.
This was a joy to make for
@MadCaveStudios
and I can’t wait for you all to read it when it arrives September 2023.
I've had two books trapped in purgatory at ONI for four+ years now, and after they just fired their publisher after giving me my 3rd batch of editors, I'm done with them.
If a publisher is looking for a written OGN & a good pitch for a five issue, email me & let's talk.
i should delete this, but there's a medium sized chance i may be teaching comics in the next two years and the stories i read are so shitty its appalling.
treat art kids better
I finally get to announce that I am writing
@IDWPublishing
's Carebears relaunch with
@Nadia_Shammas_
. It is surreal & incredible & a huge honor to get to write these bears. It's literally the weirdest thing to happen to my life in 8 years.
🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻
I still remember going to school when I was 5 years old and talking to my kindergarten friends about who could possibly be the White Ranger.
Now, 26 years later I'm writing Power Rangers.
Keep your heads up, cool things can happen if you keep at a thing. I promise.
Honored that the response has been so warm and positive.
@lisa_sterle
& I just wanted to make something so fun and weird and us.
If you read it today buzz your comic shops & T-E-L-L people because Final Order Cutoff is March 8th.
Word of mouth is GOD in this industry.
I got the chance to check out the first two issues of Witchblood early and it's just an immense pile of fun that should be on everyone's radar. Witches and motorcycles and a gang of vampires called The Hounds Of Love, it completely rules.
please unfollow and block this account for doxxing vita, danny and nadia.
some of you follow them and i was just made aware of their ineffective doxxing campaigns this morning against people i care about (can't speak for the machete woman)
theres no place in comics for hatred.
This single tweet raised the amazon ranking of LOVING, OHIO by 30,000 spots.
I literally don’t know what that translates too but I know some of you preordered yesterday and thats all that matters.
Please post receipts and I’ll tell you comic industry ‘secrets.’
I was in a new age cult until the age of eleven & my coming-of-age horror graphic novel, LOVING, OHIO is about a midwestern cult and vanishing teens.
It is available for preorder at all bookstores.
please inquire for an advance reader copy
writer: me
artist:
@sambeckdraws
hello i come to you this morning to ask you again to please consider preordering LOVING, OHIO from your fav. bookstore or AMAZON made by real hardworking people with their hands & hours (me &
@sambeckdraws
)
its a surreal cosmic emo cult horror about teens vanishing in O H I O
Tomorrow is the culmination of two long & miserable years of work spent indoors watching our friends & family suffer alone.
We made Witchblood in the hope it takes you to a world thats always fun, exciting, endless in joy, warmth & love.
Witchblood is finally out tomorrow.
Loving, Ohio is about a town where a new age cult has integrated itself into every fabric of life & a knife wielding killer stalking the streets.
I grew up in a cult & this book I created with
@sambeckdraws
is the closest to an auto-bio comic you’ll get from me
Please preorder
Witchblood
#5
hits comic shops on July 28th. Here are the incredible covers by
@lisa_sterle
/
@yoshisquared
/
@GabContrerasR
.
@afwassel
said this is his favorite issue thus far, and I agree it is a great issue and I happen to have a reader copy if you'd like to peek it early.
I have been waiting my whole life for this moment. I have a book, a real deal published book book.
I am so happy to share this with my wife
@lisa_sterle
. It truly is a dream come true and I can’t wait for everyone to read it and see it. It’s amazing.
Hello!
#PortfolioDay
I'm a comic writer currently writing the comic series WITCHBLOOD and GOOD LUCK! Previously, I created LONG LOST with
@lisa_sterle
. I love comics, writing and music. Let's be twitter buds!
Other Work:
DARK CRYSTAL
POWER RANGERS
BONDING (TBD)
TERMINAL PUNKS
Black Lives Matter.
Comicsgate is a hate group.
I do not tolerate White Nationalism or Racism in my life or professionally, from stranger or family.
With that said:
I'll be the Kentucky Hills for the next week! If you need me, email me!
Happy
#FCBD
. Here is the entire first issue of WITCHBLOOD - for free.
If you enjoy it, please add it to your pull lists. It returns in September with
#6
WB
#1
:
Hello!
#PortfolioDay
I'm the writer of Long Lost & I'm currently writing the comic series WITCHBLOOD! My next series, GOOD LUCK, starts in June! More cool things coming!! I'm very lucky!
Other Work:
BONDING (TBD)
TERMINAL PUNKS
DARK CRYSTAL
I want to be a big time writer!
constantly tempted to just announce shit and ruin multi-million dollar company's marketing budgets and plans specifically for like 80 twitter likes but I won't.
actually I lied here's me spoiling some stuff
see the rest in... 2022? maybe 2023?
Please share this. Please like it. Please tell your friends. Huge thanks to everyone that has reviewed or help spread the word on our book. Without we wouldn't be able to make a trade.
Finally, thank you for reading. I hope in the end we give you something worth caring about.
Hi! I'm a comic writer from Ohio with a graphic novel and a mini-series arriving in 2024. I'm the author of comic books Good Luck, Dark Crystal and Power Rangers from Boom, Witchblood and Bonding from Vault, and Long Lost. Let's talk about my next series, Golgotha Motor Mountain.
Hi, my family was hit with rough financial news & I'm looking for ANY paying writing work.
Please reach out if you have something in mind or please spread this to those that may be looking for someone like me. I've included reviews of my work below:
I hope that you consider me.
I am giving away LONG LOST for free, the first comic I did with my wife
@lisa_sterle
No catch. Just enjoy a 220 page surreal horror about two sisters and their mom that launched both our careers in comics.
Fuck it.
Who wants the first three issues of Witchblood, written by me, art by
@lisa_sterle
, colors by
@GabContrerasR
& letters by
@andworlddesign
*FOR FREE*
I'll send them right now if you pinky-promise to buy them from your local comic shop & start reading monthly with us.
Please ask your local book sellers and comic shops to order my upcoming graphic novel BONDING with
@emilypearsonart
. Do it for my unborn baby (babies are expensive.)
It's dark, it's funny, it's got alien slugs drinking our plasma. It has graphic violence and it's over 160 pages.
To commemorate Witchblood
#2
coming out for
#NCBD
, I am now sending Advanced Reader Copies of Witchblood Issue No. 3 to comic professionals, journalists and mutuals.
This story gets going.
Respond with a cowboy emoji and I'll send it to you.
🤠🤠🤠🤠
Hi! I'm Matthew Erman! I write & create comics and I'm from Columbus, Ohio. Credits: Long Lost • Dark Crystal • Power Rangers: Sins of the Future • Bonding • Terminal Punks. I like making weird things for everyone & I hope you get a chance to read the things I help make!
not everyone can sit down and write a good story, just like how not everyone can sit down and draw an really good face.
like everything it takes practice.
we all have our awesome super power skill sets and we should be excited to collaborate to make the best things we can.
@dedre001
use brackets like these { } when you put in your sound effects. a lot of type that letterers use have those brackets turning into your classic break marks.
credit goes to
@CommentAiry
hello
@richjohnston
i did not consent for you to publish my tweets in this article. can you please remove them and reach out next time you want to use my words in an article that contains advertising and is SEO enabled.
Hi! I'm the comic writer behind horror series Long Lost
@ScoutComics
, not horror series Care Bears: Unlock the Magic
@IDWPublishing
, & the sci-fi romance Bonding (2020)
@thevaultcomics
. Stories in Dead Beats, Everything is Going Wrong. Say hi, I'm down to clown in comics town.
hello.
@MadCaveStudios
/
@MarkLondonMCS
is a publisher I've loved working with -- they pay on time and have always treated me with respect. I've written three books for them (one unannounced) & on August 23rd my second book with them comes out.
would love your support & cash
so hyped and proud that I'm sharing this entire page from an unannounced thing that
@sambeckdraws
and I are doing for unannounced.
art, color, letters:
@sambeckdraws
.
words: me.
LONG LOST,
@lisa_sterle
and I's breakout comic, is no longer a SCOUT COMICS title as of today after we mutually agreed to part ways and terminate the publishing contract.
Witchblood
#7
is so unbelievably good, and has a super special guest performance by
@mannequinpussy
(as vampires) playing "To Lose You' off their new, brilliant EP, PERFECT.
It's the coolest shit I ever managed to put in a comic (so far...)
Advance Reader Copy coming soon.
I have an early Advanced Reader Copy of Witchblood
#6
(out September 8th) and I'll send it to you today if you ask.
This issue is the reveal of the Witch Queen, Esme and the most important issue of the series thus far.
You don't want to miss this issue. Seriously.
Witchblood
#3
letters arrived in my mailbox this morning.
Jim Campbell killed it for our first two issues but he has to back away, so I'm excited you to meet the new letterer.
Advanced Reader Copies coming soon.
Do you want to make it in comics, but don't know the first thing to do? Well, I'm happy to help, let your questions rip in the comments and I'll answer them as best as I can.
Here's the fully dressed cover reveal for Good Luck by me &
@stefano_simeone
, main covers by
@jecorona
.
🚨 FINAL ORDER CUTOFF is this upcoming Monday, May 17th🚨
If want an advance reader copy of Good Luck
#1
, comment "Hell Yes! & I'll send it tomorrow morning.
Hey everyone. My computer is finally bricked. Now would be a great time to buy my comics and put reviews up on Amazon!
Like / RT and I’ll send you a free graphic novel! Just had a newborn and this is not great!
I'd love to send out more copies of Witchblood today for free to combat the idea that value is tied to artificial scarcity (NFTs suck).
Reply with a mighty "Yes!" & I'll send you the first 2 issues for free.
Witchblood is out March 31st in comic shops!
I wrote Bonding when I first started to work through my very serious and debilitating death anxiety in 2018. I started medication and therapy and writing the book, and while it’s not specifically about these things, it is about these things.
Bonding is out TODAY.
Good Luck
#2
has been solicited for July, so I'm posting the cover by
@jecorona
because I think it is honestly mind blowing & shocking.
It also hopefully tells you what you need to know about this series.
Good Luck
#1
is out in June and it is created by me &
@stefano_simeone