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Meet Killboy – James Tynion IV Self-Publishing New Comic Next Week

Published Thu, 23 Jul 2020 18:24:10 -0500

James Tynion IV is writing the best-selling comic book in the direct market, Batman. He is writing some of the best-selling creator-owned books, Something Is Killing The Children and Wynd. He is writing a new Image Comics title likely to outsell both of them. So obviously this is the time for James Tynion IV to self-publish his next comic book outside of the direct market and Diamond Comic Distributors and, as a result, only give a few days' notice that a) it exists and b) will be on sale if c) you are lucky enough to get a copy next week. He writes in his newsletter (which you really should be subscribed to)

The first book wholly published by TINY ONION STUDIOS.

This is the book I have previously referred to as PROJECT NIGHTMARE. I'm not going to hint much at it just yet, but it, in and of itself is an experiment. It's me learning the ropes and seeing what's possible in the comic book form, and checking to see the size of an audience that may or may not exist. I'm looking at the cover of it now, and it makes me so f-cking happy. It's my weird little baby, and I'll get to introduce it to you next week.

Here, speaking of weird babies, I'll introduce you to one of the denizens of Project Nightmare.

Meet Killboy - James Tynion IV Self-Publishing New Comic Next Week — Meet Killboy – James Tynion IV Self-Publishing New Comic Next Week

His name is KILLBOY, and I cooked him up with Ricardo Lopez Ortiz. You'll meet him next week, alongside a whole bunch of other little horrors. I keep referring to him as "Your Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer."

And that's where my compass points.

Trying sh-t out. Seeing what works. Seeing what I can get away with. The same month I'm launching the biggest comic book event I've ever written at DC Comics, I'm self-funding my own little publishing experiment with some of my pals that we're going to sell to you on computers, and I'm going to be packing and shipping them to you from my desk at home.

And that's exciting to me. That's how I'm staying sane in a burning world. I'm going to keep making weird stuff as long as you folks want to buy it off me.

So… Please buy my weird stuff!

If you will let us, James Tynion IV. How much is shipping to London? Oh and this is what he previously said about Project Nightmare in previous newsletters

PROJECT NIGHTMARE – Okay, so I'm sure I'm not the only person who has somehow manifested a new project out of thin air in the middle of quarantine. This is a weird project, that I'm planning on releasing differently than my other books. Weirdly, that means it's likely to be the first of my creator owned projects to end up in the world… Stay tuned. Lots more to come on this front.
Oh sh-t, I set all the wheels in motion for PROJECT NIGHTMARE in the last few weeks, didn't I? Hahahahahahahahaa… Oh boy.
I also think we're ready for new platforms to acquire and read comics, which is what PROJECT NIGHTMARE is all about.
PROJECT NIGHTMARE is shaping up very nicely, with lots of art coming in from different people. This is one of the wildest, most ill-advised pet-projects I could have engineered for myself, but it's been the main thing keeping me sane over the last month. This is the project that best embodies the spirit of what I was talking about in my opening manifesto. You'll learn a lot more about it next month, around the time that San Diego Comic Con would have happened. I hope to the dark gods we pull it off. I have a story in the first issue that I think is one of the scariest things I've ever written.