So, I’ve beat quite a bit around the sequential bush the past few weeks about my exciting new book: Welcome to Pixelton. You’ve been good so I can let one big golden nugget slip: It will be an entirely unexplored dimension of comic storytelling which I’m pushing to an extreme.

Big words, no? Yep. How can I be so sure? Because I’ve looked far and wide and only a few people have attempted this style even in a small form. It is an untapped use of comics that I’m beginning to feel may be their most appealing face. It will be everything that my last book wasn’t. It should have a chance at affecting people in a unique way.





It isn’t a genre, but a new approach to comic storytelling. A storytelling avenue that could work with any genre, or style. And It isn’t through the use of certain panels or storytelling techniques.

Before you roll your eyes, people doubted me before Nothing Left to Lose existed too. They would hear about my debut 200+ page graphic novel and self-publishing debut and chuckle. But when I arrived with NLtL at SPX Fall 2004 they changed their tune. I had a show campaign that was featured in USA Today, and a postcard that many said was “the best they’d ever seen.” Folks learned that I could deliver on my talk and that even at my weakest outing, I was swinging for the heavens.




Now I’m 50 pages into the first chapter of a story and format that is ten times as ambitious. Each day I grow a page stronger, and I get more excited about 4 years of planning coming to life.

I hope this doesn’t come off as ultra cocky (though a good 75% would suffice). It is from pure elation that I write this down. I’ve found the place in comics where I hope to spend the rest of my life – enjoying creating each and every second.