The Classic Sherlock Holmes Mystery Returns

Sequential Pulp Comics and Dark Horse presents The Hound of the Baskervilles, a new graphic novel of the classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, illustrated by Jamie Chase and written by me.

Currently in production!


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Artwork © Jamie Chase

I Want My MTV

Wow...I'm being interviewed by MTV Geek today, for Sequential Pulp Comics, an imprint of Dark Horse.

A bit nervous here. What if they discover that I'm actually not one of the cool people?

El sabueso de los Baskerville

A fan sent me this. Very fun and gratifying to see a Spanish Edition of my HOUND THE BASKERVILLES graphic novel, for younger readers.

Hola de nuevo, os quiero comunicar que he encontrado una novela gráfica de la editorial uruguaya LatinBooks sobre EL SABUESO DE LOS BASKERVILLE.

SOBRE EL ADAPTADOR:

Desde 1986, Martin Powell ha sido un escritor freelance. Ha escrito cientos de historias, muchas de las cuales fueron publicadas por Disney, Marvel, Tekno Comix, Moonstone Books y otros. En el año 1989, Powll recibió una nominación para el premio Eisner por su novela grafica Scarlet in Gaslight (adaptación de Un estudio en escarlata). Este premio es uno de los más importantes dentro del género cómic.

SOBRE EL ILUSTRADOR:

Daniel Pérez nació en Monterrey, México, en 1977. Durante más de una década trabajó para WZJL y como colorista e ilustrador para editoriales de cómics como Marvel, Image y Dark Horse. Actualmente trabaja para Protobunker Studio mientras también desarrolla su primera novela gráfica.

http://www.circuloholmes.org.es/cholmes/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1185&Itemid=2

Beware the Moon

A suspenseful scene of lycanthropic horror from a new project by artist Steven Gordon and I. This will be published by Sequential Pulp Comics, an imprint of Dark Horse.

The title, for now, remains mysterious.

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Artwork © Steven Gordon

The Halloween Muse

Many writers seem to "live" their work, but what happened to me yesterday was rather eerie and can only be described as the work suddenly developing a life of its own.

While writing an integral chapter of The Halloween Legion a profound secret within my little group of weirdos abruptly made its presence known to me on the page, taking literal control of the story.


















I was utterly stunned.

This is the rare moment when creatively motivated folks genuinely feel the presence of their "Muse", something seemingly outside of themselves, guiding the process. My characters were actually writing themselves and telling me what they wanted me to do--practically demanding it.

A rather bizarre experience even for me, to say the least, but also kind of wonderful.

The Halloween Legion © Martin Powell. Artwork © Danny Kelly and Thomas Boatwright.

Scarlet in Gaslight at 25

The 25th Anniversary Edition of Scarlet in Gaslight, my Sherlock Holmes/Dracula graphic novel, is moving along nicely, from the heroic folks at Pulp 2.0 Press.





































This will be my book's 7th printing since it was originally published in 1987, when it was nominated for an Eisner Award. We're gathering lots of fun special features material and a very classy new cover to make this a real event. There will be some cool merchandise, too. It will be available around Christmas.

Sure hope you'll join us!

Scarlet in Gaslight © Martin Powell. Artwork © Seppo Makinen.

The Halloween Legion Lives!

Although they haven't been born yet, The Halloween Legion are slowly, but surely, expanding their universe and taking on a life of their own.

Already in the works are an illustrated prose novella, comics, and a coloring book. Wonder what should be next? Card games? Board games? Masks? Action figures? Saturday morning cartoon?

Maybe a children's book written in fun, rhyming verse?

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The Halloween Legion © Martin Powell. Artwork © Thomas Boatwright.