Canceled is Coming to Stores on Wednesday!
Canceled be available on April 20th and Stake Presents: Jessamy #3 cover reveal!
Hello all you amazing people!
It’s an exciting week over here in the world of David A Byrne.
Last week we put a bow on Stake Presents: Jessamy #2 and sent out digital rewards for the issue. Now we wait for it to be printed, with fulfillment on the horizon.
I think the issue turned out great and I couldn’t be more proud of our team for the hard work they put it in.
Thank you Francesca and Joel! This series doesn’t happen without you guys!
Issue 3 is coming!
While we work on fulfilling issue 2, Stake Presents: Jessamy #3 is already written and being laid out by Francesca so we can jump right in and get it on Kickstarter!
I’ve got a handful of wonderful covers from some wildly talented artists queued up and ready to go. While we work in the background on that, I wanted to share the completed cover Francesca turned in last week…
How fantastic is that?
There will be opportunities to catch up on the whole series with the next Kickstarter as we wrap up the story in issue 3.
Canceled is in Stores THIS WEDNESDAY!
I wrote the majority of this story as a short for a potential anthology about 3 years ago. When Pabliku Man reached out to me and asked if I had anything he could draw, I dusted it off and cleaned it up for him.
His pages were incredible. I shared them with Joseph Schmalke at Black Caravan (the horror/sci-fi imprint for Scout) and he told me to get it to 20 pages and they’ll publish it.
I was elated and happy to share with Pabliku, but there was a rub…he couldn’t do anymore pages because he took on a big project in Chile and didn’t have time to do both. Pabliku’s work on the project was great, it set the tone, but I had to figure out a way to pivot.
I have had the benefit of working with a lot of great artists and learned how to find them in the weirdest places over the last few years. It was at this point I used what I had learned and got a little creative - I decided to add pages that spanned multiple decades and brought on a different artist for each one.
The end result is something I’m incredibly proud of and can’t wait to share with the world.
Black Caravan Premiere: David’Byrne’s Canceled will be in stores April 20th (Happy Birthday Ashley!). I hope you’ll check it out!
Black Caravan Imprint: From the writer of Stake comes the first Black Caravan Premiere title, Canceled! When washed-up kids show host Larry finds himself replaced by Cruncho the Clown, he tries to destroy the local town television tower, but instead gets himself electrocuted...and sucked into the airwaves. Canceled crosses four eras with four different artists with unique styles including Pabliku Man, Renan Balmonte, Medmanga, and Nick Justus and incentive covers from Ed Bickford and Zu Orzu! With letters by Joel Rodriguez.
It will also be available on Scout Comics website on the day of release!
Stayed tuned, but not too close, that’s when Larry gets ya!
Until next time!
David