Torture Squid collaboration unveiled

Posted by author Jeff Vandermeer on his blog:

TORTURE SQUID: Zach Taylor/VanderMeer Comic to Be Completed Soonish

"Artist Zach Taylor has been working on preliminary sketches for a Torture Squid comic book/graphic novel. I'm providing him with a rough textual treatment for him to use as the basis for the storyline. We haven't sought out a publisher -we're going to finish it first. (Zach, btw, has created some great Evil Monkey for President swag, based on my EM persona, available here. Check it out.)

What're The Torture Squid? Well, they're a ruthless gang of anti-heroes who run amok through my fictional creation of Ambergris. They're described in City of Saints & Madmen, in a story called "King Squid". Below you can find Zach's sketches and also the relevant City text for context. The resulting comic will be somewhat darkly humorous with a fair amount of slapstick. Should be fun."

Check out the rest of the blog post, which includes prose excerpts, here!

Yes, that's right. I'm collaborating on my next project. (I finished "The Miner and the Cave That Ate Time" way back in April. What? I forgot to post about that? I'm a sorry excuse for a blogger!)

I'm really excited about this. If you don't know who Jeff Vandermeer is, go read The City of Saints and Madmen and/or Shriek: An Afterword. He's an incredible fantasy author in the "New Weird" school. He writes awesome books and I'm thrilled to be working with him.