HELLHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL, my book about Robert Johnson's last day is basically a "walk of death" as he reminisces about moments in his past as he walks an old Mississippi road to get to a juke joint, where he's supposed to play.

It's 46pgs. 17 were complete as of last night.

I've come to the conclusion that if I did 2pgs a day (which isn't impossible. I've been known to get 4 done on good days) I can complete the remaining 29pgs by Dec. 21. Thus beating my new year's resolution quota of having 2 mini-comics done by 1.

And 2pgs were completed today, keeping to that schedule. yay.

After HHOMT, I thought THE MYTH OF PHINEOUS GAGE was going to be my next book, but my wife, the writer, has announced she'll have a different mini-comic script completed before then.

And she does.

It doesn't have a title yet, but it's a story based on her Great Grandfather's time hopping the rails in the 1920's, which we were going to do after PHINEOUS GAGE. But you can see where I'm going with this. It should be roughly 25-28pgs. So, while she writes PHINEOUS GAGE, I'll be drawing a rail riding story.

THE MYTH OF PHINEOUS GAGE

My awesome wife came up with new mini-comic. About a railroad worker in the late 1800's named Phineous Gage, who tapped dynamite into walls for a living and accidently blew a rail spike THROUGH his skull and survive.

He went on to live a normal life, but there are a bunch of awesome myths surround what he did after it happened. Beause of that, the book will be called:

THE MYTH OF PHINEOUS GAGE

an untrue story inspired by real events

We'll b working on that after HELLHUNDS ON MY TRAIL is finished, which should't be too long. 17pgs out of 48pgs are done. :D

If you were to ask me wat a stack of finished HELIO pages looked like, I'd probably show you this picture:

Cause that's what it'd look like! get it? ha! I'm so clever.

Might have something for sale soon. Like ... a comic? Probably.

Stu ...ffph?

One of the projects I'm working on right now is a mini-comic calld HELIO. It's a mini-bio-comic about Helio Gracie, co-creator of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. Which has become known around the world as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

It's about 26pgs, and it's about done. I have only a couple of pages left to ink on it.

Once it's finished, I need to decide if I want to print it alone, or include it as 1 of 3 mini-comics about sports legends in a single 78 page book. Because aside from HELIO, I also have BOSTON STRONGBOY, and an idea for a story about bullit car racing I'd like to do.

Here's a page from a mini-comic I'm putting together. It's called HELIO. 3 guesses who it's about!

Anthology.

Here are the first two pages to a short story my wife and I will have published in an anthology. When I know more about said anthology - other than it's going to have a limited 2000 print run for England - I'll be sure to let anyone who cares know.