Now we’ve had a chance to get back home from San Diego, unpack, have a baby. The usual stuff.
My parents stayed with Elizabeth and I for a couple weeks, to help us out with our new little man. Now that we’ve got a baby, it feels like there are always things that need to be done, and I feel like I’m never quite caught up with everything I need to do, and there is always something that needs to be done that isn’t getting done. This is how my life will be from here on out, I’m assuming. From a comics-self-publishing standpoint, I’m always a day or so behind as far as who I need to email, what I need to write, draw, send out, pack up to send out, and all that other self-publishing stuff.
Here are some huge accomplishments as a result of San Diego.
POTENTIAL MOVIE DEALS
I emailed one of the Hollywood guys who said he thought my comic looked good. He said he seriously had my comics on his coffee table at home, and planned to read them that night.
Out of the blue, another film person emailed me, said he’d only taken the first issue, but could already tell it would make a good tv show. He mentioned the Sci-Fi Channel and a show his friend had recently done, starting as a made-for-tv movie, that got spun into a regular series.
I wrote back to him, asking what he had in mind, feeling a little skeptical. He immediately wrote back that he thought it should be a Tales From The Crypt or Twilight Zone style format, with three vignettes in a ninety-minute pilot.
When he said this, I started getting really excited, because I never imagined anyone would want to take this approach with my stories. I assumed people would like this character or that, and want to do a Dr. DeBunko series, for example. But never to take everything and keep the whole Tabloia style and format.
I wrote him back and spouted way too many ideas, and sent him copies of the rest of my Tabloia issues. It’s now been a week or so, and I haven’t heard back again.
The other Hollywood guy wrote back once and mentioned he had read some of them and thought there may be some potential. So by early August I’m feeling pretty studly, and as if potential live-action Tabloia isn’t exciting enough, I got Shag, Skeptic Society, and Stan Lee news.