Scott Hampton, creator and / or artist on such notable projects as Pigeons From Hell, Silverheels, the Batman Graphic Novel Night Cries, Neil Gaiman's American Gods and a host of other projects has just started a Kickstarter campaign for a 150-page horror graphic novel. The art is completed and the money is being raised to print it.
In Scott's words:
About ten years ago, my graphic novel, The Upturned Stone,
was optioned for a movie and I decided to use that windfall to fund a
personal project that I’d been dreaming about for quite a while –
essentially, a horror movie on paper – called Trespassers.
Trespassers – my
take on the cabin in the woods sub-genre – took fifteen months to
complete, and while it is also a fully painted work, is a pretty radical
departure from The Upturned Stone. At approximately 150 pages it's also considerably longer.
I’ve always been drawn to stories where the protagonists are up against an elusive enemy who's hard to find and even to see. In Trespassers,
the other-worldly creatures can only be revealed in flashes of
lightning, making their appearance unpredictable and especially
frightening.
Once I finished this graphic novel, I took a
two-week nap, then got back to work earning dollars.:) Now, ten years
later, I’m working on a BIG project for a book publisher that will take
the better part of two years to complete (another long nap is looming),
and since I don’t want to be entirely forgotten while I'm toiling away
I’m thinking now might be the perfect time to bring this baby out. I
hope folks enjoy reading this as much as I did making it. Thanks again
for the support. Cheers!
You can participate in the Kickstarter campaign here. Below are images of a couple pages from the book.
