BEDTIME STORIES AD

This will be featured on the inside back cover of Vampire, PA #2.

JCV PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

From this month (May) through the fall, I'll have something out every month except September (hey, a guy's got to sleep sometime!). In addition to these projects, I have several more brewing at the moment.

The Overstreet Guide To Collecting Comics - FCBD 2010 - May 1 (Gemstone Publishing)
Vampire, PA#1 - June (Moonstone Books)
Creepy Archives - Volume Six (Introduction) - July
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #40 - July (Gemstone Publishing)
Vampire, PA#2 - August (Moonstone Books)
Bedtime Stories For Impressionable Children - October (Moonstone Books)
Vampire, PA#3 - October (Moonstone Books)
Zombie-Proof: Zombie-Zoo - November (Moonstone Books)

If you on Facebook, look me up under "Jeffrey Vaughn" and join see what's cooking.

VAMPIRE, PA #3 COVERS - First Look!

Vampire, PA #3 cover A by Brendon Fraim, Brian Fraim and Mark Wheatley, and Vampire, PA #3 cover B (wraparound) by Jacob Jordan.

BEDTIME STORIES FOR IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN

Sometimes a good idea just won't die. Of course it sort of helps when it's undead to start with.

To say that Bedtime Stories For Impressionable Children has been percolating for a long time would be something of an understatement. I had read Creepy and Eerie, of course, but years and years before I got to work on The EC Archives, even before I discovered Bruce Jones' Twisted Tales, the first screenplay I tried to write while I was still in high school was Bedtime Stories For Impressionable Children.

Sometimes, as was the case with Antiques: The Comic Strip, you just don't know enough to do a good job writing a project when it first hits you. Then later -- sometimes much later -- how to actually do it hits you suddenly. That's the case with this one.

I was having lunch with James Kuhoric, my good friend and the only comic book writer who has made Army of Darkness really come alive (so to speak) for me (he's also the creator of the great Dead Irons and Legendary Talespinners). We weren't even talking about horror anthologies are first, but then (with a nod to Ross Richie and company) ... BOOM!

A couple of minutes later we had the whole first issue figured out.

That same night I had dinner with two other good friends, photographer Michael Solof and multi-media artist Mark Wheatley (creator of, among other things, Vertigo's Breathtaker and the recent graphic novel EZ Street). We talked it over, and it really got rolling.

I wrote up a quick proposal about the one-shot (we're ready to do more if it's a success), sat on it a few days, good some feedback, and then sent it off to Joe Gentile and our friends at Moonstone.

The result will be a 32-page comic book of horror tales by the aforementioned creators along with one by writer-director Robert Tinnell (The Black Forest, The Wicked West). It should be fun, and I already have a lot of other really talented friends ready to roll if people like this one.

We've already started a Facebook page on it, so check it out.

More to follow.

CREEPY ARCHIVES - Volume 6

Due out in July 2010 from Dark Horse Comics, Creepy Archives - Volume 6 is a great collection. It features the material from Creepy #26-32 (not including the stories reprinted in previous volumes of this series, all of which I recommend heartily). The bulk of the art is by Ernie Colon and Tony Williamsune, but there's also work by Reed Crandall, Tom Sutton, Angelo Torres and one really interesting collaboration between Harlan Ellison and Neal Adams. It also has an introduction by yours truly.