Hello from Jonathan Ball

Draw Me a Monster

Hello, Reader!

Sometimes my kids ask me what they should draw. I always say the same thing: draw me a monster.

If you're a massive horror fan like me, you love monsters. And if, like me, you grew up during the comics boom of the 1990s, you love comics.

That's why I'm thrilled to say that the next book by Stranger Fiction will be a comics anthology about monsters.

We are partnering with Chasing Artwork and Good Machine to bring this book to you... and as of tomorrow (Tuesday, September 3) you'll see that Chasing Artwork is launching a Kickstarter to cover expenses and pay contributors as printing prep work on the book gets finalized.

I just proofed this whole book and it looks great. I also wrote my own mini-story that operates as a monster comic but mainly serves as a foreword to the rest of the anthology, so you'll see a smidgen of my work in there.

​​Please support DIRE BEASTS on Kickstarter when it launches on September 3!​​

More Book News!

The next-next book by Stranger Fiction is also launching soon! I will tell you more about the book later... but right now I'll tell you that it's another book in the SHARED WORLD project!

If you want to find out more about the existing books and start getting excited about the next one, check out the project site at www.SharedWorld.ca​

I have a LOT MORE book news coming soon as well. Books that Stranger Fiction is not publishing, but which I have been writing and working on for years. YEARS. Finally, many of these projects are being completed. You will be getting a LOT of news over the next little while.

I know I've been quiet lately. That's because TONS has been going on and yet at the same time NOTHING has been happening that I could talk about. All the news is nearly ready to break but all of it has to be kept behind a locked door right now. It's a frustrating situation for me but it's also exciting. And I'm thrilled that the floodgates are starting to crack open.

Making a Movie

If you've been hanging out with my lately, on days when I looked super tired, you may have asked me what was wrong and I might have mentioned I've been involved in making a movie.

I'm not the main dude in the movie-making project by any means, but I did have a run of being back in the film world after years away, with its 15-hour days inside of unheated abandoned buildings and so on. Movie magic!

Excited stuff that I cannot talk about too much at the moment, but just a note that there's more-more-more news coming down the line for you, and not all just book news!

Anyway, more soon. In the meantime, hope that you are feeling good as we go into the next school year, and I hope that you support DIRE BEASTS!​

Stay strange,

Jonathan

PO Box 70043 Kenaston PO, Winnipeg, MB R3P 0X6
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