I’ve written a brand new graphic novel coming out this fall, featuring a character I’ve been working on for 20 years.
I dreamed up Kid Maroon in a little studio apartment off Melrose when I was 23, on the same day I couldn’t find the final quarter to wash my clothes, and burst into tears. (/thread)
I dreamed up Kid Maroon in a little studio apartment off Melrose when I was 23, on the same day I couldn’t find the final quarter to wash my clothes, and burst into tears. (/thread)
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A hard-boiled boy detective. A town called Crimeville. And crimes no kid should ever see. 🕵️♂️🩸
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#comicbooks #comicsky
Read Kid Maroon #1 #FREE, then get ready for the deluxe OGN by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social & @victorsantos.bsky.social dropping this September via @thevaultcomics.bsky.social 👇
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You can maybe see the connection now.
The character has always been rooted in feeling like a child who’s lost, even when everyone around you is a grown-up.
I still feel this way at 43, just as I did at 23.
I had also stolen 12,000 ft of short-end & recanned 35mm film from where I’d recently been fired from…
No one wanted my book, either.
But Kid Maroon stayed in my mind and heart.
And yes, I have reconceived him as the creation of a tortured comic artist from the 40’s named Pep Shepard.
In my just-shy-of-a-decade experience in comics, I’ve been fascinated, inspired, and terrified by the biographies of Wood, Everett, & Cole…
…comes the added phantasm of being an artful, troubled ghost that fades into the cloak of time.
Kid’s an alter ego; Pep’s an alter ego.
I know. It’s indulgent!
But…
Victor has poured his love of Eisner and Kurtzman into these pages.
This is a comic for comic lovers.