The Midnight Hour

Born from a shared fondness for Robert Aickman’s short stories, disguised by (un?)healthy doses of comics and pulp fiction…

Here’s what happened… as result of reading all of Aickman’s stuff, I’d at one point wanted to either adapt a story for comics or illustrate a collection disguised as Harry Clarke.

I was finding it hard to either adapt or illustrate his work — somebody else, please try it — when I thought it’d be better to find a writer who also liked Aickman’s stuff. Internet search: James Chambers.

So I ordered James Chambers’ and Christopher Mills’ Shadow House collection, which was very very cool. Since I was cheap and looking for work and we had Aickman in common, it was easy to get the ball rolling with The Midnight Hour.

The Midnight Hour is a strange body of work, material aside, because of the forms its taken so far; comics, illustrated short stories and an upcoming novel-length online serial. I waffle between comics and other stuff… comics work just doesn’t pay for all the work involved unless you work for the big two or own your own work and get lucky. I opt for owning the work and rolling the dice.

Also visit the comics gallery for Midnight Hour pages, among others.