So here is the final video for querying agents. We’ll see how it goes. Pass it along if you like it. 

-dan

afilmaboutbilly:

Thank you for your consideration. To contact Daniel McCloskey click HERE, or email aFilmAboutBilly{at}gmail.com

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Not Idle

A quick update of what I’ve been up to since last update.

  1. Worked on a New “Bears in Space” comic project with Nate. (We outlined a 20 some page story and penciled 5 pages)
  2. Got to 18000 words on my new novel project. (feels like it’s going well, could be 1/4th the way through)
  3. Had a meeting about the animation to promote my last book. (To England via skype)
  4. Contacted various North Side organizations to try and integrate the Cyberpunk Apocalypse writers’ coop as smoothly as possible into what is already an badass network of non profit arts organizations.
  5. Did some doodling for my “Top of the Line” comic series. (I’ve printed hunks of story in the Andromeda comic anthology, but have yet put out a complete story)
  6. Went to readings (biked in the snow).
  7. Stapled zines (for Cyberpunk Apocalypse Zine of the Month Club)

Maybe there’s more. But you should be seeing some samples of bears in space when we get to inking.

-rock

-d

Fox god lady? She hasn’t appeared in the story yet…. but she might.
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Fox god lady? She hasn’t appeared in the story yet…. but she might.

Here’s a rough sample of a video my friend Lewis Lehe is putting together to help me pitch my hybrid novel A Film About Billy. It’s still rough, but I’m very excited. I’ll be sending it out to a handful of carefully selected agents in the near future with my fingers crossed.

-d

making a main character for my book.
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making a main character for my book.

robot for my book
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robot for my book

Here are some doodles serving as concept art for the new hybrid novel I’m working on. I’ll be posting more of this kind of thing I imagine.
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Here are some doodles serving as concept art for the new hybrid novel I’m working on. I’ll be posting more of this kind of thing I imagine.

I’ve been going trough and cleaning up comic pages of my hybrid novel “A Film About Billy.” It alternates between comics and prose with about 88pages of comic and 50someodd thousand words. A friend of mine is doing an animated preview kind of thing that I’m going to send out to agents with my query. Oh, and while I’m at it here’s a story summery: A Film About Billy is a novel that alternates between comics and prose to tell the story of Collin Heart—a kid editing a documentary about his dead friend during an international suicide epidemic.After high school Collin leaves the military base where his father and friends live. He moves in with his Grandmother to work on his film and wallow in depressed nostalgia. Billy the first friend of Collin’s to have died, let alone commit suicide. But, as the epidemic amps up, Collin is forced to recognize that it’s not just about him and his friend….or, at least not in the way he had thought. The Mint Foundation, who gave him an artist’s grant to work on his film seem to have ties to his father’s work with the military, and somehow, Collin, his friends, and his documentary are part of a last-ditch hair brained scheme to save humanity.In a world that has chosen to die, this is the story of the last person that wants to carry on, but can’t.
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I’ve been going trough and cleaning up comic pages of my hybrid novel “A Film About Billy.” It alternates between comics and prose with about 88pages of comic and 50someodd thousand words. A friend of mine is doing an animated preview kind of thing that I’m going to send out to agents with my query.

Oh, and while I’m at it here’s a story summery:

A Film About Billy is a novel that alternates between comics and prose to tell the story of Collin Heart—a kid editing a documentary about his dead friend during an international suicide epidemic.

After high school Collin leaves the military base where his father and friends live. He moves in with his Grandmother to work on his film and wallow in depressed nostalgia. Billy the first friend of Collin’s to have died, let alone commit suicide. But, as the epidemic amps up, Collin is forced to recognize that it’s not just about him and his friend….or, at least not in the way he had thought.

The Mint Foundation, who gave him an artist’s grant to work on his film seem to have ties to his father’s work with the military, and somehow, Collin, his friends, and his documentary are part of a last-ditch hair brained scheme to save humanity.

In a world that has chosen to die, this is the story of the last person that wants to carry on, but can’t.