I am currently sitting in the Sandstorm Comics booth, where I have been planted for the day. Sandstorm Comics is the first UAE-based comic company. Last spring, they opened up for submissions for their first batch of comics and I was one of the writers that was chosen for the project.

Over the last six months, I have been writing a graphic novel for them called Four Frontiers. Basically, it’s the story of an organization that has been created to deal with the strange and unusual circumstances that arise from portals to other parts of the universe that open up in various places around the world. Basically, it’s a fun, adventurous romp around the world to deal with all kinds of weird events.

That was the original pitch that was presented to them and I began writing it in September. I finished the whole thing in about a month (140 comic pages, 198 script pages). We went through a couple of months of editing and finally ended up with a lean 120 page graphic novel. Now, we’ve got an artist and a concept designer on the book and it looks like things are happening. Once I get the approval, I’ll send some concept art your way.