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Back to Journal  « The Fox News Guide to Terrorist Gang Signs | "Groundbound" in FutureQuake #10 (out now) | SALE! - "Dry Frugal with Death Rays" to Futurismic » "Groundbound" in FutureQuake #10 (out now) June 14, 2008  My five page science fiction comic story "Groundbound" with artist Shaun Gardiner appears in the current issue of the British comics-anthology series FutureQuake. Shaun and I are hoping to expand it into a four issue miniseries.  I don't think the book is available from Diamond, but I'll double-check. I'll be ordering a few copies direct on FRIDAY (June 20). If you're in the U.S. and want me to order you a copy (I'll absorb the overseas shipping, if you'll pay for cover price plus a buck or two for "local" postage), just let me know. LJ comments or contact form.  A few quick notes: The script got some heavy tweaking/edits both from editorial before going to Shaun, and afterwards from myself and Shaun after some of those changes (and some of my own idiocy) created some issues I didn't foresee. The changes much improved the piece, I'd argue, and I'll post a few of the more fun alternative solutions we came up with in the next week or so.  I gave the sociopath-protagonist the name "Holly" specifically because I didn't know any Hollys personally when I wrote the script in late 2005. I've since met at least three, including my Clarion instructor Holly Black. Oops.  Also in 2005, not knowing what would sell and what wouldn't, I very occasionally reused science fiction conceits (like maybe twice in a couple dozen pieces). Sure enough, this shares an idea with "Outgoing," which was accepted for publication in Asimov's within a few months of my placing this with FutureQuake IIRC. Two very different stories and not the most important detail in either, but still.  And, finally, I wrote this as a "Future Shock" spec script for 2000 AD, and FS stories have a certain... expectation that comes with the final panel or two. I make no apologies for staying true to that here, but if structure-wise it's hard to identify this as an "Alex" story (whatever that means this early in my career)...  Filed under Comic Stripping, Journal, News, Pretty Pictures  
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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