I started with the agents on my shortlist, and scoured each of their MSWL pages to (1) ensure their interests matched my project and (2) take notes for the query letter. I already had a shortlist of “dream agents” (including Jim) based on sales and reputation, but also wanted to find more agents with relevant interests whom I hadn’t thought of yet. Agents get dozens of query letters each day, so I wanted to make mine stand out by showing why I thought they’d be interested in reading my book. The first stop on my researching mission was MSWL - it consistently has more information on agents’ interests than the bio/about pages on their websites. I already knew Jim McCarthy was one of my dreams agents based on his stellar sales record, and also because his clients are super happy working with him, including one of my good friends. Ideally they’d also have a some great sales under their belt. That meant I had a lot of research ahead of me - I wanted to find agents whose interests closely aligned with The Last Hour. After all, excitement is contagious, and I hoped that a stoked agent could get editors fired up to read.
This time around, my top priority was to sign with an agent who was truly excited about my project. Traditional publishing had been my dream forever, and if this book was my best shot, I wanted to take it. But after some cajoling from friends and CPs, I did some soul-searching, and decided to try for agent #3. So I was really proud of it, and my CPs thought it was very marketable! However, I’d been planning to indie-publish - my traditional publishing journey had been fraught with dead-ends, and I was eager to get my books into readers’ hands. It was the most challenging book I’ve written - it’s dual timeline, with alternating flashback chapters dropping clues about whodunit and who the victim will be, and there are twists and turns aplenty. It’s a cross between to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and Abigail Haas’s Dangerous Girls - nine teens get locked in a room and must choose someone to kill within an hour, or else they’ll all die. A best-selling retrospective collection of his classic comic book work was released last year from Dark Horse Comics, The Best of Milligan & McCarthy.By Diana Urban, author and Jim McCarthy, agentĪ couple of months ago, I finished edits on a YA thriller called The Last Hour. More recently, Brendan has created new graphic novels including Spider-Man Fever (for Marvel), Solo (for DC Comics) and Swimini Purpose, The Zaucer of Zilk and Dream Gang for independent US publishers. He has spent more than 20 years working in Hollywood, and is the co-writer and a designer on Mad Max Fury Road.
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He was also one of the pioneers of computer animation, creating the visuals for the 1990s computer animated TV series ReBoot, the first long-form digital narrative that preceded Pixar and Dreamworks’ later successes. His ground-breaking comics of the early 1980s (Strange Days, Skin, Rogan Gosh) as part of ‘The British Invasion’ paved the way for comics’ increasing popularity in Hollywood. Primarily set in a dream, it takes advantage of its surreal concept to toy with backgrounds and characters.”-īrendan McCarthy studied Painting and Film at Chelsea School of Art and is one of the UK’s most gifted graphic novelists. “Dream Gang never lacks for interesting panels. “Dream Gang is fascinating with a hook strong enough to make me want to read more.”-Major Spoilers “Engaging surrealism, a fever dream of a tale that is gorgeous in its roughness and, like real dreams, leaves the reader guessing as to what the next step is in the story being told.”-Comic Book Resources “TechnoDreamFreakWavePsychedelicPunkPopartMadmaxYellowSubmarineTasticness!”-Rufus Dayglo (Tank Girl, Bad Company) “Plunge into the mind-warping, surrealistic maelstrom of Dream Gang, Brendan McCarthy’s fantastic psychedelic adventure story.”-Bryan Talbot (Grandville, One Bad Rat) “A psychedelic masterpiece, from one of the architects of post-modern comics.”-Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy, True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys) “Dream Gang is the legendary Brendan McCarthy at his visionary best.”-Frank Quitely (All-Star Superman, Jupiter’s Legacy)
Preorder your copy today at your local comic book store or favorite online retailer: Dream Gang arrives on July 27 and retails for $14.99.
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