Posts by Everett

Symphony Number Six optioned by Hollywood!

Posted by Everett on Apr 1, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments

Hey guys! This post got a lot of attention,

but I just want to clarify once and for all

that it was an April Fools joke!

Very exciting news! I’ve been sitting on this announcement for a few weeks, but it’s finally definite enough to share with the world: my most recent comic, Symphony Number Six, has been optioned for a movie!

Now, this doesn’t mean the movie will definitely get made – all the option means is that a studio is interested. A studio (still can’t name it, but it’s one of the medium-sized ones) paid me a certain amount of money now, and in exchange I don’t allow anybody else to buy the movie rights for a set period of time. But . . . it looks promising. So, how did this all come about?

Well, it started, like most things do, at the comic book store. I was at Cosmic Monkey Comics, my local comic shop, purchasing the latest issue of Aquaman (are you guys reading Aquaman?) This guy nearby looked very familiar, until I realized it was Chiwetel Ejiofor, a British actor currently best known for his starring role in 12 Years a Slave . . . though I was more familiar with him from Children of Men. Turns out he’s a huge comic book fan! (Mostly European stuff.) He was in Portland filming some nature scenes in the Columbia River Gorge. Anyway, I gave him a copy of Symphony Number Six, complimentary of course. He contacted me a few days later, saying he loved the story and was interested in playing the main character, Thaddeus Johnson.

Stuff in Hollywood seems to move pretty fast. Within the week, I was getting tons of calls from agents, lawyers, and various Tinseltown big shots. Seems they’ve also attracted the interest of Mark Margolis for the role of Pyotr! My dream-casting!

Anyway, I’m not sure if I’ll be invited to participate in the screenplay adaptation – right now, it’s looking like I’ll just get “story consultant” . . . and of course “based on the story by Everett Patterson” in the opening credits.

Stay tuned for more SN6 movie updates – and enjoy this beautiful new month! I haven’t been this excited since I worshipped a lobster and married Pocahontas this time three years ago!

Dream Thief Pinup

Posted by Everett on Jan 24, 2014 in Blog, Featured | 0 comments

This is a pinup I did for the Dark Horse comic Dream Thief, which is written by Jai Nitz and drawn by the incredible Greg Smallwood. Dream Thief recounts the misadventures of John Lincoln, an Atlanta slacker/stoner who steals an aboriginal mask from a museum that causes him to be possessed by the vengeful ghosts of murder victims while he sleeps. As the Dream Thief, he keeps waking up in new, unfamiliar places with a headful of someone else’s memories (and skills) and usually a dead body or two lying around.

The first arc of Dream Thief, last summer, took this poor guy to a drug den in Wilmington, a Klan rally in Tupelo, and a high-stakes card game in Memphis. The second arc, coming out this summer, is mostly in Georgia and Florida. Will Dream Thief ever make it to New Orleans? My illustration speculates how it might go down.

There are a lot of things that still bug me about this drawing – the colors in particular look odd from monitor to monitor. To be fair, the visual over-stimulation of Mardi Gras is pretty hard to color tastefully. But I did enjoy playing with the cartoony iconography, and the chance to depict a small slice of the city where I was born and raised, with all its diversity and dilapidated charm.

Bushroot and Poison Ivy

Posted by Everett on Nov 9, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments

I got a bee in my bonnet last week to draw the Darkwing Duck villain Bushroot alongside his obvious inspiration, Poison Ivy from Batman. This is one of the few images I’ve ever done going directly from pencils to colors – still looks a little ragged to me, but I’m figuring it out.

SN6 Fan Art by Mick Mingolo!

Posted by Everett on Sep 15, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments

I’m as surprised as you are! Comics superstar and Heckman creator MICK MINGOLO drew this pin-up for my comic Symphony Number Six, colored by the inimitable STUART DAVIS!

Here’s my original thumbnail. This drawing really “clicked” when I realized that almost all of the real Mignola’s covers feature a diagonal stripe from lower left to upper right.

Symphony Number Six!

Posted by Everett on Sep 5, 2013 in Featured, Uncategorized | 0 comments

My newest comic, Symphony Number Six, is finally here! Click here to read this spooky, atmospheric horror story set in the world of classical music!