And then there was one: the 7th and final page of “Anything For You” is now online at ApeCMX.com. Hope you dig it!

http://apecmx.com/ufo/

The penultimate page of “Anything For You” is now online at ApeCMX.com. Click, read, and enjoy!

http://apecmx.com/ufo/

Page 4 of “Anything For You” now online at ApeCMX.com. UFOs have never been more fun!

http://apecmx.com/ufo/

“Anything For You” page 3 is now online for your reading pleasure at ApeCMX.com.

http://apecmx.com/ufo/

Page 2 of “Anything For You” is now online at ApeCMX.com as part of their new antho, UFO: Encounters with the Unknown. http://apecmx.com/ufo/

UFO: Encounters with the Unknown launches today on ApeCMX.com, featuring my story, “Anything For You,” with art by Brandon Palas and colors by Anthony Peruzzo. This is my love letter to those cheesy 1950's sci-fi flicks, and it's by far the most fun thing I've ever written. I hope you dig it! http://apecmx.com/ufo/

My friend and fellow comic book creator Jason Rodriguez (editor of the Eisner-nominated Postcards: True Stories That Never Happened) drove cross-country from Arlington, VA to San Diego for this year's Comic-Con International. By my reckoning, he spent approximately $73,854 in gas on that little jaunt!

So I know he'd appreciate it if you'd be so kind as to check out his witty and insightful travelogue, in which he shares some of the experiences he had getting to meet and hang out and drink to excess with creators and comic enthusiasts around the country -- including, naturally, your and my favorite up-and-coming writer, Elton Pruitt!

Click on over to the DCist site at dcist.com/tags/comicdom and check it out Jason Rodriguez's Coast-to-Coast Comicdom Extravaganza. You'll be glad you did!

If your comic shop carries Desperado Publishing's acclaimed anthology, NEGATIVE BURN, I hope you'll check out issue 21 which hit the stands last week. It features a couple of stories by my friend and excellent writer Caleb Monroe, and also contains the touching tale of "Frog-Boy," written by me and illustrated by the brilliant Renzo Podesta.

Here's the cover to look for:



And here's the first page to whet your appetite:



Yay, me!

Artists: without them, we're merely delusional dreamers.

If you want to write comic books, you've got to find artists to bring your words to visual life. But where do you find them? And how?

Learn all the Ecto has learned – and hopefully a lot more – in "The Courtship of an Artist," this week in Running Up That Hill.

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Our primary goal as writers is to defeat that mythological, multi-headed beast: the dreaded blank page. This week in Running Up That Hill, Elton Pruitt (aka the Ecto, aka recent accomplisher of the fabled NEGATIVE BURN Hat Trick) shares a couple of tips and stategies that work for him.

Read Defeating Blank Pages, part 1: Outflank Your Enemy today!

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