House in the Wall Complete Issue & Cover Art by Eryk Donovan, written by James Tynion IV
Ever want to own a complete issue written by one of the hottest writers of the 21st century? Here’s your chance.
Complete Issue: HOUSE IN THE WALL #2 LOT OF 19 PUBLISHED PAGES INCLUDING COVER
The House in the Wall was a digital comic published by Mark Waid’s Thrillbent company in 2014. The art duties were carried out by the very talented Eryk Donovan.
This was a very early endeavor of Tynion, as he had just made a name for himself writing Backups for Scott Snyder’s Batman run in 2013, and had dipped his toes in creator owned comics with Memetic and The Eighth Seal also for Thrillbent.
Tynion would go on to become a force to be reckoned with in the comics world creating Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake, The Woods, Wynd, taking over Batman, Creating Punchline (the Joker’s new Girlfriend) and recently, Exquisite Corpses.
Hollywood has taken note of Tynion in recent weeks with announcement after announcement as his comics are being optioned for TV, games, and movies.
A brief quote from Tynion about House in the Wall:
This is basically my take on a ghost story. My best friend Noah [J. Yuenkell and I were talking last summer when THE EIGHTH SEAL was starting its run on Thrillbent.com about ideas that we'd been kicking back together in high school. One thing we were also talking about is how ghost stories, in general, are kind of in vogue, but they're all playing with the same tropes over and over and over. We wanted to see if whether or not there was a way to do a ghost story in a very original way and in an original setting that doesn't play into any of the standard tropes. The way we really wanted to do that was by making it center on a character, much like ourselves and also a lot of people in our lives. This isn't "you inherit a house in the country and it turns out to be haunted."
This is the story of Ariel Carpenter, who is a young woman in her mid 20s, feeling aimless, and living in a crummy apartment out in Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. She's been fired from three consecutive jobs. She has her English degree, but has no idea how to turn that into money. She has no idea what her life will hold and she's feeling more and more disconnected from everything in her life. The only thing that seems real is this house she keeps dreaming about. It frightens her, but it excites her. It has that feeling of something with weight that none of the rest of her life has. It's something she starts obsessing over and gets lost in.
That's really where the horror begins. She discovers the door to that house in the wall of her tiny Bed-Stuy apartment. By opening that door, she'll unleash absolute horror on the lives of her and her friends.
This sale is for all of the art for issue 2.
Being that this was practical art created for the internet, and the aspect ratio was formatted for a screen (IPad/ phone) it has slightly different dimensions than a typical piece of comic art. Each page is noted as a “screen” instead of a “page” and there are four additional pages of art for screens 5 and 15 which provided elements that would animate or change upon a swipe.
Details about the art: * The cover is pencils, inks, and ink wash on 10x12 bristol, drawn at a scale that fully embraces the digital comic format. * Pages 1-15 are drawn in pencils and inks on 9x14 inch bristol, with the top and the bottom of each page representing a full swipe to a new page. * Additional elements are drawn in pencils and inks over grey line printouts of the backgrounds. These are on 4 pieces of 8.5x11 paper.
All of the art will be available as one lot. I ship fast and secure, always providing tracking.
