FACT: In 2003, 24 people died from inhaling popcorn fumes.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo

FACT: Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

FACT: One of the largest carriers of hepatitis B is dinner mints.

FACT: Three people die each year testing if a 9V battery works on their tongue.

FACT: More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

FACT: Since 2001, 987 children have been killed while buying ice cream.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo

FACT: Deaths attributed to “loud sounds” since 1970: 34,831.
- FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo

FACT: Halogen floor lamps caused approximately 270 fires and 19 deaths per year.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo

FACT: Poets have a life span fifteen years below average.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo

FACT: A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

FACT: 99% of all "mazes" can be solved if you walk to the right every time you have to choose between left and right.

FACT: Non-dairy creamer is flammable.

FACT: Total asphyxiations attributed to rice cake eating since 1965: 1,601.
– FINAL EXITS by Michael Largo

Top ∧

June 2018

New comic book series this Sept.

Submitted by Chelsea on June 19, 2018 - 9:23am

I've been working on this for awhile and can officially make the news public: I have a new monthly comic book series coming out in September. MAN-EATERS reunites the creative team from MOCKINGBIRD -- artist Kate Niemczyk, colorist Rachelle Rosenberg, letterer Joe Caramagna, and writer Chelsea Cain (cough, I love her) -- along with cover artist and production wizard Lia Miternique and artist Stella Greenvoss. It's kind of a big deal. It's my first comic since MOCKINGBIRD, so I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some Twitter-related PTSD. But I also have much better privacy settings and a hair trigger. I know the story goes that I left comics after MOCKINGBIRD, that I was driven away, dropped off at the state line by some trolls in a pick-up truck. I didn't leave comics. Comics left me. I've been right here. I've been busy, working on this series, developing the exact story I wanted to tell, finding the perfect home for it - Image Comics - and then putting together my dream team. (If you've ever seen the tv show, The A-Team, it was EXACTLY like that.) MAN-EATERS combines a lot of my interests: cats, murder, feminism, propaganda, dad with beards, detectives, people who are good at their jobs, sarcastic t-shirts, etc. I think that you will like it.

Here's the pitch:

A mutation in Toxoplasmosis causes menstruating women to turn into ferocious killer wildcats—easily provoked and extremely dangerous. As panic spreads and paranoia takes root, the fate of the world rides on the shoulders of one twelve-year-old girl. Part Cat People, part The Handmaid’s Tale, all pro-feline agenda.

I'll post some art when I can.

Hey, thanks for reading.

Chelsea's blog

GONE to air on WGN America

Submitted by Chelsea on June 18, 2018 - 3:51pm

The first season of GONE, the TV show based on my book, ONE KICK, will start airing on WGN America in early 2019. It stars Leven Rambin and Chris Noth and Danny Pino. I've watched eleven of the twelve episodes. (I couldn't watch the Doctor Who episode where Matt Smith's Doctor died for like six months. I guess I am not good at embracing closure.) Anyway, I know I've kept you hanging with the whole-never-published-the-second-book-in-the-Kick-Lannigan-series thing. (It's confusing, because the internet seems to think it came out at some point, but I know, because I didn't finish writing it, so I'm prettty sure it hasn't been published.) I think ONE KICK fans will love this show. I do. Because I'm a fan of ONE KICK, and I love it, especially the second half of the season, which does some wonderful character work. The chemisty between Kick (Leven) and Bishop (Danny) is unreal. At one point, watching episode 9, I forgot I had anything to do with the story, and was totally transported, swept up in their relasionship. "Kiss," my 13-year-old daughter and I begged the TV screen. "Kiss!"

No spoilers.

Chelsea's blog