Welcome to: STARR BLOG #1

I’ve been an artist and illustrator in the comic book industry since 1992. Thirty plus years of drawing other people’s worlds. But this story — Evany Starr & Midnight Penn — is mine. It’s my first, and it’s been locked up, waiting to drop.

I saw the early parts of it in a dream. I woke up, wrote it down, drew the characters, even scripted a first issue. I mapped out how the mechanisms of the bat worked. Then the hard drives corrupted. Everything digital was gone.

But I still had my sketchbooks. The characters were there, intact, from 2003. The dream and what i remembered of it was still in my head. That was over twenty years ago.

A few years back, I rewrote another draft. That’s when the library scene came alive — the explosion, the Acolyte watching from the second floor, the trio escaping to Penn’s car. There was dialogue now. I set it aside again. Then I picked it up one more time.

Its 2026 and now it’s here in the STARR BLOG.  The story I was supposed to tell.  

-Yvel Guichet