I've really got to get used to this whole blog thing. I mean, everyone's doing it. And yet somehow I just forget. It's not that I don't spend a good 70% of my day at the computer on the internet. But somehow months just seem to slip by and suddenly I look at the website and think "Holy crap! It looks like nothing's happened in our lives since July."

So here's the latest... the WGA is on strike. Whoops. Guess I'm a little late with that news. The funny thing is, several months ago that really wouldn't have mattered to us. We've barely worked in film and not at all in television in years. We've focused all our energies on the comic world and it's been good to us. But we still love film & TV and so we keep plugging away at it. Then several months back, we had a film optioned by an independent producer. It's an idea for a horror/thriller film about a planned community that goes horribly wrong. And then, working with this same producer, he introduced us to the folks at Oxygen. Seems they're looking for two hour romantic comedy movies. The parameters we were given was that it should have a ticking clock (a sense of urgency driving the story) but no weddings, crazy sidekick characters and should be red state friendly. Anyone who knows me and Nunzio knows that we're two of the "bluest state" people around. But a job's a job. So we pitched them an idea about country music and a woman who's expecting to take over her father's music label when he retires. And as we developed the story, we got really excited about it and realized that not only could we potentially sell a TV movie, but it could be a job we'd have a lot of fun writing. Oxygen liked the story and was soon on board. And the came the impending strike... We got our own real life ticking clock when we realized there was a chance we wouldn't be able to sign the contracts before the strike happened. No one knows exactly how long the strike will carry on and everyone's worried about money. And our deal promises us a chunk of money upon signing the contract, so we REALLY wanted to get the deal done before the strike began. Let's just say that the last week of October was very, VERY stressful. But the contracts came through (with about 48 hours to spare) and we got the deal done. Now we just have to wait for business in Hollywood to resolve before we can write the thing. Still with signed papers in hand and a check on the way, we can sit back and bask in the fact that we just sold a TV movie. Very exciting for us.

In the meantime, we stay true to our comic roots. We're just finishing up the last chapter of Jumpscars, our comic tie-in to the movie Jumper (due out February 2008). It was originally set to be a four issue miniseries but now will be released in January as a graphoc novel. We've seen pages all drawn and inked and colored. It's looking really good. We're very grateful for the tremendous talents of Brian Hurtt and Jared Jones.

Also on our comic agenda, we've just been hired to do a comic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerlad's short story The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. The story is being made into a movie starring Brad Pitt due out late 2008 I believe. Our book will not be tying into the movie as we believe it's going to be very different from the original story. Quirk Books (the lovely people publishing this project) wanted to be more faithful to the original material and thought it would be fun to publish a graphic novel of Fitzgerald's story. It's an interesting challenge put before us as we will not be adding any new text, but instead taking only Fitzgerald's words and figuring out how to tell the story visually. We're working with a very talented artist named Kevin Cornell.

So that's the news from our small neck of the woods. Otherwise, we're preparing ourselves for this busy time of year when we do the East Coast tour to visit family and celebrate holidays. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.