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My material has been Registered and Copyrighted with the Library of Congress since January of 2004.

What I am looking for, cartoonist/ illustrators to help me produce my manuscript into a published work so I can have my name creatively immortalized on the spine of a published work of plant based material. Either here in America or elsewhere in the world.

I look of Seattle as being Film Noir. Jazz and Blues and Swing Music. I like the Art Nouveau, The Art Deco Buildings. I'll talk about how this all came about later...

Protagonist

Marc Churson:

Species:

Werewolf

Human Form:

Muscular Build after Lou Ferrigno or a Extreme Rock Climber. Height: 6’9” Eyes Almond Shaped; Range from Gray to Silver when pissed off.

Facial features: One of those guys whose mediterranean features makes them look like a woman, shoulder length hair, dark cork screws when wet, ties back when in business meetings, sometimes uses a barrette, chopsticks, knives, forks,chicken bones, stabby things.

Normal Teeth in the front. Back teeth, backwards curving. Rarely smiles with all his teeth.

Clothes: Formal and Business wear; Brooks Brothers, leather or fabric trench coats and fedora’s, Causal Wear: Blue and White Pendelton Woolen Mill Plaid, Blue Jeans, Steel Toe Boots, or Oatmeal Colored fisherman's sweaters. Fetish: Leather Cat suit and chains.

Incidentals

Packs: 357˚ revolver / 38˚ Special, loads his own ammo. Drives a Mercedes Benz. Lives in a Penthouse in Belltown in Seattle. There will be two floor styles, L and open. Colors for the first one L will be Marc’s Bathroom blue, white, mirrors(gray), Dressing room mirrors with suits, den with books and magazines, living room white walls and black technophiles electronics, Swedish style kitchen metal and pink marble, guest bedroom beige with Horror Movie Colors i.e. RED and BLUE.

His Career Position

Executive Director of Churson L.T.D.

Antagonist

Detective Win(ston) White Seattle Police Department

Species: Ghoul

Height; 5’10’, Caucasian, brown eyes non reflective. Military style cut dark hair. Bear style teeth in front, back, convex and concave to grind bones. He’s filed the front down to pass for normal. Barrel chested like a gorilla. Has claws which he covers up by wearing gloves. Standard Seattle Police Department issue Rain gear. Black choir robe.

Lives in the Roosevelt/U District over by 65Th. Near the Reservoir and Park. In a House. If you remember the evil kid’s house out of Toy Story © it pretty much has those colors and layout on the inside. And I envisioned that house layout before I ever saw that movie.

Starting Motivation

Corpse (Robert Johnson Pedophile) Being fought over between both Marc and Cop

Alive

Green Rain slicker, black military issue pants, boots, sweat shirt (what you get from the Army Navy surplus store down town.)

Dead

Found at Rail Yard:

Gutted by Marc prior to death, flesh de-gloved off of hand before death. Cut in thirds horizontally by train across tracks post postmortem, mashed head, missing teeth.

After autopsy, after cop plants talisman (a circular bent horseshoe nail) into the torso, he takes the ring and middle fingers off the left hand and eats them there. Then stores half the face, a few skull plates and brain for later. Thinking that no one is going to come claim the corpse.

Re-animated

Naked, missing part of the head (left hemisphere ), moves fast,blue gray, injected by Dean with a flesh eating virus to kill it, because it tried to get away, when both he and Marc realized it was under someone else’s control and it chopped Marc with an axe. (Of course there is blood and gore and limbs.)

Situation

Era 1999 - 2000

The Chursons use the corpses of the unclaimed dead to man traditionally Temporary/Seasonal positions that could be held by dope heads or unreliable day laborers types. Ghouls eat the unclaimed dead so there is a conflict of interest. And since there is a boom in the economy in the building trade and so forth there is going to be trouble....... They arrived during the Gold Rush to Alaska and embedded themselves.

Marc Churson’s interest in the dead. It starts as Marc has located a Bum that is a pedophile based on rhino (smell/ sloughed skin cells) information. Marc like most individuals hates peds. He is going to murder the guy in a rail yard down west of Queen Anne, get his brother to do the autopsy, steal the corpse, reanimate it with magic in the Smith Tower and stick the guy’s soul put it back into the body a few more times to have the pleasure of killing the guy a few more times before the corpse is beyond repair. Generally Marc reanimates the dead to do household chores for him. Or drive him around.

The Chursons have a warehouse full of reanimated corpses downtown. Down past Pioneer Square near an ice house. They also have a bio - industry research “hospital” located where children's hospital is out in the Laurelhurst neighborhood is.

Problem: First time anywhere in the world there is a Ghoul on a police force. Dean Churson- A Mortician has an assistant (Bill) who is into necrophilia and is in with a group of satanist wannabes who hangs with Detective White who gets them to go grave robbing for him, in exchange for drugs and erased police records. Since the ghoul also knows how to reanimate corpses. He gets Bill to tape the doors to the mortuary open so he can get in to drop a talisman into the corpse to reanimate it to draw it from Churson’s mortuary. So White can get something on the hoof to eat.

That is story line introduction of Marc and Dean and how they work together and what makes the family tick. It introduces a belief system, a familial structure, geography of Seattle, basic werewolf abilities. Two major story line, one on a Seattle scale one on a world scale, one hinting at a cosmic scale.

The meatier story line which is more of a ticking time bomb...

There is an Entity Called a Proteus in Greek mythology. In my mythology this creature enters into our universe by the created fissures in the dimensions created by the United States H.A.A.R.P. Project. It is a Multidimensional creature that if not stopped will graft itself onto a person in this realm and create a serial killer, or worse a computer system-who knows what that would do. This of course is the system that causes whales to beach themselves, scuba divers writing to their congressmen. Fictionally it would create a wonderful amount of stimulus for antagonistic problems for an ongoing series.

(I met Dr. Nick Begich in 2006 who first started warning the world about the H.A.A.R.P. Project in Alaska on The Art Bell Show. Who is willing to do an introduction to the manuscript if I get a publisher. That's IF I found a publisher. I would also have actually SAY H.A.A.R.P. PROJECT. in the manuscript which I did not originally in 1999. I never thought I would meet the guy. Sychronistic meetings with people like this happen to me all the time by the way. Ask me about the Scientist from Cherenobyl in the Ukraine.)

I also introduce this creature at the rail yard at the same time Marc is down there killing the bum so that the incidents cross paths.

Into this mix I have thrown an edict of the Gods that the lowest common ( ethical ) denominator of the species of werewolves is chosen to evolve the species. Which is Marc. Who must stop this creature which has because of its misinterpreted activities (By the werewolves in Seattle) is thought to be an atomic dragon. I.e. which are entities created by nuclear fission's and fusion's by bombs and particle colliders, which also causes fractions in the dimensions.

Marc Churson is an evolving character. Going from an immature beastly narcissistic sociopath-to someone who really is willing to care about others - he has a learning curve like most people. He is pulling out of his really bad past. Like the United States pulling away from its slave and drug labor based economy. I’m not judging I’m just saying. (Like rum and tobacco and chemicals aren't drugs?)

Secondary Characters:

Dean Churson: Marc's older step-brother paternal

Species: Werewolf

Human Form:

Tall with paunch style body, keloid scars on back, pin stripe- Hibaksha- A-Bomb survivor Nagasaki . Height: 6’2” Eyes Brown

Facial features: Mediterranean features, steel gray hair, short cropped, normal teeth in the front. back teeth curving . Doesn’t smile in public, but grimly because he is a Mortician and Part-time County Coroner by trade.

Clothes: Formal and Business wear; Gucci all the way. You may just stylize this your way.

Incidentals

Packs: Tazers, knock out gas, garrotes, steel toe shoes, medical bags, elixirs, anything to either steal bodies, dispose of bodies, patch family up, kidnap people or seduce men with. Was the other generation of werewolf to be chosen to evolve the species.

Drives a SUV, Hearses, Limo or Rolls. Lives out in Sandpoint way in a 1950’s era house that has been retire fitted in the 1970’s in Seattle. Think 1950’s kitchen, with green and harvest gold living room, S&M bedroom. Has a compound, with a gate, has a garage. Has a basement laboratory under the garage with steep steps going down with a door that is like the doors you find in submarines. Has gurneys and caskets and corpse drawers and slabs and Tesla coils. Think Frankenstein’s lab from the black and white movies. Has a umbrella stand with Axes, swords, baseball bats, lances. Marc has grabbed an axe which the bum's corpse wrestles away and nails him with in the story.

Dean’s Funeral Home location was at the Old Buttersworth Funeral Home location across from Bauhaus Coffee And Books on Pine. Somber colors, gray, black, burgundy, blues.

Timothy/Tiny Churson Marc's younger brother

Species: Werewolf

Human Form:

Stocky style. Height: 6’2” Eyes Brown.

Facial features: Samoan, shoulder length hair middle back, coffee brown with highlights

cork screws when wet.

Normal Teeth in the front. Back teeth, backwards curving in. Smiles a lot, happy a lot.

Clothes: Formal and Business wear; Versace. Causal Wear: Gap, Banana Republic. Fetish wear: Cargo Shorts, Chicks in Bikinis on both arms.

Incidentals

Packs: Baseball Bat, Machete, Sword, Brass knuckles.

Drives a Honda that leaks, has idiot lights that goes off, has a covered car port. Lives in the Sandpoint way Golf Course. Split Level home, den has wood paneling, has an upstairs, an entry way from the car port, with various rooms branching off from it. Greens, yellow, blues.

Dating Georgie, Marc’s File Clerk a street kid he rescued who just turned 18.

Position in Churson L.T.D.

JR. Partner Lawyer Branch for Freight and Shipping.

Penelope Churson: Marc's Sister Older by not much

Species: Werewolf

Human Form:

Dancer shape, i.e. 36c, Height: 5”8” Eyes Large Round Blue

Facial features: Round faced high boned like a Navajo.

Normal Teeth in the front. Back teeth, backwards curving , to hold food in. Smiles when she is conning or happy.

Wears: Formal and Business wear; Chanel- straight lines. Style for ideas-A-lines shapes/ Empire waist lines. Causal Wear: Plaid shirts, Blue Jeans, Boots. Fetish: Dominatrix/PVC Nurse is Lesbian.

Incidentals

Packs: Knife, tazer, mace.

Drives a Blue Sprite style car... Lives around in Seattle. Pastel colors, flair for dramatics. Probably an arts major at some point. Lascivious before the knife slips in.

Kent Churson: Brother to Bela, Ivan, Laurence:

Species: Werewolf

Human Form:

Former Black Smith Farrier/ Muscular Build wide top narrow waist. Height: 6’4” Eyes Almond Shaped; Range from Dark Gray exterior to interior silver/white.

Facial features: Swarthy Mediterranean. Hair; Short bankers cut.

Normal Teeth in the front. Back teeth, backwards curving . Smiles when winning.

Wears: Formal and Business wear; Brooks Brothers,Causal Wear: None. Fetish: None.

Colors: Reds, Oranges, Yellows/Golds.

Incidentals

Packs: 45˚s handguns, shotguns, loads his own ammo, throwing knives.

Drives a Mercedes Benz, Jaguar . Has homes in Madison Park, The Highlands, Magnolia. Married to Constance Churson (Her colors are pastels former actress); Mother to Penelope, Marc and Timothy/Tiny.

Chairwoman and on Steering Committees to charities she drags Marc ( willingly) into.

Bela Churson:

Species: Werewolf

Human Form:

Rotund. Height: 6’2” . Eyes Blue

Facial features: Swarthy Chiseled

Normal Teeth in the front. Back teeth, backwards curving. Smiles.

Wears: Formal and Business wear; Brooks Brothers, Colors, Blues, greens, reds

Causal Wear: Athletic

Incidentals

Packs: Side Arms, hidden knives, swords.

Driven in a Limo.

Lives in The Highlands in Seattle. Married to Millie who looks like the Queen Mum of England from the 1940’s.

Oversees The Law Contracts for Churson L.T.D.

The Werewolf Form

Head size about 4 feet in length, size of the head of an alligator. Ankle joint comes up to the axle hub on a train. Teeth behind canines curve back like the fangs of a snake, the front are shaped like throwing knife daggers. (Diamond). Colors are varied in fur.

Marc is Black with silver eyes.

Dean is German Shepherd silvery gray with brown eyes, paunchy.

Bela is smoky blue with white eyes like a Husky.

Amorphous Form:

White Ground Fog you find when driving out near marshes and cannot see the road or four feet in front of your car with the headlights on in broad daylight.

If they can shape shift then they are inter-dimensional.

Secondary Characters Continued

King County Coroner Beane, sometimes Newspaper commentary

Height 5’8” 50ish, gray hair, comb over balding. Non de-script suit. Drives a Lincoln. We meet him at the Scene in the Rail Yard, later at the Ghoul's burned out house after Kent Churson’s Bio-team arrives to take out the re-animated corpse and the ghoul.

Mr. and Mrs. White and Family.

At Dean’s Funeral Home, to pick up their son’s body.

Bio- Adjusters

Ex- Military types who know how to kill just about everything that is considered alive that has DNA/RNA, clean up hazardous waste and do exorcisms, and pick off various preternatural beasties. Do have medical knowledge to save lives, some are E.M.T's to make sure nothing escapes the Churson's labs and get picked up accidently. They drive around in Seattle utilizing newspaper vans, delivery trucks and plumbing trucks. They are constantly rescuing Marc when Dean is not driving off leaving him stranded because of his own stupidity leaving the keys in the ignition. They rescue Marc in the Smith Tower when he tries to steal the soul of the Pedophile back from the other realm and gets caught. An gets a righteous ass beating. Think magic circle gone wrong: fire, drowning, freezing. Bits of flesh in a sarcophagus embedded in a wax doll that glows.

Dr. Bonner

Laurelhurst Family Healthcare Clinic

Head of the Clinic

Height 5'6", Salt and pepper hair. Careworn. Bio-industry surgon. Likes his funding money for his bio-industry research for utilizing emotional delay reactions on food additives, and addictive processes with color stimulus response via the optic nerve with the flicker rate of light emitting objects. Works for the Churson family. No questions asked. Stitches Marc up when Dean can't or won't... or gets dragged in by the Bio-adjusters a lot.

Monique Jacobson Of Jacobson and Daughter, Locksmith and Carpentry.

Height 6’2” Caucasian Red hair, BBW. Dimples. Love interest to Marc. She’s not into him-he is interested in her-finally someone other than himself.

Replaces Marc’s doors, as Marc’s family has a tendency to break and enter whenever he has a medical emergency to rescue any pets, toys, reanimated or living, and so they can snoop into his business.

Damel

Height 5”7’ Race Black male, Interior Designer. Remember the character out of the movie The 5th Element who was the broadcaster. Yeah that Mouthy and Loud. Like who is gonna make Marc Churson redecorate with taste?

Atomic Dragon from Nagasaki

Average height and build, full spectrum of colors, brighter eyes than should be-You have seen speed freaks haven't you?

Amorphous pastels and like a heat wave when not in human form. Speaks celestial

(Use Thebian alphabet font) until Marc speaks to it in English. This is brought back from Japan by invitation by Dean because of a Inter-species emergency meeting due to the "Wasting of the Ghoul by the Churson family's bio- adjusters to prevent a turf war."

Skyler

Height 5”6’ Caucasian, Desk Clerk at Apartment Building where Marc lives. Sometimes Marc’s gofer, sometimes love interest.

Churson Family Members Who they are and what they do.

Brothers Churson (Chur being a name of a Persian Sun God)

Kent (Freight shipping and Industry)

Bela (Legal Branch oversees most legal contracts)

Ivan ( Deals with the Legal/Farming branch of the family-he was shot and dumped by the Nazis and later dug out of a pit by Bela) his son Hector is a contemporary of Tiny (Legal Branch) .

Laurence (Deals with the Lumber branch of the family) Who Quadruplets ( identical named after the Four Wisemen ) are:

Magnus ( Freight/shipping land, sea, air ) Ace of Diamonds

Malchior ( Lumber, Grain, ) Ace of Clubs

Balthazar ( Bio -industry, medicine, technology ) Ace of Hearts

Casper ( Black Ops/ Military applications, you really don’t want to know ) Ace of Spades

Hitman. You really don't want to know.

Buildings

Smith Tower Interiors: Building Built in 1914. So it is Art Nouveau/European looking Art Nouveau. It was built well before the Empire State Building in New York City (Which is Art Deco Post World War I).

The Columbia Tower on 5th Avenue

The Building which housed the Buttersworth Mortuary across from the Bauhaus Coffee and Books on Pine. Directly North Facing.

The Stump on Pine Street a coffee place on the Heath Brothers Block, before they started to parcel off their city block to Press Apartment Inc.

Cityscapes:

I arrived in 1996. Right when the boom was going. Buildings were being razed and raised. Working class people were being pushed out and real estate was in so much demand that there was six people to each space per capita. There was no poster law yet. There was music in the street, kids were still panhandling in groups, there was music venues and bars between coffee houses, and bookstores, and homeless shelters. On one corner a coffee house, on another Real Change being hawked, if you wanted to know what sort of style to affect for the week you noticed what the Asian kids were wearing. There were Goths, Rock-a-Billys, Hippies, Ravers, Punks. Everyone else not in collage was working for Microsoft, the U of W, Boeing, Amazon.com, nonprofit groups or infrastructure or startups of some sort. Potential for something was always in the air. Life to be seized for the day. Or the night. As long as you didn’t do drugs the city wouldn’t eat you. This is the Seattle I know.

When I conceived Churson L.T.D. re-titled Loupe Garou, while picking books at Amazon.com in 1999 these were my thoughts. Manuscript maybe a movie. If I was lucky a t.v. mini series. If I was on the edge of creative a Website and a video game, graphic novel.

I based the book on all the pulp fiction of the 1920 and 1930’s and originally wrote it to a formula of food, violence, sex per chapter. The version you’ll look through if you so desire, is the very watered down PG-13 version. The triple X version (With all the graphic sex, between all sexes and human and werewolf) that survives. Is grossly horrifically punctuated with run on sentences, lurks around but not for the faint hearted english majors types.

This manuscript apparently has legs. But life intervenes (Think Degree and Certificate in Web Design, Certificates in Film Production and Direction, providing three years childcare for a godchild). I don't have an agent and I am too busy to run around to shop this myself. Hence its ten years old. I have saved only my rejection letter from Daw.

I had a Life Coach client that shopped the manuscript around L.A. who's client's were producer's. One of who insisted that I copyright it before it left his hands. (Which will queer your pitch if you are trying to get it published in the book world.) It got passed to several more producers who nibbled, but no bites.

I later worked on a project for a fund raiser for a food bank and a woman who read scripts for Paramount Pictures for 19 years read it and told me to make a screen play. So I did and I got more nibbles.

I ran into several people who were published authors who skimmed it. Who were not of the horror genre but thought it would do well. So I thought about it. And life delayed me again last year.

Then this year some person leaves comic books in the give away pile in the laundry room which declares "A series featuring Doc Savage, Batman and The Spirit. And one with Doc Savage." Liking Pulp fiction, I think sign me up! So I walk into the Comic Book store I go by in Renton. The Comic Hut. And so starts a conversation about Comic Books, Pulp Magazines from the 1920's and 1930's, Lovecraft, then onto graphic novels.

This week while sitting and staring at my computer, gut sick with myself thinking why put myself through this artistic climb again, people like my stuff, but no agent, manager, no way to flog this damn horse from a stand still.

I am listening to what I thought was C89.5. A dance music station. They have their fund drive this week, so I twiddle the knob when talking starts and land on music somewhere else, finish a few songs. Then twiddle my way back down and stop on dance music-which I thought was their's on my way back down the numbers. Turned out to be Moving 93. Song fades out, so I waited for another to come on. And that 8 Mile song comes on by Eminem.

I'm not a rap person. However, I know what the song is about.

If that's not some sort of sign from God to get off your arse, and put up your thumbnail sketches online. I don't know what is.

After last year's second round of cancer.Playing chicken with the Angel of Death with anaphylaxic shock, and low potassium levels to boot; These are my thoughts;

Taking another creative shot at short term creative immortality with a graphic novel or a comic, I don't know what could be more life affirming than this. Sharing a piece of myself as written word? This is as scary as facing my own death. And trust me. Dying poorly really sucks if you haven't lived hard, fast and throughly. Savoring, and exacting every damn particle of life.

valewolf@hotmail.com