Cy Dethan: Comics Writer.

Cy Dethan
Cy Dethan is a British writer who began his comics career in 2006 on the Starship Troopers: Extinction Protocol strip for Mongoose Publishing.

In 2007, Cy was hand-picked to take over the reins of Markosia’s flagship ongoing series, Starship Troopers. He has subsequently written several creator-owned titles for Markosia, including Slaughterman’s Creed, The Indifference Engine and White Knuckle.

Cy’s first creator-owned book, Cancertown: An Inconvenient Tooth, was a major independent hit and a sequel, Cancertown: Blasphemous Tumours, is due for release in 2012.

Recently, he has joined the writing team of the Unseen Shadows transmedia project. Before turning to comics, Cy was an award-winning freelance copywriter and editor. Prior to that he was a professional magician and, quite frankly, he’d rather not talk about that…

 

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White Knuckle Launches At Bristol Comic Expo In May

Forty years ago, Seth Rigal was a man to be feared – a serial strangler with a string of victims. Now nearly seventy and tormented by a lifetime of monstrous violence, Rigal lives on the verge of poverty and quietly waits for the death he knows he deserves.

Tortured and confused, still tormented by the drives that made him a killer in his youth, Rigal finds himself almost unconsciously stalking the daughter of his final victim – only to have his precious anonymity snatched from him when he accidentally saves her son’s life.
Seth Rigal, formerly known as the Gripper, just became a local celebrity. The bodies won’t stay buried any longer.

White Knuckle is a complex and intense psychological thriller, distorting the ever-popular “retired gunslinger” motif into a rain-slick urban fantasy of murderous men and the needs that drive them.

A free preview of the first 11 pages of White Knuckle is now available to read online.

White Knuckle is available to pre-order for collection at the show or to be posted anywhere in the world at the special price of £10 (RRP £12.99) + postage.

Email Cy@CyDethan.com for more details or to put your name down on the reserve list.

The panel Choke Points: Getting To Grips With White Knuckle takes place on Saturday 2pm as part of the Markosia showcase, featuring all the creators and hosted by Scott Grandison of Comic Book Outsiders.

There will also be an exhibition of Valia Kapadai's original art from the book in the Markosia Suite.

The Bayou Arcana anthology also launches at the show and includes my story Swamp Pussy And The Hanged Man with art by Nic Wilkinson, and I will be part of  the panel about the development of the book at 4.30pm.

 

Thought Bubble Launch Extravaganza

I shall be a guest at this year's Thought Bubble Sequential Arts Festival in Leeds (19th-21st November) and it is going to be a big one. I will be involved in 3 book launches at the show:

In addition I will be taking part in a panel about Unseen Shadows on the Sunday at 12:00 – 12:45, Alea Cinema Room.

"Meet The Team That Expanded The Universe. Learn how the self-published cult hit novel Fallen Heroes became the epicentre of one of the biggest transmedia experiments in the UK indie arts world comprising comics, prose, audio, live action and inclduing trailblazing talent from all creative fields."

My longtime collaborator Nic Wilkinson will be running a workshop on the art of lettering alongside Jim Campbell on Saturday at 13:20 – 14:10 in the  Alea Cinema Room as part of the WAW+P Independent Publishing Forum hosted by the Thought Bubble Writer in Residence Matt Sheret. 

We will be at table 15 in Savilles Hall - come by and say hello, pick up some books, get a sketch from Indifference Engine artist Rob Carey and see some previews of White Knuckle and Cancertown 2.

Phantom Lung And The Garden Of Dead Liars Signed With Markosia

When a series of inexplicable, yet somehow connected, murders are committed by people with no conceivable connection to their victims, a retired Russian spymaster appears with an incredible story. The one successful product of Russian remote viewing experimentation has finally resurfaced, and has embarked on a murderous crusade against anyone connected with the programme, his delusions painting him as an otherworldly adventurer in pursuit of a dastardly villain.

Phantom Lung and the Garden of Dead Liars is a dual-reality fantasy in five parts. A delusional, obsessive conspiracy theorist uses Cold War-era remote viewing techniques to move his consciousness from body to body at will, his victims determined by distorted half-memories and an overwhelming paranoia. Wherever Phantom Lung travels, he leaves borrowed, stolen and murdered bodies in his wake.

Writer: Cy Dethan
Artist: Simon Wyatt
Letters: Nic Wilkinson

Phantom Lung And The Garden of Dead Liars is currently in production with Markosia.