Cancertown
"Remember - nothing here is real, and everything can hurt you."
Cancertown, from Insomnia Publications, is a story that’s been brewing for quite a while now. The short-form pitch for it would be ”Chinatown meets The Wizard of Oz”.
This was the script that first put me on Insomnia’s radar, and started opening all kinds of unexpected doors along the way.
Okay, so get this: Vincent Morley is a barely functional former mental patient with an inoperable tumour nestling in his brain. See that? That’s our hero. Morley suffers from a rare mental disorder that causes him to believe a number of unlikely things about himself and his relationship to his environment. Chief among these delusions is the idea that he has the ability to step out of reality and into a monstrous alternate world he calls Cancertown.
Now, that’s all very well as a personal, private little Hell – but when normal people start tripping over the cracks in reality and falling into Cancertown, Morley decides that his role in life is to find them and ferry them back out again.
Unfortunately for all concerned, there are other forces at work in Cancertown, and not all of them understand or appreciate what Morley’s trying to do...
Art on this monstrosity is provided by Stephen Downey, who’s an important discovery. Colours are by Cages artist Melanie Cook. Both are very talented and I consider myself lucky to have been given the opportunity to work with them. Letters are by the all-powerful Nic Wilkinson.
Latest Cancertown News
- Cancertown 2: Blasphemous Tumours is currently in production with all the original gang returning to the book. It's due for release in 2011.
- The Insomniac's Guide To Cancertown is currently in production for release in 2010. It will include a special 12 page Crosshair origin story: Parasite Lost