Bria and the Bear – Page 3
on April 20, 2026
at 9:20 am
When I was approached by It’s Alive! to publish color versions of Breathers back in 2019, I thought, “Why not?” I’d had my self-published collection out since 2011, and I figured it couldn’t hurt to get a wider distribution. Everything was going fine in the beginning. The first crowd-funding was a great success and orders from comic shops were decent (greatly thanks to that sweet variant cover Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt were kind enough to do). The crowd-funding efforts continued for each subsequent issue. Complaints of unfulfilled orders began to surface. I grew more and more frustrated with It’s Alive! (to the point where I had threatened to terminate our “contract”). The fact that I saw no sales numbers and received no payment at all left me feeling more and more concerned about the future of Breathers. There were new promises made and a deal with Dark Horse was dangled in front of me. I doubted any of it would actually come to light, but I (reluctantly) agreed to keep on going. After issue 7 came out, the man at the helm of It’s Alive! died, leaving the future of Breathers up in the air. I was surprised when I had heard issue 8 had come out. We had one more issue to go. I had already submitted it to be published, but it would never be released.
Eventually, I reached out to Dark Horse and we were able to work out a deal to get the Breathers Collection out into the world. It was a rocky, frustrating road to get to this point, but I couldn’t be happier to have the Dark Horse logo on my book!
If you had been reading the It’s Alive! comics, I appreciate you picking up the series and apologize for not being able to get that last issue out. If you want to read it, here is a link to the pdf:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B2kVkXQX7ehjLKlC3GAskwIcFTWi3hr5/view?usp=drive_link
You can PRE-ORDER your copy of the BREATHERS COLLECTION coming this spring from DARK HORSE BOOKS! Collecting the complete BREATHERS story with lots of extras. Well over 400 pages!
My first PUBLISHED graphic novel, TIN MAN, is currently available from Amulet/Abrams Books!
Order yours wherever you get your books. Both in Paperback and Hardcover!
Just wanted to let everyone know that my young adult graphic novel, Tin Man, will be released in March 2022, from Abrams Books. I’ve been working on the book since 2017 and I am very excited to finally share the story of a tin man named Campbell. Here’s the cover.
Preorder from Abrams Books or Amazon
The fifth installment of CARBON is finished, printed and available for purchase. Our slow-burn tale of political corruption, kidnapping, mind-altering drugs and psychics continues.
