TINY ONION GOES TO SDCC

Plus! James’ SDCC schedule

Hola, Onions!

We’re gearing up for our first SDCC as a crew, but things within our kitchen headquarters are heating up. Before this email, I was working on the overarching plan for books that won’t be out until 2032. 2032. It sounds so far away, but there you have it. We’re planning out production deadlines for the next decade. Retailers, please take this as confirmation that James will not be stopping anytime soon. Your shelves will not go hungry.

San Diego Comic-Con

The Tiny Onion crew will be at SDCC, but we won’t have a booth. We’re there to support James, haunt the halls, and run up coffee tabs all over town. Below is James’s SDCC schedule in two formats - a graphic you can save to your phone, and a screen-reader-friendly text list. 

A couple of points of note so we’re all on the same page headed in: One, due to the short signing times, James has a limit of three items per individual signing, with Onion Club members getting double that. Two, those cute stars on the schedule indicate which signings we will be able to accommodate CGC graded signings, thanks to our publishing partners and friends at Scott's Collectables.

SDCC SCHEDULE

Thursday, July 25th

• DSTLRY Signing

  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm

  • Booth #2314

• Hello Darkness: Modern Horror in Comics 

  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm

  • Room 25ABC

  • Prepare for the new era of darkness. Modern masters of horror James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, Michael Conrad, Becky Cloonan, and Chuck Tingle give an in-depth look at their creative process, reveal the inspirations behind their bone-chilling stories, and share their deepest fears. This panel is not for the faint of heart—it's an invitation to step into the darkness . . . Moderated by Bryce Carlson (Vice President, Editorial and Creative Strategy, BOOM! Studios).

• ⭐️BOOM! Studios Signing

  • 3:30pm - 4:30pm

  • Booth #2229

Friday, July 26th

• DC Signing

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm

  • Booth #4544

• The Slaughterverse: 5 Years of Something is Killing the Children

  • 1:30pm - 2:20pm

  • ROOM 5AB

  • In 2019, Erica Slaughter introduced readers to the secret world of monsters . . . and the ones who hunt them. In 2021, the doors to the House of Slaughter were opened, expanding Erica’s world into a storytelling universe. This year, join series creators James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera for a 5-year anniversary retrospective on this blockbuster horror epic, and get an exclusive peek at the future of Something is Killing the Children.

• ⭐️Dark Horse Signing - The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos

  • 4:00pm - 4:50pm

  • Booth #2615

Saturday, July 27th

• The Future of Horror Comics

  • 1:30pm - 2:30pm

  • Room: 24ABC

  • Discover the storytelling secrets from the maestros of the macabre. Writer/actor David Dastmalchian (Count Crowley, Late Night with the Devil), writers/podcasters Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski (The Last Podcast on the Left, Operation Sunshine), James Tynion IV (Spectregraph, Blue Book), Scott Snyder (White Boat, Canary), Becky Cloonan (Somna), and Tula Lotay (Somna, Barnstormers) join unholy forces to dissect the future of sequential art terror. Presented by DSTLRY and Dark Horse Comics and hosted by DSTLRY's Sean Edgar and Tiny Onion's Courtney Menard.

• ⭐️BOOM! Studios Signing

  • 3:30pm-4:30pm

  • Booth #2229

Sunday, July 28th

• Image Signing

  • 12:00pm - 1:00pm

  • Booth #1915

• ⭐️BOOM! Studios Signing

  • 3:30pm - 4:30pm

  • Booth #2229

    

Martin Simmonds has been nominated for an Eisner!

Our beloved collaborator Martin Simmonds has been nominated for an Eisner for Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior Art) for Universal Monsters: Dracula (Image Skybound). 

Congratulations Martin! Best of luck next week, we’re rooting for you!

First Nice House by the Sea Signing

Our friends at THIRD EYE COMICS in Annapolis, Maryland are hosting James for his first in-store NICE HOUSE BY THE SEA signing on August 3rd! Full details.

Many Worlds - The Art of Christian Ward - Volume One

Friend and gifted Spectregraph artist Christian Ward is running a crowdfunding campaign on Zoop for his Art Book, MANY WORLDS. It’s full of incredible art, including some characters you might recognize from our books. Pre-order your copy!

A Very Chaotic Halloween

We’ve had two big books announced by Dark Horse Comics:

True Weird Vol. 1 

Dark Horse Books and James Tynion's Tiny Onion line will release an anthology of black-and-white short comics with True Weird Vol. 1. The stories were originally featured as bonus stories in Tynion and Michael Avon Oeming's Blue Book series 1 and 2. CBR has the exclusive.

The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Halloween Special

Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion present The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Halloween Special, a fantastically frightful 48-page one-shot issue featuring five short comics that celebrate the world of Christopher Chaos. On stands October 2nd, 2024. Read more about it here.

ICYMI

• James will be at NYCC this year! It’s going to be a big show for Tiny Onion, but more on that later.  👀

• Michael Walsh is writing and drawing UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: FRANKENSTEIN! Tell your LCS to add this to your pull. Trust us.

• Jonah Lobe is also crowdfunding for QUIET: LEVEL ONE, an epic adventure graphic novel about a little skeleton’s quest to save the Tree of Worlds. Lobe is the incredible video game designer behind the Skyrim Dragon and the artist behind Marvel Anatomy. From what we’ve seen, this will be a classic. You can back it here.

• We have two comics coming out next week!

  • Something is Killing the Children #39

  • The Nice House by the Sea #1

If you see the team around SDCC, please feel empowered to come say hello. We can’t take pitches, but we all love chatting with Lil Onions in meatspace whenever possible. 

See you on the floor!

Jazzlyn Stone | Seattle