Podcast interview: A chat about TYRANNY OF THE MUSE
I was a guest on Comic Book Yeti’s Cryptid Creator Corner. Talked Tyranny of the Muse, creativity, pork roll, and more. Good one.
Tyranny of the Muse is finished
After 10 fucking years the epic graphic novel is finally finished.
It started as a novella called Broken Bulbs.
It became a comic via a successful Kickstarter.
And through fits and starts it limped its way over the finish line to be the story I always wanted it to be.
I’m so thankful to Dave Chisholm for his patience, enthusiasm, and most importantly, his endurance. This thing ended up being a beast. But it’s done. And I’m proud.
What now? I get it in print. How? No fucking idea. But I’ll come up with something. I usually do. But if you or someone you know happens to publish graphic novels and might be interested, let me know.
For now, read the whole thing as a webcomic.
Thank you all for sticking with me through the changes, the foolishness, the blind optimism, and the whatever-is-next.
Click below to read.
Tyranny of the Muse: The Final Three Chapters
The graphic novel I started writing in 2012 is finally finished. And you can finally read the final chapters. Finally.
After a long break, chapter 19 just went up over at tyrannyofthemuse.com. Chapters 20 and 21 will hit on the next two Tuesdays. And then that’s it. It’s been a long one, folks. And even though it’s all written and has been drawn by the wonderful Dave Chisholm, this ain’t the end. The next goal is to get this big, beautiful mess of weirdness into your mitts as the graphic novel it was always meant to be. I’ll figure out how to make that happen. Stick with me.
But first, read the thing by clicking the thing down there.
If you need to catch up, start here.
Tyranny of the Muse is back. Again.
Hey. Everything okay? Good. Same here.
Tyranny of the Muse, the comic book project I kicked off in 2011 is officially being relaunched as a partially re-drawn, re-written, re-edited, and expanded graphic novel with artist Dave Chisholm.
I’ll be posting a chapter as a webcomic every Tuesday HERE. Let’s call it Tyranny Tuesday. The first three are available now.
For those who don’t know, here’s the deal with Tyranny of the Muse:
Frank Fisher is addicted to inspiration. Literally. He's a creativity junkie. Bonnie is the muse who deals him his drug by injecting it directly into his brain through a festering wound. Together they work through the chaos of the creative process while navigating the existential land mines of their lives.
TYRANNY OF THE MUSE by creator/writer Eddie Wright (A Broken Everything, Regular Show) and illustrator Dave Chisholm (Canopus, Instrumental) is a darkly funny, offbeat, weirdly romantic mystery about art, hope, and the power of the past.
It’s been a long road:
Tyranny of the Muse is based on Broken Bulbs, a novella I published in 2009.
The comic book adaptation was launched via a successful Kickstarter in 2011.
Five issues of an earlier version were published digitally by Study Group Comics (2013 - 2017) and Alternative Comics (2014). Issues one and two were drawn by Jesse Balmer. A small limited run was also printed for convention appearances (out of print).
The 2020 edition is partially re-drawn by the amazing artist Dave Chisholm, re-edited, and expanded with all-new original material.
For those who’ve been with me for a bit, you know that this is a project I’ve come back to again and again. I’ve realized that this is the one for me. This is the one that I’ll never quit. I’ll probably be writing Frank and Bonnie forever. And I’m super happy about that. I have even more plans for them.
Please visit TYRANNYOFTHEMUSE.COM to start reading. The first three chapters are up now. A new one goes up every Tyranny Tuesday. #TyrannyTuesday? Can we make that a thing?
A Guided Meditation for the Newly Possessed
Listen to this mindfulness exercise to help you navigate your recent demonic possession.
Written and Narrated by Eddie Wright
Score by Drew Husosky
Voices by Eddie Wright and Erin Black
An update on Korsakoff Blight
UPDATE: The new version A RBOKEN EVERYTHING is publishing on Wattpad. Read it here.
Korsakoff Blight, the novel I self-published in 2017 is a work I’m very proud of. It’s deeply personal and a perfect example of the kind of project I want to release regularly. It’s the purest expression of who I am as a writer and as a human being. But I think it can be more. I think it can be better. I think it can be everything I want it to be. And right now, it isn’t. So I’ve decided to unpublish and rework it a bit. It’s the right thing to do.
For those who have read it, it won’t change drastically. The story will be the same. But I’ll tweak a few things. The biggest thing will be the title/name of the main character. To be completely honest, I regret it. It’s pretentious. And overly complicated. And silly. So I’m going to fix that. I won’t share what I’m changing it to yet, but I’ll let you know once I’m ready.
This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while, so I’m going for it. What have I got to lose? Right?
Stay tuned for updates. I’m not sure how or when I’ll release the new version. But the future is looking good for the weird little book formally called Korsakoff Blight.
And for those of you with copies, hang onto them, I guess they’re collector’s items now. Or whatever. I don’t know.