You. Are. Not. Nothing.
"My name is Frank Fisher. I’m addicted to inspiration. Literally. Bonnie injects it into my brain through a festering wound in my head. She's my muse. My dealer.
I can’t stop writing a screenplay about a boy named Dusty. I don’t know why. I don’t know what it means. But I have to finish it. I need to. And I need Bonnie to help me. I need her to help me do something. Feel something. Be something.
Because without Bonnie… I am nothing."
TYRANNY OF THE MUSE by creator/writer Eddie Wright (A Broken Everything, Regular Show) and illustrator Dave Chisholm (Chasin’ the Bird, Enter the Blue) is the darkly hilarious, emotionally messy, and oddly sweet story about a troubled artist, a reluctant muse, and the inescapable influence of the past.
Eddie Wright
Creator & Writer
A writer from New Jersey. In 2009 he wrote and published the novella Broken Bulbs which he later adapted into the graphic novel Tyranny of the Muse. Always taking a scrappy, DIY approach to creative work, he often jumps from one project to the next, be it comics, copywriting, television writing, video production, creative direction, audio, or whatever else inspires him. He has written stories for the Regular Show comic series from BOOM! Studios, for the ID Discovery true crime television series Evil Lives Here, as well as several issues of the horror comic Lake Imago. In 2022 he also released the absurdist novel A Broken Everything.
Dave Chisholm
Illustrator
A graphic novelist and musician currently living in Rochester, NY, where he received his doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music in 2013. His expertise in music, as well as his formal inventiveness within the comics medium, has resulted in a string of critically-acclaimed music-centric graphic novels including Enter the Blue (2022, Z2 Comics), Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California (2020, Z2 Comics), and the groundbreaking graphic novel + original soundtrack Instrumental (2017, Z2 Comics). In his newest work, Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound, Chisholm portrays the life of Miles Davis, one of his oldest musical heroes, in a kaleidoscopic array of visual styles that represent Davis' famously varied oeuvre.
YOU. ARE. NOT. NOTHING.
YOU. ARE. NOT. NOTHING.
TYRANNY OF THE MUSE is based on BROKEN BULBS, a novella by Eddie Wright published in 2009.
The comic book adaptation was launched via a successful Kickstarter in 2011.
Five issues 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 of issues 1-4 were printed for convention appearances (out of print).
The graphic novel is illustrated entirely by Dave Chisholm, re-edited, and expanded with all-new material.