Me Snooze Me Lose
For some time now I've been screwing around with this idea about a private detective who works in a land populated with fairy-tale characters. Hell, this was one of my ideas for a screenplay thesis. When DC Comics came out with Fables, a book about fairy-tale characters interacting with the real world, I wasn't discouraged. Their idea was similar, but nowhere near, mine. I wanted my own land, the animal characters to stay animals, make it more of a comedy than a mystery book, etc.
Then today I read this article in ComicBookResources.com:
MAX HAMM: FAIRY TALE DETECTIVE is a new book from cartoonist Frank Cammuso, who works a day job in New York State as an editorial cartoonist. This is a story about a place called Storybookland. Picture Roger Rabbit's Toon Town, but inhabited by Mother Good and the Grimm Bros.' fairy tale creatures and you have the idea. Our lead character is one Max Hamm, the owner of a private detective agency with his partner, Humpty Dumpty. Together, they run the Eggs and Hamm Detective Agency. But when the femme fatale, Li'l Bo Peep, loses her sheep, things get a bit hairy. And then the egg gets whacked, and things turn personal.
Man, what a piss-off. Hopefully this book is only a one-shot. I've either got to flesh out my ideas more or get an agent.
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