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While procrastinating on these upcoming projects, I’ve made a MCU-inspired timeline for Pesto Comics in 2024. I’ve left the moonshot projects, particularly ones relying on government grants, off the timeline.

Even without those, this is pretty ambitious. All of these projects are in progress, so I feel confident we can deliver as expected. I kept the windows open to seasons, like “spring 2024” to allow for a bit of wiggle room.

Let’s go through the projects and others initiatives for the next 12 months…

Comics & Writing

Archetypes 1

February 2024 | An Independent Geek Culture Comic-Sized Magazine

If you follow me on Twitter, Mastodon, LinkedIn or Facebook, you’ll know I put out daily bits of writing advice. Joey Galvaz of Geek Collective is putting together a magazine that will include even more writing tips from me this February!

Check it out on Kickstarter in February

Crazy Latte Thing Called Love

Spring 2024 | One-Shot w/ Mattia Monaco

For anyone who’s been on this newsletter for any period of time or backed the last campaign, you know about this one. Mattia should start sending art my way soon - at which point I’ll be happy to share what I can!

Very, very excited for this one.

Follow it here if you haven’t yet!

Working Stiff

Spring 2024 | Weekly Webcomic

I love my floppies, but what got me into “comics” were comic strips. I’ll get into one of my favourites next post, but it’s time for one of my own to get out there: Working Stiff.

It’ll be free and it’ll be everywhere I can put it. WebToon, Tapas and on the socials.

Expect to see something more than a title caption very soon.

Il Pescatore

June 2024 | The City We Chose Anthology by TO Comix

I was lucky to be selected for the latest anthology by TO Comix. This edition is called “The City We Chose”. It was a dream come true to work with this group as I’ve been reading their “Toronto Comics” collections for years now.

For my entry, I wrote a short (very) loosely based on the experience of my grandfather coming to Toronto from Italy.

I was even luckier to get paired up with Marzia Migliori. The character designs she’s submitted are absolutely astonishing.

(Click the link below for even more great character designs by Marzia)

“NKW”

Summer 2024 and Onward | New 5-Part Series w/ Rafael Chrestani

This is the big one.

I’ll have more to share in the very near future, like the title, but until then we’ll just call it “NKW”.

If you’ve been a fan of anything I’ve written (or Rafael has drawn), I think you’ll absolutely love this one. It’s going to be a ton of fun, a little weird and beautiful to look at.

Stick around for more.

Cleo & Gus

Fall 2024 | 3x Weekly Webcomic

Did I mention that I love comic strips? Working Stiff will have some very clear influences I’m drawing from - and you’ll see that again, albeit with different influences, in Cleo & Gus.

This one will be 3x weekly and