#thefirstlostboy

Today is a great day!

For all of the Star Wars fans out there, May 4th is a national holiday. It’s a great day if you’re a fanboy or girl to get out to your favorite comic book store to participate in Free Comic Book Day #FCBD @freecomicbook. Today is a day where my son and I woke up early to finish his laterst Goosebumps Comic before breakfast and are ready to head to our local shop to participate in the festivities.

As it turns out, today is amazing for another reason! Just by happenstance, May 4th will now always be Day 1 of The First Lost Boy graphic novel going into art production for me! I was lucky enough to hire an amazing artist yesterday and we’re both going to jump on a conference call this afternoon to fully cover the character development portfolio. Can’t wait to partner up with @cfowlart to make #thefirstlostboy come to life.

Be on the lookout for art design, comic pages and cover art coming out on this blog, Instagram and Twitter to follow along on the journey! Twitter: @thefirstlostbo1 Insta: thefirstlost

But not the last...

It must cross every single “adults” mind as we keep getting older:

“When am I going to grow up?”

Or even better.

“When am I going to feel like an adult?”

That’s the question, as I sit here; 36 years old, working my 9-5, father of one amazing 7 year old boy, 1 for 1 married/divorced, I ask myself on a monthy (if not weekly) basis.

More often than not for me, it’s the latter. When am I going to feel like an adult? When am I going to act like the rest of my son’s friend’s parents? Or hell, even my own friends and co-workers? When am I going to feel like I have my shit together??

When will the same guy who’s teaching his child how to become a man, how to be like everyone else, how to act like “an adult”, get over his own Peter Pan syndrome and grow up?

Probably never!

But let’s be real for a minute. Without those feelings, I wouldn’t be the father I am today. It makes it easier to try to understand and relate to the way I felt when I was his age. When it comes to work, I would probably be satisfied with my job and where I am in life, but I’m not, and I hope I never am! Without those feelings I wouldn’t have ever sat down in the dogs days after my separation/divorce and decided I was going to do something I had always wanted to, Write!

For me, it was an easy choice on what/who I would write about. The person who I related to the most. Pan.

This blog is the journey of a regular guy’s journey to create the the Orgins story of The First Lost Boy, better known as Peter Pan.

I’m going to be chronicling my journey that started 3 years ago, when I picked up my first book on “how to write a screenplay” and decided I was going to write the movie I thought I was getting when “Pan” came out in 2015. What a waste of a good movie title btw. The tough, rough, gritty, young adult version of Peter Pan.