H. McGill

Sequential Art

H. McGill

Graphic Novel Pitches

These are my current graphic novel pitches. Chronosaurus Rex and Terminal are looking for agent representation and a home with a publisher. Warlock’d is my personal webcomic project for honing my craft.

Chronosaurus Rex

MG Graphic Novel Pitch
Natural History & Evolution
Features Interactive Pages & Guides

Digital artwork of a proposed graphic novel cover. It's blinding magenta with glitched-out blue, green, and orange striping. Glitchy letters spell out 'TERMINAL' on top. A white marble sphinx perches on a glitchy altar. A green pixel star bears 'H. McGill' in courier new.

Terminal

MG Graphic Novel Pitch
Girls in STEM
Contemporary Fiction

Warlock'd: To Hell, with Love

YA Webcomic
12th Century Monster-of-the-Week
Historical fantasy/horror

Sequential Art

These are samples of the work I can do with comic layouts, lettering, interior art, lineart, flatting, and coloring. I’m up for working on any middle grade or young adult graphic novel project, especially weird ones. I love historical themes, monsters, demons, dinosaurs, and imaginative infographics.

Digital comic depicting a bicycle outing by H. and their spouse, Devin. The top graphic is an embellished ‘Biscuit Mountain’ in an arc over a man climbing a mountain of American (not British) biscuits. Panel 1 depicts H. and Devin riding their bikes under an overpass on a road lush with trees and roadside buildings. Devin: I’m not going to get the Biscuit Mountain again. Panel 2 depicts H. and Devin taking off their helmets. Devin: It is an unreasonable amount of biscuits. Panel three has H. and Devin in a restaurant. H.: What’ll you get instead? Devin: Eh… Panel 4 shows the menu. The first entry is one biscuit on a plate, labeled ‘A reasonable amount of biscuits.’ The second entry is a pile of biscuits. It’s labeled ‘Biscuit mountain.’ Panel 5 has the waiter attempting to take Devin’s order. Waiter: Hi! Can I take your ord— Devin (interrupting): Biscuit Mountain!

A two-page, full-spread comic that encompasses the entirety of Aesop's crow fable. Panel 1: This panel stretches across both pages. On the left page the crow flies. On the right page, the sun bears down. Panel 2: The crow sweats, mid-flight. Panel 3: The crow notices something below! An exclamation point is over his head. Panel 3: The desert island landscape offers up but a single, black-red-and-white lekythos jar. Panel 4: The crow alights the jar. Panel 5: The crow peers into the jar. Panel 6: Closeup of the crow's eye, seen through the jar's round hole. Panel 7: A divider bearing the pattern of the lekythos. Panel 8: A cut-out panel where the crow wobbles the jar back and forth in an effort to get the water inside. Panel 9: The crow appears to be looking at a skeleton nearby... Panel 10: The crow was actually looking at the pebbles around the skeleton. It picks one up. Panel 11: The crow drops the pebble in. Panels 12-15: The crow continues depositing pebbles in the jar until the sun goes down. Panel 16: The crow finally tastes the sweet liquid within the jar! Panel 17: The crow guzzles it like a fool. Panel 18: It's possible that the liquid inside of the jar wasn't water at all, as the crow drunkenly sings into the night.

A full-color digital comic page done in the style of Moebius. The first two panels are of H. looking at the computer screen. Narration: I first heard about Moebius nine years ago, when he died. Panel 3: Closeup of a blog post titled 'RIP, Moebius' by Cory Doctorow on Saturday, March 10, 2012. The image is of a man on space safari with an alien in the background. Panel 4: My attempt at a rendition of a TRON character in blue. "I hadn't realized how much of his work pervaded my favorite media growing up." Panel 4 is off-center of a scene from The Fifth Element, where shelled aliens enter the pyramids. The rest of the panels jumble together with a giant human face and a large white bird, with blood and guts and spaceships in between. H.'s silhouette falls into an abyss at the bottom. "It would have been nice to know about him sooner."

A one-page digital comic that takes place in a grocery store. The artist depicts herself and her partner standing in front of the checkout line, manned by what is clearly a bear who is wearing a mask. Narrator: On not recognizing someone because they are wearing a mask... Bear cashier: Oh! Blueberries. They're my favorite. The bear cashier panics slightly. Bear cashier: But I like raspberries too. Bear cashier: (thinking) Have I offended the raspberry?! Bear cashier: Oh no. Maybe I just like all of the berries! The artist and her partner walk away from the cashier with all their paid groceries. Artist: W...was the cashier a bear?

Comics with H. Publishing Blog

My short comics, drawing experiments, one-shot illustrations, tutorials, reviews of comics classes, shout-outs to talented people in my social circle, thoughts on creativity/publishing, and free coloring pages.

Amphiox Monthly Challenge: Complete, but Not Finished

by H. McGill | Sep 16, 2022 | Comics

I Completed a Monthly Challenge!For the month of August, I pledged to 'rough' 48 pages. Roughing a comic means to start drawing in the figures and backgrounds of each panel. Roughs are typically more polished than thumbnails, but they aren't necessarily polished. As I...

Amphiox Monthly Challenge: Setting the Stage

by H. McGill | Aug 19, 2022 | Comics

How to Draw a Whole New WorldOn August 15th, I was halfway through a self-appointed monthly comics challenge to create rough art for a 48-page short fantasy story. I'd been lenient with my goals, imagining that most of my time would be spent designing the environment...

Amphiox Comic – August Challenge Prep

by H. McGill | Aug 5, 2022 | Comics

A Break from the Webcomic DoldrumsI’ve been working hard on Warlock’d, but not in any capacity ready for public release. There is a lot of editing to be done on it (and has been done on it) and it gets overwhelming on a day-to-day basis. One issue has been that I’m...

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