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. I love historical themes, monsters, demons, dinosaurs, and imaginative infographics.

Digital art of an otherworldly fish tail with the word 'AMPHIOX' written on it in white serif letters.

Amphiox is a complete, 48-page graphic novel short story and webcomic. It’s about magic doom eels. I started this piece in a fit of self-indulgence during August of 2022, and completed it in the early parts of 2023. It is a webcomic that features a preorder campaign to fund the 1st edition print order.

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 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?

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."

These are selected pages from various works-in-progress, to show, in no particular order: How I handle layouts both mundane and spectacular, condensed storytelling, slice-of-life journal comics, rendering of backgrounds and settings, and lettering.

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.

In the News Again

by H. McGill | Sep 15, 2023 | Comics, Publishing

In the News, Again: A SAW Nonfiction Comics Anthology Recently I had the pleasure of joining a nonfiction anthology, In the News Again, edited by Emma Jensen and Karlo Antunes. Above is the first page to my small entry. I wanted to do a comparison of attending a...

My Digital Shop: Now Open!

by H. McGill | Sep 1, 2023 | Comics, Publishing

My Online Shop is Now LiveTruth be told, I’ve been promising this online shop for years. I think over a decade, now, people have asked for a digital shop and I’ve been unable to supply it. I’ve just not been able to set the shop up. It’s been a combination of perilous...

Amphiox: Launches Today!

by H. McGill | Jun 16, 2023 | Comics, Publishing

Amphiox: Launches Today!Today, my short story Amphiox launches in free-to-read format! This is the first time I’ve ever self-hosted a webcomic and I’m so happy it’s all come together. My partner Devin coded a website design I had in mind, and it is immaculate. Just...

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