DRAWING BLOOD
English
32 pages
Issue 1
Drawing Blood #1
2.3K views • Apr 26, 2024
SERIES PREMIERE
The legendary KEVIN EASTMAN, co-creator of the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and former publisher of the popular Heavy Metal magazine, returns to comic with a look into the roller coaster life of a successful comics creator.
When you create a global franchise before you turn twenty…what happens next?
Readers will follow the jaw-dropping journey of Shane Bookman—a cartoonist whose real life has become more absurd and action-packed than any comic book story he could dream up!
32 pages
Issue 2
Drawing Blood #2
433 views • Dec 18, 2024
The saga of Shane “Books“ Bookman continues: the one-time mega-successful comic book creator fallen on hard times finds those times getting even harder. With his back to the wall, Books fends off mobsters, stars in a documentary, falls in love, and sells his soul…and it’s only the second issue!
32 pages
Issue 3
Drawing Blood #3
356 views • Dec 18, 2024
A funeral, an angry widow, a talking statue, a crazed mob, a silent-movie nightmare, and a face-off with murderous Lithuanian gangsters. It’s another tricky day for Shane “Books” Bookman, a comic book creator who rode the roller coaster of fame and fortune and ended up…in a whole lotta trouble!
32 pages
Issue 4
Drawing Blood #4
395 views • Dec 08, 2024
The Hollywood mogul making the “gritty” Ragdolls movie gives a disastrous interview on the first day of New York Comic Convention…and a legion of loyal fans are after Books’ head! Can he make things right, or will he face…The Wrath of Con?
32 pages
Issue 5
Drawing Blood #5
449 views • Dec 18, 2024
NEW STORY ARC
Books and Beastly in Hollywood! Our beleaguered cartoonist hero goes to Los Angeles to visit the set of the adaptation of his most famous creation, and chaos ensues. The second arc kicks off with a magical mystery tour through show business and Books own heartbreaking past.
32 pages
Issue 8
Drawing Blood #6
34 views • Jan 22, 2026
Shane Bookman’s Hollywood adventure continues! Books visits the film set of Morgan Harbor’s “gritty reboot” of his Ronin Ragdolls comic book characters…and once again, past collides with present, and reality crashes into fantasy. Books' messy life just keeps getting messier. But that’ll happen in LA, won't it?
32 pages
Issue 7
Drawing Blood #7
33 views • Jan 22, 2026
Fleeing the insanity of Hollywood, Shane Bookman returns to his hometown in Maine, providing a stark reminder of what he left behind, what he was running from, and what he lost. Where does he belong now? Home is where the heartache is.
32 pages
Issue 8
Drawing Blood #8
32 views • Jan 22, 2026
Heartbroken by Hollywood, rejected by his own family, Shane Bookman locks himself in his office, away from a hostile world…but can’t escape a lifetime of disappointments, and the ghosts of his past, driving him to the edge of self-destruction.
