hosted press release from Bluewater Productions

"Bartholomew Of The Scissors"
Comic Series Features Unique Art Style

Bluewater Productions launches a new horror series this September with a cutting edge style of art - wood burning. Daniel Crosier will be producing the art on this title and Chad Helder created as well as wrote the series.

This classic horror tale is described as, Spectral Phantasms have invaded our world. These ghostly creatures from another dimension occupy the human brain and endow their host with spectacular paranormal abilities. Private investigator Gordon Watt, long-aware of the spectral phantasms, investigates a bizarre series of scissor-murders. With the help of a powerful psychic named Jessica, Gordon soon discovers a connection between the phantasms and the mystery of a vengeful, undead boy named Bartholomew. But humanity faces a greater threat: the White Blob emerges from the abyss to colonize pockets of human society. Gordon and Jessica must enlist the help of Bartholomew and the hideous power of his Scissor Swarm or face assimilation by the growing colony of the White Blob.

Artist for "Bartholomew of the Scissors" , Daniel Crosier says "My gallery illustration work has, in the last few years, taken a turn to drawing on wood, steel and using other materials for composition.   I landed with Darren Davis at Blue Water Productions who offered an opportunity to illustrate my first limited series, that I would do on wood.   Roughly 75lbs of 88 boards of wood that ended up being the horror genre, comic book series Bartholomew of the Scissors.   The covers and interiors had many different visual approaches.   Mostly mixed media, wood burning was the predominate approach to the art and storytelling.   But I also illustrated n graphite, paint marker, color pencil, and ink to set the creepy mood of Chad Helder's conceived world for Bartholomew,"

"Working with Daniel Crosier has been an amazing experience," explains writer Chad Helder. "The best part about creating comic books is the collaboration with artists: pencilers, inkers, colorists, letterers, and in this case wood-burners. Daniel's illustrations bring entirely new dimensions to the story.  The characters have really grown and flourished through Daniel's graphic interpretations of their faces and actions--especially Bartholomew, who has become a very frightening little boy.
"Bartholomew of the Scissors" is set for release in September 2008.