I am thrilled to announce I have found a very talented artist to illustrate Hell’s Café: Award winning Chilean artist Pablo Santander.  He has been illustrating comics since 1983 and has been published in Chile and Belgium where he has won awards for both his comic illustration and paintings. Some of his work is featured in the Vatican and other places of the like. He is currently working on a series called Metropole Bruxelles. Pablo studied theatrical design, cartooning and sculpture at the University of Chile and is a fan of The Hernandez brothers, symbolism and Flemish art, among his other inspirations and influences – and I couldn’t be more pleased to be working with him on this project.

We are currently in the developmental stages but I thought I would share some of the conceptual art, storyboards and a bit about the characters and their story.

Hell’s Café is set in New Orleans 1887 and is the story of a  young woman named Theodora who joins a group of horror writers who meet at the Hell’s Café to drink absinthe and share their stories. She soon learns the deadly characters she and her new friends have created have manifested in our reality and are responsible for a string of murders that have overtaken the French Quarter. Theodora is forced to take on the responsibility of investigating these murders and physically confronting the creatures she and her friends have unleashed while trying to suppress the monster she is becoming herself.