Do you long for your halcyon days of innocence? When you hung out with your best friends, playing games after school, reading comics, and uncovering a centuries-old religious conspiracy? Then Winona Forever might strike a chord. It certainly was at LA. Comic Con, where writer Shawn Patrick Boyd and artist Elijah Henry hosted a busy table in Artists’ Alley.
Adapted from a screenplay Shawn had written, Winona Forever sits near the same ’80s tween nostalgia as Stranger Things. So yes, if you like the Netflix series, may I point you in this direction? But it also has a helping of religious mystery. You can take the writer/actor out of the Catholic upbringing, but you can’t take the Catholic upbringing out of the writer/actor.
Bringing Boyd’s screenplay to life on the page, Elijah has been a graphic artist and web cartoonist for a while. With this as his first major graphic novel, he gets to handle a little historical drama, hulking villainy, and kids just being kids. I had interviewed Shawn right before the launch of Part One on Kickstarter, and was eager to have a conversation with Elijah. So here it is…and by the way, the Kickstarter campaign for Parts 3 and 4 launches on Monday, February 7. Reserve it now!
