Music Video Director Jay Martin Creats A Graphic Novel, Lost Boy

Music video director Jay Martin is writing, drawing and colouring a brand new graphic novel, Lost Boy, being revealed by Dark Horse Books later this yr, lettered by Frank Cvetkovic.

Jay Martin started his profession as storyboard artist, engaged on movies equivalent to I Am Legend, Constantine, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and extra not too long ago Ad Astra and Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm. Directing music movies, he has labored with Kelly Clarkson, Shawn Mendes, Death Cab for Cutie, Nas, Plain White T’s, Kid Rock, Melissa Etheridge, Christina Perri, Dashboard Confessional, and plenty of extra. In 2018 his video for Shawn Mendes “In My Blood” was nominated for a VMA for Best Direction. Recently, he served as Executive Producer on the Blumhouse movie Don’t Let Go, starring David Oyelowo and Storm Reid.

 This graphic novel options a good looking and heartwarming story of a younger boy’s journey of survival and remaining variety within the face of adversity. After a lethal accident within the distant Wyoming wilderness, a younger boy escapes alone. Stranded, freezing, and remoted, he struggles to remain alive as he makes an attempt to search out his means again to civilization. Along the best way, via excessive assessments of will, braveness, and endurance, he discovers what it means to be examined, and learns the key to survival is not at all times what you assume. “In Lost Boy,” says Jay Martin, “I wanted to create a different kind of survival story. Here, the main character discovers that what has always been perceived as his greatest weakness — his compassion and sensitivity — become his salvation. He learns that, sometimes heading in the opposite direction of where we think we need to go, is what gets us home.”

The Lost Boy commerce paperback shall be obtainable in bookstores on the twenty fifth of July, 2023 and in comedian retailers for the twenty seventh of July.