Tim Seeley To Draw New YA Graphic Novel Series, Pretty Evil

Tim Seeley is the creator of comics resembling Hack/Slash, and co-creator of Revival, Money Shot, Local Man and The Loaded Bible, in addition to working for DC, IDW and Marvel on Grayson, Nightwing, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Captain America, G.I. Joe vs. Transformers and New Exiles. But now he’s going the place the actual cash is.

Pretty Evil is a brand new sequence of YA graphic novels, drawn by Tim Seeley and written by wife-and-husband group Rebekah McKendry and David Ian McKendry, finest recognized for writing and directing films resembling Glorious, Psycho Granny and All the Creatures Were Stirring.

In this saucy, adventure-filled romp, Mallori is the last word teen star with a platinum-selling singing profession and an unsurpassed on-line following. But when her mother goes lacking, Mallori shortly discovers that she was residing a double life as each Mallori’s supervisor and a demon slayer—and the one method Mallori can save her is to take up the place her mother left off, slicing her method via demons in probably the most sparkly method doable.

To her followers Mallori Martin is solely often known as Mallori, with a cute little coronary heart over the “i.” Mallori is the last word teen star with the most well liked present on television, a platinum promoting singing profession, and an unsurpassed on-line following. Her devoted followers are recognized world wide as The Mal-rines, their uniform consisting of the pastel rainbow sequin-covered outfits. Mallori’s identify and face are all over the place: atop billboards, adorning the edges of busses, and she or he’s even the face of GLITZ vitality drink together with her image on each can and merchandising machine. But behind the pink glitter and glam, Mallori is an sad teenager who simply desires to be her personal particular person and free from her mother/supervisor’s management.

Mallori, wakes one morning to find her mom is lacking. She calls the police however as a substitute of discovering her mother, they discover a number of our bodies buried within the basement of their Hollywood Hills mansion. As rumors fly about her mother being a serial killer who skipped city, legions of followers activate Mallori (dubbing her #MalloriHomicide). She units out to flee the general public eye, hoping to seek out her mother and get some solutions. She shortly discovers her mother was residing a double life as her supervisor and a demon slayer.

In an immediate a world is revealed to her, a world the place demons use fame, concern, and hate to draw Worshippers, a world the place probably the most religious followers make human sacrifices within the names of those demons in trade for nice powers. Mallori realizes the one method she’ll see her mom once more is to take up the place her mother left off, slicing her method via demons in probably the most sparkly method doable.

Sarah McCabe at McElderry Books has acquired world English rights to the primary two books of Pretty Evil and publication of the primary is scheduled for the autumn of 2024. Jordan Hamessley at New Leaf Literary & Media represented Rebekah McKendry and David Ian McKendry, and Tim Seeley represented himself.