Mark Perez, a Hollywood screenwriter, and Scott Shaw, an Emmy-winning artist, have signed a deal with Dark Horse Comics. The two creatives plan to collaborate on a graphic novel entitled How to Win at Life by Cheating at Everything.
The story features the antics of a group of con artists. The publisher has set the release date for March 8, 2017.
Perez gave this statement in the press release: “I think the bummer about being a screenwriter is you need to be totally cool with the fact that most movies don’t get made. Maybe that particular script you’ve been working on for a year, the one that’s made you crazy and almost ended your marriage, will probably only be read by about four or five people (people who read ten or more scripts a day). It’s a real bummer creatively. So, when the idea came along for writing a book, I was intrigued by the fact that maybe more than four or five people would actually be reading my words. There was a different motivation behind writing the novel, something I hadn’t felt in years: the guarantee of an audience.”