Writer. Creator.

About

Art by Francine Delgado

 
 

It all started when…

Shane found a stash of Spiderman and Tales from the Crypt comics along with a dog-eared paperback of Tolkein’s The Hobbit, a dusty VHS cassette of John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China stashed in a box under a Miracord record player at a single-wide mobile home on the banks of the Eagle River in the Rocky Mountains.

Shane Roeschlein is a storyteller with over two decades of experience and dozens of published works in literary journals, online magazines.

Shane’s inaugural foray into sequential storytelling began with the successful crowd-supported kickstarter campaign for his debut original graphic novel, Caustic Soda – A year Future Narco Romance. The campaign raised 115% percent of the initial goal and sold out of its modest run of 350 copies.

Shane’s debut Original Graphic Novel with artist Dean Kotz (IMAGE, IDW, Boom!), The In-Between published by Insight Editions/Simon & Schuster, is available at your local comic book shop and at online retailers.  

Shane teamed up with artist Francine Delgado (The Comet, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Addams Family), for a one-shot short called Merci, which was part of the Lower Your Sights Anthology benefitting Ukraine from Mad Cave.

Shane trains and coaches grappling and Jiu Jitsu at 10th Planet Denver.

 
 

American Boy

Logline:
After the murder of his father, a biracial (Black/Diné) teen is sent from the south side of Chicago to live with his maternal grandmother in New Mexico where a deadly curse awakens from his past and threatens to destroy the world.

By Francine Delgado, Terence Fitzgerald, Nataanii Means, Shane Roeschlein

Type:

OGN

Genre:

Horror

Illustration - Francine Delgado

Color - Raúl Angulo Cruz

Letters - Patrick Brosseau

Lower Your Sights Anthology: Merci

I was invited to submit a story to the Lower Your Sights anthology by Mad Cave Studios (https://madcavestudios.com/) for Voices of Children (https://voices.org.ua/en/) to help raise awareness and proceeds for children impacted by the war in Ukraine. All earnings from the book’s sales are going directly to the Voices of Children foundation, a charitable organization based in Ukraine that provides women and children emergency housing, psychological assistance, and evacuation aid. This story is based on true events.


The In-Between Vol. 1 by Shane Roeschlein and Dean Kotz

Cover for The In-Between by Shane Roeschlein and Dean Kotz Available Now

The In-Between Volume 1 I made with the artist, Dean Kotz is Available Now! You can find it in your local comic or booksellers (if not, ask them nicely to order one for you).

Alternatively, you can order a copy of The In-Between Vol. 1 from the link below.

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The Monster in Me (comic)

By Shane Roeschlein and Dean Kotz

Genre: Horror

Inspired by the William Andrew Reveles song

Logline: A hapless bard with a gift for song is hired by a cunning goddess to find a lost muse.

READ the first issue (8-pages) PDF below (image link)


Star Wars Adventures

Original Pitch for IDW

*A few years ago I got to pitch a few story concepts to an editor at IDW. One of them got passed up the chain but ultimately due to the release of Solo and it’s bafflingly low popularity LucasArts pulled most of their ‘Adventures’ line. The line was for younger readers. Here’s the pitch. Vic Mahlotra did some cool character art too.

“Paid In Full” 

Logline:

When dapper Lando Calrissian (29) accepts a “job” transporting stolen credits aboard his newly won ship the Millenium Falcon for ambitious Imperial Senate Apprentice, Amilyn Holdo (16?), he gets more than he bargained for.

 

Overview:

After a streak of bad luck at Sabacc, Suave space gangster Lando is approached by Imperial Senate Apprentice, Amilyn Holdo with an offer so lucrative he’ll finally be able to go legit—or comfortably spend the rest of his life gambling at lux resort, Yarith Bespin.  

 

Holdo and her crack team of rebellion thieves require an inconspicuous freighter with sensor-proof compartments and a get-away-pilot cooler than a Tauntaun’s toe claws to get in and out of an underground vault in the war-scarred city of Haimdan—former seat of the Galactic Banking Syndicate—undetected.  

 

 

Locations:

Bespin (Cloud City) Part 1

Muunilist (Outer Rim) Part 2

 

Timeframe: 5BBY

 

Settings:

Docks

Yarith Bespin (luxury resort)

Pair O’Dice (casino)

Hamaidan

Underground Vault

 

Characters:

Lando Calrissian (29-ish)

Gev Hessan – Navigator (Devaronian, died in the custody of the Empire)

Amilyn Holdo (18-ish)

 

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The In-Between (Production Pages)

By Shane Roeschlein

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror

Pencils and Ink by Dean Kotz

Color by Stefania Santi


Prey

By Shane Roeschlein

Genre: Horror

Art by Daniel Crosier

Letters by Micah

Short for The Dark Reaches Vol 2

Logline: A Priest with a taste for virgin flesh stalks a young girl at the midnight carousel but soon discovers he is what’s for dinner. 




Caustic Soda

Here is a sample of three pages from Caustic Soda - A Year Future Narco Romance, my first published book.

By the time we had entered production for this issue (3) I felt my writing had improved as far as scripts are concerned. 

Art by Dan Crosier

Letters by Pat Brosseau