Bear McCreary, the celebrated composer of projects as diverse as The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Walking Dead, God of War, Outlander, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Battlestar Galactica and Percy Jackson and the Olympians, will spotlight his new rock concept album and graphic novel companion, The Singularity, on Friday, October 18, at New York Comic Con. The panel, entitled “Bear McCreary: Musical World-Building,” will take place from 2:30–3:30 p.m. on the Main Stage of the Javits Center.

McCreary, a Grammy-nominated and Emmy & BAFTA Award-winning composer, will discuss The Singularity as he continues to explore the dramatic impact of music on the creation of fictional worlds, fueled by collaborations with artists from across all disciplines. Those collaborators include his fellow panelists, all integral Singularity contributors from the music and comics realms, including Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter/composer Rufus Wainwright, renowned writer Mat Groom, comics writer & filmmaker Kyle Higgins, and Eisner and Harvey Award-winning cartoonist Ramón K. Pérez.

McCreary and friends will be signing copies of The Singularity and other current and select works, just after the panel, at the Mondo booth (#1000, from 4:00–5:00 p.m.).

An ambitious project featuring unique, diverse talents from across a wide swath of the comics and music industries, The Singularity exists as an epic rock concept album, a graphic novel, and an incomparable concert experience. The album is packed with talents from a diverse array of musicians, including Wainwright, Slash, Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult), Steve Bartek (Oingo Boingo), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Mega Ran, Raya Yarbrough (Outlander), and many more, as well as the spoken-word contributions of Lee Pace (Foundation, The Hobbit trilogy), Danai Gurira (Black Panther,The Walking Dead), and Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy).

The graphic novel is inspired by, and a companion to, the original conceptual rock album of the same name. Created by McCreary with Groom, the book is produced by Black Market Narrative and published by Image Comics. A cavalcade of comics’ greatest artists convenes under the guidance of creative director Kyle Higgins(Radiant Black, Moon Man), to tell an emotionally gripping, cosmic story about the lessons that loss can teach us, bursting with imaginative imagery as diverse and energetic as the album that sparked it.