Category: Independents

  • Review: “Parallel Man: Invasion America” #1

    Review: “Parallel Man: Invasion America” #1

    Full disclosure right up front.  Christopher “Chris” Jones is a friend that I see at the Midwest Comic Book Association cons in Minnesota, and we’ve known each other for about a decade.  We talk on Facebook, but I’ve never had him over for dinner or helped him move, so that’s made clear our level of…

  • Metro Med featured on Comic Book Trailers home page!

    After months of development, Metro Med’s trailer has hit the Internet! I’m so excited that I can finally show this to you.  I was planning to upload it to YouTube and feature it on all of my web sites as an embed, but Comic Book Trailers posted it and featured it on their home page…

  • Barack the Barbarian comic book from Devils Due

    This sounds like it should be available in artist’s alley, photocopied and stapled, not available from Devil’s Due, an impressive company that has published the likes of G.I. Joe and Army of Darkness!  I’ve read such comics before, such as Rushman and Goretopia, and while entertaining they weren’t really mainstream rack-worthy.   That comic where…

  • Metro Med gallery has been posted

    Good news for all of the fans of Metro Med, the hospital for superheroes comic book. I’ve posted a Metro Med gallery on ComicSpace. The gallery includes a few page samples, including some never before seen in color, as well as pinups, character designs, logos and a few examples of my terrible, terrible sketches and…

  • Congratulations to Sean Taylor!

    Sean Taylor, whom I worked with on Job Wanted and Shooting Star Comics, has announced on his ComicSpace that he will be writing Dominatrix for IDW’s Gene Simmons Comics. IDW’s partnership with Gene Simmons has leaked early but will be officially announced at WizardWorld L.A. Way to go, Sean!

  • Crossgen Books released by Checker

    Checker Books has the license to print more volumes of CrossGen’s trade paperbacks. For instance, Volumes 1-4 of Sojourn were released by CrossGen, but they never got around to issuing trades for the rest of the series, so now CrossGen has released Volume 5 this month. Today, I created a new CrossGen trade paperbacks store,…

  • Uptown Girl: The Animated Series

    In just four short years, my friend Bob Lipski’s comic book “Uptown Girl” has gone from an independent monthly comic to a live action movie and now, a pilot for an animated series! I had the honor of seeing the full pilot today at its premier here in Rochester, MN. Bob, co-writer Brian Bastian (of…

  • Alex Toth’s letter to Steve Rude

    jasonlatour – Be careful what you ask for… Jason Latour (or LaTour…hard to tell when it’s all written together in lowercase) has posted a 14-page letter that artist Alex Toth wrote to Steve Rude in 1986. Steve apparently asked Toth to give him feedback about his pencils for an issue of Comico’s Jonny Quest. I…

  • Mail Order Ninja is OUT!

    A belated hearty congratulations to our friend Joshua Elder for this Wednesday’s debut of his new book, Mail Order Ninja. I even missed the chance to plug Josh’s announcement and seven page preview! Mea culpa, Josh.

  • REVIEW: “Cobb: Off The Leash”

    I promised my bud Beau Smith that I’d review his comic “Cobb: Off The Leash” when it came out, and I apologize that I haven’t had time to do so til now. And yes, I said buddy. In the interest of full disclosure, I must tell you all that I like Beau Smith, he and…